2010 Anthony Award Nominees

BEST NOVEL

The Last Child - John Hart
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death - Charlie Huston
The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson, trans. Reg Keeland
The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny
The Shanghai Moon - S.J. Rozan

BEST FIRST NOVEL

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
Starvation Lake - Bryan Gruley
A Bad Day for Sorry - Sophie Littlefield
The Ghosts of Belfast - Stuart Neville
In the Shadow of Gotham - Stefanie Pintoff

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Bury Me Deep - Megan Abbott
Tower - Ken Bruen And Reed Farrel Coleman
Quarry in the Middle - Max Allan Collins
Starvation Lake - Bryan Gruley
Death and the Lit Chick - G.M. Malliet
Air Time - Hank Phillippi Ryan

BEST SHORT STORY

"Last Fair Deal Gone Down" - Ace Atkins
"Femme Sole" - Dana Cameron
"Animal Rescue" - Dennis Lehane
"On the House" - Hank Phillippi Ryan
"Amapola" - Luis Alberto Urrea

BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK

Talking About Detective Fiction - P.D. James
The Line Up - Otto Penzler, Ed.
Haunted Heart - Lisa Rogak
Dame Agatha's Shorts - Elena Santangelo
The Talented Miss Highsmith - Joan Schenkar

Online nominee list

The 2010 Anthony Awards will be presented at the San Francisco Bouchercon's Sunday Brunch, October 17.