LibGuides: Anthony Awards: 2000s

2000-2009

2000

As an ode to the end of the 20th century, several special one-time awards for "best of the century" were also included during this award ceremony.

In a Dry Season / Peter Robinson

Nominees

River of Darkness / Rennie Airth
Bones / Jan Burke
L.A. Requiem / Robert Crais
High Five / Janet Evanovich

High Five by Janet Evanovich
Call Number: Fiction E918s v.5 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312203030

Publication Date: 1999-07-16

Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie Plum throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial bootsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the limo. But hey, nobody's perfect! Anyway, Stephanie has other things on her mind. Her mother wants her to find Uncle Fred who's missing after arguing with his garbage company; homicidal rapist Benito Ramirez is back, quoting scripture and stalking Stephanie; vice cop Joe Morelli has a box of condoms with Stephanie's name on it; and Stephanie's afraid Ranger has his finger on her trigger. The whole gang's here for mirth and mayhem in Janet Evanovich's High Five. Read at your own risk in public places.
High Five [CD] by Janet Evanovich; Debi Mazar (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction EV S5 (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9781559279642

Publication Date: 2005-04-01

Murder, With Peacocks / Donna Andrews

Nominees

Murder in the Marais / Cara Black
Circles of Confusion / April Henry
Reveng of the Gypsy Queen / Kris Neri
Inner City Blues / Paula Woods

In Big Trouble / Laura Lippman

Nominees

Every Move She Makes / Robin Burcell
Lucky Man / Tony Dunbar
The Outcast / Jose Latour
An Antidote for Avarice / Caroline Rice

Detecting Women, 3rd ed. / Willetta L. Heising

Nominees

The Mystery Review Magazine / Barbara Davey, ed.
Deadly Pleasure Magazine / George Easter, ed.
Ross MacDonald / Tom Nolan
Teller of Tales : the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle / Daniel Stashower

Hercule Poirot / Agatha Christie

Nominees

87th Precinct / Ed McBain
Sharon McCone / Marcia Muller
Lord Peter Wimsey / Dorothy L. Sayers
Nero Wolfe / Rex Stout

Agatha Christie

Nominees

Raymond Chandler
Dashiell Hammett
Dorothy L. Sayers
Rex Stout

Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca by Daphe du Maurier
Call Number: FIC DUMA DAP RE (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781781962497

Publication Date: 1938

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . . The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
Rebecca [CD] by Daphe du Maurier
Call Number: CD Fiction DUM

Publication Date: 2016
Rebecca [E-Book] by Daphe du Maurier
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316254342

Publication Date: 2013

Nominees

The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler
Gaudy Night / Dorothy L. Sayers
The Maltese Falcon / Dashiell Hammett
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Agatha Christie

The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Call Number: Fiction C456b (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780679601401

Publication Date: 1995-05-02

CONTENTS: The Big sleep -- Farewell, my lovely

The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels : Whose body? ; Murder must advertise ; Gaudy night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Call Number: Fiction S274t (Adult Fiction)

Publication Date: 1992

CONTENTS: Whose body? -- Murder must advertise -- Gaudy night.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Call Number: Fiction H224m (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780679722649

Publication Date: 1989-07-17

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O’Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett's iconic, influential, and beloved The Maltese Falcon.
The Novels of Dashiell Hammett by Dashiell Hammett
Call Number: Fiction H224n (Adult Fiction)

Publication Date: 1965

CONTENTS: The Dain curse -- The Maltese falcon -- The Glass key -- The Thin man.
Hammett by Dashiell Hammett; Steven Marcus (Editor)
Call Number: 810 L697h v.1 (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9781883011673

Publication Date: 1999-08-30

CONTENTS: Red harvest -- The Dain curse -- The Maltese falcon -- The Glass key -- The Thin man.

Jane Langton

2001

A Place of Execution / Val McDermid

Nominees

Deep South / Nevada Barr
The Bottoms / Joe R. Lansdale
Listen to the Silence / Marcia Muller
He Shall Thunder in the Sky / Elizabeth Peters
Legacy of the Dead / Charles Todd

Deep South by Nevada Barr
Call Number: FIction B2675p v.8 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0399145869

Publication Date: 2000-03-20

In Deep South, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the southAnna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock-and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she's knee-deep in mud and Mississippi. Not exactly what she had in mind. Almost immediately, as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose around her neck. It's a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep-and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna...
Deep South [E-Book] by Nevada Barr
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books

ISBN: 9781440672989

Publication Date: 2001

The Bottoms [Kindle] by Joe R. Lansdale
Call Number: Kindle-0712 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9780307742667

