Recreation

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.

2008

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

1999

Blood work by Michael Connelly

1998

No colder place by S J Rozan

1997

ThePoet by Michael Connelly

1996

Under the beetle's cellar by Mary Willis Walker

1995

She walks these hills by Sharyn McCrumb

1994

Wolf in the shadows by Marcia Muller

1993

Bootlegger's daughter by Margaret Maron

1992

The Last detective by Peter Lovesey

1991

"G" is for gumshoe by Sue Grafton

1990

The Siren's sang of murder by Sarah Caudwell

1989

The Silence of the lambs by Thomas Harris

1988

Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman

1987

"C" is for corpse bySue Grafton

1986

"B" is for burglar by Sue Grafton

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

Best writer