Cozy Mystery List
A Guide to Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books and DVDs
 

 

ANTHONY AWARDS
BEST NOVEL

2013:  Dare Me by Megan Abbott
The Trinity Game by Sean Chercover
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

2012:  A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Winner)
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman
The Drop by Michael Connelly
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2011:  Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny   (Winner)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
 

2010:  The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Winner)
The Last Child by John Hart
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (translated by Reg Keeland)
The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan

2009:  The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Winner)
Trigger City by Sean Chercover
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

2008:  What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Winner)
Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
The Watchman by Robert Crais
Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger

2007:   No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman (Winner)
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
Kidnapped by Jan Burke
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

2006: Mercy Falls by William Kent Krueger (Winner)
Bloodlines by Jan Burke
Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook
To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman

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. Rozan

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: 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



The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
The Beautiful Mystery

The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Other Woman

A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
A Trick of the Light

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Bury Your Dead

I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
I'd Know You Anywhere

The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
The Brutal Telling

The Shanghai Moon by S. J. Rozan
The Shanghai Moon

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
The Brass Verdict

Red Knife by William Kent Krueger
Red Knife

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
The Cruelest Month

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
What the Dead Know

Bloodlines by Jan Burke
Bloodlines