Barry Award / Best Paperback Novel
Barry Award : Best Paperback Novel
Winner of the Barry Award in the category paperback novel Best ( Best Paperback Original / Best Paperback Novel ), which since 1997 the best in the previous year in the United States or Canada works published by an author from the crime novel or mystery distinguished genre of which in paperback format has been published (as opposed to the Best Novel category ). This category has been reserved for US and Canadian authors since 2000, while its British counterparts have a separate category .
| year | Award winners | Novel title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Susan Wade | Walking Rain | |
| 1998 | Harlan Coben | Back spin | |
| 1999 | Prize not awarded | ||
| 2000 | Robin Burcell | Every Move She Makes | |
| 2001 | Eric Wright | The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn | |
| 2002 | Deborah Woodworth | Killing Gifts | |
| 2003 | Danielle Girard | Cold Silence | |
| 2004 | Jason Starr | Tough luck | |
| 2005 | Elaine Flinn | Tagged for Murder | |
| 2006 | Reed Farrell Coleman | The James Deans | |
| 2007 | Sean Doolittle | The cleanup | |
| 2008 | Megan Abbott | Queenpin | |
| 2009 | Julie Hyzy | State of the Onion | |
| 2010 | Bryan Gruley | Starvation Lake | |
| 2011 | Val McDermid | Fever of the Bone | Parricide |
| 2012 | Michael Stanley | Death of the Mantis | |
| 2013 | Susan Elia McNeal | Mr. Churchill's Secretary | |
| 2014 | Adrian McKinty | I Hear the Sirens on the Street | The Sirens of Belfast |
| 2015 | Allen Eskens | The Life We Bury | |
| 2016 | Lou Berney | The Long and Faraway Gone | |
| 2017 | Adrian McKinty | Rain Dogs | Rain Dogs |
| 2018 | Allen Eskens | The deep dark descending | |
| 2019 | Dervla McTiernan | The ruin | |