| Author | Title ~ Main Character(s) | Stars Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott, Jeff | Cut and Run | Edgar Best Paperback Original Nominee |
| Akunin, Boris | The Winter Queen | NYT Notable Books |
| Alexander, Bruce | The Price of Murder: Fielding |  Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
| Ambrose, David | The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk | Booklist Best Crime Novel: Chuck Barris Award - Blend of Fantasy & Espionage |
| Andrews, Donna | Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon: Meg Langslow | Dilys Nomination Agatha Nomination Best Book |
| Anthony, Evelyn | Sleeping With the Enemy | |
| Armstrong, Vivien | Smile Now, Die Later | |
| Arsenault, Mark | Spiked | Shamus Best First P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Bannister, Jo | Reflections: A Novel of Suspense | |
| Barr, Nevada | Flashback | |
| Barron, Stephanie | Jane and the Ghosts of Netley | |
| Bayard, Louis | Mr. Timothy | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Bell, Theodore | Hawke | |
| Billingham, Mark | Scaredy Cat | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Black, Cara | Murder in the Bastille | |
| Blake, James Carlos | Under the Skin | |
| Blake, Michelle | The Book of Light | |
| Blanchard, Alice | The Breathtaker | |
| Blauner, Peter | Last Good Day | |
| Blevins, Meredith | The Hummingbird Wizard | 1st |
| Blunt, Giles | The Delicate Storm | Hammett Nominee Booklist Best Crime Novels Macavity Nominee Best Novel Anthony Best Novel Nominee Aurthur Ellis Award Winner |
| Booth, Martin | Islands of Silence | |
| Bowen, Peter | Badlands: Gabriel du Pre | |
| Bowen, Rhys | For the Love of Mike: Molly Murphy | Macavity Nominee Best Mystery Novel Anthony Best Historical Mystery Winner |
| Box, C.J. | Winterkill | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Booklist Best Crime Novels Runners-Up |
| Boyle, Gerry | Pretty Dead: Jack McMorrow | |
| Brayne, Alan | Jakarta Shadows (paper) | |
| Brett, Simon | Murder in the Museum: Fethering | |
| Broderick, William | The 6th Lamentation | Dilys Nominee |
| Brown, Dan | The Da Vinci Code | PW Best Books SF Chronicle Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Booksense Book of the Year Finalist |
| Brown, Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie | The Tail of the Tip-Off | |
| Browne, Marshall | Eye of the Abyss | PW Best Books |
| Bruen, Ken | The Guards | PW Best Books Edgar Best Novel Nominee Barry Nominee Best Mystery Novel Shamus Winner Best P.I. Novel Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
| Burcell, Robin | Deadly Legacy | Anthony Best Paperback Original Winner |
| Burdett, John | Bangkok 8 | PW Best Books NYT Notable Books |
| Burke, Alafair | Judgement Calls: Samantha Kincaid | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best Debuts |
| Burke, James Lee | Last Car to Elysian Fields: Robichaux | Booklist Best New Installments in Long-Running Series |
| Child, Lee | Persuader | PW Best Books |
| Clare, Baxter | Cry Havoc (paper) | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery |
| Coben, Harlan | No Second Chance | SF Chronicle Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Coel, Margaret | Killing Raven | |
| Cole, David | Dragonfly Bones | Shamus Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Connelly, Michael | Lost Light: Bosch | SF Chronicle Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Edgar Best Novel Nominee - withdrawn |
| Connelly, Michael (ed) | The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 | |
| Connolly, John | The White Road | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Connors, Rose | Temporary Sanity | |
| Conway, Martha | 12 Bliss Street | 1st Edgar Best First Novel Nominee |
| Corbett, David | Done for a Dime | NYT Notable Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
| Crais, Robert | The Last Detective: Elvis Cole | Booklist Best Crime Novel Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Crombie, Deborah | Now May You Weep | |
| Crow, Michael | The Bite: A Luther Ewing Thriller | |
| Cummings, Doug M. | Deader by the Lake: Reno McCarthy | |
| Cussler, Clive | Trojan Odysey | |
| Czuchlewski, David | Empire of Light | |
| Davidsen, Leif | Lime's Photograph (paper) | |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | Twisted: The Collected Stories | |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | Vanished Man: Lincoln Rhyme | |
| Dee, Ed | The Con Man's Daughter | |
| DeMarinis, Rick | Sky Full of Sand | |
| Dexter, Pete | Train (main listing on Fiction page) | |
| Dezenhall, Eric | Jackie Disaster | |
| Doherty, Paul | The Gates of Hell | |
| Donohue, John | Sensei: A Thriller | 1st Booklist Best First Crime Novel |
| Dreyer, Eileen | With a Vengeance | |
