Bouchercon XXIV

Bouchercon

Special Guests

• Lifetime Achievement awards — Hammond Innes & Ralph McInerny
• Guest of Honor — Ed McBain
• Fan guest of Honor — Don Sandstrom
• Toastmaster — Ori Hardy-Sayles

Anthony Awards

Novel award

• Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter

• Robert Crais, Lullaby Town
• John Dunning, Booked to Die
• Carolyn Hart, Southern Ghost
• Sharyn McCrumb, ''The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter''

First novel award

• Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam

• Susan Wittig Albert, Thyme of Death
• Carol Higgins Clark, Decked
• Michael Connelly, The Black Echo
• Charlene Weir, ''The Winter Widow''

Short story award

• Diane Mott Davidson, "Cold Turkey", from Sisters in Crime 5

• Doug Allyn, "Candles in the Rain", from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine November 1992
• Edward D. Hoch, "The Summer of Our Discontent", from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine November 1992
• Gabrielle Kraft, "One Hit Wonder", from Sisters in Crime 5
• Rochelle Krich, "A Golden Opportunity", from ''Sisters in Crime 5''

Critical / Non-fiction award

• Ellen Nehr, Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991

• David Coomes, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life
• John Loughery, ''Alias S.S. Van Dine''

True crime award

• Barbara D'Amato, The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery: [The True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case]

• Jana Bommersbach & Bruce Henderson, The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd
• Thomas H. Cook & William Wright, Blood Echoes: The True Story of an Infamous Mass Murder and Its Aftermath
• Philip E. Ginsburg & Eric Stover, The Shadow Of Death : The Hunt for a Serial Killer
• Ann Rule, ''Everything She Ever Wanted: A True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal''

Motion picture award

• The Crying Game

• The Bodyguard
• A Few Good Men
• The Player
• ''Single White Female''