Anthony Awards - Best Mystery Novel

The Anthony Awards were created in 1986 and are given at each annual Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Nominees and winners are selected by attendees. Awards are given for the best novel, first novel, paperback original, short story, and criticism/biography.

The award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), well-known writer, critic, and fan of the mystery genre. Each convention committee designs its own award to present to the winners.

2011

Bury Your Dead Winner: Louise Penny
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: Tom Franklin
Faithful Place: Tana French
The Lock Artist: Steve Hamilton
I'd Know You Anywhere: Laura Lippman

2010

The Brutal Telling Winner: Louise Penny
The Last Child: John Hart
The Mystic Arts Of Erasing All Signs Of Death: Charlie Huston
The Girl Who Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
The Shanghai Moon: S.J. Rozan

2009

The Brass Verdict Winner: Michael Connelly
Trigger City: Sean Chercover
Red Knife: William Kent Krueger
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson
The Cruelest Month: Louise Penny

2008

What the Dead Know Winner: Laura Lippman
Tin Roof Blowdown: James Lee Burke
Bad Luck and Trouble: Lee Child
The Watchman: Robert Crais
Thunder Bay: William Kent Krueger

2007

No Good Deeds Winner: Laura Lippman
Kidnapped: Jan Burke
The Dead Hour: Denise Mina
The Virgin of Small Plains: Nancy Pickard
All Mortal Flesh: Julia Spencer-Fleming

2006

Mercy Falls Winner: William Kent Krueger
Bloodlines: Jan Burke
Lincoln Lawyer: Michael Connelly
Red Leaves: Thomas H. Cook
To the Power of Three: Laura Lippman

2005

Blood Hollow Winner: William Kent Krueger
The Killing of the Tinkers: Ken Bruen
The Madman’s Tale: John Katzenbach
By a Spider’s Thread: Laura Lippman
California Girl: T. Jefferson Parker
Out of the Deep I Cry: Julia Spencer-Fleming

2004

Every Secret Thing Winner: Laura Lippman
The Delicate Storm: Giles Blunt
Blood is the Sky: Steve Hamilton
Shutter Island: Dennis Lehane
The Summer That Never Was/Close to Home: Peter Robinson

2003

City of Bones by Michael Connelly

2002

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

2001

A place of execution by Val McDermid

2000

In a dry season by Peter Robinson

One time only categories celebrating the millennium

Best mystery novel of the century

Rebecca Winner: Daphne Du Maurier
The Big sleep: Raymond Chandler
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Agatha Christie
The Maltese falcon: Dashiell Hammett
Gaudy Night: Dorothy L. Sayers

Best series of the century

Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot Winner
Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct
Marcia Muller’s Sharon McCone
Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey
Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe

Best writer

1999

Blood work by Michael Connelly

1998

No colder place by S.J. Rozan

1997

The Poet by Michael Connelly

1988

Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman

1987

"C" is for corpse by Sue Grafton

1986

"B" is for burglar by Sue Grafton

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