2019 Anthony Award – First Novel
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
2018 Anthony Award – First Novel
Hollywood Homicide
Kellye Garrett
2016 Anthony Award – First Novel
Past Crimes
Glen Erik Hamilton
2014 Anthony Award – First Novel
Yesterday’s Echo
Matt Coyle
2013 Anthony Award – First Novel
The Expats
Chris Pavone
2012 Anthony Award – First Novel
Learning to Swim
Sara J. Henry
2011 Anthony Award – First Novel
The Damage Done
Hilary Davidson
2010 Anthony Award – First Novel
A Bad Day for Sorry
Sophie Littlefield
2009 Anthony Award – First Novel
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
2008 Anthony Award – First Novel
In the Woods
Tana French
2007 Anthony Award – First Novel
Still Life
Louise Penny
2006 Anthony Award – First Novel
Tilt-a-Whirl
Chris Grabenstein
2005 Anthony Award – First Novel
Dating Dead Men
Harley Jane Kozak
2004 Anthony Award – First Novel
Monkeewrench
P.J. Tracy
2003 Anthony Award – First Novel
In the Bleak Midwinter
Julia Spencer-Fleming
2002 Anthony Award – First Novel
Open Season
C.J. Box
2001 Anthony Award – First Novel
Death of a Red Heroine
Qiu Xiaolong
2000 Anthony Award – First Novel
Murder With Peacocks
Donna Andrews
1999 Anthony Award – First Novel
Iron Lake
William Kent Krueger
1998 Anthony Award – First Novel
Killing Floor
Lee Child
1997 Anthony Award – First Novel
Death in Little Tokyo
Dale Furutani
1996 Anthony Award – First Novel
Death in Bloodhound Red
Virginia Lanier
1995 Anthony Award – First Novel
The Alienist
Caleb Carr
1994 Anthony Award – First Novel
Track of the Cat
Nevada Barr
1993 Anthony Award – First Novel
Blanche on the Lam
Barbara Neely
1992 Anthony Award – First Novel
Murder on the Iditarod Trail
Sue Henry
1991 Anthony Award – First Novel
Postmortem
Patricia Cornwell
1990 Anthony Award – First Novel
Katwalk
Karen Kijewski
1989 Anthony Award – First Novel
A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
1988 Anthony Award – First Novel
Caught Dead in Philadelphia
Gillian Roberts
1987 Anthony Award – First Novel
Too Late to Die
Bill Crider
1986 Anthony Award – First Novel