Hammett Prize

The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing. Established in 1991,^[1] it is named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett.^[2]

Recipients

Prize winners and finalists^[3][4]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1991	Elmore Leonard	Maximum Bob	Winner	[5]
	Jerome Charyn	Elsinore	Finalist
	Norman Mailer	Harlot’s Ghost	Finalist
	Paul West	The Women of Whitechapel & Jack the Ripper	Finalist
	Robertson Davies	Murther & Walking Spirits	Finalist
1992	Alice Hoffman	Turtle Moon	Winner	[5]
	Daniel Woodrell	The Ones You Do	Special mention
	Donald E. Westlake	Humans	Finalist
	Jane Stanton Hitchcock	Trick of the Eye	Finalist
	Walter Mosley	White Butterfly	Finalist
1993	James Crumley	The Mexican Tree Duck	Winner	[5]
	Michael Connelly	The Black Ice	Finalist
	Randall Silvis	An Occasional Hell	Finalist
	Sandra West Prowell	By Evil Means	Finalist
	Steven Saylor	Catilina’s Riddle	Finalist
1994	James Lee Burke	Dixie City Jam	Winner	[5]
	Laura Joh Rowland	Shinjū	Finalist
	Mikal Gilmore	Shot in the Heart	Finalist
	Pinckney Benedict	Dogs of God	Finalist
	Steve Lopez	Third and Indiana	Finalist
1995	Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle's Cellar	Winner	[5]
	Andrew Klavan	True Crime	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	The Last Coyote	Finalist
	Susan Taylor Chehak	Smithereens	Finalist
	Thomas H. Cook	Breakheart Hill	Finalist
1996	Martin Cruz Smith	Rose	Winner	[5]
	James W. Hall	Buzz Cut	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	The Poet	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	Innocent Graves	Finalist
	Stephen Solomita	Damaged Goods	Finalist
1997	William Deverell	Trial of Passion	Winner	[5]
	Bill Pronzini	A Wasteland of Strangers	Finalist
	James Lee Burke	Cimarron Rose	Finalist
	L. R. Wright	Acts of Murder	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	Trunk Music	Finalist
1998	William Hoffman	Tidewater Blood	Winner	[5]
	Daniel Woodrell	Tomato Red	Finalist
	Domenic Stansberry	The Last Days of Il Duce	Finalist
	Kevin McColley	Praying to a Laughing God	Finalist
	Robert Noah	The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa	Finalist
1999	Martin Cruz Smith	Havana Bay	Winner	[5]
	James Lee Burke	Heartwood	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	In a Dry Season	Finalist
	Robert Crais	L.A. Requiem	Finalist
	Scott Turow	Personal Injuries	Finalist
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Winner	[5]
	Brad Smith	One-Eyed Jacks	Finalist
	Joe R. Lansdale	The Bottoms	Finalist
	Scott Phillips	The Ice Harvest	Finalist
	Stephen Hunter	Hot Springs	Finalist
2001	Alan Furst	Kingdom of Shadows	Winner	[5]
	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River	Finalist
	George Pelecanos	Right as Rain	Finalist
	Rob Reuland	Hollowpoint	Finalist
	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe	Finalist
2002	Owen Parry	Honor’s Kingdom	Winner	[5]
	J. Robert Janes	Flykiller	Finalist
	James Lee Burke	The Jolie Blon’s Bounce	Finalist
	John Case	The Eighth Day	Finalist
	Walter Mosley	Bad Boy Brawly Brown	Finalist
2003	Carol Goodman	The Seduction of Water	Winner	[5]
	Dennis Lehane	Shutter Island	Finalist
	Giles Blunt	The Delicate Storm	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	Every Secret Thing	Finalist
	Michael Gruber	Tropic of Night	Finalist
2004	Chuck Hogan	Prince of Thieves	Winner	[5]
	Colin Harrison	The Havana Room	Finalist
	John Katzenbach	The Madman's Tale	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	Playing with Fire	Finalist
	T. Jefferson Parker	California Girl	Finalist
2005	Joseph Kanon	Alibi	Winner	[5]
	Cormac McCarthy	No Country for Old Men	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Power of the Dog	Finalist
	John Brady	Islandbridge	Finalist
	Martin Límon	The Door to Bitterness	Finalist
2006	Dan Fesperman	The Prisoner of Guantánamo	Winner	[5]
	Bill Pronzini	The Crimes of Jordan Wise	Finalist
	Jim Nisbet	Dark Companion	Finalist
	John Case	Ghost Dancer	Finalist
	Robert Ward	Four Kinds of Rain	Finalist
