Canadian author Louise Penny won the 2010 Anthony Award for best novel for her The Brutal Telling. It also won the Agatha earlier this year.

Penny’s new book, Bury Your Dead, continues the Armand Gamache series and has been receiving acclaim. It was starred by all four of the prepub review media, is a People magazine Pick, (the review that called it her best yet) and is on the NYT Hardcover Fiction extended list. The only naysayer so far is Marilyn Stasio, who in her recent NYT BR mystery column, said that a “dubious device undermines the much more interesting central narrative.”

Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Three Pines Mysteries) Louise Penny Retail Price: $24.99 Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books – (2010-09-28) ISBN / EAN: 0312377045 / 9780312377045

Large Print; Thorndike; available now; 9781410431721; $32.99

The first book in the series, Still Life, won an Anthony for Best First Novel.

Below are the nominees and winners in the full-length novel categories, with information on each author’s next book, where available.

BEST NOVEL

Winner:

The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny (Minotaur Books); Bury Your Dead, 9/28, is the 6th in the Armand Gamache series

Finalists:

• The Last Child, John Hart, (Minotaur Books)
• The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, Charlie Huston, (Ballantine Books)
• The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson, (Knopf); We probably don’t need to tell you that the next book in the series is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
• The Shanghai Moon, S.J. Rozan (Minotaur Books); the next in the Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels, #10 is  On the Line, published in September.

BEST FIRST NOVEL

Winner:

A Bad Day for Sorry, Sophie Littlefield, (Minotaur Books); A Bad Day for Pretty came out in June. The author published a YA title, Banished, (Delacorte Young Readers) this month

Finalists:

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery, Alan Bradley, (Delacorte Press); the next book in the series came out in March, The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Starvation Lake, Bryan Gruley, (Touchstone); the next book in the series, The Hanging Tree was published in August

The Ghosts of Belfast, Stuart Neville (Soho Press); the sequel, Collusion, came out this month

In the Shadow of Gotham, Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books); A Curtain Falls came out in May

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

Winner:

Starvation Lake, Bryan Gruley, (Touchstone); the next book in the series, The Hanging Tree, was published in August

Finalists:

• Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott, (Simon & Schuster)
• Tower, Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman, (Busted Flush Press); Bruen’s lastest solo novel, The Devil, was published by Minotaur in August. His 2009 book London Boulevard has been adapted to a movie starring Keira Knightley and Collin Ferrell, scheduled for release on Nov. 26
• Quarry in the Middle, Max Allan Collins, (Hard Case Crime); the 9th in the series, Quarry’s Ex came out in September
• Death and the Lit Chick, G.M. Malliet, (Midnight Ink); the third St. Just Mystery, Death at the Alma Mater came out in January
• Air Time, Hank Phillippi Ryan, (Mira); the next Charlotte McNally title, Drive Time, came out in February

For Best Short Story and Best Critical Nonfiction winners, link here.

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