Dilys Award

The Dilys Award was presented every year from 1992 to 2014 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It was 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 became the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.^[3]

Awards

Award winners and finalists^[3][4]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1992	Carl Hiaasen	Native Tongue	Winner
	Elizabeth George	A Suitable Vengeance	Finalist
	Stephen Greenleaf	Book Case	Finalist
	J.A. Jance	Hour of the Hunter	Finalist
	Valerie Wolzien	We Wish You A Merry Murder	Finalist
1993	John Dunning	Booked to Die	Winner
	Michael Connelly	The Black Echo	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Bootlegger's Daughter	Finalist
	Minette Walters	The Ice House	Finalist
1994	Peter Høeg	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Winner
	Marcia Muller	Wolf in the Shadows	Finalist
	Sharan Newman	Death Comes As Epiphany	Finalist
	Sandra West Prowell	By Evil Means	Finalist
	Steven Saylor	Catilina's Riddle	Finalist
	Minette Walters	The Sculptress	Finalist
	Don Winslow	Way Down on the High Lonely	Finalist
1995	Janet Evanovich	One for the Money	Winner
	Jeff Abbott	Do Unto Others	Finalist
	Nancy Atherton	Aunt Dimity and the Duke	Finalist
	Nevada Barr	A Superior Death	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	The Concrete Blonde	Finalist
	Carol O'Connell	Mallory's Oracle	Finalist
	Susan Wade	Walking Rain	Finalist
1996	Michael Connelly	The Last Coyote	Winner
	Robert Crais	Voodoo River	Finalist
	G. M. Ford	Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca?	Finalist
	Sharyn McCrumb	If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him	Finalist
	Tom Topor	The Codicil	Finalist
1997	Michael Connelly	The Poet	Winner
	Harlan Coben	Fade Away	Finalist
	Margaret Lawrence	Hearts and Bones	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Darkness, Take My Hand	Finalist
	Michael McGarrity	Tularosa	Finalist
	Steve Oliver	Moody Gets the Blues	Finalist
	Thomas Perry	Dance for the Dead	Finalist
	Charles Todd	A Test of Wills	Finalist
1998	Janet Evanovich	Three to Get Deadly	Winner
	Lee Child	Killing Floor	Finalist
	Harlan Coben	Back Spin	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Sacred	Finalist
	Kathy Reichs	Déjà Dead	Finalist
	Kate Ross	The Devil in Music	Finalist
1999	Dennis Lehane	Gone, Baby, Gone	Winner
	Nevada Barr	Blind Descent	Finalist
	Richard Barre	The Ghosts of Morning	Finalist
	James Lee Burke	Sunset Limited	Finalist
	William Kent Krueger	Iron Lake	Finalist
	Charles Todd	Wings of Fire	Finalist
2000	Robert Crais	L.A. Requiem	Winner
	Rennie Airth	River of Darkness	Finalist
	Donna Andrews	Murder with Peacocks	Finalist
	William Kent Krueger	Boundary Waters	Finalist
	Don Winslow	California Fire and Life	Finalist
2001	Val McDermid	A Place of Execution	Winner
	Sarah Caudwell	The Sibyl in Her Grave	Finalist
	Tim Cockey	The Hearse You Came in On	Finalist
	Robert Crais	Demolition Angel	Finalist
	Janet Evanovich	Hot Six	Finalist
2002	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River	Winner
	David Handler	The Cold Blue Blood	Finalist
	Charlaine Harris	Dead Until Dark	Finalist
	William Kent Krueger	Purgatory Ridge	Finalist
	Peter Lovesey	The Reaper	Finalist
