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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.

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 Winner
Michael Connelly
Murder in the Sentier
Cara Black
North of Nowhere
Steve Hamilton
Hell to Pay
George Pelecanos
Winter and Night
S. J. Rozan

2002

Mystic River Winner
Dennis Lehane
The Devil went down to Austin
Rick Riordan
Flight
Jan Burke
Reflecting the Sky
S J Rozan
Tell No One
Harlan Coben

2001

A place of execution Winner
Val McDermid
Deep south
Nevada Barr
The Bottoms
Joe R Lansdale
Listen to the silence
Marcia Muller
He shall thunder in the sky
Elizabeth Peters
Legacy of the dead
Charles Todd

2000

In a dry season Winner
Peter Robinson
River of darkness
Rennie Airth
Bones: an Irene Kelly mystery
Jan Burke
L.A. Requiem
Robert Crais
High Five
Janet Evanovich

1999

Blood work Winner
Michael Connelly
Blind Descent
Nevada Barr
On Beulah Height
Reginald Hill
Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane
Framework for Death
Aileen Schumacher

1998

No colder place Winner
S J Rozan
Devil's food
Anthony Bruno
Deception Pass
Earl W. Emerson
The Club Dumas
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Eye of the cricket
James Sallis

1997

The Poet Winner
Michael Connelly
Firestorm
Nevada Barr
Lethal genes
Linda Grant
Hearts and bones
Margaret Lawrence
Multiple wounds
Alan Russell

1996

Under the beetle's cellar
Mary Willis Walker

1995

She walks these hills
Sharyn McCrumb

1994

Wolf in the shadows
Marcia Muller

1993

Bootlegger's daughter
Margaret Maron

1992

The Last detective
Peter Lovesey

1991

"G" is for gumshoe
Sue Grafton

1990

The Siren's sang of murder
Sarah Caudwell

1989

The Silence of the lambs
Thomas Harris

1988

Skinwalkers
Tony Hillerman

1987

"C" is for corpse
Sue Grafton

1986

"B" is for burglar
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