The Dilys Award
The DILYS AWARD
The Dilys Award was given annually by IMBA from 1993 until 2014 to the mystery titles of the year which the member booksellers most enjoyed hand selling. The Dilys Award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the first mystery-specialty bookseller in the United States.
Past Winners and Nominees
2014
ORDINARY GRACE by William Kent Krueger*
Seven for a Secret, Lyndsay Faye (Amy Einhorn Books)
The Black Country, Alex Grecian (Putnam)
Spider Woman’s Daughter, Anne Hillerman (Harper)
Pagan Spring, G.M. Malliet (Minotaur)
The Land of Dreams, Vidar Sundstol (University of Minnesota Press)
2013
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson (Morrow)*
Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach by Colin Cotterill (Minotaur)
Broken Harbor by Tana French (Viking)
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)
2012
Ghost Hero by S. J. Rozan*
When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey
Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet
Tag Man by Archer Mayor
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
2011
Louise Penny,Bury Your Dead*
Colin Cotterill, Love Songs from a Shallow Grave
Steve Hamilton, The Lock Artist
Dennis Lehane, Moonlight Mile
Keith Thomson, Once a Spy
Don Winslow, Savages
2010
Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie*
R.J. Ellroy, A Quiet Belief in Angels
Craig Johnson, The Dark Horse
Steig Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stuart Neville, The Ghosts of Belfast
Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling
S.J. Rozan, The Shanghai Moon
2009
Sean Chercover, Trigger City*
Christopher Fowler, The Victoria Vanishes
Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Sanctuary
Tom Rob Smith, Child 44
Don Winslow, Dawn Patrol
2008
William Kent Kruger, Thunder Bay*
Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness
Lisa Lutz, The Spellman Files
Deanna Raybourn, Silent In The Grave
Marcus Sakey, The Blade Itself
2007
Louise Penny, Still Life*
James R. Benn, Billy Boyle
Steve Hockensmith, Holmes on the Range,
John J.Lamb, Mournful Teddy
Diane Setterfield, Thirteenth Tale
Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains
2006
Colin Cotterill, Thirty-Three Teeth*
Terence Faherty, In a Teapot
Craig Johnson The Cold Dish
Morag Joss, Half Broken Things
Mark Schweitzer, The Tenor Wore Tap Shoes
Don Winslow, The Power of the Dog
2005
Jeffrey Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter*
Lee Child, The Enemy
Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten
Leslie Silbert, The Intelligencer
Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Shadow of the Wind
2004
Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book*
Donna Andrews, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
William Brodrick, The Sixth Lamentation
PJ Tracy, Monkeewrench
Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs
2003
Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter*
Donna Andrews, You’ve Got Murder
Lee Child, Without Fail
Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
George Pelecanos, Hell to Pay
2002
Dennis Lehane, Mystic River*
David Handler, The Cold Blue Blood
Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
William Kent Krueger, Purgatory Ridge
Peter Lovesey, The Reaper
2001
Val McDermid, A Place of Execution*
Sarah Caudwell, The Sibyl in Her Grave
Tim Cockey, The Hearse You Came in On
Robert Crais, Demolition Angel
Janet Evanovich, Hot Six
2000
Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem*
Rennie Airth, River of Darkness
Donna Andrews, Murder with Peacocks
William Kent Krueger, Boundary Waters
Don Winslow, California Fire and Life
1999
Dennis Lehane, Gone, Baby, Gone*
Nevada Barr, Blind Descent
Richard Barre, The Ghosts of Morning
James Lee Burke, Sunset Limited
William Kent Krueger, Iron Lake
Charles Todd, Wings of Fire
1998
Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly*
Lee Child, The Killing Floor
Harlan Coben, Backspin
Dennis Lehane, Sacred
Kathy Reichs, Deja Dead
Kate Ross, The Devil in Music
1997
Michael Connelly, The Poet*
Harlan Coben, Fade Away
Margaret Lawrence, Hearts and Bones
Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand
Michael McGarrity, Tularosa
Steve Oliver, Moody Gets the Blues
Thomas Perry, Dance for the Dead
Charles Todd, A Test of Wills
1996
Michael Connelly, The Last Coyote*
Robert Crais, Voodoo River
GM Ford, Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?
Sharyn McCrumb, If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him
Tom Topor, The Codicil.
*Winner
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