Anthony Award

The Anthony Awards, named for Anthony Boucher, recognize excellence in mystery writing and are voted on by attendees at the annual Bouchercon World Mystery Con…

Mystery works published during the award year; voted on by Bouchercon registrants.

2024

• All the Sinners Bleed — winner
• Time's Undoing — nominee
• The Last Devil to Die — nominee
• Everybody Knows — nominee

2023

• Like a Sister — winner
• The Maid — nominee
• The Devil Takes You Home — nominee
• A World of Curiosities — nominee
• The Bullet That Missed — nominee
• Secret Identity — nominee

2022

• Razorblade Tears — winner
• Clark and Division — nominee
• The Collective — nominee
• Runner — nominee
• These Toxic Things — nominee

2021

• Blacktop Wasteland — winner
• What You Don't See — nominee
• And Now She's Gone — nominee
• The First to Lie — nominee

2020

• The Murder List — winner
• Your House Will Pay — nominee
• Miami Midnight — nominee
• Lady in the Lake — nominee
• They All Fall Down — nominee

2019

• November Road — winner
• Jar of Hearts — nominee
• Blackout — nominee
• Sunburn — nominee

2018

• Bluebird, Bluebird — winner
• Magpie Murders — nominee
• Glass Houses — nominee
• The Force — nominee
• The Late Show — nominee

2017

• A Great Reckoning — winner
• Where It Hurts — nominee
• Wilde Lake — nominee
• Red Right Hand — nominee

2016

• The Killing Kind — winner
• The Child Garden — nominee
• The Nature of the Beast — nominee
• Night Tremors — nominee
• What You See — nominee

2015

• After I'm Gone — winner
• The Secret Place — nominee
• The Long Way Home — nominee
• Lamentation — nominee
• Truth Be Told — nominee

2014

• Ordinary Grace — winner
• The Wrong Girl — nominee
• Through the Evil Days — nominee
• Suspect — nominee
• A Cold and Lonely Place — nominee

2013

• The Beautiful Mystery — winner
• Gone Girl — nominee
• The Other Woman — nominee

2012

• A Trick of the Light — winner
• Hurt Machine — nominee
• One Was a Soldier — nominee
• The Drop — nominee

2011

• Bury Your Dead — winner
• The Lock Artist — nominee
• I'd Know You Anywhere — nominee
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter — nominee
• Faithful Place — nominee

2010

• The Brutal Telling — winner
• The Shanghai Moon — nominee
• The Girl Who Played with Fire — nominee
• The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death — nominee
• The Last Child — nominee

2009

• The Brass Verdict — winner
• Red Knife — nominee
• Trigger City — nominee
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — nominee
• The Cruelest Month — nominee

2008

• What the Dead Know — winner
• The Watchman — nominee
• The Tin Roof Blowdown — nominee
• Thunder Bay — nominee
• Bad Luck and Trouble — nominee

2007

• No Good Deeds — winner
• The Dead Hour — nominee
• All Mortal Flesh — nominee
• The Virgin of Small Plains — nominee
• Kidnapped — nominee

2006

• Mercy Falls — winner
• Red Leaves — nominee
• Bloodlines — nominee
• The Lincoln Lawyer — nominee

2005

• Blood Hollow — winner
• Out of the Deep I Cry — nominee
• California Girl — nominee
• By a Spider's Thread — nominee
• The Killing of the Tinkers — nominee

2004

• Shutter Island — nominee
• The Delicate Storm — nominee
• Close To Home — nominee
• Blood Is The Sky — nominee

2003

• City of Bones — winner
• Murder in the Sentier — nominee
• North Of Nowhere — nominee
• Winter and Night — nominee

2002

• Mystic River — winner
• Reflecting the Sky — nominee
• The Devil Went Down to Austin — nominee
• Flight — nominee
• Tell No One — nominee

2001

• A Place of Execution — winner
• He Shall Thunder in the Sky — nominee
• Legacy of the Dead — nominee
• Deep South — nominee
• Listen to the Silence — nominee

2000

• In a Dry Season — winner
• Bones — nominee
• River of Darkness — nominee
• L.A. Requiem — nominee
• High Five — nominee

1999

• Blood Work — winner
• On Beulah Height — nominee
• Gone, Baby, Gone — nominee
• Blind Descent — nominee
• Framework for Death — nominee

1998

• No Colder Place — winner
• Eye of the Cricket — nominee
• Devil's Food — nominee

1997

• THE POET — winner
• Firestorm — nominee
• Hearts and Bones — nominee
• Lethal Genes — nominee

1996

• Under the Beetle's Cellar — winner
• HARD CHRISTMAS — nominee
• True Crime — nominee
• The Last Coyote — nominee
• Blue Lonesome — nominee

1995

• She Walks These Hills — winner
• Black Betty — nominee
• One For The Money — nominee
• The Concrete Blonde — nominee
• Kolymsky Heights — nominee
• Pictures Of Perfection — nominee
• NOT TILL THE RED FOG RISES. — nominee
• Just a Corpse at Twilight — nominee
• Cold Shoulder — nominee
• K is for Killer — nominee

1994

• Wolf in the Shadows — winner
• Southern Discomfort — nominee
• The Black Ice — nominee
• The Sculptress — nominee
• Sacred Clowns — nominee
• Old Enemies — nominee
• Consider the Crows — nominee
• O Little Town of Maggody — nominee

1993

• Bootlegger's Daughter — winner
• Lullaby Town — nominee
• Southern Ghost — nominee

1992

• The Last Detective — winner
• A Single Stone — nominee
• I.O.U. — nominee
• Love Nor Money — nominee
• Hour Of The Hunter — nominee
• Rogue Wave — nominee

1991

• G is for Gumshoe — winner
• A Ticket to the Boneyard — nominee
• The Good Fight — nominee
• New Orleans Mourning — nominee
• If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O — nominee

1990

• A Little Class on Murder — nominee
• Corpus Christmas — nominee
• Pious Deception — nominee

1989

• The Silence of the Lambs — winner
• Pepper Pike — nominee
• Blood Shot — nominee
• E Is for Evidence — nominee
• Dead Crazy — nominee
• Shackles — nominee

1988

• Skinwalkers — winner
• Trojan Gold — nominee
• Marriage Is Murder — nominee

1987

• C Is For Corpse — winner
• No Body — nominee
• When The Sacred Ginmill Closes — nominee
• Life's Work — nominee
• Tropical Heat — nominee

1986

• B is for Burglar — winner
• Killing Orders — nominee
• The Lonely Silver Rain — nominee
• The Plain Old Man — nominee