ANTHONY AWARDS BEST FIRST NOVEL

2016:
Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott
Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton
New Yorked by Rob Hart
Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
On the Road with Del & Louise by Art Taylor

2015:  The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Winner)
Blessed Are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino
Ice Shear by M.P. Cooley
Invisible City by Julia Dahl
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens

2014: Yesterday’s Echo by Matt Coyle (Winner)
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
The Hard Bounce by Todd Robinson

2013:  The Expats by Chris Pavone (Winner)
Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
The Professionals by Owen Laukkanen
The 500 by Matthew Quirk
Black Fridays by Michael Sears

2012: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry ( Winner)
Nazareth Child by Darrell James
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson

2011: The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson  (Winner)
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
Snow Angels by James Thompson  

2010:  A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield (Winner)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley
The Twelve/The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

2009:  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Winner)
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

2008:  In the Woods by Tana French  (Winner)
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Head Games by Craig McDonald
The Blade Itself by Marcus Sakey

2007:   Still Life by Louise Penny   (Winner)
A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
The Harrowing by Alexandra Sokoloff
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
The King of Lies by John Hart

2006: Tilt-a-Whirl by Chris Grabenstein (Winner)
The Baby Game by Randall Hicks
Die a Little by Megan Abbott
Immoral by Brian Freeman
Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel 

2005:  Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak

2004:  Monkeewrench  by P. J. Tracy

2003:  In The Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2002:   Open Season by C. J. Box

2001:   Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong

2000:   Murder, with Peacocks by Donna Andrews

1999:  Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger

1998: The Killing Floor by Lee Child 

1997: Tie: Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani
                Tie: Somebody Else’s Child by Terris McMahan Grimes

1996: Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier

1995: The Alienist by Caleb Carr

1994:  Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr

1993: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

1992:  Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

1991: Postmortem by Patricia Daniels Cornwell

1990: Katwalk by Karen Kijewski

1989:  A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

1988: Caught Dead in Pennsylvania by Gillian Roberts

1987: Too Late To Die by Bill Crider

1986: When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman