Congratulations to all the winners of mystery awards that were presented this past week at Bouchercon. But, Louise Penny deserves an extra congratulations. She swept Best Novel with A Great Reckoning, taking all three mystery awards, the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Barry Awards.
Here are this year’s winners.
• A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Best First Novel
• IQ, by Joe Ide (Mulholland Books)
Best Short Story
• “Parallel Play,” by Art Taylor (Chesapeake
Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press)
Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel
• Heart of Stone, by James W. Ziskin (Seventh
Street Books)
Best Nonfiction
• Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery
Fiction, Margaret Kinsman (McFarland)
• A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Best First Novel:
• The Drifter, by Nicholas Petrie (Putnam)
Best Paperback Original:
• Rain Dogs, by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street)
Best Thriller:
• Guilty Minds, by Joseph Finder (Dutton)
Novel
A Great Reckoning – Louise Penny [Minotaur]
Best First Novel
IQ – Joe Ide [Mulholland]
Best Paperback Original
Ziskin [Seventh Street]
Best Short Story
“Oxford Girl” – Megan Abbott, Mississippi Noir [Akashic]
Best Critical Nonfiction Work
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin [Liveright]
Best Children’s/YA Novel
The Girl I Used to Be – April Henry [Henry Holt]
Best Anthology
Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 – Greg Herren, ed. [Down &
Out]
Best Novella (8,000-40,000 words)
The Last Blue Glass – B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, April
2016 [Dell]
