ShelfEvidentAnthony Award for Best Novel — Complete Winners List
40 years of winners · Bouchercon World Mystery Convention · Since 1986 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Liz Moore | Riverhead Books | |
| 2024 | S. A. Cosby | Flatiron Books | |
| 2023 | Kellye Garrett | Miniver Press | |
| 2022 | S. A. Cosby | Flatiron Books | |
| 2021 | S. A. Cosby | Flatiron Books | |
| 2020 | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Forge Books | |
| 2019 | Lou Berney | William Morrow | |
| 2018 | Attica Locke | Mulholland Books | |
| 2017 | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | |
| 2016 | Chris Holm | Mulholland Books | |
| 2015 | Laura Lippman | William Morrow | |
| 2014 | William Kent Krueger | Atria Books | |
| 2013 | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | |
| 2012 | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | |
| 2011 | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | |
| 2010 | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | |
| 2009 | Michael Connelly | — | |
| 2008 | Laura Lippman | — | |
| 2007 | Laura Lippman | — | |
| 2006 | William Kent Krueger | — | |
| 2005 | William Kent Krueger | — | |
| 2004 | Laura Lippman | — | |
| 2003 | Michael Connelly | — | |
| 2002 | Dennis Lehane | — | |
| 2001 | Val McDermid | — | |
| 2000 | Peter Robinson | — | |
| 1999 | Michael Connelly | — | |
| 1998 | S. J. Rozan | — | |
| 1997 | Michael Connelly | — | |
| 1996 | Mary Willis Walker | — | |
| 1995 | Sharyn McCrumb | — | |
| 1994 | Marcia Muller | — | |
| 1993 | Margaret Maron | — | |
| 1992 | Peter Lovesey | — | |
| 1991 | Sue Grafton | — | |
| 1990 | Sarah Caudwell | — | |
| 1989 | Thomas Harris | — | |
| 1988 | Tony Hillerman | — | |
| 1987 | Sue Grafton | — | |
| 1986 | Sue Grafton | — |
