Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller

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The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, established in 2000, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2000 Val McDermid A Place of Execution Winner [1]
Michael Dibdin Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen MysteryFinalist [1]
Peter Robinson Cold Is the Grave
James Lee Burke Purple Cane Road
George P. Pelecanos Shame the Devil
2001 T. Jefferson Parker Silent JoeWinner [2]
David Fulmer Chasing the Devil’s Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New OrleansFinalist [2]
Henry Bromell Little America
C. J. Box Open Season: A Joe Pickett Novel
Marshall Browne The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
2002 George P. Pelecanos Hell to PayWinner [3]
Tod Goldberg Living Dead GirlFinalist [3]
Henning Mankell and Ebba Segerberg One Step Behind
Scott Turow Reversible Errors
Stephen L. Carter The Emperor of Ocean Park
2003 George P. Pelecanos Soul Circus Winner [4]
Rebecca Pawel Death of a NationalistFinalist [4]
Neil GordonThe Company You Keep
Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson The Dogs of Riga
Peter Lovesey The House Sitter
2004 Kem Nunn Tijuana StraitsWinner [5]
Ian Rankin A Question of Blood Finalist [5]
Alan Furst Dark Voyage
Charles McCarry Old Boys
Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson The Return of the Dancing Master
2005 Robert Littell LegendsWinner [6]
John Harvey Ash & BoneFinalist [6]
Peter Robinson Strange Affair
Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer
James Crumley The Right Madness
2006 Michael Connelly Echo Park Winner [7] [8]
Patrick Neate City of Tiny LightsFinalist [8]
George P. Pelecanos The Night Gardener
Don Winslow The Winter of Frankie Machine
Jess Walter The Zero
2007 Karin Fossum with Charlotte Barslund (trans.)The Indian BrideWinner [9]
Benjamin Black Christine FallsFinalist [9]
Åke Edwardson Frozen Tracks
Jan Costin Wagner Ice Moon
Tana French In the Woods
2008 Michael Koryta Envy the NightWinner [10] [11]
Simon Lewis Bad TrafficFinalist [12]
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Nina Revoyr The Age of Dreaming
Colin Harrison The Finder
2009 Stuart Neville The Ghosts of BelfastWinner [13]
Val McDermid A Darker Domain Finalist [13]
Attica Locke Black Water Rising
Megan Abbott Bury Me Deep
David EllisThe Hidden Man
2010 Tom Franklin Crooked Letter, Crooked LetterWinner [14]
Kelli Stanley City of Dragons Finalist [14]
Stuart Neville Collusion
Tana French Faithful Place
Laura Lippman I’d Know You Anywhere
2011 Stephen King 11/22/63 Winner [15]
Eoin Colfer Plugged Finalist [16]
A.D. Miller Snowdrops
Kate Atkinson Started Early, Took My Dog
Denise Mina The End of the Wasp Season
2012 Tana French Broken Harbor Winner [17] [18]
Nick Harkaway AngelmakerFinalist [19]
Chris Pavone The Expats
Fuminori Nakamura The Thief
Ariel S. Winter The Twenty-Year Death
2013 J. K. Rowling (as Robert Galbraith) The Cuckoo's Calling Winner [20]
Richard Crompton Hour of the Red GodFinalist [21]
John Grisham Sycamore Row
Ferdinand von Schirach The Collini Case
Gene Kerrigan The Rage
2014 Tom Bouman Dry Bones in the Valley Winner [22]
Laura Lippman After I’m Gone Finalist [23]
Shawn Lawrence Otto Sins of Our Fathers
Peter Swanson The Girl With a Clock for a Heart
Peter HellerThe Painter
2015 Don Winslow The CartelWinner [24] [25]
Brian Panowich Bull MountainFinalist [26]
Lou Berney The Long and Faraway Gone
Viet Thanh Nguyen The Sympathizer
Richard Price The Whites
2016 Bill Beverly DodgersWinner [27]
Thomas Mullen DarktownFinalist [27]
Emma Cline The Girls
Graeme Macrae Burnet His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
Ian McGuire The North Water
2017 Joyce Carol Oates A Book of American Martyrs Winner [28]
Attica Locke Bluebird, Bluebird Finalist [28]
Michael Connelly The Late Show
Paul LaFarge The Night Ocean
Ivy Pochoda Wonder Valley
2018 Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer Winner [29]
Megan Abbott Give Me Your HandFinalist [29]
Kent Anderson Green Sun
Lou Berney November Road
Leïla Slimani The Perfect Nanny
2019 Steph Cha Your House Will PayWinner [30] [31]
Attica Locke Heaven, My HomeFinalist [32]
Laura Lippman Lady In the Lake
Jane Harper The Lost Man
Michael Connelly The Night Fire
2020 S. A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland Winner [33] [34]
Rachel Howzell Hall And Now She’s GoneFinalist [35] [36]
Christopher Bollen A Beautiful Crime
Jennifer Hillier Little Secrets
Ivy Pochoda These Women
2021 Megan Abbott The Turnout Winner [37] [38]
Alison Gaylin The CollectiveFinalist [38]
Michael Connelly The Dark Hours
S. A. Cosby Razorblade Tears
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Velvet Was the Night
2022Alex SeguraSecret IdentityWinner [39]
Rachel Howzell HallWe Lie HereFinalist
Laurie R. KingBack to the Garden
Tracy LienAll That's Left Unsaid
Peng ShepherdThe Cartographers

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