Crime Fiction Awards: The Best in Mysteries, Suspense Novels and Thrillers

List of Awards

Agatha

Anthony

Arthur Ellis

Audie

Barry

Benjamin Franklin

Best Books

Blóðdropinn

Bloody Scotland Crime Novel

Bloody Words

Bruce Alexander

CrimeFest

CWA Dagger

Danish Crime Novel

Daphne du Maurier

David

Davitt

Dilys

Edgar

EPIC

Falcon

Finnish Crime Novel

ForeWord

Friedrich Glauser

Glass Key

Grand Prix de Lit. Policière

Grant Allen

Gumshoe

Hammett

Harper Lee

Indie Lit

International Book

IPPY

Irish Book

John Spray

LA Times

Lambda

Lefty

Lovey

Macavity

National (UK)

National Indie

Ned Kelly

Nero

Next Generation

Ngaio Marsh

Petrona Award

Poloni Prize

Premier

Premio Azzeccagarbugli

Premio Fedeli

Prix Mystère

Quill

Reader Views

Reviewers' Choice

Riverton Prize

SCIBA

Shamus

SMM Crime Novel

SMM Private Eye

SMM Traditional

Spotted Owl

Strand Critics

Swedish Crime Novel

Theakstons

Thriller

Tony Hillerman

Whodunit

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The Anthony Awards

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.

 

    2016
  • Best Novel: The Killing Kind by Chris Holm (Mulholland Books)
  • Best First Novel: Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
  • Best Paperback Original: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
  • Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work: Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove Press)
  • Best Short Story: "The Little Men" by Megan Abbott (Open Road)
  • Best Anthology or Collection: Murder Under the Oaks by Art Taylor, editor (Down & Out Books)
  • Best Young Adult Novel: Need by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Best Crime Fiction Audiobook Nominee:
    • Dark Waters by Chris Goff; Read by Assaf Cohen (Crooked Lane)
    • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins; Read by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey and India Fisher (Penguin Audio)
    • Causing Chaos by Deborah J. Ledford; Read by Christina Cox (IOF Productions)
    • The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny; Read by Robert Bathurst (Macmillan Audio)
    • Young Americans by Josh Stallings; Read by Em Eldridge (Josh Stallings)
    2015
  • Best Novel: After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
  • Best First Novel: The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)
  • Best Paperback Original: The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
  • Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work: Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan, ed. (Henery Press)
  • Best Short Story: "The Odds Are Against Us" by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov 2014, Dell)
  • Best Anthology or Collection: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, eds. (Pegasus Crime)
    2014
  • Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
  • Best First Novel: Yesterday's Echo by Matt Coyle (Oceanview Publishing)
  • Best Paperback Original: As She Left It by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
  • Best Short Story: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" by John Connolly (Bibliomysteries, The Mysterious Bookshop)
  • Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)
  • Best Children's/Young Adult's Novel: The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton Mifflin)
  • Best Television Episode Teleplay: The Blacklist, "Pilot" by Jon Bokenkamp (NBC)
  • Best Audio Book: The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith; Read by Robert Glenister (Hachette Audio)
    2013
  • Best Novel: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
  • Best First Novel: The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)
  • Best Paperback Original: Big Maria by Johnny Shaw (Thomas & Mercer)
  • Best Short Story: "Mischief in Mesopotamia" by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov 2012)
  • Best Critical/Non-Fiction Work: Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly and Declan Burke, editors (Hodder & Stoughton)
    2012
  • Best Novel: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
  • Best First Novel: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
  • Best Paperback Original: Buffalo West Wing by Julie Hyzy (Berkley Prime Crime)
  • Best Short Story: "Disarming" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by Dana Cameron
  • Best Non-Fiction: The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris, editor (Ace)
    2011
  • Best Novel: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
  • Best First Novel: Damage Done by Hilary Davidson (Forge Books)
  • Best Paperback Original: Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
  • Best Short Story: "Swing Shift" in Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side by Dana Cameron (Berkley)
  • Best Graphic Novel: The Chill by Jason Starr (Vertigo Crime)
  • Best Critical Non-Fiction: Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran (HarperCollins)
  • Best Website/Blog: Stop, You're Killing Me
    2010
  • Best Novel: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
  • Best First Novel: A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield (Minotaur Books)Review of A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield
  • Best Paperback Original: Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)Review of Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
  • Best Short Story: "On the House" (Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers) by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Level Best Books)
  • Best Critical Non-Fiction: Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James (Knopf)
    2009
  • Best Novel: The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
  • Best First Novel: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
  • Best Paperback Original: State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy (Berkley)Review of State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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

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