ANTHONY AWARDS
BEST FIRST NOVEL

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