The Dilys Award (1992-2007)

Each year, the Dilys Award is presented to recognize the new title published in the previous year that the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association most enjoyed selling. The award is named after the first mystery specialty bookseller, Dilys Winn, founder of New York's Murder Ink.

Click on the title to read a short summary of the book, and to place a hold.

The number in parentheses after each book is the year in which it was awarded the Dilys Award.

Still Life by Louise Penny (2007)

Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill (2006)

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffry Lindsay (2005)

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (2004)

In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (2003)

Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (2002)

A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (2001)

L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais (2000)

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane (1999)

Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich (1998)

The Poet by Michael Connelly (1997)

The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly (1996)

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (1995)

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg (1994)

Booked to Die by John Dunning (1993)

Native Tongue by Carl Hiassen (1992)