Annal:2005 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2005. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2005 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 2005 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 2004 Agatha–1st Novel winner
- Score: 30.55
Los Angeles greeting-card artist and card-and-gift shop manager Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for radio talk-show host and bestselling author Dr. Cookie Lahven’s upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado–a state-run mental hospital–and is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic “doctor” who is on the run from the Mob. Wollie fears that her beloved brother, a paranoid…
- 2005 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2005 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.55
Patricia Harper is dead, killed in Uncommon Grounds, her gourmet coffee store. Maggy Thorsen wants to know who killed one of her partners. She joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, Particia’s closet friend to investigate the killing. Together, they uncover unsavory samll-town politics, bribes, kickbacks, and rampant infidelity. Before she’s through, Maggie’s sense of right and wrong will be shaken to its foundations. For once in her life she is forced to draw her own line in the sand, and be prepared to defend it.
- 2005 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2004 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.55
Stella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime assistant Howie, rides her Harley on the weekends, and has enough friends to suit her just fine.
But on her twenty-ninth birthday, things start to change. A neighborhood child dies from a strange and threatening illness, a string of mysterious disasters place Stella and her farm in peril, not to mention her friend Abe showing up with a new woman on his arm, creating confusing emotions all around. Electrical outages, flooded barns, and cows running loose in…
- 2005 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.55
retribution: n. punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved
—The Oxford American Dictionary
When an elite prosecutor faces the most lethal predator she’s ever encountered, it all comes down to a choice between justice…and retribution.
Prosecutor C.J. Townsend is a talented state attorney in Miami, well-known in her law enforcement and judicial circles for her abililty to handle even the most horrific cases—without losing her cool. For the past year, she’s been deeply involved in…
Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery
- 2005 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2005 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.55
Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself “The Gingerbread Man” is dumping mutilated bodies in her district.
Between avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner, Herb, must catch the maniac before…
