Anthony Award - Novel (Awarded by Bouchercon World Mystery Convention)

Awards List

2022

Razorblade Tears
(Winner)
S.A. Cosby

Runner
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

Clark and Division
(Nominee)
Naomi Hirahara

These Toxic Things
(Nominee)
Rachel Howzell Hall

The Collective
(Nominee)
Alison Gaylin

2021

Blacktop Wasteland
(Winner)
S.A. Cosby

Little Secrets
(Nominee)
Jennifer Hillier

What You Don't See
(Nominee)
Tracy Clark

The First to Lie
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

And Now She's Gone
(Nominee)
Rachel Howzell Hall

2019

November Road
(Winner)
Lou Berney

Sunburn
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

Blackout
(Nominee)
Alex Segura

Jar of Hearts
(Nominee)
Jennifer Hillier

Give Me Your Hand
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

2018

Bluebird, Bluebird
(Winner)
Attica Locke

The Force
(Nominee)
Don Winslow

Magpie Murders
(Nominee)
Anthony Horowitz

The Late Show
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

Glass Houses
(Nominee)
Louise Penny

2017

Where It Hurts
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

Wilde Lake
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

You Will Know Me
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

A Great Reckoning
(Nominee)
Louise Penny

Red Right Hand
(Nominee)
Chris Holm

2016

The Killing Kind
(Winner)
Chris Holm

Night Tremors
(Nominee)
Matt Coyle

The Nature of the Beast
(Nominee)
Louise Penny

The Child Garden
(Nominee)
Catriona McPherson

What You See
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

2015

After I'm Gone
(Winner)
Laura Lippman

The Long Way Home
(Nominee)
Louise Penny

The Secret Place
(Nominee)
Tana French

Lamentation
(Nominee)
Joe Clifford

Truth Be Told
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

2014

Ordinary Grace
(Winner)
William Kent Krueger

Suspect
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

A Cold and Lonely Place
(Nominee)
Sara J. Henry

The Wrong Girl
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

Through the Evil Days
(Nominee)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

2013

The Beautiful Mystery
(Winner)
Louise Penny

Dare Me
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

Gone Girl
(Nominee)
Gillian Flynn

The Trinity Game
(Nominee)
Sean Chercover

The Other Woman
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

2012

A Trick of the Light
(Winner)
Louise Penny

One Was a Soldier
(Nominee)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

The End of Everything
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

The Drop
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

Hurt Machine
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

2011

Bury Your Dead
(Winner)
Louise Penny

The Lock Artist
(Nominee)
Steve Hamilton

Faithful Place
(Nominee)
Tana French

I'd Know You Anywhere
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
(Nominee)
Tom Franklin

2010

The Brutal Telling
(Winner)
Louise Penny

The Girl Who Played with Fire
(Nominee)
Stieg Larsson

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
(Nominee)
Charlie Huston

The Shanghai Moon
(Nominee)
S.J. Rozan

The Last Child
(Nominee)
John Hart

2009

The Brass Verdict
(Winner)
Michael Connelly

The Cruelest Month
(Nominee)
Louise Penny

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(Nominee)
Stieg Larsson

Red Knife
(Nominee)
William Kent Krueger

Trigger City
(Nominee)
Sean Chercover

2008

What the Dead Know
(Winner)
Laura Lippman

The Watchman
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

Bad Luck and Trouble
(Nominee)
Lee Child

The Tin Roof Blowdown
(Nominee)
James Lee Burke

Thunder Bay
(Nominee)
William Kent Krueger

2007

No Good Deeds
(Winner)
Laura Lippman

The Virgin of Small Plains
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

The Dead Hour
(Nominee)
Denise Mina

All Mortal Flesh
(Nominee)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

Kidnapped
(Nominee)
Jan Burke

2006

Mercy Falls
(Winner)
William Kent Krueger

Bloodlines
(Nominee)
Jan Burke

Red Leaves
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

To the Power of Three
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

The Lincoln Lawyer
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

2005

Blood Hollow
(Winner)
William Kent Krueger

The Killing of the Tinkers
(Nominee)
Ken Bruen

Out of the Deep I Cry
(Nominee)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

By a Spider's Thread
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

The Madman's Tale
(Nominee)
John Katzenbach

California Girl
(Nominee)
T. Jefferson Parker

2004

Every Secret Thing
(Winner)
Laura Lippman

The Summer That Never Was
(Nominee)
Peter Robinson

Shutter Island
(Nominee)
Dennis Lehane

The Delicate Storm
(Nominee)
Giles Blunt

Blood Is the Sky
(Nominee)
Steve Hamilton

2003

City of Bones
(Winner)
Michael Connelly

Winter and Night
(Nominee)
S.J. Rozan

Hell to Pay
(Nominee)
George P. Pelecanos

North of Nowhere
(Nominee)
Steve Hamilton

Murder in the Sentier
(Nominee)
Cara Black
  • / Law Enforcement
  • Buy Buy

2002

Mystic River
(Winner)
Dennis Lehane

Flight
(Nominee)
Jan Burke

Reflecting the Sky
(Nominee)
S.J. Rozan

The Devil Went Down to Austin
(Nominee)
Rick Riordan

Tell No One
(Nominee)
Harlan Coben

2001

A Place of Execution
(Winner)
Val McDermid

Deep South
(Nominee)
Nevada Barr

He Shall Thunder in the Sky
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Peters

