Named for New York Times critic and Mystery Writers of America co-founder Anthony Boucher, the Anthony Awards honor the best in mystery and crime writing published in the previous year.

For more information about Bouchercon and the Anthony Awards, visit http://www.bouchercon.info/history.html

2009 Winners

Best Novel
THE BRASS VERDICT by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

Best First Novel
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)

Best Paperback Original
STATE OF THE ONION by Julie Hyzy (Berkley)

Best Short Story
"A Sleep Not Unlike Death" by Sean Chercover, from HARDCORE HARDBOILED (Kensington)

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
ANTHONY BOUCHER: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks (McFarland)

Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
THE CROSSROADS by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)

Best Cover Art
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, designed by Peter Mendelsund (Knopf)

Special Service Award
Jon and Ruth Jordan

2009 Nominees

Best Novel
TRIGGER CITY by Sean Chercover (William Morrow)
THE BRASS VERDICT by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
RED KNIFE by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
THE CRUELEST MONTH by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best First Novel
PUSHING UP DAISIES by Rosemary Harris (Minotaur)
STALKING SUSANtalking Susan by Julie Kramer (Doubleday)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
DEATH OF A COZY WRITER by G.M. Malliet (Midnight Ink)
CHILD 44 by Tom Rob Smith (Grand Central)

Best Paperback Original
THE FIRST QUARRY by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
MOENY SHOT by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
STATE OF THE ONION by Julie Hyzy (Berkley)
IN A DARK SEASON by Vicki Lane (Dell)
SOUTH OF HELL by P.J. Parrish (Pocket Star)

Best Short Story
"The Night Things Changed" by Dana Cameron from WOLFSBANE AND MISTLETOE (Ace)
"A Sleep Not Unlike Death" by Sean Chercover from HARDCORE HARDBOILED (Kensington)
"Killing Time" by Jane K. Cleland from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November)
"Skull and Cross Examination" by Toni L. P. Kelner from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (February)
"Scratch a Woman" by Laura Lippman from HARDLY KNEW HER (William Morrow)
"The Secret Lives of Cats" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July)

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
AFRICAN AMERICAN MYSTERY WRITERS: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland)
HOW TO WRITE KILLER HISTORIAL MYSTERIES by Kathy Lynn Emerson (Perseverance Press)
ANTHONY BOUCHER: A Biobliography by Jeffrey Marks (McFarland)
THE SUSPICIONS OF MR. WHICHER: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale (Walker & Company)

Best Children's/YA Novel
THE CROSSROADS by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
PAPER TOWNS by John Green (Dutton Juvenile)
KISS ME, KILL ME by Lauren Henderson (Delacorte)
THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY AND THE PERILOUS JOURNEY by Trenton Lee Stewart (Little, Brown)
SAMMY KEYES AND THE COLD HARD CASH by Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf)

Best Cover Art
DEATH WAS THE OTHER WOMAN designed by David Rotstein and written by Linda L. Richards (Minotaur)
DEATH WILL GET YOU SOBER designed by David Rotstein and written by Elizabeth Zelvin (Minotaur)
THE FAULT TREE designed by David Rotstein and written by Louise Ure (Minotaur)
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO designed by Peter Mendelsund and written by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
MONEY SHOT designed by Steve Cooley and written by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)

Special Service Award
Jon and Ruth Jordan
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman