2010 Nero Wolfe Award Nominees

The Wolfe Pack has announced the nominees for the 2010 Nero Wolfe Award as follows:

THE FLEET STREET MURDERS, by Charles Finch (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

THE CRACK IN THE LENS, by Steve Hockensmith (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

FACES OF THE GONE, by Brad Parks (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

The winner will be announced at the Black Orchid Banquet coming December in New York.

2010 Anthony Award Nominees

2010 Anthony Award Nominees

Bouchercon 2010 has announced the nominees for the 2010 Anthony Awards as follows:

BEST NOVEL

THE LAST CHILD – John Hart [Minotaur Books]

THE MYSTIC ARTS OF ERASING ALL SIGNS OF DEATH – Charlie Huston [Ballantine Books]

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE – Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland [Quercus/Knopf]

THE BRUTAL TELLING – Louise Penny [Minotaur Books]

THE SHANGHAI MOON – S.J. Rozan [Minotaur Books]

BEST FIRST NOVEL

THE SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE – Alan Bradley [Delacorte Press]

STARVATION LAKE – Bryan Gruley [Touchstone]

A BAD DAY FOR SORRY – Sophie Littlefield [Minotaur Books]

THE TWELVE/THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST – Stuart Neville [Harvill Secker/Soho Press]

IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM – Stefanie Pintoff [Minotaur Books]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

BURY ME DEEP – Megan Abbott [Simon & Schuster]

TOWER – Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman [Busted Flush Press]

QUARRY IN THE MIDDLE – Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime]

STARVATION LAKE – Bryan Gruley [Touchstone]

DEATH AND THE LIT CHICK – G.M. Malliet [Midnight Ink]

AIR TIME – Hank Phillippi Ryan [Mira]

BEST SHORT STORY

“Last Fair Deal Gone Down” – Ace Atkins, CROSSROAD BLUES, pp.1-20 follow Afterword [Busted Flush Press]

“Femme Sole” – Dana Cameron, BOSTON NOIR, pp.95-115 [Akashic Books]

“Animal Rescue” – Dennis Lehane, BOSTON NOIR, pp.38-64 [Akashic Books]

“On the House” – Hank Phillippi Ryan, QUARRY: Crime Stories by New England Writers, book’s 5th story [Level Best Books]

“Amapola” – Luis Alberto Urrea, PHOENIX NOIR, pp.103-125 [Akashic Books]

BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK

TALKING ABOUT DETECTIVE FICTION – P.D. James [Bodleian Library/Knopf]

THE LINE UP: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives – Otto Penzler, ed. [Little, Brown and Co]

HAUNTED HEART: The Life and Times of Stephen King – Lisa Rogak [Thomas Dunne Books]

DAME AGATHA’S SHORTS: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion – Elena Santangelo [Bella Rosa Books]

THE TALENTED MISS HIGHSMITH: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith – Joan Schenkar [St. Martin’s Press]

The winnners will be announced during Bouchercon to be held coming October in San Francisco, California.