Dilys Award

The Dilys Award have been presented every year since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It is given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling.[1][2] The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses that are either wholly or substantially devoted to the sale of mystery books. The Dilys award is named after Dilys Winn, who founded the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.[3]

Awards

Winners and nominated titles for each year:[3]

Year Winner Other nominees
2010 The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
2009 Trigger City by Sean Chercover
2008 Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger
2007 Still Life by Louise Penny[4]
2006 Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill
2005 Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
2004 Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
2003 In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
2002 Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
2001 A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
2000 L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
1999 Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
1998 Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich
1997 The Poet by Michael Connelly
1996 The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
1995 One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
1994 Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
1993 Booked to Die by John Dunning
1992 Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen
  • A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
  • Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf
  • Hour of the Hunter by J.A. Jance
  • We Wish You A Merry Murder by Valerie Wolzien

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