****indicates winner*

*BEST HARDCOVER*

   - ****Like A Sister by Kellye Garrett (Mulholland Books)*
   - *The Devil Takes You Home* by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland Books)
   - *The Bullet that Missed*  by Richard Osman (Pamela Dorman Books)
   - *A World of Curiosities *by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
   - *The Maid  *by Nita Prose (Ballantine Books)
   - *Secret Identity* by Alex Segura (Flatiron Books)

*BEST FIRST NOVEL*

   - *Don’t Know Tough* by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
   - *Shutter* by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
   - *The Bangalore Detectives Club* by Harini Nagendra (Pegasus Books)
   - *Devil’s Chew Toy* by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane Books)
   - ****The Maid by Nita Prose (Ballantine Books)  *

*BEST HUMOROUS NOVEL*

   - *Bayou Book Thief* by Ellen Byron (Berkley Books)
   - *Death by Bubble Tea* by Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley Books)
   - *A Streetcar Named Murder* by T.G. Herren (Crooked Lane Books)
   - ****Scot in a Trap by Catriona McPherson (Severn House)*
   - *Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking* by Raquel V. Reyes (Crooked Lane
   Books)

*BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL*

   - *The Lindbergh Nanny* by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur Books)
   - *In Place of Fear* by Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
   - ****Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris (William Morrow & Company)*
   - *Danger on the Atlantic* by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Kensington Publishing
   Corporation)
   - *Under a Veiled Moon* by Karen Odden (Crooked Lane Books)
   - *Lavender House* by Lev AC Rosen (Forge)

*BEST PAPERRBACK/EBOOK/AUDIOBOOK*

   - *Real Bad Things* by Kelly J. Ford (Thomas & Mercer Audio)
   - *Dead Drop* by James L’Etoile (Level Best Books)
   - ****The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)*
   - *Hush Hush* by Gabriel Valjan (Historia)
   - *In the Dark We Forget* by Sandra SG Wong (HarperCollins Publishers)

*BEST CHILDREN’S/YOUNG ADULT NOVEL*

   - *In Myrtle Peril* by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)
   - *Daybreak on Raven Island* by Fleur Bradley (Viking Books for Young
   Readers)
   - *#shedeservedit* by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
   - *The New Girl* by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Sourcebooks Fire)
   - *Vanish Me* by Lee Matthew Goldberg (Wise Wolf Books)
   - ****Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade by Nancy Springer (Wednesday
   Books)*

*BEST SHORT STORY*

   - “Still Crazy After All These Years” by E.A. Aymar (*Paranoia Blues:
   Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon*) (Down & Out Books)
   - “The Impediment” by Bruce Robert Coffin (*Deadly Nightshade: Best New
   England Crime Stories 2022*)(Crime Spell Books)
   - ****“Beauty and the Beyotch” by Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Mystery
   Magazine, Feb. 2022, Issue 29)*
   - “The Estate Sale” by Curtis Ippolito (*Vautrin Magazine*, Summer 2022)
   - “C.O.D.” by Gabriel Valjan (*Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color
   of My Vote*)(Berry Content Corporation)

*BEST CRITICAL/NON-FICTION*

   - *The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets and the Hollywood Story That Shocked
   America* by James T. Bartlett (Territory Books)
   - ****The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their
   Creators by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)*
   - *American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper* by
   Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)
   - *Promophobia: Taking the Mystery out of Promoting Crime Fiction* by
   Diane Vallere (Sisters in Crime)
   - *Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved
   Him, the Conservative Establishment. and the Courts to Set Him Free* by
   Sarah Weinman (Ecco Press)
   - *Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman* by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)

*BEST ANTHOLOGY*

   - *Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color of My Vote* ed. by Mysti
   Berry (Berry Content Corporation)
   - *Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of
   Warren Zevon* ed. byLibby Cudmore and Art Taylor (Down & Out Books)
   - *Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022* ed. by Greg Herren
   (Down & Out Books)
   - *Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon* ed.
   by Josh Pachter (Down & Out Books)
   - ****Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction’s Top
   Authors ed. by S.J. Rozan (Hanover Square Press)*

*Courtesy Mystery Fanfare
<https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/09/anthony-awards-bouchercon.html>
and File 770 <https://file770.com/2023-anthony-awards/>.*

*fwd TM*
https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/08/short-story-wednesday-preliminary-toc.html
https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/08/ffb-writer-prepares-by-lawrence-block.html
https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/08/ssw-delmore-schwartz-screeno-donald.html

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