Anthony Award for Best First Novel
| Anthony Award for Best First Novel | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Debut mystery novel |
| Presented by | Bouchercon World Mystery Convention |
| First award | 1986 |
| Website | bouchercon |
The Anthony Award for Best First Novel, established in 1986, is an annual award presented as part of the Anthony Awards on behalf of Mystery Writers of America.
Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Jonathan Kellerman | When the Bough Breaks | Winner | [3] |
| Susan Kelly | The Gemini Man | Finalist | ||
| Dick Lochte | Sleeping Dog | Finalist | ||
| Robert Reeves | Doubting Thomas | Finalist | ||
| Andrew Vachss | Flood | Finalist | ||
| 1987 | Bill Crider | Too Late To Die | Winner | [3] |
| Joan Hess | Strangled Prose | Finalist | ||
| Faye Kellerman | The Ritual Bath | Finalist | ||
| Joseph Koenig | Floater | Finalist | ||
| Mike Lupica | Dead Air | Finalist | ||
| 1988 | Gillian Roberts | Caught Dead in Philadelphia | Winner | [3] |
| Michael Allegretto | Death on the Rocks | Finalist | ||
| Robert Bowman | The House of Blue Lights | Finalist | ||
| Mary Monica Pulver | Murder at the War | Finalist | ||
| Les Roberts | An Infinite Number of Monkeys | Finalist | ||
| 1989 | Elizabeth George | A Great Deliverance | Winner | [3] |
| Mary Lou Bennett | Murder Once Done | Finalist | ||
| Caroline Graham | The Killings at Badger's Drift | Finalist | ||
| Linda Grant | Random Access Murder | Finalist | ||
| Gar Anthony Haywood | Fear of the Dark | Finalist | ||
| David Stout | Carolina Skeletons | Finalist | ||
| 1990 | Karen Kijewski | Katwalk | Winner | [3] |
| Jill Churchill | Grime & Punishment | Finalist | ||
| Melodie Johnson Howe | The Mother Shadow | Finalist | ||
| Edith Skom | The Mark Twain Murders | Finalist | ||
| Susan Wolfe | The Last Billable Hour | Finalist | ||
| 1991 | Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem | Winner | [3] |
| Janet Dawson | Kindred Crimes | Finalist | ||
| Diane Mott Davidson | Catering to Nobody | Finalist | ||
| Rochelle Krich | Where’s Mommy Now? | Finalist | ||
| James McCahery | Grave Undertaking | Finalist | ||
| 1992 | Sue Henry | Murder on the Iditarod Trail | Winner | [3] |
| Mary Cahill | Carpool | Finalist | ||
| Margaret Lucke | A Relative Stranger | Finalist | ||
| Rebecca Rothenberg | The Bulrush Murders | Finalist | ||
| Leslie Elizabeth Watts | The Chocolate Box | Finalist | ||
| Gloria White | Murder on the Run | Finalist | ||
| 1993 | Barbara Neely | Blanche on the Lam | Winner | [3] |
| Susan Wittig Albert | Thyme of Death | Finalist | ||
| Carol Higgins Clark | Decked | Finalist | ||
| Michael Connelly | The Black Echo | Finalist | ||
| Charlene Weir | The Winter Widow | Finalist | ||
| 1994 | Nevada Barr | Track of the Cat | Winner | [3] |
| Jan Burke | Goodnight, Irene | Finalist | ||
| Laurie R. King | A Grave Talent | Finalist | ||
| Sharan Newman | Death Comes as Epiphany | Finalist | ||
| Abigail Padgett | Child of Silence | Finalist | ||
| 1995 | Caleb Carr | The Alienist | Winner | [3] |
| David Guterson | Snow Falling on Cedars | Finalist | ||
| Alex Keegan | Cuckoo | Finalist | ||
| Dennis Lehane | A Drink Before the War | Finalist | ||
| Carol O'Connell | Mallory’s Oracle | Finalist | ||
| Laura Joh Rowland | Shinjū | Finalist | ||
| Michelle Spring | Every Breath You Take | Finalist | ||
| Doug J. Swanson | Big Town | Finalist | ||
| Christopher West | Death of a Blue Lantern | Finalist | ||
| 1996 | Virginia Lanier | Death in Bloodhound Red | Winner | [3] |
| Richard Barre | The Innocents | Finalist | ||
| G.M. Ford | Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca? | Finalist | ||
| Charles Kenney | Hammurabi’s Code | Finalist | ||
| Martha C. Lawrence | Murder in Scorpio | Finalist | ||
| 1997 | Dale Furutani | Death in Little Tokyo | Winner | |
