Annal:2004 Anthony Award for Best Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Anthony Award in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Every Secret Thing: A Novel
- 2004 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2004 Barry-Novel winner
- 2003 Hammett nominee
- Score: 26.54
On a July afternoon two little girls, banished from a birthday party, take a wrong turn onto an unfamiliar Baltimore street—and encounter an abandoned stroller with a baby inside it. Dutiful Alice Manning and unpredictable Ronnie Fuller only want to be helpful, to be good. People like children who are good, Alice thinks. But whatever the girls’ real intentions, things go horribly awry and three families are destroyed.
Seven years later Alice and Ronnie are heading home again—only separately this time, their fragile bond long shattered, their secrets still…
- 2004 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2004 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2003 Hammett nominee
- Score: 18.54
The third week in January in Algonquin Bay: A freak warm front has rolled in, making it feel like April and enticing the locals into shedding their down parkas and strolling the streets. But the warm weather has also brought the bears out of hibernation, and they have come out hungry. Suddenly the stakes turn ugly when an auto mechanic discovers a mauled human arm in his yard, and the cops determine that its owner was dead before the bears got to him. A search of the surrounding woods turns up body parts placed exactly where the bears were most likely to find…
Blood is the Sky: An Alex McKnight Novel
- 2004 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2004 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.54
Alex McKnight isn’t a man with many friends, but the few he has know they’re never alone in a fix. So when Vinnie LeBlanc asks for his help in taking a trip deep into Canada in search of his missing brother, the Ojibwa Indian knows he can count on Alex. Tom LeBlanc had taken a job as hunting guide for a rough crew of Detroit “businessmen.” The group was due back days ago, yet there’s been no sign of them, and there’s mounting evidence of something odd about their disappearing act. The trackless forests of northern Ontario keep many secrets, but none more shocking…
Shutter Island: A Novel
- 2004 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2004 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2003 Hammett nominee
- Score: 18.54
Summer, 1954.
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.
But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe’s radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and…
Close to Home: A Novel of Suspense
- 2004 Anthony-Novel nominee
- Score: 6.54
A pair of unconscionable deaths separated by miles and years threatens to bring to light shocking revelations that could destroy careers, reputations, cherished myths, and fragile lives. And the terrible truths that lie buried in a mire of betrayal and deception could prove equally devastating to the living and the memory of the dead.
1965. Winston Churchill’s funeral. Carnaby Street. The Moors murders. The first U.S. space walk. Help! Mods and rockers. Emma Peel and The Avengers. It was a time of possibility, of hope for the future, the fulcrum point of the…
