Annal:2000 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2000. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:

In Big Trouble: A Tess Monaghan Mystery

Laura Lippman

First as a reporter and then as a p.i., Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past, and a man she loved and lost. It starts when she gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend with a tantalizing shard of headline attached: In Big Trouble. The answers lie far from Baltimore, deep in a world of good-time music, old-fashioned ambiiton, and rich people’s games. For Tess must find out what happened to a man she thought she knew, to a woman who may have changed him forever, and to the victims of a killer who dances to a different—and deadly—drummer.

 

Every Move She Makes

Robin Burcell

Gruesome slasher murders are spreading terror in San Francisco. The pressure is on the police force to track down the killer before another young woman is found, throat cut, body abandoned. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie is picked to lead the search with her partner, old-timer Sam Scolari.

This is the case that could make Kate’s career. But the next victim stops her in her tracks—Sam’s ex-wife. All evidence points to him. He goes underground, leaving Kate alone to prove his innocence, or his guilt.

Kate has to find the killer before the cops find Sam.…

 

Lucky Man: A Tubby Dubonnet Mystery

Tony Dunbar

It’s a city of sin. And murder is only one of them.

New Orleans Attorney Tubby Dubonnet is getting tired of his slow-moving, indolent city—with all its dirt and dancing, its colorful characters and corruption. For Tubby, a change of scenery might be in order, until a moralistic crusading prosecutor tries to destroy the career and reputation of Tubby’s favorite judge.

Suddenly Tubby has a good reason to get out of bed in the morning. Because a little matter of office sex has turned into a nasty mystery of murder, rape, and suicide, real and imagined. And…

 

An Antidote for Avarice: The Chonicles of Isaac of Girona

Caroline Roe

Girona, Spain, 1354. Blind physician Isaac of Girona is summoned to accompany the Bishop Berenguer to Tarragona for a Bishops’ Council. But messengers from the Pope keep turning up dead—and Isaac soon finds himself embroiled in court intrigue and murder on the road to Tarragona.

 

Outcast: A Novel

Jose Latour

Elliot Steil, the son of a Cuban mother and an American-bo rn laborer living on the island before the revolution, is a down-on-his-luck schoolteacher in Havana. Like so many of his fellow Havanans, he has come to accept his rather dull life and for the most part has given up hoping for a better future. But unexpectedly he is offered the opportunity to escape when a man appears on the island, claiming to be an old friend of Elliot’s deceased father. The man offers to take Elliot to the United States, but it isn’t long before he reveals his ulterior motives and Ell…

 
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