Bouchercon XXII

Bouchercon

Special Guests

• Lifetime Achievement award — William Campbell Gault
• Guest of Honor — Edward D. Hoch
• Guest of Honor — William Link
• Fan Guest of Honor — Bruce Pelz
• Toastmaster — Bill Crider

Anthony Awards

Novel award

• Sue Grafton, "G" Is for Gumshoe

• Lawrence Block, A Ticket to the Boneyard
• Lia Matera, The Good Fight
• Sharyn McCrumb, If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
• Julie Smith, ''New Orleans Mourning''

First novel award

• Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Postmortem

• Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody
• Janet Dawson, Kindred Crimes
• Rochelle Krich, Where's Mommy Now?
• James McCahery, ''Grave Undertaking''

Paperback original award

• Rochelle Krich, Where's Mommy Now?
• James McCahery, Grave Undertaking

• Jane Haddam, Not a Creature was Stirring
• G.J. Oliphant, Dead in the Scrub
• Marilyn Wallace, ''Sisters in Crime 2''

Short story award

• Susan Dunlap, "The Celestial Buffet", from Sisters in Crime 2

• Sharyn McCrumb, "The Luncheon", from Sisters in Crime 2
• Sharyn McCrumb, "Remains to be Seen", from Mummy Stories
• Sarah Shankman, "Say You're Sorry", from Sisters in Crime 3
• Marilyn Wallace, "A Tale of Two Pretties", from ''Sisters in Crime 3''

Critical / Non-fiction award

• Jon L. Breen & Martin H. Greenberg, Synod Of Sleuths: Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction

• Serita Deborah Stevens & Anne Klarner, Deadly Doses: A Writer's Guide to Poisons
• Peter Lewis, Eric Ambler
• S. T. Joshi, John Dickson Carr: a Critical Study
• John Conquest, ''Trouble Is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film & Television, 1927-1988''

Motion Picture award

• Presumed Innocent

• Goodfellas
• ''The Grifters''

Television series award

• Mystery!

• Gabriel's Fire
• Law & Order
• Matlock
• ''Murder, She Wrote''