Publication Date: 2010-12-07

It's 1933 in East Texas, and young Harry Collins and his little sister stumble across the body of a black woman who has been savagely mutilated and left to die in the bottoms of the Sabine River. When a second body turns up, this time of a white woman, there is little Harry can do from stopping his Klan neighbors from lynching an innocent black man. Together with his younger sister, Harry sets out to discover who the real killer is, and to do so they will search for a truth that resides far deeper than any river or skin color.
The Bottoms [E-Book] by Joe R. Lansdale
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books

ISBN: 9780307742667

Publication Date: 2010-12-07

Death of a Red Heroine / Qiu Xiaolong

Nominees

Black Dog / Stephen Booth
A Conspiracy of Paper / David Liss
The Ice Harvest / Scott Phillips
Street Level / Bob Truluck
Run / Douglas E. Winter

Death Dances to a Reggae Beat / Kate Grilley

Nominees

Bad to the Bone / Katy Munger
The Floating Lady Murder / Daniel Stashower
Killing Kin / Chassie L. West
A Little Death / Laura A. Wilson
Te Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn / Eric Wright

The Floating Lady Murders [E-Book] by Daniel Stashower
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780857686206

Publication Date: 2012-02-07

Struggling young performer Harry Houdini is working for the renowned Kellar "Dean of American Magicians" in turn-of the-century New York. When his master's astonishing Floating Lady illusion goes horribly wrong, Houdini, along with his wife Bess and brother Dash, must solve the deadly conundrum and figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than a fatal fall...

Master's Choice, II / Lawrence Block, ed.

Nominees

Malice Domestic 9 / Joan Hess, ed.
Magnolias and Mayhem / Jeffrey Marks, ed.
Unholy Orders / Serita Stevens, ed.
Tales Out of School / Carolyn Wheat

100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century / Jim Huang, ed.

Nominees

The Complete Christie : an Agatha Christie Encyclopedia / Matthew Bunson
Women of Mystery : the Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists / Martha Hailey DuBose
The American Regional Mystery / Marvin Lachman
Hard-Boiled : Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines / Erin A. Smith

Edward D. Hoch

2002

Mystic River / Dennis Lehane

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Call Number: Fiction L522my (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780688163167

Publication Date: 2001-01-30

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.

Nominees

Flight / Jan Burke
Tell No One / Harlan Coben
The Devil Went Down to Austin / Rick Riordan
Reflecting the Sky / S. J. Rozan

Flight : a novel of suspense by Jan Burke
Call Number: Fiction B9598f (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0684855526

Publication Date: 2001-03-06

A family is found murdered. In a cruel twist, one of the Las Piernas Police Department's own, Philip Lefebvre, is suspected of killing the only witness. When that detective disappears, a crime boss goes free. And the LPPD is forever changed.
Called in to investigate the wreckage of the missing detective's plane, Frank Harriman is given a set of cold cases that have suddenly become white hot. Detective Harriman's conviction that the LPPD tagged the wrong murder suspect is wildly unpopular. Alone, his instincts and integrity questioned at every turn, Harriman must stop the killer before hundreds of lives, including Harriman's own, are lost.

Tell No One [E-Book] : a novel by Harlan Coben
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books

ISBN: 9780307491732

Publication Date: 2009

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible; that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive. Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn't. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope. But already Beck is being hunted down. He's headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret; and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.

The Devil Went down to Austin by Rick Riordan
Call Number: Fiction R585d (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0553110977

Publication Date: 2001-05-29

Tres Navarre, the P.I. with a Ph.D. in literature, heads to Austin for a laid-back summer teaching gig. But he’s in store for a whole lot more. His big brother Garrett--computer whiz, Jimmy Buffett fanatic, and all-around eccentric—is hoping to retire a multimillionaire by the fall. He’s bet his career and the Navarre family ranch to do it. Then Garrett’s oldest friend and business partner is murdered—and Garrett is the only suspect. As Tres delves into Garrett’s bizarre world to find the truth behind the murder, he comes face to face with the damaged relationships, violent lives, and billion-dollar schemes of a high-tech world gone haywire. Connecting them all is beautiful Lake Travis and the shocking secret that lies within its depths. Now, as Tres struggles with his own troubled family past and to clear his brother’ s name, he finds himself stalked by a cold-blooded killer—one who could spell the death of both Navarres.

Open Season / C. J. Box

Open Season [Kindle] (Joe Pickett #1) by C. J. Box
Call Number: FIC BOX CJ P1 Kindle (Request at circulation desk)

ISBN: 9780425185469

Publication Date: 2002-05-07

"When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive -pow-WHOP-sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance." And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save not only an endangered species, but also the life and family he loves.

