| Awarded For: | Best in mystery fiction |
| Presenter: | Bouchercon World Mystery Convention |
| Year: | 1986 |
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.[1] [2]
Awards are voted for by members attending the annual event and are given in a number of categories, including
The ceremony may also include a number of "wild card" awards.
| 1986 | First Novel | When the Bough Breaks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Movie | Witness | ||
| Novel | "B" Is for Burglar | ||
| Paperback Original | Say No to Murder | ||
| Short Story | "Lucky Penny" from The New Black Mask, No. 3 | ||
| TV Series | Murder She Wrote | ||
| Grand Master | |||
| 1987 | First Novel | Too Late to Die | |
| Novel | "C" Is for Corpse | ||
| Paperback Original | |||
| Short Story | "The Parker Shotgun" from Mean Streets | ||
| 1988 | First Novel | Caught Dead in Philadelphia | |
| Movie | |||
| Novel | Skinwalkers | ||
| Paperback Original | |||
| Short Story | "Breakfast Television" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1987 | ||
| TV Series | Mystery! | ||
| 1989 | First Novel | ||
| Novel | |||
| Paperback Original | Something Wicked | ||
| Short Story | No award presented | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| Distinguished Contribution | [5] [6] | ||
| 1990 | First Novel | Katwalk | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Movie | Crimes and Misdemeanors | |||
| Novel | ||||
| Paperback Original | Honeymoon with Murder | |||
| Short Story | Afraid All The Time from Sisters in Crime | |||
| TV Series | Inspector Morse | |||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1991 | Critical work | and Martin H. Greenberg | Synod Of Sleuths | |
| First Novel | Postmortem | |||
| Motion Picture | Presumed Innocent | |||
| Novel | "G" Is for Gumshoe | |||
| Paperback Original | Where's Mommy Now? | |||
| Grave Undertaking | ||||
| Short Story | "The Celestial Buffet" from Sisters in Crime 2 | |||
| Television series | Mystery! | |||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1992 | Anthology / Short Story collection | A Woman's Eye | ||
| Critical work | 100 Great Detectives | |||
| First Novel | Murder on the Iditarod Trail | |||
| Novel | ||||
| Paperback Original | No award presented | |||
| Short Story | "Lucky Dip" from A Woman’s Eye | |||
| True Crime | ||||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1993 | Critical work | Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991 | ||
| First Novel | Blanche on the Lam | |||
| Motion Picture | ||||
| Novel | Bootlegger's Daughter | |||
| Paperback Original | No award presented | |||
| Short Story | "Cold Turkey" from Sisters in Crime 5 | [7] | ||
| True Crime | ||||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1994 | Anthology / Short Story collection | Mary Higgins Clark presents Malice Domestic 2 | ||
| Critical work | , Martin H. Greenberg, and Larry Segriff | The Fine Art Of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion | ||
| First Novel | Track of the Cat | |||
| Novel | Wolf in the Shadows | |||
| Paperback Original | No award presented | |||
| Short Story | "Checkout" from Malice Domestic 2 | |||
| True Crime | ||||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1995 | Anthology / Short Story collection | |||
| Critical work | and J. Cooper | Crime Fiction, 2nd Edition | ||
| Film | Pulp Fiction | |||
| First Novel | ||||
| Novel | She Walks These Hills | |||
| Short Story | "The Monster of Glamis" from Royal Crimes | |||
| True Crime | ||||
| TV Series | Prime Suspect | |||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1996 | Cover Art | |||
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | ||||
| Editor | ||||
| First Novel | Death in Bloodhound Red | |||
| Magazine / Digest / Review Publication | ||||
| Movie | ||||
| Novel | Under the Beetle's Cellar | |||
| Paperback Original | Deal Breaker | |||
| Publisher | ||||
| Short Story | "And Pray Nobody Sees You" from Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes | |||
| Short Story collection | ||||
| True Crime | Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? | |||
| TV Show | ||||
| 1997 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Detecting Women 2: Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women | ||
| Fanzine | ||||
| First Novel | Death in Little Tokyo | |||
| Somebody Else's Child | ||||
| Novel | ||||
| Short Story | "Accidents Will Happen" from Malice Domestic 5 | |||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 1998 | Cover Art | Night Dogs | ||
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | No award presented | |||
| First Novel | Killing Floor | |||
| Novel | No Colder Place | |||
| Paperback Original | Big Red Tequila | |||
| Short Story | "One Bag of Coconuts" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1997 | |||
