Bouchercon 2009

Bouchercon 2009 kicked off on Thursday and runs through Sunday. Bouchercon is the World Mystery Convention and is the largest annual meeting for mystery lovers. Bouchercon is named after Anthony Boucher. Boucher served the mystery community in several capacities. He helped found the Mystery Writer's of America, co-founded the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, reviewed mysteries in the New York Times Book Review section, and wrote seven novels and many pieces of short fiction. This year's Bouchercon is being held in Indianapolis, Indiana.

On Saturday, the Anthony Awards will be presented. Here are this year's nominees:

Best Novel
Trigger City by Sean Chercover
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

Best First Novel
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson
Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

Best Paperback Original
The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins
Money Shot by Krista Faust
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane
South of Hell by P.J. Parrish

Best Short Story
The Night Things Changed by Dana Cameron
A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover
Killing Time by Jane K. Cleland
Skull and Cross Examination by Toni L.P. Kelner
Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman
The Secret Lives of Cats by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson
Anthony Boucher: A BioBibliography by Jeffrey Marks
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale

Best Children's / Young Adult Novel
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
Paper Towns by John Green
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen

Best Cover Art
Death Was the Other Woman designed by David Rotstein
Death Will Get You Sober designed by David Rotstein
The Fault Tree designed by David Rotstein
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo designed by Peter Mendelsund
Money Shot designed by Steve Cooley

Special Service Award
Jon and Ruth Jordan
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman

Good luck to all of this year's nominees!