Nominees

Third Person Singular / K. J. Erickson
Austin City Blue / Jan Grape
The Jasmine Trade / Denise Hamilton
A Witness Above / Andy Straka

Dead Until Dark / Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark [E-Book] (Sookie Stackhouse #1) by Charlaine Harris
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781101146316

Publication Date: 2001

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business; except when it comes to her "disability." Sookie can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He's tall, dark, handsome; and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life... But Bill has a disability of his own: he's a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps; along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill; Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea.

Nominees

A Kiss Gone Bad / Jeff Abbott
Dim Sum Dead / Jerrilyn Farmer
Dead of Winter / P. J. Parrish
The Houdini Specter / Daniel Stashower

Seldom Disappointed : a Memoir / Tony Hillerman

Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: 813.54 H652h (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780060194451

Publication Date: 2001-10-02

When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books published in sixteen languages around the world and often on bestseller lists. Or, for example, when his agent told him his first novel was so bad that it would hurt both of their reputations, he nonetheless sent it to an editor, and that editor happened to like the Navajo stuff.

Nominees

The History of Mystery / Max Allan Collins
Dashiell Hammett : a Daughter Remembers / Jo Hammett
Writing the Mystery : a Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional / G. Miki Hayden
Who Was That Lady? : Craig Rice : the Queen of Screwball Mystery / Jeffrey Marks

The Mystery of the Haunted Caves / Penny Warner

Nominees

The Viking Claw / Michael Dahl
Death on Sacred Ground / Harriet R. Feder
Ghost Sitter / Peni Griffin
Web / Jeri Fink

Death on Sacred Ground [E-Book] by Harriet K. Feder
Call Number: YA F FED-HK (OverDrive E-Books)

ISBN: 9781575051963

Publication Date: 2001-01-01

In the deep woods of Pikes Landing, New York, on a Seneca reservation a girl is found murdered with an arrow through her heart. When they hear about the shocking death, Vivi and her father, Rabbi Hartman, find themselves in the middle of a mystery. There they find a violent standoff between the local townsfolk and the Seneca. The death of the girl may not be what it seems, and strange events keep happening. Unsure of who to trust, Vivi searches for the solution to the disturbing death, but finds danger instead!

2003

City of Bones / Michael Connelly

City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523b v.8 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316154055

Publication Date: 2002-04-16

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of an unimaginable decision.
City of Bones [OverDrive E-Book] by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316144537

Publication Date: 2002

Nominees

Murder in the Sentier / Cara Black
North of Nowhere / Steve Hamilton
Hell To Pay / George P. Pelecanos
Winter and Night / S. J. Rozan

In the Bleak Midwinter / Julia Spencer

Nominees

The Devil's Redhead / David Corbett
An Eye for Murder / Libby Fischer
The Blue Edge of Midnight / Jonathon King
The Distance / Eddie Muller

Fatal Truth / Robin Burcell

Nominees

Black Jack Point / Jeff Abbott
Six Strokes Under / Roberta Isleib
Paint It Black / P. J. Parrish
A Killing Sky / Andy Straka

They Died in Vain : Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels / Jim Huang, ed.

Nominees

The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction / Mike Ashley, ed.
Intent to Sell : Marketing the Genre Novel / Jeffrey Marks

2004

Every Secret Thing / Laura Lippman

Every Secret Thing [E-Book] by Laura Lippman
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780061808500

Publication Date: 2009-10-13

Every Secret Thing is a riveting story of love and murder, guilt and innocence, adult sins and childhood darkness that the New York Times Book Review hailed as, “powerful…disturbing.” Stepping away from her acclaimed, award-winning mystery series featuring Baltimore private investigator Tess Monaghan, author Laura Lippman has delivered a novel of psychological suspense that will shock and mesmerize readers, gripping them to the page while breaking their hearts. The tale of a terrible event that devastates three families, after two young girls discovery of an unsupervised baby on an empty street, Every Secret Thing is a bravura demonstration of the extraordinary storytelling skill.

Nominees

The Delicate Storm / Giles Blunt
Blood is the Sky / Steve Hamilton
Shutter Island / Dennis Lehane
The Summer That Never Was/Close to Home / Peter Robinson

Blood Is the Sky by Steve Hamilton
Call Number: Fiction H2218m v.5 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312301156

Publication Date: 2003-06-24

Alex McKnight isn't a man with many friends, but the few he has know they're never alone in a fix. So when Vinnie LeBlanc asks for his help in taking a trip deep into Canada in search of his missing brother, he knows he can count on Alex. His brother had taken a job as a hunting guide for a rough crew of Detroit "businessmen." The group was due back days ago, yet there's been no sign of them, and there's mounting evidence of something odd about their disappearing act. The trackless forests of northern Ontario keep many secrets, but none more shocking than the one that Alex is about to uncover. And the more closely Alex looks for answers, the more questions there become.

Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Call Number: Fiction L522s (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780688163174

Publication Date: 2003-04-15

In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

Monkeewrench / P. J. Tracy

Monkeewrench [Large Print] by P. J. Tracy
Call Number: Fiction T762m LargeType

ISBN: 9780399149788

Publication Date: 2003-04-14

People are dying for the new computer game by the software company Monkeewrench. Literally. With Serial Killer Detective out in limited release, the real-life murders of a jogger and a young woman have already mimicked the first two scenarios in the game. But Grace McBride and her eccentric Monkeewrench partners are caught in a vise. If they tell the Minneapolis police of the link between their game and the murders, they'll shine a spotlight on the past they thought they had erased-and the horror they thought they'd left behind. If they don't, eighteen more people will die...

Nominees

Haunted Ground / Erin Hart
Death of a Nationalist / Rebecca Pawel
Wiley's Lament / Lorio Waiwaiole
Maisie Dobbs / Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Call Number: Fiction W776L v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781569473306

Publication Date: 2003-07-01

Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence - and the patronage of her benevolent employers - she works her way into college at Cambridge. After the War I and her service as a nurse, Maisie hangs out her shingle back at home: M. DOBBS, TRADE AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.
Maisie Dobbs [E-Book] by Jacqueline Winspear
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781569477229

Publication Date: 2003

Deadly Legacy / Robin Burcell

Nominees

Dealing in Murder / Elaine Flinn
Thicker Than Water / P. J. Parrish
Tough Luck / Jason Starr
Find Me Again / Sylvia Maultash Warsh

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling; Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction RO v.5 (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 9780439358064

Publication Date: 2003-07-01

As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort society, The Order of the Phoenix, begins meeting again.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [CD] by J. K. Rowling; Jim Dale (Read by)
Call Number: J-CD Fiction RO H5 (Juvenile CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780807220290

Publication Date: 2003-06-21

Nominees

Artemis Fowl : the Eternity Code / Eoin Colfer
Feast of Fools / Bridget Crowley
Seventh Knot / Kathleen Karr
No Escape / Norah McClintock

Artemis Fowl : The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
Call Number: J-Fiction CO A3 (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 9780786819140

Publication Date: 2003-05-06

Discovering a way to build a super-computer using stolen fairy technology, young criminal mastermind Artemis sets out to blackmail a Chicago businessman but runs into a trap that leaves Butler mortally injured.

For the Love of Mike / Rhys Bowen

Nominees

Let Loose the Dogs / Maureen Jennings
The Bridge of Sighs / Olen Steinhauer
Find Me Again / Sylvia Maultash Warsh
Maisie Dobbs / Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Call Number: Fiction W776L v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781569473306

Publication Date: 2003-07-01

Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence - and the patronage of her benevolent employers - she works her way into college at Cambridge. After the War I and her service as a nurse, Maisie hangs out her shingle back at home: M. DOBBS, TRADE AND PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind.
Maisie Dobbs [E-Book] by Jacqueline Winspear
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781569477229

Publication Date: 2003

Make Mine a Mystery : a Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction / Gary Warren Niebuhr

Nominees

Mystery Women : an Eneyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Volume III / Colleen Barnett
The Story of Jane Doe : a Book About Rape / Jane Doe
Interrogations / Jon Jordan
Beautiful Shadow : a Life of Patricia Highsmith / Andrew Wilson

2005

Blood Hollow / William Kent Krueger

Nominees

The Killing of the tinkers / Ken Bruen
The Madman's Tale / John Katzenbach
By a Spider's Thread / Laura Lippman
California Girl / T. Jefferson Parker
Out of the Deep I Cry / Julia Spencer-Fleming

Dating Dead Men / Harley Jane Kozak

Nominees

Uncommon Grounds / Sandra Balzo
Until the Cows Come Home / Judy Clemens
Retribution / Jilliane P. Hoffman
Whiskey Sour / J. A. Konrath

Twisted City / Jason Starr

Nominees

Cold Case / Robin Burcell
Putt to Death / Roberta Isleib
Blue Blood / Susan McBride
The Halo Effect / M. J. Rose

Men's Adventure Magazines / Max Allan Collins

Nominees

Famous American Crimes & Trials / Frankie Bailey, Steven Chermak
Blue Blood / Edward Conlon
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes / Leslie S. Klinger, ed.
The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber / Julian Rubinstein

