Anthony Award: novel

The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention since 1986. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher (1911–1968), one of the founders of the Mystery Writers of America. Prizes are awarded for best novel, best first novel, best paperback original, best short story, and best critical / nonfiction.

2023: Like a Sister, Kellye Garrett

2022: Razorblade Tears, by S.A. Cosby

2021: Blacktop Wasteland, by S.A. Cosby

2020: The Murder List, by Hank Phillippi Ryan

2019: November Road, Lou Berney

2018: Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke

2017: A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny

2016: The Killing Kind, by Chris Holm

2015: After I’m Gone, by Laura Lippman

2014: Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger

2013: The Beautiful Mystery, by Louise Penny

2012: A Trick of the Light, by Louise Penny

2011: Bury Your Dead, by Louise Penny

2010: The Brutal Telling, by Louise Penny

2009: The Brass Verdict, by Michael Connelly

2008: What the Dead Know, by Laura Lippman

2007: No Good Deeds, by Laura Lippman

2006: Mercy Falls, by William Kent Krueger

2005: Blood Hollow, by William Kent Krueger

2004: Every Secret Thing, by Laura Lippman

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. Roman

1997: The Poet, 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 Sirens 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, by Sue Grafton

1986: “B” Is for Burglar, by Sue Grafton