The winners of the 2018 Anthony Awards for crime fiction were announced September 8 at Bouchercon.
BEST NOVEL
- Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
BEST FIRST NOVEL
- Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
- The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day
BILL CRIDER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL IN A SERIES
- Y is for Yesterday (Kinsey Millhone #25) by Sue Grafton
BEST SHORT STORY
- “My Side of the Matter” by Hilary Davidson from Killing Malmon
BEST ANTHOLOGY
- The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, Gary Phillips, editor
BEST CRITICAL/NON-FICTION BOOK
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
BEST ONLINE CONTENT
I was tipped to Bluebird, Bluebird through another award (IIRC cited here); I’m not really qualified to judge, but it struck me as impressively real.