Barry Award / Best First Novel

Barry Award : Best First Novel

Winner of the Barry Award in the category Best First Novel ( Best First Novel ), an author from the 1997 best debut work of crime novel or mystery genre is updated distinguished that during the previous year in the United States or Canada has been released. In 2005, the Spaniard Carlos Ruiz Zafón was the first non-English-speaking author to win with the novel The Shadow of the Wind (original title: La Sombra Del Viento ), which was also successful in Germany, where it was published under the title Der Schatten des Windes .

year	Award winners	Novel title	German title
1997	Charles Todd	A Test Of Wills	The second voice
1998	Lee Child	Killing Floor	Megalomania
1999	William Kent Krueger	Iron Lake	Indian winter
2000	Donna Andrews	Murder with Peacocks	Wrong bird catches death
2001	David Liss	A Conspiracy of Paper	The paper conspiracy
2002	Chuck J. Box	Open season	No closed season
2003	Julia Spencer-Fleming	In the Bleak Midwinter	The white dress of death
2004	PJ Tracy	Monkeewrench	Game among friends
2005	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	The Shadow of the Wind	The shadow of the wind
2006	Stuart MacBride	Cold granite	The dark waters of Aberdeen
2007	Louise Penny	Still life	Because everyone is to blame
2008	Tana French	In the woods	Grave green
2009	Tom Rob Smith	Child 44	Child 44
2010	Alan Bradley	The sweetness at the bottom of the pie	Flavia de Luce, Murder in the Cucumber Patch
2011	Paul Doiron	The Poacher's Son
2012	Taylor Stevens	The informationist	Mission Munroe - The Tourist
2013	Julia Keller	A killing in the hills	In the dark valley
2014	Barry Lancet	Japantown	Japantown
2015	Julia Dahl	Invisible City
2016	Ausma Zehanat Khan	The Unquiet Dead
2017	Nicholas Petrie	The Drifter
2018	Jane Harper	The Dry
2019	CJ Tudor	The Chalk Man

Remarks

1. ↑ later also under the title Jagdopfer bei Heyne, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-43430-1