Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The 2012 Anthony Award Nominees:


Of these I have read two in the Best Novel category----THE END OF EVERYTHING by Megan Abbott and THE DROP by Michael Connelly. Two very different books in every way possible. So much so that, in my opinion, they don’t remotely belong in the same category going up against each other.

I have in my TBR pile HURT MACHINE by Reed Coleman. I have heard that cancer is a major part of the book and quite frankly, with what we have just been through here the last eight months, reading a novel with cancer in it is not something I can handle right now.




The 2012 Anthony Award Nominees:



BEST NOVEL
The End of Everything - Megan Abbott
Hurt Machine - Reed Coleman
The Drop - Michael Connelly
A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny
One Was a Soldier - Julia Spencer-Fleming


BEST FIRST NOVEL
Learning to Swim - Sara J. Henry
Nazareth Child - Darrell James
All Cry Chaos - Leonard Rosen
Who Do, Voodoo? - Rochelle Staab
The Informationist - Taylor Stevens
Purgatory Chasm - Steve Ulfelder
Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson


BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man - Robert Bennett
Choke Hold - Christa Faust
Buffalo West Wing - Julie Hyzy
Death of the Mantis - Michael Stanley
Fun & Games - Duane Swierczynski
Vienna Twilight - Frank Tallis


BEST SHORT STORY
"Disarming" - Dana Cameron, EQMM June
"The Case of Death and Honey" - Neil Gaiman, A Study In Sherlock
"Palace by the Lake" - Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales
"Truth and Consequences" - Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten
"The Itinerary" - Roberta Isleib, The Rich and The Dead
"Happine$$" - Twist Phelan, The Rich and The Dead


BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK
Books, Crooks and Counselors - Leslie Budewitz
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making - John Curran
On Conan Doyle - Michael Dirda
Detecting Women - Philippa Gates
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion - Charlaine Harris




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