| Terris McMahan Grimes | Somebody Else’s Child | Winner | [3] | |
| Michael McGarrity | Tularosa | Finalist | ||
| Charles Todd | A Test of Wills | Finalist | ||
| Michael C. White | A Brother’s Blood | Finalist | ||
| 1998 | Lee Child | Killing Floor | Winner | [3] |
| Grace Edwards | If I Should Die | Finalist | ||
| Maureen Jennings | Except the Dying | Finalist | ||
| Philip Reed | Bird Dog | Finalist | ||
| Robert E. Skinner | Skin Deep, Blood Red | Finalist | ||
| 1999 | William Kent Krueger | Iron Lake | Winner | [3] |
| Jerrilyn Farmer | Sympathy for the Devil | Finalist | ||
| Jacqueline Fielder | Tiger’s Palette | Finalist | ||
| Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise | Finalist | ||
| Donald Harstad | Eleven Days | Finalist | ||
| 2000 | Donna Andrews | Murder With Peacocks | Winner | [3] |
| Cara Black | Murder in the Marais | Finalist | ||
| April Henry | Circles of Confusion | Finalist | ||
| Kris Neri | Revenge of the Gypsy Queen | Finalist | ||
| Paula L. Woods | Inner City Blues | Finalist | ||
| 2001 | Qiu Xiaolong | Death of a Red Heroine | Winner | [3] |
| Stephen Booth | Black Dog | Finalist | ||
| David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper | Finalist | ||
| Scott Phillips | The Ice Harvest | Finalist | ||
| Bob Truluck | Street Level | Finalist | ||
| Douglas E. Winter | Run | Finalist | ||
| 2002 | C.J. Box | Open Season | Winner | [3] |
| K. J. Erikson | Third Person Singular | Finalist | ||
| Jan Grape | Austin City Blue | Finalist | ||
| Denise Hamilton | The Jasmine Trade | Finalist | ||
| Andy Straka | A Witness Above | Finalist | ||
| 2003 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | In the Bleak Midwinter | Winner | [3] |
| David Corbett | The Devil’s Redhead | Finalist | ||
| Libby Fischer Hellmann | An Eye for Murder | Finalist | ||
| Jonathon King | The Blue Edge of Midnight | Finalist | ||
| Eddie Muller | The Distance | Finalist | ||
| 2004 | P. J. Tracy | Monkeewrench | Winner | [3] |
| Erin Hart | Haunted Ground | Finalist | ||
| Rebecca Pawel | Death of a Nationalist | Finalist | ||
| Lono Waiwaiole | Wiley’s Lament | Finalist | ||
| Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Harley Jane Kozak | Dating Dead Men | Winner | [3] |
| Sandra Balzo | Uncommon Grounds | Finalist | ||
| Judy Clemens | Till the Cows Come Home | Finalist | ||
| Jilliane Hoffman | Retribution | Finalist | ||
| J. A. Konrath | Whiskey Sour | Finalist | ||
| 2006 | Chris Grabenstein | Tilt-a-Whirl | Winner | [3] |
| Megan Abbott | Die a Little | Finalist | ||
| Brian Freeman | Immoral | Finalist | ||
| Randall Hicks | The Baby Game | Finalist | ||
| Theresa Schwegel | Officer Down | Finalist | ||
| 2007 | Louise Penny | Still Life | Winner | [3] |
| John Hart | King of Lies | Finalist | ||
| Steve Hockensmith | Holmes on the Range | Finalist | ||
| Cornelia Read | A Field of Darkness | Finalist | ||
| Alexandra Sokoloff | The Harrowing | Finalist | ||
| 2008 | Tana French | In the Woods | Winner | [3] |
| Sean Chercover | Big City, Bad Blood | Finalist | ||
| Lisa Lutz | The Spellman Files | Finalist | ||
| Craig McDonald | Head Games | Finalist | ||
| Marcus Sakey | The Blade Itself | Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Winner | [3][4] |
| Rosemary Harris | Pushing Up Daisies | Finalist | ||
| Julie Kramer | Stalking Susan | Finalist | ||
| G. M. Malliet | Death of a Cozy Writer | Finalist | ||
| Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 | Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Sophie Littlefield | A Bad Day for Sorry | Winner | [3] |
| Alan Bradley | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie | Finalist | ||
| Bryan Gruley | Starvation Lake | Finalist | ||
| Stuart Neville | The Ghosts of Belfast | Finalist | ||
| Stefanie Pintoff | In the Shadow of Gotham | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | Hilary Davidson | The Damage Done | Winner | [3] |
