Anthony Award nominees: Bouchercon 2004 has announced the Anthony Award nominations. The awards will be presented at a banquet at Bouchercon in Toronto on October 9.

Best Novel:

Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt (Random House)
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (Harper Collins)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow )
The Summer That Never Was by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart) (US title: Close to Home; Morrow)

Best First Novel:

Death Of A Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel (Soho Press)
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart (Simon &Schuster)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy (Putnam) (UK title: Want to Play?; Michael Joseph)
Wiley's Lament by Lono Waiwaiole (St. Martin's Press)

Best Paperback Original:

Deadly Legacy by Robin Burcell (Avon)
Dealing In Murder by Elaine Flinn (Avon)
Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn Press)
Thicker Than Water by P. J. Parrish (Pinnacle Press)
Tough Luck by Jason Starr (Vintage/Black Lizard)

Best Short Story:

"Doppelganger" by Rhys Bowen (in Blood On Their Hands; edited by Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
"The Grass is Always Greener" by Sandy Balzo (in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003)
"Munchies" by Jack Bludis (in Hardbroiled; edited by Michael Bracken, Wild Side Press)
"Red Meat" by Elaine Viets (in Blood On Their Hands; edited by Lawrence Block, Berkley Prime Crime)
"Wanda Wilcox Is Trapped" by Eddie Muller (in Plots With Guns, Sept/Oct 2003)

Best Young Adult Mystery:

Artemis Fowl -The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer (Viking Children's Books)
Feast Of Fools by Bridget Crowley (Hodder Children's Books)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (Bloomsbury)
No Escape by Norah McClintock (Scolastic)
Seventh Knot by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish)

Best Historical Mystery:

Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh (Dundurn Press)
For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Let Loose the Dogs by Maureen Jennings (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work:

Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson (Bloomsbury)
Interrogations by Jon Jordan (Mystery One Books)
Make Mine a Mystery by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters In Mystery Fiction, Vol III by Colleen Barnett (Poisoned Pen Press)
The Story of Jane Doe: A Book About Rape by Jane Doe (Random House)

Best Fan Publication:

Deadly Pleasures, editor: George Easter
The Drood Review, editor: Jim Huang
Mystery News, editors: Lynn Kaczmarek & Chris Aldrich
Mystery Readers Journal, editor: Janet A. Rudolph
Mystery Scene Magazine, editor: Kate Stine

Barry Award nominees: Deadly Pleasures magazine has announced the nominees for the Barry Awards, which will be presented at a reception at Bouchercon in October. George Easter, editor of DP, advised that the rules for the nominations were changed this year so that some of the same names wouldn't appear year after year. If an author was nominated for Best Mystery Novel last year, that author is ineligible for this year. The nominees are:

The Guards by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Small Boat of Great Sorrows by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)
Keeping Watch by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
A Fountain Filled With Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel:

Mission Flats by Bill Landay (Bantam Press/Delacorte)
The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Barbed-Wire Kiss by Wallace Stroby (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy (Putnam)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho)
Clea's Moon by Edward Wright (Putnam)

Best British Mystery Novel:

Lazybones by Mark Billingham (Little, Brown)
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler (Doubleday)
The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick (Bantam Press)
The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Little, Brown)
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid (Harpercollins)
The American Boy (U.S. title: An Unpardonable Crime) by Andrew Taylor (Flamingo)

Best Paperback Original Mystery: