Announcing the results of 2010 Anthony Awards:

Best Novel

The brutal telling by Louise Penny — (Minotaur)

Also nominated

The last child by John Hart — (Minotaur)

The mystic arts of erasing all signs of death : a novel by Charlie Huston — (Ballantine Books)

The girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson ; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland — (Quercus/Knopf)

The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan — (Minotaur)

Best First Novel

A bad day for sorry by Sophie Littlefield — (Minotaur)

Also nominated

The sweetness at the bottom of the pie by Alan Bradley — (Delacorte)

Starvation Lake : a mystery by Bryan Gruley — (Touchstone)

The ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville — (aka The Twelve), (Soho Press/Harvill Secker)

In the shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff — (Minotaur)

Best Paperback Original

Starvation Lake : a mystery by Bryan Gruley — (Touchstone)

Also nominated

Bury me deep by Megan Abbott — (Simon & Schuster)

Tower by Ken Bruen & Reed Farrel Coleman — (Busted Flush Press)

Death and the lit chick : a St. Just mystery by G.M. Malliet — (Midnight Ink)