Annal:2003 Anthony Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2003 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2003 Barry-Novel winner
- 2003 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2003 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2002 Dagger shortlist
- Score: 38.53
When the bones of a 12-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn’t deter Bosch. Unearthing hidden stories, he finds the child’s identity and reconstructs his fractured life, determined that he not be forgotten.
At the same time, a new love affair with a female cop begins to blossom for Bosch-until a stunningly blown mission leaves Bosch in more trouble that ever before in his turbulent…
Murder in the Sentier: An Aimée Leduc Investigation
- 2003 Anthony-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.53
The historic Sentier district was once filled with fashionable mansions but is now a nearly treeless neighborhood housing the “rag” trade, Paris’s Silicon Valley, and sleazy night clubs. Aimée is drawn to the area when a woman, just released from prison, tells her that she knew Aimée’s long vanished mother. To Aimée’s astonishment and horror, she learns that they were in prison together, that Aimee’s mother was a member of a notorious 1970s Red terrorist gang.
Before Aimée can garner more information, the woman is murdered. Desperate to find her mother, Aimée…
North of Nowhere: An Alex McKnight Novel
- 2003 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2003 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2003 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 18.53
Steve Hamilton’s debut novel A Cold Day In Paradise was the first novel to capture mystery’s three most prestigious awards-the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony awards for best first novel. Now North of Nowhere returns to the beautiful and dangerous landscapes of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where former Detroit cop Alex McKnight’s attempts to leave civilization behind only lead to disaster…
Lying facedown on the floor with a gun to the back of his head is where Alex McKnight finds himself after a game of cards turns into a professional heist at…
Hell to Pay: A Novel
- 2002 LATimes–Mystery winner
- 2003 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2003 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2003 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 28.52
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who’s run away from her home in the suburbs. It’s easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.’s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world-but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory they are intruding upon.
Their…
- 2003 Edgar–Novel winner
- 2003 Macavity-Novel winner
- 2003 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2003 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2003 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 38.53
Private detective Bill Smith is hurtled headlong into the most provocative-and personal-case of his career when he receives a chilling late night telephone call from the NYPD, who are holding his fifteen-year-old nephew Gary. But before he can find out what’s going on, Gary escapes Bill’s custody and disappears into the dark and unfamiliar streets…
Bill and his partner, Lydia Chin, try to find the missing teen and uncover what it is that has led him so far from home. Their search takes them to Gary’s family in a small town in New Jersey, where they discover…
