Winners of the Anthony Awards, announced at Bouchercon and honoring the best in mysteries and thrillers, are:
Best Hardcover Novel: The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Best First Novel: Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove (Berkley)
Best Paperback/E-Book/Audiobook: Edge by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
Best Children's/YA Novel: Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manasala (Delacorte)
Best Critical/Non-Fiction: Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover's Travel Guide to New England by Dawn M. Barclay (Level Tru)
Best Anthology/Collection: On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology edited by Curtis Ippolito, Roger Nokes, and Jay Butkowski (Rock and a Hard Place Press)
Best Short Story: "Aita for Using My Husband's Hobby to Teach Him a Lesson" by Mindy Carlson
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The longlist has been selected for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, which honors "a work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue" and is sponsored by the Aspen Institute. Finalists will be announced in March and the winner will be named April 29 and receive $35,000.
The longlist:
One Leg on Earth by 'Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton)
A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna (Dzanc Books)
Dèy by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
Fat Swim by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Hogarth)
The Disappearers by Marlon James (Riverhead Books)
Kin by Tayari Jones (Knopf)
American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee (Cardinal)
Good People by Patmeena Sabit (Crown)
I'll Take the Fire by Leila Slimani (Penguin Books)
Should the Waters Take Us by Stephanie Soileau (Doubleday)
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett (Spiegel & Grau)
John of John by Douglas Stuart (Grove Press)
A Private Man by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Grove Press)
Etna by Paul Yoon (Scribner)