Preisträger und Nominierte – Dilys Award

		Gewinner		Weitere Nominierte
1992		Carl Hiaasen Native Tongue
				Elizabeth George A Suitable Vengeanc
				Stephen Greenleaf Book Case
				J.A. Jance Hour of the Hunter
				Valerie Wolzien We Wish You A Merry Murder
1993		John Dunning Booked to Die
				Michael Connelly The Black Echo
				Margaret Maron Bootlegger’s Daughter
				Minette Walters The Ice House
1994		Peter Hoeg Smilla’s Sense of Snow
				Sharan Newman Death Comes As Epiphany
				Marcia Muller Wolf in the Shadows
				Sandra West Prowell By Evil Means
				Stephen Saylor Catilina’s Riddle
				Minette Walters The Sculptress
				Don Winslow Way Down On The High Lonely
1995		Janet Evanovich One for the Money
				Jeff Abbott Do Unto Others
				Nancy Atherton Aunt Dimity and the Duke
				Nevada Barr A Superior Death
				Michael Connelly The Concrete Blonde
				Carol O’Connell Mallory’s Oracle
				Susan Wade Walking Rain
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
1997		Michael Connelly The Poet
				Harlan Coben Fade Away
				Margaret Lawrence Heart 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
1998		Janet Evanovich Three to Get Deadly
				Lee Child The Killing Floor
				Harlan Coben Backspin
				Dennis Lehane Sacred
				Kathy Reichs Deja Death
				Kate Ross The Devil in Music
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
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
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
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
2003		Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter
				Donna Andrews You’ve Got Murder
				Lee Child Without Fail
				Jasper Fforde Eyre Affair
				George Pelecanos Hell to Pay
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
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
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
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
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