The winners of the Anthony Awards, given annually to works of mystery and crime literature, were announced Saturday, with S.A. Cosby, Mia P. Manansala, and Jess Lourey among the authors honored with the prizes.
The awards were revealed at a ceremony at the mystery convention Bouchercon, held this year in Minneapolis, and shared on the convention’s Twitter feed.
Cosby took home two awards: the best novel prize for Razorblade Tears, and the best short story prize for “Not My Cross to Bear.” This is the second consecutive year that Cosby won the best novel prize; he was honored in 2021 for Blacktop Wasteland.
Manansala won the best first novel award for Arsenic and Adobo, which a critic for Kirkus praised as “a debut that embraces its lightness.”
Lourey’s Bloodline was named the winner of the best paperback/e-book/audiobook original prize, while This Time for Sure: Bouchercon Anthology 2021, edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan, won the best anthology prize.
The best critical/nonfiction award went to Lee Child and Laurie R. King for editing How To Write a Mystery: A Handbook From Mystery Writers of America. Alan Orloff won the best children’s/young adult prize for I Play One on TV.
The Anthony Awards were first given out in 1986. Previous winners have included Caleb Carr for The Alienist, Dennis Lehane for Mystic River, and David Heska Wanbli Weiden for Winter Counts.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
