Annal:2002 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Dead Until Dark: A Southern Vampire Mystery
- 2002 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 2001 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.52
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out….
Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn’t such a bright idea.
- 2002 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2002 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.52
In the quaint town of Loon Lake, Michigan, a killer is taking his vengeance. One by one, the bodies are found, brutally executed with coded death cards beside each corpse—the signature of a psychopath. Detective Louis Kincaid had come north looking for refuge to forget the horrors of his past. But now he’s landed in the middle of an investigation that’s more than a mystery.
Dim Sum Dead: A Madeline Bean Catering Mystery
- 2002 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.52
Mah-Jongg?
Yep. In hip Hollywood, that kitsch old game is fast becoming the next “new” obsession—and that calls for a party! Madeline Bean and her charming partner Wesley Westcott are determined to throw a gonzo Chinese New Year banquet. But among the hot mah-jongg tiles, the steamy dim sum, and the frosty Singapore slings, no one expects to find one of the players ice-cold dead!
Meanwhile, in one of the historic celebrity mansions that Wesley is restoring as a sideline, a well-aimed crowbar uncovers a stash of precious objects—including an antique…
The Houdini Specter: A Harry Houdini Mystery
- 2002 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.52
In 1898, the Great Houdini’s confidence in his own abilities is matched only by the indifference of the paying public. Now the master escape artist has the opportunity to make a name for himself—by exposing the tricks of the medium Lucius Craig, darling of New York’s gullible society set. Though he can easily re-create Craig’s ghostly trickery, Harry and his brother Dash can’t explain how the medium manages to conjure up a “spirit” while tied to a chair by Houdini himself—or how the apparition is able to stab a séance attendee to death and disappear with seven…
- 2002 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.52
Set on the Texas Gulf Coast, award-winning author Jeff Abbott’s suspenseful breakout novel is punctuated by a steamy Southern atmosphere, unforgettable characters, wicked humor, jolting plot twists, and a wry sensibility that’s getting unqualified raves from his peers…
