Annal:1997 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Death in Little Tokyo: A Ken Tanaka Mystery
- 1997 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 1997 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 1996 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 26.47
When mystery buff Ken Tanaka masquerades as a private investigator at his local mystery club’s weekend event, a femme fatale right out of an old Bogart movie asks him for a favor. Ken takes the case as a joke—but there’s nothing to laugh about when his sleuthing leads him to a dead man in a Little Tokyo hotel room. Suddenly entangled in a real-life murder, Ken and his girlfriend, Mariko Kosaka, have to negotiate the unfamiliar streets and traditional customs of Los Angeles’s Japanese-American enclave.
- 1997 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 1997 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 1996 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 26.47
Theresa is a career woman, a mother and a wife. When her mother calls to say there’s trouble at her elderly neighbor’s house and she’s going over to investigate, Theresa has no choice but to get involved. Before the night is over, Theresa finds herself caught up in the harsh brutality of the streets, with a drive-by shooting, a mysterious kidnapping, and more.