| "A Front Row Seat" from Vengeance is Hers | ||||
| 1999 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Deadly Pleasures Magazine | ||
| First Novel | Iron Lake | |||
| Novel | Blood Work | |||
| Paperback Original | Butchers Hill | |||
| Short Story | "Of Course You Know that Chocolate Is a Vegetable" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998 | |||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| 2000 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Detecting Women, 3rd edition | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Novel | Murder with Peacocks | ||
| Novel | In a Dry Season | ||
| Novel of the century | Rebecca | ||
| Paperback Original | In Big Trouble | ||
| Series of the Century | Hercule Poirot series | ||
| Short Story | "Noir Lite" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1999 | ||
| Writer of the Century | |||
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| 2001 | Anthology / Short-story collection | Master's Choice II | |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | 100 Favorite Mysteries Of The Century | ||
| Fan Publication | and Lynn Kaczmarek | Mystery News | |
| First Novel | Death of a Red Heroine | ||
| Novel | |||
| Paperback Original | Death Dances to a Reggae Beat | ||
| Short Story | "" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2000 | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| 2002 | Cover Art | "Reflecting the Sky," from photograph by Josef Beck | |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Seldom Disappointed | ||
| First Novel | Open Season | ||
| Novel | Mystic River | ||
| Paperback Original | Dead Until Dark | ||
| Short Story | and Judy Crider | "Chocolate Moose" from Death Dines at 8:30 | |
| Young Adult Mystery | |||
| Special Service | |||
| 2003 | Cover Art | "Measures of Poison" from photograph by Christopher Voelker | |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | |||
| First Novel | In the Bleak Midwinter | ||
| Novel | City of Bones | ||
| Paperback Original | Fatal Truth | ||
| Short Story | "Too Many Cooks" from Much Ado About Murder | ||
| Special Service | No award issued | ||
| 2004 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | ||
| First Novel | Monkeewrench | ||
| Historical Mystery | For The Love Of Mike | ||
| Novel | Every Secret Thing | ||
| Paperback Original | Deadly Legacy | ||
| Short Story | "Doppelganger" from Blood on Their Hands | ||
| Young Adult Mystery | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | ||
| Special Service | No award issued | ||
| 2005 | Cover Art | Brooklyn Noir | |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | et al. | Men's Adventure Magazines | |
| First Novel | Dating Dead Men | ||
| Novel | Blood Hollow | ||
| Paperback Original | Twisted City | ||
| Short Story | "Wedding Knife" from Chesapeake Crimes | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | and Marcia Muller | ||
| Special Service | No award issued | ||
| 2006 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | The Heirs of Anthony Boucher | |
| Fan Publication | Crimespree Magazine | ||
| First Novel | Tilt-a-Whirl | ||
| Novel | Mercy Falls | ||
| Paperback Original | The James Deans | ||
| Short Story | "Misdirection" from Greatest Hits | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| Special Service | Mystery Readers International | ||
| 2007 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | and Austin Lugar | Mystery Muses |
| First Novel | Still Life | ||
| Novel | No Good Deeds | ||
| Paperback Original | Ashes and Bones | ||
| Short Story | "My Father's Secret" from Crimespree Magazine | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| Special Service | |||
| Crum Creek Press | |||
| 2008 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | , Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley | Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters |
| First Novel | In the Woods | ||
| Novel | What the Dead Know | ||
| Paperback Original | |||
| Short Story | "Hardly Knew Her" from Dead Man's Hand | ||
| Website / Blog | and Stan Ulrich | Stop, You're Killing Me! | |
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| Special Service | Crimespree magazine | ||
| 2009 | Children's / Young-adult Novel | ||
| Cover Art | |||
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography | ||
| First Novel | |||
| Novel | |||
| Paperback Original | State of the Onion | ||
| Short Story | "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" from Hardcore Hardboiled | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | |||
| Special Service | Crimespree magazine | ||
| 2010 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Talking About Detective Fiction | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Novel | ||||
