Barry Award / Best Novel

Barry Award : Best Novel

Winner of the Barry Award in the category Best Novel ( Best 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 the hardcover was published format (as opposed for the Best Paperback Novel category ). Since 2000, this category has been reserved for US and Canadian authors, while its British counterparts have a separate category . The most successful in this category were the Americans Michael Connelly (1998 and 2003), Dennis Lehane (1999 and 2002) and Laura Lippman (2004 and 2008), who each won the award twice.

year	Award winners	Novel title	German title
1997	Peter Lovesey	Bloodhounds
1998	Michael Connelly	Trunk music	The comeback
1999	Reginald Hill	On Beulah Height	The village of the missing children
	Dennis Lehane	Gone, baby gone	Not child's play
2000	Peter Robinson	In a dry season	In a hot summer
2001	Nevada Barr	Deep South
2002	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River	Trail of the Wolves / Mystic River
2003	Michael Connelly	City of Bones	No angel so pure
2004	Laura Lippman	Every Secret Thing	Dangerous angels
2005	Lee Child	The enemy	The hit list
2006	Thomas H. Cook	Red Leaves	The poison of doubt
2007	George Pelecanos	The Night Gardener
2008	Laura Lippman	What the Dead Know	What the dead know
2009	Arnaldur Indridason	The Draining Lake	Cold zone
2010	John Hart	The Last Child	The last child
2011	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist
2012	Jussi Adler-Olsen	The Keeper of Lost Causes	mercy
2013	Peter May	The Black House	Blackhouse
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary grace
2015	Greg Iles	Natchez Burning	Natchez Burning
2016	CJ box	Badlands
2017	Louise Penny	A great reckoning
2018	Karen Dionne	The Marsh King's Daughter
2019	Lou Berney	November Road