1989 Anthony Award (Awarded by Bouchercon World Mystery Convention)

Awards List

First Novel

A Great Deliverance
(Winner)
Elizabeth George

The Killings at Badger's Drift
(Nominee)
Caroline Graham

Murder Once Done
(Nominee)
Mary Lou Bennett

Fear of the Dark
(Nominee)
Gar Anthony Haywood

Random Access Murder
(Nominee)
Linda Grant

Carolina Skeletons
(Nominee)
David Stout

Novel

The Silence of the Lambs
(Winner)
Thomas Harris

E Is for Evidence
(Nominee)
Sue Grafton
  • / Private Investigator
  • Buy Buy

The Widow's Club
(Nominee)
Dorothy Cannell

Shackles
(Nominee)
Bill Pronzini

A Thief of Time
(Nominee)
Tony Hillerman

Blood Shot
(Nominee)
Sara Paretsky

Pepper Pike
(Nominee)
Les Roberts

Dead Crazy
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

Paperback Original

Something Wicked
(Winner)
Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

Murder by Impulse
(Nominee)
D.R. Meredith

Murder Unrenovated
(Nominee)
P.M. Carlson

A Radical Departure
(Nominee)
Lia Matera

High Noon at Midnight
(Nominee)
Michael Avallone

Primary Target
(Nominee)
Marilyn Wallace

The Man Who Died Laughing
(Nominee)
David Handler

Paying the Piper
(Nominee)
Sharyn McCrumb

Award Categories

Audiobook

Bill Crider Award for Best Novel in a Series

Children/Young Adult

Cover Art

Critical Nonfiction

First Novel

Historical

Novel

Novel of the Century

Novella (8,000-40,000 words)

Paperback Original/E-Book Original

Short Stories/Collection

Short Story

Young Adult

Award Years

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