| Novel | ||||
| Paperback Original | Starvation Lake | |||
| Short Story | On the House from Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers | |||
| Special Service award | No award issued | |||
| 2011 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks | ||
| First Novel | Damage Done | |||
| Graphic Novel | ||||
| Novel | Bury Your Dead | |||
| Paperback Original | Expiration Date | |||
| Short Story | "Swing Shift" from Crimes By Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side | |||
| Website / Blog | and Stan Ulrich | Stop, You're Killing Me! | ||
| Lifetime Achievement | ||||
| Special Service award | Shots | |||
| 2012 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | |||
| First Novel | Learning to Swim | |||
| Novel | ||||
| Paperback Original | Buffalo West Wing | |||
| Short Story | "Disarming" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011 | |||
| 2013 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | and Declan Burke | Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels | |
| First Novel | ||||
| Novel | ||||
| Paperback Original | Big Maria | |||
| Short Story | "Mischief in Mesopotamia" from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 2012 | |||
| 2014 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | ||
| First Novel | Yesterday's Echo | |||
| Novel | Ordinary Grace | |||
| Paperback Original | As She Left It | |||
| Short Story | "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" | |||
| 2015 | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | (ed.) | Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey | |
| First Novel | ||||
| Novel | After I'm Gone | |||
| Paperback Original | ||||
| Short Story | "The Odds Are Against Us" | |||
| 2016 | Anthology or Collection | (ed.) | Murder Under the Oaks | [8] |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime | |||
| First Novel | Past Crimes | |||
| Novel | ||||
| Paperback Original | ||||
| Short Story | ||||
| Young Adult Novel | Need | |||
| 2017 | Anthology or Collection | (ed.) | Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 | |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | |||
| First Novel | IQ | |||
| Novel | ||||
| Novella | ||||
| Paperback Original | Heart of Stone | |||
| Short Story | "Oxford Girl" | |||
| Young Adult Novel | ||||
| 2018[9] | Anthology | (ed.) | ||
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | ||||
| First Novel | Hollywood Homicide | |||
| Novel | Bluebird, Bluebird | |||
| Online Content | Jungle Red Writers | |||
| Paperback Original | The Day I Died | |||
| Short Story | "My Side of the Matter" | |||
| Bill Crider Award for Novel in a Series | "Y" is for Yesterday | |||
| 2019[10] [11] | Critical / Non-Fiction Work | I'll Be Gone in the Dark | ||
| First Novel | My Sister, the Serial Killer | |||
| Novel | November Road | |||
| Paperback Original | Under a Dark Sky | |||
| Short Story | ||||
| Year | Category | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[12] | Anthology or Collection | , Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons (eds.) | Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible |
| Critical / Non-Fiction Work | The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women | ||
| First Novel | One Night Gone | ||
| Novel | |||
| Paperback Original | |||
| Short Story | |||
| Young Adult | Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry | ||
| 2021[13] [14] [15] | Anthology or Collection | (editor) | Shattering Glass: A Nasty Woman Press Anthology |
| Critical/Non-Fiction Work | Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime Murder, Deceit, and Obsession | ||
| First Novel | Winter Counts | ||
| Novel | Blacktop Wasteland | ||
| Paperback Original | Unspeakable Things | ||
| Short Story | "90 Miles" | ||
| Young Adult | Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco | ||
| 2022[16] | Anthology or Collection | (editor) | This Time for Sure: Bouchercon Anthology 2021 |
| Critical/Non-Fiction Work award | and Laurie R. King | How To Write a Mystery: A Handbook From Mystery Writers of America | |
| First Novel | Arsenic and Adobo | ||
| Novel | Razorblade Tears | ||
| Paperback Original | Bloodline | ||
| Short Story | “Not My Cross to Bear” | ||
| Young Adult | I Play One on TV | ||
| 2023 | Anthology | (editor) | Crime Hits Home: A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction’s Top Authors |
| Children’s/Young Adult | Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade | ||
| Critical/Non-fiction | The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators | ||
| First Novel | |||
| Hardcover | Like a Sister | ||
| Historical | Anywhere You Run | ||
| Humorous | Scot in a Trap | ||
| Paperback/E-book/Audiobook | |||
| Short Story | “Beauty and the Beyotch” |