Virtual Bouchercon 2020

Join Guests of Honor Scott Turow, Walter Mosley, Anne Perry, and toastmaster Catriona McPherson for Virtual Bouchercon 2020 (Oct 16–17, 2020).

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Getting ready for tonight’s live awards ceremony.

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How is everyone’s second day of #Bouchercon2020 going? Let us know!

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Don’t forget to watch the Opening Ceremonies with our fantastic Toastmaster, @CatrionaMcP. Bring a cocktail to raise a glass along with her!

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Pick your next panel! They start live at 11 a.m. Pacific.

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The panels have started! Pick which one you’re going to and get ready for some great conversations (and hats if you’re watching Sleuths in the Recent Past).

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#bouchercon2020 is almost here! We’re busy right now rehearsing Saturday night’s Anthony Award ceremony, with some Zooming nominees!

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The panelists are up! Go to the @bouchercon2020 website to see our great lineup. https://t.co/kpin5M2NA8

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Last day of Best Short Story Week at #AnthonyAwards. It's @ArtTaylorWriter and "Hard Return." Read it for free here: https://t.co/2O1YdyZQx7

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Here's yr mid-week short story, brought to you by the #AnthonyAwards and #bouchercon2020. “The Red Zone,” by @alex_segura. Make sure you scroll down to the bottom of the page! https://t.co/ApogWm41yG

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Today's #AnthonyAwards nominee is @hilarydavidson and her short story "Unforgiven." Read it for free here: https://t.co/vBZQjYxIaW

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This week, #AnthonyAwards brings you 5 great short story nominees. Read one FREE each day. Today's is "Touristas," by Hector Acosta @hexican. https://t.co/7diU11ZETc

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Best Novel #AnthonyAwards wk ends w/ MIAMI MIDNIGHT, by @alex_segura. Newly sober Pete is running a Miami bookstore & not doing dangerous PI work. So when a Cuban mobster asks him to find his son's killer, he balks-until a 2nd murder links to those who nearly ended Pete’s life.

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#AnthonyAwards Best Novel nom today--THE MURDER LIST, by @HankPRyan. Rachel knows what's true. She's smart, a hard worker, married to a lion of Boston's defense bar & working a successful internship w/ the DA. But she's wrong. The battle for justice becomes a battle for survival.

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Mid-week at #AnthonyAwards and it's Best Novel nom THE LADY IN THE LAKE, by @LauraMLippman. In 1966, Maddie was a happy housewife. Then she fled a 20-yr marriage, determined to live a meaningful life. Working at a newspaper, she reports on a woman found dead in a city park lake.

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Day 2 for #AnthonyAwards noms. It's THEY ALL FALL DOWN by @RachelHowzell. Miriam sails to a luxurious island off the Mexico coast w/ 6 strangers. She's soon shocked to find that they all have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses―and they all have secrets.

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This week's #AnthonyAwards-Best Novel noms. We start w/ YOUR HOUSE WILL PAY, by @stephycha. After police shoot a black teenager, LA is as tense as in the early 90s. But when a 2nd crime hits, two Korean-American & Black families must face down their history in a city on the brink

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Ending #AnthonyAwards Best 1st wk w/ AMERICAN SPY by @thrillkinson. Marie Mitchell is an FBI intelligence officer & a black woman in an old boys’ club. She's sent to Burkina Faso to undermine its president. It changes what she believes about being a spy, lover, sister & American.

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Today's Best First Novel nom is ONE NIGHT GONE by @TaraLWrites. Maureen Haddaway arrives in the wealthy town of Opal Beach but before the summer is up, she vanishes. Decades later, Allison Simpson house-sits there in the off-season & becomes drawn to Maureen's disappearance.

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#AnthonyAwards Thurs edition is Best 1st Novel nom THREE-FIFTHS by @jverch75. Bobby Saraceno, a biracial black man passing for white, is forced to confront lies of his past while facing the truth of his present when a friend just released from prison involves him in a hate crime.

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Today's Best 1st #AnthonyAwards nom is MIRACLE CREEK by Angie Kim. A small group of people go to a hyperbaric chamber treatment center that may cure conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, & it’s clear the explosion wasn’t an accident