Listen to the Silence
(Nominee)
Marcia Muller

The Bottoms
(Nominee)
Joe R. Lansdale

Legacy of the Dead
(Nominee)
Charles Todd

2000

In a Dry Season
(Winner)
Peter Robinson

L.A. Requiem
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

River of Darkness
(Nominee)
Rennie Airth

High Five
(Nominee)
Janet Evanovich

Bones
(Nominee)
Jan Burke

1999

Blood Work
(Winner)
Michael Connelly

Blind Descent
(Nominee)
Nevada Barr

Gone, Baby, Gone
(Nominee)
Dennis Lehane

On Beulah Height
(Nominee)
Reginald Hill

Framework for Death
(Nominee)
Aileen Schumacher

1998

No Colder Place
(Winner)
S.J. Rozan

Eye of the Cricket
(Nominee)
James Sallis
  • / Police Procedural
  • Buy Buy

The Club Dumas
(Nominee)
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Devil's Food
(Nominee)
Anthony Bruno

Deception Pass
(Nominee)
Earl Emerson

1997

The Poet
(Winner)
Michael Connelly

Firestorm
(Nominee)
Nevada Barr

Multiple Wounds
(Nominee)
Alan Russell

Hearts and Bones
(Nominee)
Margaret Lawrence

Lethal Genes
(Nominee)
Linda Grant

1996

Under the Beetle's Cellar
(Winner)
Mary Willis Walker

The Last Coyote
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

True Crime
(Nominee)
Andrew Klavan

Blue Lonesome
(Nominee)
Bill Pronzini

Hard Christmas
(Nominee)
Barbara D'Amato

1995

She Walks These Hills
(Winner)
Sharyn McCrumb

K Is for Killer
(Nominee)
Sue Grafton

Black Betty
(Nominee)
Walter Mosley

The Concrete Blonde
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

Kolymsky Heights
(Nominee)
Lionel Davidson

One for the Money
(Nominee)
Janet Evanovich

Pictures of Perfection
(Nominee)
Reginald Hill

Just a Corpse at Twilight
(Nominee)
Janwillem Van De Wetering

Crack Down
(Nominee)
Val McDermid

Murder on a Kibbutz
(Nominee)
Batya Gur

The 13th Juror
(Nominee)
John T. Lescroart

Cold Shoulder
(Nominee)
Lynda La Plante

1994

Wolf in the Shadows
(Winner)
Marcia Muller
  • / Private Investigator
  • Buy Buy

O Little Town of Maggody
(Nominee)
Joan Hess
  • / Law Enforcement
  • Buy Buy

The Black Ice
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

To Live & Die in Dixie
(Nominee)
Kathy Hogan Trocheck

Morons and Madmen
(Nominee)
Earl Emerson

Consider the Crows
(Nominee)
Charlene Weir

Old Enemies
(Nominee)
Janet La Pierre

Sacred Clowns
(Nominee)
Tony Hillerman

The Sculptress
(Nominee)
Minette Walters

Southern Discomfort
(Nominee)
Margaret Maron

1993

Bootlegger's Daughter
(Winner)
Margaret Maron

Lullaby Town
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

Booked to Die
(Nominee)
John Dunning

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
(Nominee)
Sharyn McCrumb

Southern Ghost
(Nominee)
Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

1992

The Last Detective
(Winner)
Peter Lovesey

Rogue Wave
(Nominee)
Susan Dunlap
  • / Police Procedural
  • Buy Buy

A Single Stone
(Nominee)
Marilyn Wallace

Hour of the Hunter
(Nominee)
J.A. Jance

Love Nor Money
(Nominee)
Linda Grant

I.O.U.
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

1991

G Is for Gumshoe
(Winner)
Sue Grafton

The Good Fight
(Nominee)
Lia Matera

New Orleans Mourning
(Nominee)
Julie Smith

If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
(Nominee)
Sharyn McCrumb

A Ticket to the Boneyard
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block

1990

The Sirens Sang of Murder
(Winner)
Sarah Caudwell

Pious Deception
(Nominee)
Susan Dunlap
  • / Law Enforcement
  • Buy Buy

A Little Class on Murder
(Nominee)
Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

Corpus Christmas
(Nominee)
Margaret Maron

1989

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

1988

Skinwalkers
(Winner)
Tony Hillerman

Old Bones
(Nominee)
Aaron Elkins
  • / Law Enforcement
  • Buy Buy

Trojan Gold
(Nominee)
Elizabeth Peters

Marriage Is Murder
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

A Trouble of Fools
(Nominee)
Linda Barnes

1987

C Is for Corpse
(Winner)
Sue Grafton

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block
  • / Private Investigator
  • Buy Buy

Life's Work
(Nominee)
Jonathan Valin

No Body
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

Tropical Heat
(Nominee)
John Lutz

1986

B Is for Burglar
(Winner)
Sue Grafton

The Lonely Silver Rain
(Nominee)
John D. MacDonald
  • / Private Investigator
  • Buy Buy

The Shortest Way to Hades
(Nominee)
Sarah Caudwell
  • / Amateur Sleuth
  • Buy Buy

Killing Orders
(Nominee)
Sara Paretsky

The Plain Old Man
(Nominee)
Charlotte MacLeod

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

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