Bouchercon 2014 Anthony Nominees

So many great books nominated. So many of the authors are friends. How on earth will I cast my vote?!!?!?!?!

Check out this list and decide what you'd do.

· 2014 · Long Beach, CA BEST NOVEL   Suspect - Robert Crais [Putnam]   A Cold and Lonely Place - Sara J. Henry [Crown]   Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger [Atria]   The Wrong Girl - Hank Phillippi Ryan [Forge]   Through the Evil Days - Julia Spencer-Fleming [Minotaur] BEST FIRST NOVEL   Yesterday’s Echo - Matt Coyle [Oceanview]   Ghostman - Roger Hobbs [Alfred A. Knopf]   Rage Against the Dying - Becky Masterman [Minotaur]   Reconstructing Amelia - Kimberly McCreight [HarperCollins]   The Hard Bounce - Todd Robinson [Tyrus] BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL   The Big Reap- Chris F. Holm [Angry Robot]   Purgatory Key - Darrell James [Midnight Ink]   Joyland - Stephen King [Hard Case Crime]   The Wicked Girls - Alex Marwood [Penguin]   As She Left It - Catriona McPherson [Midnight Ink] BEST SHORT STORY   "Dead End" - Craig Faustus Buck [Untreed Reads]   "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" - John Connolly, Bibliomysteries [Mysterious Bookshop]   "Annie and the Grateful Dead" - Denise Dietz, The Sound and the Furry: Stories To Benefit the International Fund for Animal Welfare [Amazon Digital]   "Incident on the 405" - Travis Richardson, Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble [Macmillan]   "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants" - Art Taylor, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013 BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION WORK   Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes - Maria Konnikova [Viking Adult]   The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines - Cate Lineberry [Little, Brown]   All the Wild Children - Josh Stallings [Snubnose Press]   The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War - Daniel Stashower [Minotaur]   Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense - Sarah Weinman, ed. [Penguin] BEST CHILDREN'S OR YOUNG ADULT NOVEL   The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau [Houghton Mifflin]   Escape Theory - Margaux Froley [Soho Teen]   Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library - Chris Grabenstein [Random House Children’s Books]   Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy - Elizabeth Kiem [Soho Teen]   The Code Busters Club: Mystery of the Pirate’s Treasure - Penny Warner [Egmont USA] BEST TV EPISODE TELEPLAY, FIRST AIRED IN 2013   The Blacklist - Pilot by Jon Bokenkamp - Sept. 2013 [Davis Entertainment, NBC]   Breaking Bad - "Felina" by Vince Gilligan - Sept. 2013 [AMC]   The Fall - "Dark Descent" by Allan Cubitt - May 2013 [Netflix Original]   The Following - Pilot by Kevin Williamson - Jan. 2013 [Warner Bros. Television, FOX]   Justified - "Hole in the Wall" by Graham Yost - Jan. 2013 [Warner Bros. Television, FOX] BEST AUDIO BOOK   Hour of the Rat - Lisa Brackmann - Tracy Sallows, narrator [Audible]   Man in the Empty Suit - Sean Ferrell - Mauro Hantman, narrator [AudioGO]   The Cuckoo’s Calling - Robert Galbraith - Robert Glenister, narrator [Hachette Audio]   Crescendo - Deborah J Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator [Audible]   Death and the Lit Chick - G.M. Malliet - Davina Porter, narrator [Dreamscape Media]