| Bruce DeSilva | Rogue Island | Finalist | ||
| Paul Doiron | The Poacher’s Son | Finalist | ||
| Graham Moore | The Sherlockian | Finalist | ||
| James Thompson | Snow Angels | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Sara J. Henry | Learning To Swim | Winner | [3] |
| Darrell James | Nazareth Child | Finalist | ||
| Leonard Rosen | All Cry Chaos | Finalist | ||
| Rochelle Staab | Who Do, Voodoo? | Finalist | ||
| Taylor Stevens | The Informationist | Finalist | ||
| Steve Ulfelder | Purgatory Chasm | Finalist | ||
| S. J. Watson | Before I Go To Sleep | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | Chris Pavone | The Expats | Winner | [3] |
| Daniel Friedman | Don’t Ever Get Old | Finalist | ||
| Owen Laukkanen | The Professionals | Finalist | ||
| Matthew Quirk | The 500 | Finalist | ||
| Michael Sears | Black Fridays | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Matt Coyle | Yesterday’s Echo | Winner | [3] |
| Roger Hobbs | Ghostman | Finalist | ||
| Becky Masterman | Rage Against the Dying | Finalist | ||
| Kimberly McCreight | Reconstructing Amelia | Finalist | ||
| Todd Robinson | The Hard Bounce | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Lori Rader-Day | The Black Hour | Winner | [3] |
| Kristi Belcamino | Blessed Are the Dead | Finalist | ||
| M. P. Cooley | Ice Shear | Finalist | ||
| Julia Dahl | Invisible City | Finalist | ||
| Allen Eskens | The Life We Bury | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Glen Erik Hamilton | Past Crimes | Winner | [3] |
| Patricia Abbott | Concrete Angel | Finalist | ||
| Rob Hart | New Yorked | Finalist | ||
| Art Taylor | On the Road with Del & Louise | Finalist | ||
| Brian Panowich | Bull Mountain | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Joe Ide | IQ | Winner | |
| Bill Beverly | Dodgers | Finalist | ||
| Nadine Nettmann | Decanting a Murder | Finalist | ||
| Renee Patrick | Design for Dying | Finalist | ||
| Nicholas Petrie | The Drifter | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Kellye Garrett | Hollywood Homicide | Winner | [5] |
| Jane Harper | The Dry | Finalist | [5] | |
| Jordan Harper | She Rides Shotgun | Finalist | [5] | |
| Christopher Irvin | Ragged; or, The Loveliest Lies of All | Finalist | [5] | |
| Kristen Lepionka | The Last Place You Look | Finalist | [5] | |
| 2019 | Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Winner | [6][7] |
| Tracy Clark | Broken Places | Finalist | [6][7] | |
| John Copenhaver | Dodging and Burning | Finalist | [6][7] | |
| Aimee Hix | What Doesn’t Kill You | Finalist | [6][7] | |
| James A. McLaughlin | Bearskin | Finalist | [6][7] | |
| 2020 | Tara Laskowski | One Night Gone | Winner | [8] |
| Tori Eldridge | The Ninja Daughter | Finalist | ||
| Angie Kim | Miracle Creek | Finalist | ||
| John Vercher | Three-Fifths | Finalist | ||
| Lauren Wilkinson | American Spy | Finalist | ||
| 2021 | David Heska Wanbli Weiden | Winter Counts | Winner | [9][10][11] |
| Mary Keliikoa | Derailed | Finalist | [11] | |
| Nev March | Murder in Old Bombay | Finalist | [11] | |
| Erica Ruth Neubauer | Murder at the Mena House | Finalist | [11] | |
| Richard Osman | The Thursday Murder Club | Finalist | [11] | |
| 2022 | Mia P. Manansala | Arsenic and Adobo | Winner | [12] |
| Yasmin Angoe | Her Name Is Knight | Finalist | ||
| Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl | Finalist | ||
| Heather Levy | Walking Through Needles | Finalist | ||
| Wanda M. Morris | All Her Little Secrets | Finalist | ||
| 2023 | Nita Prose | The Maid | Winner | |
| Eli Cranor | Don’t Know Tough | Finalist | ||
| Ramona Emerson | Shutter | Finalist | ||
| Harini Nagendra | The Bangalore Detectives Club | Finalist | ||
| Rob Osler | Devil’s Chew Toy | Finalist |
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