The Dilys Award
The Dilys Award has been given annually since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers' Association to the mystery title of the previous year which the member booksellers most enjoyed selling.

2004

Winner:  Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde

Nominees:
Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon, by Donna Andrews
The Sixth Lamentation, by William Brodrick
Monkeewrench, by PJ Tracy
Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear


2003

Winner:  In the Bleak Midwinter, by Julia Spencer-Fleming.

Nominees:
You've Got Murder, by Donna Andrews
Without Fail, by Lee Child,
The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
Hell to Pay, by George Pelecanos


2002

Winner:  Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Nominees:
The Cold Blue Blood by David Handler
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Purgatory Ridge by William Kent Krueger
The Reaper by Peter Lovesey


2001

Winner:
  A Place of Execution by Val McDermid

Nominees:
The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell
The Hearse You Came in On by Tim Cockey
Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
Hot Six by Janet Evanovich


2000

Winner:  L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais

Nominees:
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews
Boundary Waters by William Kent Krueger
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow


1999

Winner: 
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

Nominees:
Blind Descent by Nevada Barr
The Ghosts of Morning by Richard Barre
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Wings of Fire by Charles Todd


1998

Winner: 
Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

Nominees:
The Killing Floor by Lee Child
Backspin by Harlan Coben
Sacred by Dennis Lehane
Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
The Devil in Music by Kate Ross


1997

Winner: 
The Poet by Michael Connelly

Nominees:
Fade Away by Harlan Coben
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane
Tularosa by Michael McGarrity
Moody Gets the Blues by Steve Oliver
Dance for the Dead by Thomas Perry
A Test of Wills by Charles Todd


1996

Winner:  The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

Nominees:
Voodoo River by Robert Crais
Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? by G.M. Ford
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb
The Codicil by Tom Topor


1995

Winner:  One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

Nominees:
Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
Aunt Dimity and the Duke by Nancy Atherton
A Superior Death by Nevada Barr
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell
Walking Rain by Susan Wade


1994

Winner:  Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

Nominees:
Death Comes As Epiphany by Sharan Newman
Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
By Evil Means by Sandra West Prowell
Catilina's Riddle by Stephen Saylor
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
Way Down On The High Lonely by Don Winslow


1993

Winner: Booked to Die by John Dunning

Nominees:
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
The Ice House by Minette Walters


1992

Winner: Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen

Nominees:
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
Book Case by Stephen Greenleaf
Hour of the Hunter by J.A. Jance
We Wish You A Merry Murder by Valerie Wolzien

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