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The Anthony Award The Anthony Awards are given at each annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention with the winners selected by attendees. The award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), well-known writer and critic from the New York Times, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America. 2007 Best Novel: No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman Best First Novel: Still Life by Louise Penny Best Paperback Original: Ashes and Bones by Dana Cameron 2006 Best Novel: Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger Best First Novel: Tilt-a-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein Best Paperback Original: The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman 2005 Best Novel: Blood Hollow by William Kent Krueger Best First Novel: Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak Best Paperback: Twisted City by Jason Starr 2004 Best Novel: Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman Best First Novel: Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy Best Paperback: Deadly Legacy by Robin Burcell 2003 Best Novel: City of Bones by Michael Connelly Best First Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming Best Paperback: Fatal Truth by Robin Burcell 2002 Best Novel: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane Best First Novel: Open Season by C. J. Box Best Paperback: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris 2001 Best Novel: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid Best First Novel: Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong Best Paperback: Death Dances to a Reggae Beat by Kate Grilley 2000 Best Novel: In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson Best First Novel: Murder, with Peacocks by Donna Andrews Best Paperback: In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman 1999 Best Novel: Blood Work by Michael Connelly Best First Novel: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger Best Paperback: Butcher's Hill by Laura Lippman 1998 Best Novel: No Colder Place by S J Rozan Best First Novel: Killing Floor by Lee Child Best Paperback: Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan 1997 Best Novel: The Poet by Michael Connelly Best First Novel: Death in Little Toyko by Dale Furutani Best Paperback: Somebody Else's Child by Terris McMahan Grimes 1996 Best Novel: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker Best First Novel: Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier Best Paperback: Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben 1995 Best Novel: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb Best First Novel: The Alienist by Caleb Carr 1994 Best Novel: Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller Best First
Novel: Track of the Cat
by 1993 Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely 1992 Best Novel: The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey Best First Novel: Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry 1991 Best Novel: "G" is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton Best First Novel: Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell Best Paperback: Grave Undertaking by James McCahery 1990 Best Novel: The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell Best First Novel: Katwalk by Karen Kijewski Best Paperback: Honeymoon with Murder by Carolyn G. Hart 1989 Best Novel: The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Best First Novel: A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George Best Paperback: Something Wicked by Carolyn Hart 1988 Best Novel: Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman Best First Novel: Caught Dead in Philadelphia by Gillian Roberts Best Paperback: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais 1987 Best Novel: "C" is for Corpse by Sue Grafton Best First Novel: Too Late to Die by Bill Crider Best Paperback: Junkyard Dog by Robert Campbell 1986 Best Novel: "B" is for Burglar by Sue Grafton Best First Novel: When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman Best Paperback: Say No to Murder by Nancy Pickard |
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