アンソニー賞候補作発表

Bouchercon 2012 has announced the nominees for the 2012 Anthony Awards as follows:

BEST NOVEL

The End of Everything – Megan Abbott [Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown]

Hurt Machine – Reed Farrel Coleman [Tyrus]

The Drop – Michael Connelly [Little, Brown]

A Trick of the Light – Louise Penny [Minotaur]

One Was a Soldier – Julia Spencer-Fleming [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Learning to Swim – Sara J. Henry [Crown]

Nazareth Child – Darrell James [Midnight Ink]

All Cry Chaos – Leonard Rosen [The Permanent Press]

Who Do, Voodoo? – Rochelle Staab [Berkley Prime Crime]

The Informationist – Taylor Stevens [Crown]

Purgatory Chasm – Steve Ulfelder [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]

Before I Go to Sleep – S.J. Watson [HarperCollins]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Company Man – Robert Jackson Bennett [Orbit/Hachette]

Choke Hold – Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime/Titan]

Buffalo West Wing – Julie Hyzy [Berkley Prime Crime/Tekno]

Death of the Mantis – Michael Stanley [HarperCollins]

Fun & Games – Duane Swierczynski [Mulholland]

Vienna Twilight – Frank Tallis [Random House]

BEST SHORT STORY

“Disarming” – Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2011

“The Case of Death and Honey” – Neil Gaiman, A Study In Sherlock [Bantam]

“Palace by the Lake” – Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology [Wildside]

“Truth and Consequences” – Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten [Buddhapuss Ink]

“The Itinerary” – Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead [Grand Central]

“Happine$$” – Twist Phelan, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead [Grand Central]

BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK

Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure – Leslie Budewitz [Quill Driver/Linden]

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks – John Curran [HarperCollins]

On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling – John Curran [Princeton University Press]

Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film – Philippa Gates [SUNY Press]

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion – Charlaine Harris, ed. [Ace]

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:

Mary Higgins Clark

The winners will be announced on October 7 during Bouchercon to be held in Cleveland, Ohio.

(受賞作の発表は10月7日、オハイオ州クリーヴランドで開催されるバウチャーコンにて)