2007	Gil Adamson	The Outlander	Winner	[5][6]
	Katie Estill	Dahlia’s Gone	Finalist	[6]
	Martin Cruz Smith	Stalin’s Ghost	Finalist	[6]
	Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policemen's Union	Finalist	[6]
	Michael Dibdin	End Games	Finalist	[6]
2008	George Pelecanos	The Turnaround	Winner	[5]
	Abraham Rodríguez	South by South Bronx	Finalist
	Colin Harrison	The Finder	Finalist
	David Levien	City of the Sun	Finalist
	Heywood Gould	Leading Lady	Finalist
2009	Jedediah Berry	The Manual of Detection	Winner	[5]
	Ace Atkins	Devil’s Garden	Finalist	[7]
	George Pelecanos	The Way Home	Finalist	[7]
	Megan Abbott	Bury Me Deep	Finalist	[7]
	Walter Mosley	The Long Fall	Finalist	[7]
2010	Olen Steinhauer	The Nearest Exit	Winner	[5]
	Jonathan Eig	Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster	Finalist
	T. Jefferson Parker	Iron River	Finalist
	Tom Franklin	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter	Finalist
2011	James Sallis	The Killer Is Dying	Winner	[5]
	James Lee Burke	Feast Day of Fools	Finalist
	Michael Ondaatje	The Cat's Table	Finalist
	Sara Gran	Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead	Finalist
	Thomas Perry	The Informant	Finalist
2012	Howard Owen	Oregon Hill	Winner	[5][8][9]
	G. Willow Wilson	Alif the Unseen	Finalist	[9][10]
	Jim Lynch	Truth Like the Sun	Finalist	[9][10]
	Kurt Palka	Patient Number 7	Finalist	[9][10]
	William Landay	Defending Jacob	Finalist	[9][10]
2013	Richard Lange	Angel Baby	Winner	[5]
	Craig Davidson	Cataract City	Finalist	[11]
	George P. Pelecanos	The Double	Finalist	[11]
	Heywood Gould	Green Light for Murder	Finalist	[11]
	Lisa Moore	Caught	Finalist	[11]
2014	Stephen King	Mr. Mercedes	Winner
	James Lee Burke	Wayfaring Stranger	Finalist	[12]
	Krista Foss	Smoke River	Finalist	[12]
	Peyton Marshall	Goodhouse	Finalist	[12]
	Tod Goldberg	Gangsterland	Finalist	[12]
2015	Lisa Sandlin	The Do-Right	Winner	[13]
	Harlan Coben	The Stranger	Finalist
	Harry Brandt	The Whites	Finalist
	Michael J. McCann	Sorrow Lake	Finalist
	Stu Strumwasser	The Organ Broker	Finalist
2016	Domenic Stansberry	The White Devil	Winner
	Bob Truluck	The Big Nothing	Finalist	[14]
	Duane Swierczynski	Revolver	Finalist
	Nicholas Petrie	The Drifter	Finalist
	Steve Hamilton	The Second Life of Nick Mason	Finalist
2017	Stephen Mack Jones	August Snow	Winner
	Ernest J. Gaines	The Tragedy of Brady Sims	Finalist
	Karen Dionne	The Marsh King’s Daughter	Finalist
	Randall Silvis	Two Days Gone	Finalist
2018	Lou Berney	November Road	Winner	[15][16]
	Lisa Unger	Under My Skin	Finalist	[15]
	Robert Olen Butler	Paris in the Dark	Finalist	[15]
	Sam Wiebe	Cut You Down	Finalist	[15]
	William Boyle	The Lonely Witness	Finalist	[15]
2019	Jane Stanton Hitchcock	Bluff	Winner	[17][18]
	Jonathan Moore	Blood Relations	Finalist	[17][18]
	Nicholas Meyer	The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols	Finalist	[17][18]
	Peter Houlahan	Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History	Finalist	[17][18]
	William Bayer	The Murals	Finalist	[17][18]
2020	David Joy	When These Mountains Burn	Winner	[19][20]
	Cara Black	Three Hours in Paris	Finalist	[19][21]
	David Heska Wanbli Weiden	Winter Counts	Finalist	[19][21]
	Nev March	Murder in Old Bombay	Finalist	[19][21]
	Sarah Stewart Taylor	The Mountains Wild	Finalist	[19][21]
2021	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears	Winner	[22]
	William Deverell	Stung	Finalist	[23]
	James Kestrel	Five Decembers	Finalist	[23]
	Colson Whitehead	Harlem Shuffle	Finalist	[23]
	Robin Yocum	The Sacrifice of Lester Yates	Finalist	[23]
2022	Samantha Jayne Allen	Pay Dirt Road	Winner	[24][25]
	Brad Smith	Copperhead Road	Finalist	[24][26]
	Eli Cranor	Don't Know Tough	Finalist	[24][26]
	Lisa Scottoline	What Happened to the Bennetts	Finalist	[24][26]
	Chuck Hogan	Gangland	Finalist	[24][26]
2023	Colson Whitehead	Crook Manifesto	Winner
	Gail Anderson-Dargatz	The Almost Widow	Finalist
	Sterling Watson	Night Letter	Finalist
	Clémence Michallon	The Quiet Tenant	Finalist
	Margaret Verble	Stealing	Finalist