Bill Pronzini

Marcia Muller

2006

Mercy Falls / William Kent Krueger

Nominees

Bloodlines / Jan Burke
The Lincoln Lawyer / Michael Connelly
Red Leaves / Thomas H. Cook
To the Power of Three / Laura Lippman

Bloodlines : an Irene Kelly novel by Jan Burke
Call Number: Fiction B9598b (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 074322390x

Publication Date: 2005-01-04

The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a bloodstained car on a farm, but his reputation as a heavy drinker calls his strange story into question. In a seemingly unrelated mystery, a yacht bearing four members of the wealthy Ducane family disappears during a storm off the coast. An investigation finds that the Ducane home has been broken into; a nursemaid has been killed; and Max, the infant heir, has gone missing. Corrigan recovers his health, but despite a police investigation and his own tireless inquiries, the mysteries of the buried car and the whereabouts of Maxwell Ducane haunt him until his death. Twenty years after that fateful night, in her first days as a novice reporter working for managing editor O'Connor, Irene Kelly covers the groundbreaking ceremony for a shopping center -- which unexpectedly yields the unearthing of a buried car. In the trunk are human remains. Are those of the infant heir among them? If so, who is the young man who has recently changed his name to Max Ducane? Again the trail goes maddeningly, perhaps suspiciously, cold.
Until today.

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523h v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316734936

Publication Date: 2005-10-01

Representing some unsavory characters in his work as a defense lawyer, Mickey Haller takes on his first high-paying and possibly innocent client in years, but finds the case complicated by events that suggest a particularly evil perpetrator.
The Lincoln Lawyer [CD] by Michael Connelly; Adam Grupper (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction CO H1 (Adult Audiobook CD)

ISBN: 9781600242472

Publication Date: 2007-11-13
The Lincoln Lawyer [E-Book] by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316135467

Publication Date: 2005

Tilt-A-Whirl / Chris Grabenstein

Nominees

Die a Little / Megan Abbot
Immoral / Brian Freeman
The Baby Game / Randall Hicks
Officer Down / Theresa Schwegel

The James Deans / Reed Farrel Coleman

Nominees

Kiss Her Goodbye / Allan Guthrie
Six Bad Things / Charlie Huston
Good Girl's Guide to Murder / Susan McBride
A Killing Rain / P. J. Parrish

The Heirs of Anthony Boucher / Marv Lachman

Nominees

Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel / Hallie Ephron
Behind the Mystery / Stuart Kaminsky
New Annotated Sherlock Holmes / Leslie Klinger
Girl Sleuth : Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Here / Melanie Rehak

Girl Sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her by Melanie Rehak
Call Number: 813.52 R345g (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780151010417

Publication Date: 2005-09-12

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties, and emerged as beloved by girls today as by their grandmothers. Rehak tells the behind-the-scenes history of Nancy and her groundbreaking creators. Both Nancy and her "author," Carolyn Keene, were invented by Edward Stratemeyer, who also created the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys. But Nancy Drew was brought to life by two remarkable women: original author Mildred Wirt Benson, a convention-flouting Midwestern journalist, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a wife and mother who ran her father's company after he died. Together, Benson and Adams created a character that has inspired generations of girls to be as strong-willed and as bold as they were.

Robert B. Parker

Note: Robert B. Parker died in 2010, but the Spenser series of books has continued under another writer. Only those written directly by Robert B. Parker will be included in this list, although the library does own most, if not all, the continuation of the series written by Ace Atkins. Most of those titles begin with "Robert B. Parker's..." and show Parker as the main author in case you are interested in reading them.

2007

No Good Deeds / Laura Lippman

Nominees

Kidnapped / Jan Burke
The Dead Hour / Denise Mina
The Virgin of Small Plains / Nancy Pickard
All Mortal Flesh / Julia Spencer-Fleming

The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
Call Number: Fiction M663d (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0316735949

Publication Date: 2006-07-01

When journalist Paddy Meehan investigates a domestic dispute, the well-dressed man who answers the door assures her the blonde in the shadows behind him is fine, and slips her money before he closes the door. In fact, the woman was tortured and left to die later that night, and Paddy has only days to uncover the truth before the newspaper learns of her bribe and the police close the case for reasons of their own.

All Mortal Flesh (Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne mystery #5) by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Call Number: Fiction S746f v.5 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0312312644

Publication Date: 2006-10-03

Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in the hospital emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn infant had been abandoned on the town's Episcopal church steps. If Russ had known that the church had a new priest, he certainly would never have guessed that it would be a woman. Not a woman like Clare. That night in the hospital was the beginning of an attraction so fierce, so forbidden, that the only thing that could keep them safe from compromising their every belief was distance---but in a small town like Millers Kill, distance is hard to find.

