Dilys Award
The Dilys Award was a literary prize for crime literature in English-speaking countries and was presented annually from 1992 to 2014 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA). The IMBA, an association of booksellers from North America, Canada and Great Britain, published a list of recommended crime novels for its readers every month. The award was named after Dilys Winn, founder of Murder Inc. , the first crime bookstore in the USA, which was run by Dilys Winn until December 2006 and then closed.
The award was only given in one category for the most recommended title of the past year. It was a sculpture made by Greg Anthony that depicts a skull.
Award winners
year | Award winners |
Title of the novel, possibly the original title. Publisher, place, year |
German title publisher, place, year |
1992 | Carl Hiaasen | Native Tongue Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1991 |
Big animals Bertelsmann, Munich 1991 |
1993 | John Dunning | Booked to Die Scribner’s, New York 1992 |
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1994 | Peter Høeg | Smilla's Sense of Snow OT: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 1993 |
Miss Smilla's feeling for snow Hanser, Munich 1994 |
1995 | Janet Evanovich | One for the Money Scribner’s, New York 1994 |
Once is not even Goldmann, Munich 1996 |
1996 | Michael Connelly | The Last Coyote Little & Brown, Boston 1995 |
The last Coyote Heyne, Munich 1997 |
1997 | Michael Connelly | The Poet Little & Brown, Boston 1996 |
The poet Heyne, Munich 1998 |
1998 | Janet Evanovich | Three to Get Deadly Scribner’s, New York 1997 |
One, two, three and you're free Goldmann, Munich 1998 |
1999 | Dennis Lehane | Gone, Baby, Gone William Morrow, New York 1998 |
No child's play Ullstein, Munich 2000 |
2000 | Robert Crais | LA Requiem Doubleday, New York 1999 |
Hour of Revenge Goldmann, Munich 2004 |
2001 | Val McDermid | A Place of Execution HarperCollins, London 1999 |
A place for eternity Droemer, Munich 2000 |
2002 | Dennis Lehane | Mystic River William Morrow, New York 2001 |
Trail of the Wolves Ullstein, Berlin 2002 |
2003 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | In the Bleak Midwinter Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2002 |
The white dress of death Knaur, Munich 2005 |
2004 | Jasper Fforde | Lost in a Good Book Hodder & Stoughton, London 2002 |
In another book dtv, Munich 2004 |
2005 | Jeff Lindsay | Darkly Dreaming Dexter Doubleday, New York 2004 |
Death's dark brother Droemer-Knaur, Munich 2005 |
2006 | Colin Cotterill | Thirty-Three Teeth Soho Press, New York 2005 |
Dr. Siri sees ghosts Manhattan, Munich 2009 |
2007 | Louise Penny | Still Life St. Martin's Press, New York 2006 |
Because everyone is to blame Limes, Munich 2006 |
2008 | William Kent Krueger | Thunder Bay Atria, New York 2007 |
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2009 | Sean Chercover | Trigger City Harper Collins, New York 2008 |
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2010 | Alan Bradley | The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Delacorte Press, New York 2009 |
Murder in the cucumber patch Penhaligon, Munich 2009 |
2011 | Louise Penny | Bury Your Dead Minotaur Books, New York 2010 |
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2012 | SJ Rozan | Ghost Hero Minotaur Books, New York 2011 |
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2013 | Peter Robinson | Before the Poison Hodder & Stoughton, London 2012 |
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2014 | William Kent Krueger | Ordinary Grace Atria Books, New York 2013 |