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.

2009 (nominees)

Best Novel: Trigger City by Sean Chercover [William Morrow]
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger [Atria]
by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny [Minotaur]

Best First Novel: Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris [Minotaur]
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [Doubleday]
 by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
by G. M. Malliet [Midnight Ink]
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central]

Best Paperback Original: The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime]
Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]
by Julie Hyzy [Berkley]
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell]
South of Hell by P. J. Parrish [Pocket Star]

2008

Best Novel: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

Best First Novel: In the Woods by Tana French

Best Paperback Original: A Thousand Bones by P. J. Parrish

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 Nevada Barr

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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