{{Short description|2008 mystery and detective fiction convention}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox award | name = Bouchercon XXXIX | subheader = "Charmed to Death" | date = {{Start date|2008|10|09}} | location = Baltimore, Maryland | country = USA | host = Ruth Jordan, Judy Bobalik | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | previous = XXXVIII | main = Bouchercon | next = XL }} Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Home |publisher=Bouchercon.info |accessdate=January 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112224218/http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html# |archive-date=January 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher; also the inspiration for the Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887593-264/bouchercon_2010_by_the_bay.html.csp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905081837/http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887593-264/bouchercon_2010_by_the_bay.html.csp |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 5, 2012 |title=Bouchercon 2010 by the Bay: The World Series of Mystery |publisher=Libraryjournal.com |date=November 4, 2010 |accessdate=January 30, 2012 |first=Teresa |last=Jacobsen }}</ref> This page details '''Bouchercon XXXIX''' and the 23rd Anthony Awards ceremony.
==Bouchercon== The convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland on October 9, 2008; running until the 12th. The event was chaired by Ruth Jordan, publisher and editor of ''Crimespree'' magazine,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crimespreemag.com/individuals.html |title=who's who of CrimeSpree Magazine |publisher=Crimespreemag.com |date= |accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref> and Judy Bobalik, editor of the ''Reflections in a Private Eye'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/babalouie |title=Judy Bobalik's Page - CrimeSpace |publisher=Crimespace.ning.com |accessdate=February 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306115725/http://crimespace.ning.com/profile/babalouie |archivedate=March 6, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/features/arts/offthepage/blog/awards/ |title=Off the Page: On books and culture | Sun-Sentinel Blogs | Awards Archives |publisher=Weblogs.sun-sentinel.com |date= |accessdate=February 24, 2012}}</ref>
===Special Guests=== *Lifetime Achievement awards — Robert Rosenwald & Barbara Peters *Distinguished Contribution to the Genre award — Lawrence Block *International Guest of Honor — John Harvey *American Guest of Honor — Laura Lippman *Toastmaster — Mark Billingham *Fan Guest of Honor — Thalia Proctor
==Anthony Awards== The following list details the awards distributed at the twenty-third annual Anthony Awards ceremony.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2008 |title=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees |publisher=Bouchercon.info |date= |accessdate=February 13, 2012 |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Novel award=== Winner: *Laura Lippman, ''What the Dead Know''
Shortlist: *James Lee Burke, ''The Tin Roof Blowdown'' *Lee Child, ''Bad Luck and Trouble'' *Robert Crais, ''The Watchman'' *William Kent Krueger, ''Thunder Bay''
===First novel award=== Winner: *Tana French, ''In the Woods''
Shortlist: *Sean Chercover, ''Big City, Bad Blood'' *Lisa Lutz, ''The Spellman Files'' *Craig McDonald, ''Head Games'' *Marcus Sakey, ''The Blade Itself''
===Paperback original award=== Winner: *P. J. Parrish, ''A Thousand Bones''
Shortlist: *Megan Abbott, ''Queenpin'' *Ken Bruen & Jason Starr, ''Slide'' *David Corbett, ''Blood of Paradise'' *Robert Fate, ''Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues''
===Short story award=== Winner: *Laura Lippman, "Hardly Knew Her", from ''Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table''
Shortlist: *Rhys Bowen, "Please Watch Your Step", from ''The Strand Magazine'' February/May 2007 *Steve Hockensmith, "Dear Dr. Watson", from ''Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine'' February 2007 *Toni Kelner, "How Stella Got Her Grave Back", from ''Many Bloody Returns: Tales of Birthdays with Bite'' *Daniel Woodrell, "Uncle", from ''A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir''
===Critical / Non-fiction award=== Winner: *Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley, ''Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters''
Shortlist: *Roger Sobin, ''The Essential Mystery Lists'' *Patrick Anderson, ''The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction'' *Christiana Gregoriou, ''Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction''
===Website award=== Winner: *Stan Ulrich & Lucinda Surber, ''Stop, You're Killing Me!''
Shortlist: *Sarah Weinman, ''Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind'' *J. Kingston Pierce, ''January Magazine'' (and ''The Rap Sheet'') *Tess Gerritsen & J. T. Ellison et al., ''Murderati'' *David Montgomery, ''Crime Fiction Dossier''
===Special service award=== Winner: *Jon Jordan and Ruth Jordan, ''Crimespree Magazine''
Shortlist: *Ali Karim, ''Shots'' magazine *Maddy Van Hertbruggen, ''4 Mystery Addicts'' *Sarah Weinman, ''Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind'' *Judy Bobalik, for being one of the best friends and supporters of mystery writers
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