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The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout. The Nero Award is presented annually at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City.

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Winners

YearTitleAuthorReference
1979The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling Lawrence Block
1980Burn This Helen McCloy
1981 Death in a Tenured Position Amanda Cross
1982Past, Present and Murder Hugh Pentecost
1983The Anodyne Necklace Martha Grimes [1]
1984Emily Dickinson is Dead Jane Langton
1985Sleeping DogDick Lochte
1986 Murder in E Minor Robert Goldsborough
1987The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond Charlotte MacLeod
1988
1989
1990		no award presented
1991 Coyote Waits Tony Hillerman [2]
1992 A Scandal in Belgravia Robert Barnard
1993Booked to Die John Dunning
1994Old Scores Aaron Elkins [2]
1995She Walks These Hills Sharyn McCrumb
1996 A Monstrous Regiment of Women Laurie R. King [2]
1997 The Poet Michael Connelly [2]
1998 Sacred Dennis Lehane [2]
1999 The Bone Collector Jeffery Deaver
2000Coyote Revenge Fred Harris
2001Sugar House Laura Lippman
2002The Deadhouse Linda Fairstein
2003Winter and Night S. J. Rozan
2004Fear Itself Walter Mosley [2]
2005 The Enemy Lee Child [3]
2006Vanish Tess Gerritsen [2]
2007All Mortal Flesh Julia Spencer-Fleming
2008Anatomy of FearJonathan Santlofer
2009The Tenth CaseJoseph Teller [4]
2010Faces of the Gone Brad Parks [5]
2011Bury Your Dead Louise Penny [6] [7]
2012Though Not Dead Dana Stabenow [8] [9]
2013Dead AnywayChris Knopf [10]
2014Murder as a Fine Art David Morrell [11]
2015Peter Pan Must Die John Verdon [12]
2016Night LifeDavid C. Taylor [13]
2017With Six You Get WallyAl Lamanda [14]
2018August SnowStephen Mack Jones [15]
2019Down the River unto the Sea Walter Mosley [16]
2020One Good Deed David Baldacci [17]
2021Fortune Favors the DeadStephen Spotswood [18]
2022Tower of Babel Michael Sears [19]
2023The Day He LeftFrederick Weisel

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