Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, is pleased to announce the Anthony Award Nominees for 2013. The winners will be chosen by the full time members of the 44th Bouchercon September 19-22, in Albany, New York. BEST NOVEL Dare Me – Megan Abbott [Reagan Arthur] The Trinity Game – Sean Chercover [Thomas & Mercer] Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn [Crown] The Beautiful Mystery – Louise Penny [Minotaur] The Other Woman – Hank Phillippi Ryan [Forge] BEST FIRST NOVEL Don’t Ever Get Old – Daniel Friedman [Thomas Dunne] The Professionals – Owen Laukkanen [Putnam] The Expats – Chris Pavone...

Earlier tonight, at Malice Domestic, the Agatha awards were handed out: Best Novel: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny Other finalists: The Diva Digs Up the Dirt by Krista Davis A Fatal Winter by G.M. Malliet The Buzzard Table by Margaret Maron The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan Best First Novel: Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer Other finalists: Iced Chiffon by Duffy Brown A Scrapbook of Secrets by Mollie Cox Bryan A Killer Read by Erika Chase Faithful Unto Death by Stephanie Jaye Evans Best Non-fiction: Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly/Declan...

The fine folks behind CrimeFest has announced the nominees for the 2013 CrimeFest awards. Winners will be announced at the CrimeFest Dinner on June 1. AUDIBLE SOUNDS OF CRIME AWARD The Audible Sounds of Crime Award recognizes the best crime audiobook published in both print and audio in 2012. Courtesy of sponsor Audible UK, the winning author and audiobook reader share the £1,000 prize equally and each receives a commemorative Bristol Blue Glass vase. The nominees are: - Michael Connelly for The Black Box read by Michael McConnohie (Orion Audio) - John Grisham for The Racketeer read by J.D. Jackson (Hodder & Stoughton) - Peter May for...

Last night, the Mystery Writers of America handed out the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards in New York. Here are the winners: Best Novel Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow) Other finalists: The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA – Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers) Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) Sunset by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning – Five Star) All I Did Was Shoot My Man by...

The 2013 Derringer Award winners, determined by a poll of eligible Short Mystery Fiction Society members March 1–30, 2013 from the previously announced finalists: BEST FLASH STORY (Up to 1,000 words): “The Cable Job” by Randy DeWitt (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September 2012) Other finalists: “An Old-Fashioned Villain” by Nick Andreychuk (Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, May 2012) “Dead Man” by A.J. Hayes (Off The Record 2: At The Movies, September 2012) “Daddy’s Girl” by Nicola Kennington (The Flash Fiction Offensive, July 22, 2012) “Twas the Knife Before...

The Friends of Mystery organization announced the winner of the 2013 Spotted Owl Award. FoM is a non-profit literary/educational organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Its purpose is to promote educational study in all realms related to mystery. Members are interested in fiction, true crime, how mysteries are solved, and many other aspects of knowledge that can be included in the term “mystery”. This year, Mike Lawson won for HOUSE BLOOD (Grove/Atlantic). The other top vote getters: Johnny Shaw for BIG MARIA Robert Dugoni for THE CONVICTION Chelsea Cain for KILL YOU TWICE G.M. Ford for THICKER THAN WATER The annual award goes to...