Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, established in 2000, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller winners and finalists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	Val McDermid	A Place of Execution	Winner	[1]
	Michael Dibdin	Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery	Finalist	[1]
	Peter Robinson	Cold Is the Grave
	James Lee Burke	Purple Cane Road
	George P. Pelecanos	Shame the Devil
2001	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe	Winner	[2]
	David Fulmer	Chasing the Devil’s Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans	Finalist	[2]
	Henry Bromell	Little America
	C. J. Box	Open Season: A Joe Pickett Novel
	Marshall Browne	The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
2002	George P. Pelecanos	Hell to Pay	Winner	[3]
	Tod Goldberg	Living Dead Girl	Finalist	[3]
	Henning Mankell and Ebba Segerberg	One Step Behind
	Scott Turow	Reversible Errors
	Stephen L. Carter	The Emperor of Ocean Park
2003	George P. Pelecanos	Soul Circus	Winner	[4]
	Rebecca Pawel	Death of a Nationalist	Finalist	[4]
	Neil Gordon	The Company You Keep
	Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson	The Dogs of Riga
	Peter Lovesey	The House Sitter
2004	Kem Nunn	Tijuana Straits	Winner	[5]
	Ian Rankin	A Question of Blood	Finalist	[5]
	Alan Furst	Dark Voyage
	Charles McCarry	Old Boys
	Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson	The Return of the Dancing Master
2005	Robert Littell	Legends	Winner	[6]
	John Harvey	Ash & Bone	Finalist	[6]
	Peter Robinson	Strange Affair
	Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer
	James Crumley	The Right Madness
2006	Michael Connelly	Echo Park	Winner	[7][8]
	Patrick Neate	City of Tiny Lights	Finalist	[8]
	George P. Pelecanos	The Night Gardener
	Don Winslow	The Winter of Frankie Machine
	Jess Walter	The Zero
2007	Karin Fossum with Charlotte Barslund (trans.)	The Indian Bride	Winner	[9]
	Benjamin Black	Christine Falls	Finalist	[9]
	Åke Edwardson	Frozen Tracks
	Jan Costin Wagner	Ice Moon
	Tana French	In the Woods
2008	Michael Koryta	Envy the Night	Winner	[10][11]
	Simon Lewis	Bad Traffic	Finalist	[12]
	Tom Rob Smith	Child 44
	Nina Revoyr	The Age of Dreaming
	Colin Harrison	The Finder
2009	Stuart Neville	The Ghosts of Belfast	Winner	[13]
	Val McDermid	A Darker Domain	Finalist	[13]
	Attica Locke	Black Water Rising
	Megan Abbott	Bury Me Deep
	David Ellis	The Hidden Man
2010	Tom Franklin	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter	Winner	[14]
	Kelli Stanley	City of Dragons	Finalist	[14]
	Stuart Neville	Collusion
	Tana French	Faithful Place
	Laura Lippman	I’d Know You Anywhere
2011	Stephen King	11/22/63	Winner	[15]
	Eoin Colfer	Plugged	Finalist	[16]
	A.D. Miller	Snowdrops
	Kate Atkinson	Started Early, Took My Dog
	Denise Mina	The End of the Wasp Season
2012	Tana French	Broken Harbor	Winner	[17][18]
	Nick Harkaway	Angelmaker	Finalist	[19]
	Chris Pavone	The Expats
	Fuminori Nakamura	The Thief
	Ariel S. Winter	The Twenty-Year Death
2013	Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)	The Cuckoo's Calling	Winner	[20]
	Richard Crompton	Hour of the Red God	Finalist	[21]
	John Grisham	Sycamore Row
	Ferdinand von Schirach	The Collini Case
	Gene Kerrigan	The Rage
2014	Tom Bouman	Dry Bones in the Valley	Winner	[22]
	Laura Lippman	After I’m Gone	Finalist	[23]
	Shawn Lawrence Otto	Sins of Our Fathers
	Peter Swanson	The Girl With a Clock for a Heart
	Peter Heller	The Painter
2015	Don Winslow	The Cartel	Winner	[24][25]
	Brian Panowich	Bull Mountain	Finalist	[26]
	Lou Berney	The Long and Faraway Gone
	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The Sympathizer
	Richard Price	The Whites
2016	Bill Beverly	Dodgers	Winner	[27]
	Thomas Mullen	Darktown	Finalist	[27]
	Emma Cline	The Girls
	Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
	Ian McGuire	The North Water
2017	Joyce Carol Oates	A Book of American Martyrs	Winner	[28]
	Attica Locke	Bluebird, Bluebird	Finalist	[28]
	Michael Connelly	The Late Show
	Paul LaFarge	The Night Ocean
	Ivy Pochoda	Wonder Valley
2018	Oyinkan Braithwaite	My Sister, the Serial Killer	Winner	[29]
	Megan Abbott	Give Me Your Hand	Finalist	[29]
	Kent Anderson	Green Sun
	Lou Berney	November Road
	Leïla Slimani	The Perfect Nanny
2019	Steph Cha	Your House Will Pay	Winner	[30][31]
	Attica Locke	Heaven, My Home	Finalist	[32]
	Laura Lippman	Lady In the Lake
	Jane Harper	The Lost Man
	Michael Connelly	The Night Fire
2020	S. A. Cosby	Blacktop Wasteland	Winner	[33][34]
	Rachel Howzell Hall	And Now She’s Gone	Finalist	[35][36]
	Christopher Bollen	A Beautiful Crime
	Jennifer Hillier	Little Secrets
	Ivy Pochoda	These Women
2021	Megan Abbott	The Turnout	Winner	[37][38]
	Alison Gaylin	The Collective	Finalist	[38]
	Michael Connelly	The Dark Hours
	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears
	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	Velvet Was the Night
2022	Alex Segura	Secret Identity	Winner	[39]
	Rachel Howzell Hall	We Lie Here	Finalist	[40]
	Laurie R. King	Back to the Garden
	Tracy Lien	All That's Left Unsaid
	Peng Shepherd	The Cartographers
2023	Ivy Pochoda	Sing Her Down	Winner	[41]
	Lou Berney	Dark Ride	Finalist	[42]
	S. A. Cosby	All the Sinners Bleed
	Jordan Harper	Everybody Knows
	Cheryl A. Head	Time’s Undoing