Still Life / Louise Penny

Still Life (Chief Inspector Ganache #1) by Louise Penny
Call Number: Fiction P416g v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781250000644

Publication Date: 2012-05-22

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.

Nominees

The King of Lies / John Hart
Holmes on the Range / Steve Hockensmith
A Field of Darkness / Cornelia Read
The Harrowing / Alexandra Sokoloff

The King of Lies by John Hart
Call Number: Fiction H325k (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780312341619

Publication Date: 2006-05-16

When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.

Ashes and Bones / Dana Cameron

Nominees

47 Rules of HIghly Effective Bank Robbers / Troy Cook
The Cleanup / Sean Doolittle
Baby Shark / Robert Fate
Shotgun Opera / Victor Gischler
Snakeskin Shamisen / Naomi Hirahara
A Dangerous Man / Charlie Huston

Mystery Muses / Jim Huang & Austin Lugar

Nominees

Read 'Em Their Writes / Gary Warren Niebuhr
Don't Murder Your Mystery / Chris Roerden
The Beautiful Cigar Girl / Daniel Stashower
The Science of Sherlock Holmes / E. J. Wagner

The Science of Sherlock Holmes : from Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the real forensics behind the great detective's greatest cases by E. J. Wagner
Call Number: 363.25 W132s (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780471648796

Publication Date: 2006-03-01

CONTENTS: Dialogue with the dead -- Beastly tales and black dogs -- A fly in the ointment -- Proving poison -- Disguise and the detective -- The crime scene by gaslight -- A picture of guilt -- Shots in the dark -- Bad impressions -- The real dirt -- Notes from the devil -- A voice in the blood -- Myth, medicine, and murder.

James Sallis

2008

What the Dead Know / Laura Lippman

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
ISBN: 9780061128851

Publication Date: 2007-03-13

Thirty years ago two sisters disappeared from a shopping mall. Their bodies were never found and those familiar with the case have always been tortured by these questions: How do you kidnap two girls? Who—or what—could have lured the two sisters away from a busy mall on a Saturday afternoon without leaving behind a single clue or witness? Now a clearly disoriented woman involved in a rush-hour hit-and-run claims to be the younger of the long-gone Bethany sisters. But her involuntary admission and subsequent attempt to stonewall investigators only deepens the mystery. Where has she been? Why has she waited so long to come forward? Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop? There isn't a shred of evidence to support her story, and every lead she gives the police seems to be another dead end—a dying, incoherent man, a razed house, a missing grave, and a family that disintegrated long ago, torn apart not only by the crime but by the fissures the tragedy revealed in what appeared to be the perfect household. In a story that moves back and forth across the decades, there is only one person who dares to be skeptical of a woman who wants to claim the identity of one Bethany sister without revealing the fate of the other. Will he be able to discover the truth?

Nominees

Tin Roof Blowdown / James lee Burke
Bad Luck and Trouble / Lee Child
The Watchman / Robert Crais
Thunder Bay / William Kent Krueger

The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux #16) by James Lee Burke
Call Number: FIC BURKE JAML R16 (Adult fiction)

ISBN: 9781416548485

Publication Date: 2007-07-17

In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers when he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed and New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. In a singular style that defines the genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina
The Tin Roof Blowdown [CD] by James Lee Burke; Will Patton (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction BU R16 (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780743567510

Publication Date: 2007-07-17

Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Call Number: Fiction C535r v.11 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780385340557

Publication Date: 2007-05-15

A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back--no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story--about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don't know: about two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing--and a trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.
Bad Luck and Trouble [CD] by Lee Child; Dick Hill (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction CH R11

ISBN: 9780739340677

Publication Date: 2007-05-15
Bad Luck and Trouble [E-Book] : Jack Reacher Series, Book 11 by Lee Child
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780440336853

Publication Date: 2007
Bad Luck and Trouble [Streaming Audio] : Jack Reacher Series, Book 11 by Lee Child
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobooks

ISBN: 9781415938676

Publication Date: 2007

The Watchman : a Joe Pike Novel by Robert Crais
Call Number: Fiction C887p v.11 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780743281638

Publication Date: 2007-02-27

When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction… Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.

In the Woods / Tana French

In the Woods [Streaming Audio] by Tana French
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook)

ISBN: 9781456100704

Publication Date: 2011-03-28

After a 12-year-old Irish lad and his two pals fail to return from a day in the woods, searchers find only the terrified sixth grader; with blood-filled shoes and no memory of what happened. Now 32, the tragedy's sole survivor Rob Ryan is a detective on Dublin's Murder Squad. A current investigation takes Rob to the exact site of his childhood trauma. With the present case chillingly similar to his 20-year-old nightmare, Rob hopes to unlock the shrouded secrets of his past.

