Dilys Award

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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
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
2009 Sean Chercover Trigger City
Harper Collins, New York 2008
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
2012 SJ Rozan Ghost Hero
Minotaur Books, New York 2011
2013 Peter Robinson Before the Poison
Hodder & Stoughton, London 2012
2014 William Kent Krueger Ordinary Grace
Atria Books, New York 2013

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