Preisträger – Anthony Awards

		Bestes Buch		Bestes Taschenbuch		Bestes erstes Buch
1986		Sue Grafton B is for Burglar		Nancy Pickard Say no to Murder		Jonathan Kellerman When the Bough Breaks
1987		Sue Grafton C is for Corpse		Robert Campbell The Junkyard Dog		Bill Crider Too Late to Die
1988		Tony Hillerman Skinwalkers		Robert Crais The Monkey’s Raincoat		Gillian Roberts Caught Dead in Philadelphia
1989		Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs		Carolyn G. Hart Something Wicked		Elizabeth George A Great Deliverance
1990		Sarah Caudwell The Sirens Sang of Murder		Carolyn G. Hart Honeymoon with Murder		Karen Kijewski Katwalk
1991		Sue Grafton G is for Gumshoe		Rochelle Krich Where’s Mommy Now? James McCahery Grave Undertaking		Patricia Cornwell Postmortem
1992		Peter Lovesey The Last Detective		/		Sue Henry Murder on the Iditarod Trail
1993		Marget Maron The Bootlegger’s Daughter		/		Barbara Neely Blanche on the Lam
1994		Marcia Muller Wolf in the Shadows		/		Nevada Barr Track of the Cat
1995		Sharyn McCrumb She Walks These Hills		/		Caleb Carr The Alienist
1996		Mary Willis Walker Under the Beetle’s Cellar		Harlan Coben Deal Breaker		Virginia Lanier Death in Bloodhound Red
1997		Michael Connelly The Poet		Terris McMahan Grimes Somebody Else’s Child		Dale Furutani Death in Little Tokyo
1998		S.J. Rozan No Colder Place		Rick Riordan Big Red Tequila		Lee Child Killing Floor
1999		Michael Connelly Blood Works		Laura Lippman Butchers Hill		William Kent Krueger Iron Lake
2000		Peter Robinson In a Dry Season		Laura Lippman In Big Trouble		Donna Andrews Murder, With Peacocks
2001		Val McDermid A Place of Execution		Kate Grilley Death Dances to a Reggae Beat		Qiu Xiaolong Death of a Red Heroine
2002		Dennis Lehane Mystic River		Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark		C.J. Box Open Season
2003		Michael Connelly City of Bones		Robin Burcell Fatal Truth		Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter
2004		Laura Lippman Every Secret Thing		Robin Burcell Deadly Legacy		P.J. Tracy Monkeewrench
2005		William Kent Krueger Blood Hollow		Jason Starr Twisted City		Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men
2006		William Kent Krueger Mercy Falls		Reed Farrel Coleman The James Deans		Chris Grabenstein Tilt-a-Whirl
2007		Laura Lippman No Good Deeds		Dana Cameron Ashes and Bones		Louise Penny Still Life
2008

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