S.A. Cosby and Timothy Egan are among the winners of this year’s Anthony Awards, given annually to outstanding works of mystery literature.
The winners of the prizes were announced at Bouchercon, the mystery convention held this year in Nashville.
Cosby won the best novel award for All the Sinners Bleed, which was previously shortlisted for the Edgar Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. This is the fifth Anthony Award that Cosby has won.
Egan took home the critical/nonfiction prize for his A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot To Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, while Nina Simon won the best first novel prize for Mother-Daughter Murder Night.
The paperback/e-book/audiobook award went to Hide by Tracy Clark. Nancy Springer won the children’s/young adult prize for Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose, and editor Holly West was awarded the anthology/collection prize for Killin’ Time in San Diego. Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski won in the short story category for “Ticket to Ride.”
The Anthony Awards were established in 1986. Previous winners have included Tony Hillerman for Skinwalkers, Attica Locke for Bluebird, Bluebird, and Hank Phillippi Ryan for The Murder List.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
