The 2024 Anthony Awards were announced at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, which took place this year in Nashville. The award is named for the late Anthony Boucher, the distinguished mystery fiction critic, editor and author, who helped found Mystery Writers of America.

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2024 Winners

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL

• ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)

BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL

• HIDE: A Detective Harriet Foster Thriller, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)

BEST FIRST NOVEL

• MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon (William Morrow)

BEST CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT

• ENOLA HOLMES AND THE MARK OF THE MONGOOSE by Nancy Springer (Wednesday Books)

BEST CRITICAL/NONFICTION

• A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan (Viking)

BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION

• KILLIN' TIME IN SAN DIEGO: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West (Down & Out Books)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Ticket to Ride” by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski (Down & Out Books)
   

2024 Nominees

BEST HARDCOVER NOVEL

• ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
• EVERYBODY KNOWS by Jordan Harper (Mulholland Books)
• TIME'S UNDOING by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
• FACE OF GREED by James L’Etoile (Oceanview Publishing)
• THE LAST DEVIL TO DIE: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)

BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL

• NO HOME FOR KILLERS by E.A. Aymar (Thomas & Mercer)
• HIDE: A Detective Harriet Foster Thriller, by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
• BECAUSE THE NIGHT: A Henry Malone Novel, by James D.F. Hannah (Down & Out Books)
• THE TAKEN ONES: A Steinbeck and Reed Thriller, by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)
• MAGIC CITY BLUES by Bobby Mathews (Shotgun Honey Books)
• LOWDOWN ROAD by Scott Von Doviak (Hard Case Crime)

BEST FIRST NOVEL

• THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW by I.S. Berry (Atria Books)
• PLAY THE FOOL by Lina Chern (Bantam)
• SCORCHED GRACE: A Sister Holiday Mystery, by Margot Douaihy (Zando – Gillian Flynn Books)
• MOTHER-DAUGHTER MURDER NIGHT by Nina Simon (William Morrow)
• CITY UNDER ONE ROOF by Iris Yamashita (Berkley)

BEST CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT

• FINNEY AND THE SECRET TUNNEL by Jamie Lane Barber (Level Elevate)
• MYRTLE, MEANS, AND OPPORTUNITY: A Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)
• THE SASQUATCH OF HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft Books)
• THE MYSTERY OF THE RADCLIFFE RIDDLE by Taryn Souders (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
• ENOLA HOLMES AND THE MARK OF THE MONGOOSE by Nancy Springer (Wednesday Books)

BEST CRITICAL/NONFICTION

• FINDERS by Anjili Babbar (Syracuse University Press)
• SPILLANE: King of Pulp Fiction, by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor (Mysterious Press)
• A MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s Press)
• A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan (Viking)
• FALLEN ANGEL: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan (LSU Press)
• AGATHA CHRISTIE, SHE WATCHED: One Woman's Plot to Watch 201 Christie Adaptations Without Murdering the Director, Screenwriter, Cast, or Her Husband, by Teresa Peschel (Peschel Press)
• LOVE ME FIERCE IN DANGER: The Life of James Ellroy, by Steven Powell (Bloomsbury Academic)

BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTION

• SCHOOL OF HARD KNOX edited by Donna Andrews, Greg Herren and Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru Publishers)
• HERE IN THE DARK: Stories, by Meagan Lucas (Shotgun Honey Books)
• HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, by Josh Pachter (Down & Out Books)
• THE ADVENTURE OF THE CASTLE THIEF AND OTHER EXPEDITIONS AND INDISCRETIONS by Art Taylor (Crippen & Landru Publishers)
• KILLIN' TIME IN SAN DIEGO: Bouchercon Anthology 2023, edited by Holly West (Down & Out Books)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Real Courage” by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press)
• “Knock” by James D.F. Hannah (LB Productions)
• “Green and California Bound” by Curtis Ippolito (Dell Magazines)
• “Ticket to Ride” by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski (Down & Out Books)
• “Tell Me No Lies” by Holly West (Shotgun Honey Books)