Annal:1999 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Butchers Hill: A Tess Monaghan Mystery
- 1999 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 1998 Agatha–Novel winner
- 1999 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- 1999 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 1999 Shamus-Paperback nominee
- Score: 38.49
Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out her shingle as a p.i.-for-hire, complete with an office in Butchers Hill. Maybe it’s not the best address in Baltimore, but you gotta start somewhere, and Tess’s greyhound Esskay has no trouble taking marathon naps anywhere there’s a roof. Then in walks Luther Beale, the notorious vigilante who five years ago shot a boy for vandalizing his car. Just out of prison, he says he wants to make reparations to the kids who witnessed his crime, so he needs Tess to find them. But once she starts snooping, the witnesses start dying. Is the “Butcher of Butchers Hill” at it again? Like it or not, Tess is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers that-be, a heartless system that has destroyed the lives of children, and a nasty trail of money and lies leading all the way back to Butchers Hill.
