T. Jefferson Parker Book Award
The T. Jefferson Parker Book Award is presented annually by The Southern California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA) for the best detective novel of the previous year in the Mystery & Thrillers category. The award is only given to writers residing in California ; the award takes place at an annual SCIBA event, the Authors Feast & Trade Show (AFATS). SCIBA is a regional, non-profit organization of booksellers, publishers, and other literature-related companies located in southern California and southern Nevada .
The namesake of the award was the journalist and detective writer T. Jefferson Parker , three-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award (2002, 2005 and 2009). He was born in Los Angeles , grew up there, studied, worked there and still lives in California today. Parker's novels are also set in his native California and earned him SCIBA recognition.
Award winners
Best Novel - Best Novel
| year | Award winners | Original title publisher, location year |
German title publisher, location year |
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| 2008 | Joseph Wambaugh | Hollywood Crows Little, Brown & Co., New York 2008 |
Sunset Boulevard Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009 |
| 2009 | Debra M. Ginsberg | The Grift Shaye Areheart Books, New York 2008 |
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| 2010 | Robert Crais | The First Rule G. P. Putnam's sons, New York 2010 |
Law of Death Heyne, Munich 2014 |
| 2011 | Don Winslow | Savages Simon & Schuster, New York 2010 |
Time of Wrath Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011 |
| 2012 | Don Winslow | The Kings of Cool Simon & Schuster, New York 2012 |
Kings of Cool Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014 |
| 2013 | Debra M. Ginsberg | What the Heart Remembers New American Library, New York 2012 |
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| 2014 | Naomi Hirahara | Murder on Bamboo Lane Berkley Prime Crime, New York 2014 |
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| 2015 | Don Winslow | The Cartel Knopf, New York 2015 |
The Droemer cartel , Munich 2015 |
| 2016 | Noah Hawley | Before the Fall Grand Central Publishing, New York 2016 |
Before the Goldmann case , Munich 2016 |
| 2017 | Don Winslow | The Force William Morrow, New York 2017 |
Corruption Droemer, Munich 2017 |
| 2018 | Janelle Brown | Watch Me Disappear Mirror & Gray, New York 2017 |
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| 2019 | Jonathan Lethem | The Feral Detective Ecco, New York 2018 |
The wild detective tropics, Stuttgart 2019 |
See also
Web links
- Official website of SCIBA (English)
- Official website of T. Jefferson Parker (English)
Remarks
- ↑ sometimes cited as T. Jefferson Parker SCIBA Mystery Award or T. Jefferson Parker Mystery Award
- ↑ see AFATS 2011 ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