2003	Julia Spencer-Fleming	In the Bleak Midwinter	Winner
	Donna Andrews	You've Got Murder	Finalist
	Lee Child	Without Fail	Finalist
	Jasper Fforde	The Eyre Affair	Finalist
	George Pelecanos	Hell to Pay	Finalist
2004	Jasper Fforde	Lost in a Good Book	Winner
	Donna Andrews	Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon	Finalist
	William Brodrick	The Sixth Lamentation	Finalist
	P. J. Tracy	Monkeewrench	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs	Finalist
2005	Jeff Lindsay	Darkly Dreaming Dexter	Winner
	Lee Child	The Enemy	Finalist
	Jasper Fforde	Something Rotten	Finalist
	Leslie Silbert	The Intelligencer	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Birds of a Feather	Finalist
	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	The Shadow of the Wind	Finalist
2006	Colin Cotterill	Thirty-Three Teeth	Winner
	Terence Faherty	In a Teapot	Finalist
	Craig Johnson	The Cold Dish	Finalist
	Morag Joss	Half Broken Things	Finalist
	Mark Schweitzer	The Tenor Wore Tapshoes	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Power of the Dog	Finalist
2007	Louise Penny	Still Life	Winner	[5][6]
	James R. Benn	Billy Boyle	Finalist
	Steve Hockensmith	Holmes on the Range	Finalist
	John J. Lamb	Mournful Teddy	Finalist
	Nancy Pickard	The Virgin of the Small Plains	Finalist
	Diane Setterfield	The Thirteenth Tale	Finalist
2008	William Kent Krueger	Thunder Bay	Winner	[7]
	Rhys Bowen	Her Royal Spyness	Finalist	[8]
	Lisa Lutz	The Spellman Files	Finalist	[8]
	Deanna Raybourn	Silent in the Grave	Finalist	[8]
	Marcus Sakey	The Blade Itself	Finalist	[8]
2009	Sean Chercover	Trigger City	Winner	[9]
	Christopher Fowler	The Victoria Vanishes	Finalist	[10]
	Deanna Raybourn	Silent in the Sanctuary	Finalist	[10]
	Tom Rob Smith	Child 44	Finalist	[10]
	Don Winslow	Dawn Patrol	Finalist	[10]
2010	Alan Bradley	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Winner	[11]
	R. J. Ellory	A Quiet Belief in Angels	Finalist	[12]
	Craig Johnson	The Dark Horse	Finalist	[12]
	Stieg Larsson	The Girl Who Played with Fire	Finalist	[12]
	Stuart Neville	The Ghosts of Belfast	Finalist	[12]
	Louise Penny	The Brutal Telling	Finalist	[12]
	S. J. Rozan	The Shanghai Moon	Finalist	[12]
2011	Louise Penny	Bury Your Dead	Winner	[13]
	Colin Cotterill	Love Songs from a Shallow Grave	Finalist	[14]
	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist	Finalist	[14]
	Dennis Lehane	Moonlight Mile	Finalist	[14]
	Keith Thomson	Once a Spy	Finalist	[14]
	Don Winslow	Savages	Finalist	[14]
2012	S. J. Rozan	Ghost Hero	Winner	[15]
	Tim Dorsey	When Elves Attack	Finalist	[16]
	G. M. Malliet	Wicked Autumn	Finalist	[16]
	Archer Mayor	Tag Man	Finalist	[16]
	Louise Penny	A Trick of the Light	Finalist	[16]
2013	Peter Robinson	Before the Poison	Winner	[17]
	Colin Cotterill	Grandad, There's a Head on the Beach	Finalist	[18]
	Tana French	Broken Harbor	Finalist	[18]
	Susan Elia MacNeal	Mr. Churchill's Secretary	Finalist	[18]
	Chris Pavone	The Expats	Finalist	[18]
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace	Winner	[19]
	Lyndsay Faye	Seven for a Secret	Finalist	[20]
	Alex Grecian	The Black Country	Finalist	[20]
	Anne Hillerman	Spider Woman's Daughter	Finalist	[20]
	G. M. Malliet	Pagan Spring	Finalist	[20]
	Vidar Sundstol	The Land of Dreams	Finalist	[20]