Bouchercon XXVI

Bouchercon

Special Guests

• Lifetime Achievement award — Ruth Rendell
• International Guest of Honor — James Ellroy
• British Guest of Honor — Colin Dexter
• Fan Guest of Honor — Geoff Bradley
• Toastmaster — Reginald Hill

Anthony Awards

Novel award

• Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills

• Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde
• Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights
• Janet Evanovich, One for the Money
• Sue Grafton, "K" Is for Killer
• Batya Gur, Murder on a Kibbutz
• Reginald Hill, Pictures of Perfection
• Lynda La Plante, Cold Shoulde]
• John Lescroart, The 13th Juror
• Val McDermid, Crack Down
• Walter Mosley, Black Betty
• Derek Raymond, Not Till the Red Fog Rises
• Janwillem van de Wetering, ''Just a Corpse at Twilight''

First novel award

• Caleb Carr, The Alienist

• David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
• Alex Keegan, Cuckoo
• Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War
• Carol O'Connell, Mallory's Oracle
• Laura Joh Rowland, Shinjū
• Michelle Spring, Every Breath You Take
• Doug J. Swanson, Big Town
• Chris West, ''Death of a Blue Lantern''

Short story award

• Sharyn McCrumb, "The Monster of Glamis", from Royal Crimes

• Robert Barnard, "The Gentleman in the Lake", from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine June 1994
• Ed Gorman, "One of Those Days, One of Those Nights", from Crime Yellow
• Ian Rankin, "A Deep Hole", from ''London Noir''

Critical / Non-fiction award

• John Cooper & B.A. Pike, Detective Fiction: The Collector's Guide

• William L. DeAndrea, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
• Martin H. Greenberg, The Tony Hillerman Companion
• Rosemary Herbert, ''The Fatal Art of Entertainment''

True crime award

• David Canter, Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer

• Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart
• G. Russell Girardin & William J. Helmer, Dillinger, The Untold Story
• Simon Rae, The Faber Book of Murder
• Philip Sugden, ''The Complete History of Jack the Ripper''

Short story collection / anthology award

• Tony Hillerman, The Mysterious West

• James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes
• Ed Gorman, A Modern Treasury of Great Detective Stories
• Maxim Jakubowski, London Noir
• Michele Slung & Roland Hartman, ''Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense''

Movie award

• Pulp Fiction

• The Client
• Disclosure
• The Last Seduction
• ''Shallow Grave (1994 film)''

Television series award

• Prime Suspect

• Between the Lines
• Cracker
• Homicide: Life on the Streets
• ''N.Y.P.D. Blue''