From the Booking Desk:

The 2017 Anthony Award nominations have been announced on the Toronto Bouchercon website. Please check there for any changes or updates. Below is a list of the nominees along with links to the BOLO Books review of those titles covered here on the blog. Congratulations to all the nominees!

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BEST NOVEL

You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott [Little, Brown]

Where It Hurts – Reed Farrel Coleman [G.P. Putnam’s Sons]

Red Right Hand – Chris Holm [Mulholland]

Wilde Lake – Laura Lippman [William Morrow]

A Great Reckoning – Louise Penny [Minotaur]

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Dodgers – Bill Beverly [Crown]

IQ – Joe Ide [Mulholland]

Decanting a Murder – Nadine Nettmann [Midnight Ink]

Design for Dying – Renee Patrick [Forge]

The Drifter -Nicholas Petrie [G. P. Putnam’s Sons]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Shot in Detroit – Patricia Abbott [Polis]

Leadfood – Eric Beetner [280 Steps]

Salem’s Cipher – Jess Lourey [Midnight Ink]

Rain Dogs – Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street]

How to Kill Friends and Implicate People – Jay Stringer [Thomas & Mercer]

Heart of Stone – James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street]

BEST SHORT STORY

“Oxford Girl” – Megan Abbott, Mississippi Noir [Akashic]

“Autumn at the Automat” – Lawrence Block, In Sunlight or In Shadow [Pegasus]

“Gary’s Got a Boner” – Johnny Shaw, Waiting to be Forgotten [Gutter]

“Parallel Play” – Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning [Wildside]

“Queen of the Dogs” – Holly West, 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul, and Payback [Moonstone]

BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION BOOK

Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life – Peter Ackroyd [Nan A. Talese]

Letters from a Serial Killer – Kristi Belcamino & Stephanie Kahalekulu [CreateSpace]

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin {Liveright]

Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker – David J. Skal [Liveright}

The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer – Kate Summerscale [Bloomsbury/Penguin]

BEST CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Snowed – Maria Alexander [Raw Dog Screaming]

The Girl I Used to Be – April Henry [Henry Holt]

Tag, You’re Dead – JC Lane [Poisoned Pen]

My Sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier [Soho Teen]

The Fixes – Owen Matthews [HarperTeen]

BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION

Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns – Eric Beetner, ed. [Down & Out]

In Sunlight and In Shadow – Lawrence Block, ed. [Pegasus]

Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens – Jen Conley [Down & Out]

Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 – Greg Herren, ed. [Down & Out]

Waiting to be Forgotten; Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by The Replacements – Jay Stringer, ed. [Gutter]

BEST NOVELLA (8000-40000 words)

Cleaning Up Finn – Sarah M. Chen [CreateSpace]

No Happy Endings – Angel Luis Colon [Down & Out]

Crosswise – S. W. Lauden [Down & Out]

Beware the Shill – John Shepphird [Down & Out]

The Last Blue Glass – B. K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, April 2016 [Dell}

From the Booking Desk:

The winners will be announced at this year’s Bouchercon is Toronto. But readers are the real winners because they can read any of these excellent books immediately!