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| 2007 (Fiction) |
| The Broken Shore |
Peter Temple
Library Journal
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| 2005 (Gold) |
| Silence of the Grave |
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Arnaldur Indridason
Library Journal: Led by Sweden's Henning Mankell (see below) and Norway's Karin Fossum, Scandinavian mystery ...More |
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| 2004 (Silver) |
| Flesh and Blood |
John Harvey
Library Journal: After 30 years in the Nottinghamshire police, Frank Elder has retired to escape hassles and an unfa ...More |
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| 2003 (Silver) |
| Half-Broken Things |
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Morag Joss
Library Journal: British suspense writer Joss ( Funeral Music) won CWA's Silver Dagger Award for this nove ...More |
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| 2002 (Gold) |
| The Athenian Murders |
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Jose Carlos Samoza
Library Journal
: In his U.S. debut, ambitious Spanish novelist Somoza parallels a murder at Plato's Academy and the ...More |
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| 2002 (Silver) |
| The Final Country |
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James Crumley
Library Journal
: Even Crumley's reliably sharp writing can't save this novel from its unlikable hero and convoluted ...More |
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| 2002 (First Novel) |
| The Cutting Room |
Louise Welsh
Publishers Weekly: Yet another talented Scottish author makes a debut with this dark and twisty thriller, boasting a ...More |
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| 2001 (Gold) |
| Sidetracked |
Henning Mankell
Library Journal
: A young girl spends a day almost catatonic in an isolated farm field, then immolates herself. Swed ...More |
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| 2001 (Silver) |
| Forty Words for Sorrow |
Giles Blunt
Library Journal
: In recent years, our literary neighbors to the north have produced a wide array of fine fiction. N ...More |
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| 2001 (First Novel) |
| The Earthquake Bird |
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Susanna Jones
Library Journal
: Though this small gem of a first novel revolves around a murder and is being billed as a psycholog ...More |
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| 2000 (Gold) |
| Motherless Brooklyn |
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Jonathan Lethem
Library Journal
: The short and shady life of Frank Minna ends in murder, shocking the four young men employed by hi ...More |
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| 2000 (First Novel) |
| God is a Bullet |
Boston Teran
Library Journal
: This first novel is pretty standard thriller fare--corrupt sheriff John Lee Bacon hires bad guy Cy ...More |
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| 1999 (Gold) |
| A Small Death in Lisbon |
Robert Wilson
Library Journal
: Klaus Felsen, a Berlin businessman forced into the SS against his will in 1941, has been assigned ...More |
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| 1999 (Silver) |
| Vienna Blood |
Adrian Mathews
Publishers Weekly
: Though it contains little that's original, Mathews's debut futuristic thriller, which borrows it ...More |
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| 1998 (Gold) |
| Sunset Limited |
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James Lee Burke
Library Journal
: Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux is back, as polite as ever, after sitting out Burke's Cimarron Ros ...More |
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| 1998 (First Novel) |
| Garnethill |
Denise Mina
Publishers Weekly
: From its opening pages, this winner of the 1998 John Creasy Memorial Award for best first crime ...More |
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| 1997 (Gold) |
| Black and Blue |
Ian Rankin
Publishers Weekly
: Rankin's Inspector John Rebus (Mortal Causes; Let It Bleed) is something of an outlaw cop, a har ...More |
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| 1997 (Silver) |
| Three to Get Deadly |
Janet Evanovich
Library Journal
: Hunting for a local candy-store owner who jumped bail, Trenton's most famous bounty hunter, Stepha ...More |
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| 1997 (First Novel) |
| Body Politic |
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Paul Johnston
Publishers Weekly
: This bleak, near-future hunt for a vicious serial killer won Britain's Creasy Award for best fir ...More |
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| 1996 (Gold) |
| Popcorn |
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Ben Elton
Library Journal
: This satire, in which a stylish Hollywood action/thriller director has an unfortunate encounter wi ...More |
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| 1995 (Gold) |
| The Mermaids Singing |
Val McDermid
Library Journal
: First published in Great Britain in 1995, this title marks a clean break from McDermid's Kate Bran ...More |
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| 1995 (Silver) |
| The Summons |
Peter Lovesey
Publishers Weekly
: A resourceful convict's escape from a prison dubbed ``the British Alcatraz'' launches Peter Diam ...More |
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| 1995 (First Novel) |
| One for the Money |
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Janet Evanovich
Library Journal
: A wonderful sense of humor, an eye for detail, and a self-deprecating narrative endow Stephanie Pl ...More |
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