2021 Anthony Award (Awarded by Bouchercon World Mystery Convention)

Awards List

Anthology/Collection

Both Sides
(Winner)
Gabino Iglesias

Shattering Glass
(Winner)
Multiple Authors

First Novel

Winter Counts
(Winner)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

Juvenile/Young Adult

Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco
(Winner)
Richie Narvaez

Novel

Blacktop Wasteland
(Winner)
S.A. Cosby

Paperback Original/E-Book/Audiobook Original Novel

Unspeakable Things
(Winner)
Jess Lourey

Short Story

90 Miles
(Winner)
Alex Segura

Anthology/Collection

California Schemin'
(Nominee)
Art Taylor

The Beat of Black Wings
(Nominee)
Josh Pachter

Lockdown
(Nominee)
Nick Kolakowski

Noiryorican
(Nominee)
Richie Narvaez

First Novel

Murder at the Mena House
(Nominee)
Erica Ruth Neubauer

Derailed
(Nominee)
Mary Keliikoa

The Thursday Murder Club
(Nominee)
Richard Osman

Murder in Old Bombay
(Nominee)
Nev March

Juvenile/Young Adult

From the Desk of Zoe Washington
(Nominee)
Janae Marks

Free Fall
(Nominee)
Alex Segura

Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
(Nominee)
Fleur Bradley

Premeditated Myrtle
(Nominee)
Elizabeth C. Bunce

Novel

Little Secrets
(Nominee)
Jennifer Hillier

What You Don't See
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

The First to Lie
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

And Now She's Gone
(Nominee)
Rachel Howzell Hall

Paperback Original/E-Book/Audiobook Original Novel

Dirty Old Town
(Nominee)
Gabriel Valjan

The Lucky One
(Nominee)
Lori Rader-Day

The Fate of a Flapper
(Nominee)
Susanna Calkins

When No One Is Watching
(Nominee)
Alyssa Cole

Short Story

The Boy Detective & The Summer of '74
(Nominee)
Art Taylor

Dear Emily Etiquette
(Nominee)
Barb Goffman

Elysian Fields
(Nominee)
Gabriel Valjan

The 25 Year Engagement
(Nominee)
James W. Ziskin
in In League with Sherlock Holmes

Award Categories

Audiobook

Bill Crider Award for Best Novel in a Series

Children/Young Adult

Cover Art

Critical Nonfiction

First Novel

Historical

Humorous

Novel

Novel of the Century

Novella (8,000-40,000 words)

Paperback Original/E-Book Original

Short Stories/Collection

Short Story

Young Adult

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