Nominees

Big City, Bad Blood / Sean Chercover
The Spellman Files / Lisa Lutz
Head Games / Craig McDonald
The Blade Itself / Marcus Sakey

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Call Number: Fiction L976s v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781439559956

Publication Date: 2008

Meet Isabel “Izzy” Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors—but the upshot is she’s good at her job as a licensed private investigator with her family’s firm, Spellman Investigations. Invading people’s privacy comes naturally to Izzy. In fact, it comes naturally to all the Spellmans. If only they could leave their work at the office. To be a Spellman is to snoop on a Spellman; tail a Spellman; dig up dirt on, blackmail, and wiretap a Spellman.
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz; Ari Graynor (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction LU S1 (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780743564342

Publication Date: 2007-03-13

A Thousand Bones / P. J. Parrish

Nominees

Queenpin / Megan Abbott
Slide / Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Blood of Paradise / David Corbett
Baby Shark's Beaumont Blues / Robert Fate

Arthur Conan Doyle : a Life in Letters / Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley

Nominees

The Essential Mystery Lists / Roger Sobin
The Triumph of the Thriller : How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction / Patrick Anderson
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction / Christiana Gregoriou

Robert Rosenwald and Barbara G. Peters

2009

The Brass Verdict / Michael Connelly

The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523h v.2 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316166294

Publication Date: 2008-10-14

Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.
The Brass Verdict [E-Book] by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316146456

Publication Date: 2008

Nominees

Trigger City / Sean Chercover
Red Knife / William Kent Krueger
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson
The Cruelest Month / Louise Penny

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator)
Call Number: Fiction L335g v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780307269751

Publication Date: 2008-09-16

It's about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden...and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance...and about Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old, pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age, who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism - and an unexpected connection between themselves.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [CD] by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator); Martin A. Wenner (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction LA G1a

ISBN: 9780739370643

Publication Date: 2008-09-16
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [E-Book] by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator)
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780307272119

Publication Date: 2008-09-16
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [Streaming Audio] by Stieg Larsson
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9781415957806

Publication Date: 2008

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator)
Call Number: Fiction L335g v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780307269751

Publication Date: 2008-09-16

It's about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden...and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It's about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance...and about Lisbeth Salander, a 24-year-old, pierced and tattooed genius hacker possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age, who assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialism - and an unexpected connection between themselves.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [CD] by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator); Martin A. Wenner (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction LA G1a

ISBN: 9780739370643

Publication Date: 2008-09-16
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [E-Book] by Stieg Larsson; Reg Keeland (Translator)
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780307272119

Publication Date: 2008-09-16
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo [Streaming Audio] by Stieg Larsson
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9781415957806

Publication Date: 2008

Nominees

Pushing Up Daisies / Rosemary Harris
Stalking Susan / Julie Kramer
Death of a Cozy Writer / G. M. Malliet
Child 44 / Tom Rob Smith

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Call Number: Fiction S6625c (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780446402385

Publication Date: 2008-04-29

Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking truths about a killer-and a country where "crime" doesn't exist.

State of the Onion / Julie Hyzy

State of the Onion [E-Book] by Julie Hyzy
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781101206522

Publication Date: 2008

Introducing White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who is rising-and sleuthing-to the top.Includes recipes for a complete presidential menu! Never let them see you sweat-that's White House Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, which is pretty hard to honor in the most important kitchen in the world. She's hell-bent on earning her dream job, Executive Chef. There's just one thing: her nemesis is vying for it, too. Well, that and the fact that an elusive assassin wants to see her fry.

Nominees

The First Quarry / Max Allan Collins
Money Shot / Christa Faust
In a Dark Season / Vicki Lane
South of Hell / P. J. Parrish

Anthony Boucher : a Biobibliography / Jeffrey Marks

Nominees

African American Mystery Writers : a Historical and Thematic Study / Frankie Y. Bailey
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries / Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : a Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective / Kate Summerscale

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher [E-Book] by Kate Summerscale
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780802779298

Publication Date: 2010-06-05

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking, as Kate Summerscale relates in her scintillating new book, that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher. Whicher quickly believed the unbelievable; that someone within the family was responsible for the murder of young Saville Kent. Without sufficient evidence or a confession, though, his case was circumstantial and he returned to London a broken man. Though he would be vindicated five years later, the real legacy of Jonathan Whicher lives on in fiction: the tough, quirky, knowing, and all-seeing detective that we know and love today . . . from the cryptic Sgt. Cuff in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone to Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade.

