Dilys Award Winners & Nominees

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The Dilys Award has been given annually since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) to the mystery titles of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Dilys Award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the founder of the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.

The first book listed for a given year is the winner; subsequent books are the nominees.

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  1. 1992
    Native Tongue
    by Carl Hiaasen
  2. 1992
    A Suitable Vengeance (Inspector Lynley)
    by Elizabeth George
  3. 1992
    Book Case
    by Stephen Greenleaf
  4. 1992
    Hour of the Hunter
    by J. A. Jance
  5. 1992
    We Wish You a Merry Murder
    by Valerie Wolzien
  6. 1993
    Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway Novels)
    by John Dunning
  7. 1993
    The Black Echo (Harry Bosch)
    by Michael Connelly
  8. 1993
    Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott Mysteries, No. 1)
    by Margaret Maron
  9. 1993
    The Ice House: A Novel
    by Minette Walters
  10. 1994
    Smilla's Sense of Snow
    by Peter Hoeg
  11. 1994
    Death Comes As Epiphany: A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery
    by Sharan Newman
  12. 1994
    Wolf in the Shadows (A Sharon Mccone Mystery)
    by Marcia Muller
  13. 1994
    By Evil Means (Phoebe Siegel Mystery)
    by Sandra West Prowell
  14. 1994
    Catilina's Riddle: A Novel of Ancient Rome
    by Steven Saylor
  15. 1994
    The Sculptress
    by Minette Walters
  16. 1994
    Way Down On The High Lonely (Dead Letter Mysteries)
    by Don Winslow
  17. 1995
    One for the Money (Movie Tie-in) (Stephanie Plum Novels)
    by Janet Evanovich
  18. 1995
    Do Unto Others
    by Jeff Abbott
  19. 1995
    Aunt Dimity and the Duke (Aunt Dimity Mystery)
    by Nancy Atherton
  20. 1995
    A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
    by Nevada Barr
  21. 1995
    The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch)
    by Michael Connelly
  22. 1995
    Mallory's Oracle (A Mallory Novel)
    by Carol O'Connell
  23. 1995
    Walking Rain
    by Susan Wade
  24. 1996
    The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch)
    by Michael Connelly
  25. 1996
    Voodoo River (Elvis Cole Novels)
    by Robert Crais
  26. 1996
    Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?
    by G. M. Ford
  27. 1996
  28. 1996
    The Codicil: A Novel
    by Tom Topor
  29. 1997
    The Poet
    by Michael Connelly
  30. 1997
  31. 1997
    Darkness, Take My Hand
    by Dennis Lehane
  32. 1997
    Tularosa: A Kevin Kerney Novel (Kevin Kerney Novels)
    by Michael McGarrity
  33. 1997
    Moody Gets the Blues (Moody Gets Blues)
    by Steve Oliver
  34. 1997
    Dance for the Dead , A Jane Whitefield Novel
    by Thomas Perry
  36. 1998
  37. 1998
    Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
    by Lee Child
  38. 1998
    Back Spin (Myron Bolitar)
    by Harlan Coben
  39. 1998
    Sacred: A Novel
    by Dennis Lehane
  40. 1998
    Deja Dead (Temperance Brennan Novels)
    by Kathy Reichs
  41. 1998
    The Devil in Music (Julian Kestrel Mystery)
    by Kate Ross
  42. 1999
    Gone, Baby, Gone: A Novel
    by Dennis Lehane
  43. 1999
    Blind Descent (An Anna Pigeon Novel)
    by Nevada Barr
  44. 1999
    The Ghosts of Morning
    by Richard Barre
  45. 1999
    Sunset Limited (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
    by James Lee Burke
  46. 1999
    Iron Lake: A Novel (Cork O'Connor)
    by William Kent Krueger
  47. 1999
    Wings of Fire
    by Charles Todd
  48. 2000
    L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole Novels)
    by Robert Crais
  49. 2000
  50. 2000
    Murder with Peacocks (Meg Langslow Mysteries)
    by Donna Andrews

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