ANTHONY AWARDS
BEST FIRST NOVEL

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