The Crossroads / Chris Grabenstein

Nominees

Paper Towns / John Green
Kiss Me, Kill Me / Lauren Henderson
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey / Trenton Lee Stewart
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash / Wendelin Van Draanen

Paper Towns by John Green
Call Number: YA F GRE-J (Young Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780525478188

Publication Date: 2008-10-16

One month before graduating from his Florida high school, Quentin basks in his predictable boring life until his beautiful neighbor and classmate, Margo, takes him on a midnight adventure before disappearing.

Kiss Me, Kill Me [E-Book] by Lauren Henderson
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780375891847

Publication Date: 2009

When 16-year-old Scarlett Wakefield transfers from St. Tabby's to Wakefield Hall Collegiate, she is relieved that no one knows her dark, haunting secret. A few months ago, Scarlett was invited to an elite party with a guest list full of the hottest names in British society, including Dan McAndrew. Before the party, Scarlett had only imagined what it would be like to have her first kiss with Dan, but on the penthouse terrace, Dan leaned in close and she no longer had to wonder. Their kiss was beautiful and perfect and magical, and then . . . Dan McAndrew took his last breath as she held him in her arms. No one knows how or why Dan died, and everyone at St. Tabby's believes Scarlett had something to do with it. But now that she's safely hidden away at Wakefield Hall, Scarlett would rather forget that it ever happened. Only she can't. Especially when she receives an anonymous note that will set her on the path to clearing her name and finding out what really happened to the first and last boy she kissed.

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
Call Number: J-Fiction ST (Juvenile Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316057776

Publication Date: 2007-03-07

After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
The Mysterious Benedict Society [E-Book] by Trenton Lee Stewart
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316142588

Publication Date: 2008

Anthony Awards

2000

In a Dry Season / Peter Robinson

Nominees

River of Darkness / Rennie Airth

Bones / Jan Burke

L.A. Requiem / Robert Crais

High Five / Janet Evanovich

Murder, With Peacocks / Donna Andrews

Nominees

Murder in the Marais / Cara Black

Circles of Confusion / April Henry

Reveng of the Gypsy Queen / Kris Neri

Inner City Blues / Paula Woods

In Big Trouble / Laura Lippman

Nominees

Every Move She Makes / Robin Burcell

Lucky Man / Tony Dunbar

The Outcast / Jose Latour

An Antidote for Avarice / Caroline Rice

Detecting Women, 3rd ed. / Willetta L. Heising

Nominees

The Mystery Review Magazine / Barbara Davey, ed.

Deadly Pleasure Magazine / George Easter, ed.

Ross MacDonald / Tom Nolan

Teller of Tales : the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle / Daniel Stashower

Hercule Poirot / Agatha Christie

Nominees

87th Precinct / Ed McBain

Sharon McCone / Marcia Muller

Lord Peter Wimsey / Dorothy L. Sayers

Nero Wolfe / Rex Stout

Agatha Christie

Nominees

Raymond Chandler

Dashiell Hammett

Dorothy L. Sayers

Rex Stout

Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier

Nominees

The Big Sleep / Raymond Chandler

Gaudy Night / Dorothy L. Sayers

The Maltese Falcon / Dashiell Hammett

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / Agatha Christie

Jane Langton

2001

A Place of Execution / Val McDermid

Nominees

Deep South / Nevada Barr

The Bottoms / Joe R. Lansdale

Listen to the Silence / Marcia Muller

He Shall Thunder in the Sky / Elizabeth Peters

Legacy of the Dead / Charles Todd

Death of a Red Heroine / Qiu Xiaolong

Nominees

Black Dog / Stephen Booth

A Conspiracy of Paper / David Liss

The Ice Harvest / Scott Phillips

Street Level / Bob Truluck

Run / Douglas E. Winter

Death Dances to a Reggae Beat / Kate Grilley

Nominees

Bad to the Bone / Katy Munger

The Floating Lady Murder / Daniel Stashower

Killing Kin / Chassie L. West

A Little Death / Laura A. Wilson

Te Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn / Eric Wright

Master's Choice, II / Lawrence Block, ed.

Nominees

Malice Domestic 9 / Joan Hess, ed.

Magnolias and Mayhem / Jeffrey Marks, ed.

Unholy Orders / Serita Stevens, ed.

Tales Out of School / Carolyn Wheat

100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century / Jim Huang, ed.

Nominees

The Complete Christie : an Agatha Christie Encyclopedia / Matthew Bunson

Women of Mystery : the Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists / Martha Hailey DuBose

The American Regional Mystery / Marvin Lachman

Hard-Boiled : Working Class Readers and Pulp Magazines / Erin A. Smith

Edward D. Hoch