2012 Anthony Award Nominations

BEST NOVEL
The End of Everything—Megan Abbott [Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown]
Hurt Machine—Reed Farrel Coleman [Tyrus]
The Drop—Michael Connelly [Little, Brown]
A Trick of the Light—Louise Penny [Minotaur]
One Was a Soldier—Julia Spencer-Fleming [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]

BEST FIRST NOVEL
Learning to Swim—Sara J. Henry [Crown]
Nazareth Child—Darrell James [Midnight Ink]
All Cry Chaos—Leonard Rosen [The Permanent Press]
Who Do, Voodoo?—Rochelle Staab [Berkley Prime Crime]
The Informationist—Taylor Stevens [Crown]
Purgatory Chasm—Steve Ulfelder [Thomas Dunne/Minotaur]
Before I Go to Sleep—S.J. Watson [HarperCollins]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man—Robert Jackson Bennett [Orbit/Hachette]
Choke Hold—Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime/Titan]
Buffalo West Wing—Julie Hyzy [Berkley Prime Crime/Tekno]
Death of the Mantis—Michael Stanley [HarperCollins]
Fun & Games—Duane Swierczynski [Mulholland]
Vienna Twilight—Frank Tallis [Random House]

BEST SHORT STORY
"Disarming"—Dana Cameron, EQMM June'11, p.24
"The Case of Death and Honey"—Neil Gaiman, A Study In Sherlock, p.167 [Bantam]
"Palace on the Lake"—Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, p.184 [Wildside]
"Truth and Consequences"—Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten, p.121 [Buddhapuss Ink]
"The Itinerary"—Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead, p.189 [Grand Central]
"Happine$$"—Twist Phelan, MWA Presents The Rich and The Dead, p.276 [Grand Central]

BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION WORK
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure—Leslie Budewitz [Quill Driver/Linden]
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks—John Curran [HarperCollins]
On Conan Doyle: or, The Whole Art of Storytelling—Michael Dirda [Princeton University Press]
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film—Philippa Gates [SUNY Press]
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion—Charlaine Harris, ed. [Ace]

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