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2017 (Best Novel)
You Will Know Me
Click to search this book in our catalog   Megan Abbott

Book list *Starred Review* Teen gymnastics prodigy Devon Knox has excelled despite a childhood lawn-mower acc...More

2017 (Best First)
Dodgers
Click to search this book in our catalog   Bill Beverly

Book list *Starred Review* In this stunning crime-fiction debut, East, a 15-year-old gang member in L.A., los...More

2017 (Best Paperback)
Shot in Detroit
Click to search this book in our catalog   Patricia Abbott

Library Journal At 40, Violet Hart is a down-on-her-luck photographer still waiting for her big break. Living...More

 
2017 (Best Anthology)
Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns
 Eric Beetner
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2016 (Best Novel)
The Killing Kind
 Chris Holm

Library Journal Michael Hendricks is a hit man who kills only other hit men. As a military special op assassi...More

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2016 (Best First)
Past Crimes
 Glen Erik Hamilton

Library Journal [DEBUT] Iraq War veteran Army Ranger Van Shaw, recuperating from wounds received while servin...More

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2016 (Best Paperback)
The Long and Faraway Gone
Click to search this book in our catalog   Lou Berney

Book list *Starred Review* Affable Las Vegas PI Wyatt is happy doing background checks for casinos on potenti...More

2016 (Best Anthology)
Murder Under the Oaks
Click to search this book in our catalog   Art Taylor
2015 (Best Novel)
After Im gone
Click to search this book in our catalog   Laura Lippman

Book list The catalyst for Lippman's (And When She Was Good, 2012) smart and mesmerizing nineteenth work ...More

 
2015 (Best First)
The black hour
 Lori Rader-Day

Book list *Starred Review* After 10 months spent recovering from a gunshot wound, sociology professor Amelia ...More

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2015 (Best Paperback)
The Day She Died
 Catriona McPherson

Publishers Weekly In this improbable tale of suspense from McPherson (As She Left It), heroine Jessica Const...More

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2015 (Best Anthology)
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes
 Leslie S. Klinger

Publishers Weekly Devotees of the greatest of all fictional detectives will welcome this anthology from King ...More

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2014 (Best Novel)
Ordinary grace : a novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   by William Kent Krueger

Library Journal Krueger, primarily known for his Cork O'Connor mystery series (Trickster's Point), v...More

2014 (Best First)
Yesterdays Echo
Click to search this book in our catalog   Matt Coyle

Library Journal "The first time I saw her, she made me remember and she made me forget." This dele...More

2014 (Best Paperback)
As she left it
Click to search this book in our catalog   Catriona McPherson
 
2014 (Best Non-Fiction)
The hour of peril : the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War
 Daniel Stashower

Book list *Starred Review* Some of President Lincoln's associates and some historians have questioned if ...More

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2014 (Best Childrens)
The Testing
 by Joelle Charbonneau

Publishers Weekly Making the jump from adult mysteries to YA, Charbonneau (the Rebecca Robbins series) launc...More

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2013 (Best Novel)
The Beautiful Mystery
 Louise Penny

Kirkus A prior's murder takes Quebec's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his sidekick, Inspector Jea...More

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2013 (Best First)
The expats : a novel
Click to search this book in our catalog   Chris Pavone

Library Journal Former CIA agent Kate is enjoying the expat life in Luxembourg until she gets suspicious of ...More

2013 (Best Paperback)
Big Maria
Click to search this book in our catalog   Johnny Shaw

Book list *Starred Review* Shaw is back with another crazy buddy picture of a caper novel (following Dove Sea...More

2013 (Best Non-Fiction)
Books to die for : the world's greatest mystery writers on the world's greatest mystery novels
Click to search this book in our catalog   edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke
 
2012 (Best Novel)
A trick of the light : a Chief Inspector Gamache novel
 Louise Penny

Publishers Weekly In Penny's outstanding seventh Chief Inspector Gamache novel, Gamache and his loyal de...More

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2012 (Best First)
Learning to swim : a novel
 Sara J Henry

Publishers Weekly Freelance writer Troy Chance, the protagonist of Henry's impressive first novel, impul...More

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2012 (Best Paperback)
Buffalo West Wing
 Julie Hyzy

Publishers Weekly In Hyzy's diverting if preposterous fourth White House Chef mystery (after 2010's ...More

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2012 (Best Non-Fiction)
The Sookie Stackhouse companion
Click to search this book in our catalog   edited by Charlaine Harris

Kirkus After 11 novels in her Sookie Stackhouse supernatural mystery series, as well as an extremely popular ...More

2011 (Best Novel)
Bury your dead
Click to search this book in our catalog   Louise Penny

Kirkus The sixth appearance of Armand Gamache, North America's most humane detective.Chief Inspector Gama...More

2011 (Best First)
The damage done
Click to search this book in our catalog   Hilary Davidson

Book list Travel writer Lily Moore is called back to New York by news of the death of her younger sister, Cla...More

 
2011 (Best Paperback)
Expiration date
 Duane Swierczynski

Publishers Weekly In this workmanlike time travel thriller from Swierczynski (Severance Package), 37-year-ol...More

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2011 (Best Graphic Novel)
The chill
 writer, Jason Starr ; art, Mick Bertilorenzi ; letters, Clem Robins

Book list In 1967 on the County Clare coast, Arlana discovers she is erotically gifted, which is bad news for...More

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2011 (Best Non-fiction)
Agatha Christie's secret notebooks : fifty years of mysteries in the making
 John Curran
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2010 (Best Novel)
The brutal telling
Click to search this book in our catalog   Louise Penny

Library Journal Having won numerous mystery prizes, including the prestigious Arthur Ellis and Anthony award...More

2010 (Best First)
A bad day for sorry
Click to search this book in our catalog   Sophie Littlefield

Publishers Weekly Littlefield's amusing, sassy debut introduces Stella Hardesty, a widow and survivor of...More

2010 (Best Paperback)
Starvation Lake : a mystery
Click to search this book in our catalog   Bryan Gruley

Publishers Weekly Gruley's outstanding debut effortlessly incorporates his inside knowledge of both the ...More

 
2010 (Best Non-fiction)
Talking about detective fiction
 PD James

Publishers Weekly One of the most widely read and respected writers of detective fiction, James (The Private...More

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