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Anthony Awards 2015
The 2015 Anthony Awards went to In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger (Best Anthology or Collection), Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Best Critical/Nonfiction Work) and The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Best First Novel), with winners in 2 more categories. 25 books were nominated across 5 categories.
Winners
Best Anthology or Collection
- In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canonsource (opens in a new tab)
Best Critical/Nonfiction Work
- Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journeysource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Novel
- The Black Hoursource (opens in a new tab)
Best Novel
- After I’m Gonesource (opens in a new tab)
Best Paperback Original
- The Day She Diedsource (opens in a new tab)
Nominees
Best Anthology or Collection
- Carolina Crimes: 19 Tales of Love, Lust, and Longingsource (opens in a new tab)
- Face Offsource (opens in a new tab)
- Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014source (opens in a new tab)
- Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteensource (opens in a new tab)
Best Critical/Nonfiction Work
- Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justicesource (opens in a new tab)
- Dru’s Book Musingssource (opens in a new tab)
- Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysissource (opens in a new tab)
Best First Novel
- Blessed Are the Deadsource (opens in a new tab)
- Ice Shearsource (opens in a new tab)
- Invisible Citysource (opens in a new tab)
- The Life We Burysource (opens in a new tab)
Best Novel
- Lamentationsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Long Way Homesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Secret Placesource (opens in a new tab)
- Truth Be Toldsource (opens in a new tab)
Best Paperback Original
- No Stone Unturnedsource (opens in a new tab)
- Stay With Mesource (opens in a new tab)
- The Killer Next Doorsource (opens in a new tab)
- World of Troublesource (opens in a new tab)
About the Anthony Awards
Book categories only; short story, novella, cover art, audiobook narration, TV, website, fan and service awards are skipped. Year is the Bouchercon year. Sources: Bouchercon's own winners-and-nominees pages for 2006-2019, 2023 and 2024; bouchercon.com has no pages for 2020-2022 or 2025, so those years come from Stop, You're Killing Me! (stopyourekillingme.com), with winners checked against Wikipedia and 2025 press reports. Three official cells are wrong or short and cite Stop, You're Killing Me! instead: 2009 Paperback Original (official page repeats Scot & Soda, a 2020 nominee), 2023 Best Novel (official page omits finalist The Maid), and 2024 Anthology (official page omits Happiness Is a Warm Gun). Stable category names: Best Novel was Best Hardcover Novel in 2021 and 2023-2025; Best Paperback Original became Paperback/E-book/Audiobook Original from 2021; Best Children's/Young Adult covers the Children's/YA, Young Adult (2016, 2020) and Juvenile/YA labels; Best Humorous Novel was Cozy/Humorous in 2025. Categories that did not run in a year have count 0. The 2015 Critical/Nonfiction nominee Dru's Book Musings is a website but is listed as the organization named it.
Organization: Bouchercon. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards 182 shared books
- Macavity Awards 173 shared books
- Agatha Awards 126 shared books
- Barry Awards 109 shared books
- Lefty Awards 88 shared books