| Dubois, Brendan | Betrayed | Vietnam MIA thriller |
| Due, Tananarive | The Good House | |
| Dunn, Carola | Die Laughing: Daisy Dalrymple | |
| Eidson, Bill | The Repo | |
| Eisler, Barry | Hard Rain | |
| Evanovich, Janet | To the Nines | Booklist Best New Installments in Long-Running Series |
| Farmer, Jerrilyn | Mumbo Gumbo: Madeline Bean | Agatha Nomination Best Book |
| Ferrigno, Robert | Scavenger Hunt: Jimmy Gage | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Shaumus Best P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Fesperman, Dan | The Small Boat of Great Sorrows | Barry Nominee Best Mystery Novel |
| Fforde, Jasper | Lost in a Good Book: Thursday Next | Dilys Winner |
| Flinn, Elaine | Dealing in Murder (paper) | Agatha Nomination Best First Book Barry Nominee Best Paperback Original Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee |
| Ford, G.M. | A Blind Eye | |
| Forsyth, Frederick | Avenger | |
| French, Nicci | Land of the Living | |
| Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo | December Heat: Inspector Espinosa | |
| Gardner, Lisa | The Killing Hour | |
| Geary, Joseph | Spiral | Booklist Best Crime Novels Runners-Up |
| Genna, Giuseppe | In the Name of Ishmael | SF Chronicle Best Books |
| George, Elizabeth | A Place of Hiding: Simon & Deborah St James | |
| Gerritsen, Tess | The Sinner | |
| Gibson, William | Pattern Recognition | |
| Gill, Bartholomew | Death in Dublin: Peter McGarr | |
| Goldman, Joel | The Last Witness | Edgar Best Paperback Original Nominee |
| Gooden, Philip | Alms for Oblivion | |
| Goodman, Carol | The Seduction of Water | Hammett Winner |
| Gordan, Neil | The Company You Keep | LA Times Book Prize Finalist Mystery/Thriller |
| Gorman, Ed | Everybody's Somebody's Fool: Sam McCain | Booklist Best Little Known Series Crime Novel |
| Grabien, Deborah | The Weaver and the Factory Maid | |
| Greer, Robert O. | Heat Shock | Booklist Best Crime Novels |
| Grisham, John | King of Torts | PW Best Books |
| Gruber, Michael | Tropic of Night | Hammett Nominee |
| Hall, James W. | Off the Chart: Thorne & Alexandra Rafferty | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Booklist Best New Installments in Long-Running Series |
| Hamill, Denis | Sins of Two Fathers | |
| Hamilton, Denise | Sugar Skull: Eve Diamond | |
| Hamilton, Laurell K. | Cerulean Sins: Anita Blake | |
| Hamilton, Steve | Blood is the Sky: Alex McKnight | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Shamus Best P.I. Nominee Anthony Best Novel Nominee |
| Harrar, George | The Spinning Man | |
| Harris, Robert | Pompeii | Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
| Hart, Carolyn G. | Engaged to Die: Death on Demand | |
| Hart, Carolyn G. | Letter from Home | PW Best Books Agatha Winner Best Book |
| Hart, Erin | Haunted Ground | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best Debuts Agatha Nomination Best First Book Booklist Best First Novels Booklist Best Crime Novels Anthony Best First Novel Nominee |
| Heilbrun, Robert | Offer of Proof | Edgar Best First Novel Nominee |
| Helms, Richard | Wet Debt | Shamus Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Herren, Greg | Bourbon Street Blues | Lambda Finalist Gay Man's Mystery |
| Hightower, Lynn | Fortunes of the Dead | |
| Hill, Reginald | Death's Jest Book: Dalziel & Pascoe | |
| Hillerman, Tony | The Sinister Pig | |
| Hime, James | The Night of the Dance | 1st Edgar Best First Novel Nominee Booklist Best First Novel Macavity Nominee Best First Mystery Novel |
| Holmes, Rupert | Where the Truth Lies | 1st Booklist Best First Novel |
| Hospital, Jane Turner | Due Preparations for the Plague | Booklist Best Literary Crossovers |
| Hubbard, S. W. | Take the Bait (paper) | Agatha Nomination Best First Book |
| Hunter, Stephen | Havana: Earl Swagger | Washington Post Rave Booklist Best Crime Novels |
| Huston, James W. | Secret Justice | |
| Iles, Greg | The Footprints of God | |
| Jacobs, Nancy Baker | Ricochet | Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee |
| James, P.D. | The Murder Room: Adam Dalgliesh | Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 |
| Jance, J.A. | Exit Wounds: Joanna Brady | |
| Jennings, Maureen | Let Loose the Dogs: Det Murdoch | Anthony Best Historical Mystery Nominee |
| Johnson, Brett Reece | The Woman Who Found Grace (paper) | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery |
| Johnson, Mat | Hunting in Harlem | |
| Kaminsky, Stuart M. | Mildred Pierced: A Toby Peters Mystery | |
| Kaminsky, Stuart M. | Midnight Pass: Lew Fonsesca | |
| Kellogg, Marne Davis | Brilliant | |
| Kent, Gordon | Hostile Contact | |
| Kernick, Simon | The Business of Dying | 1st |
| King, Jonathon | A Visible Darkness | Shamus Best P.I. Novel Nominee |
| King, Larry & Thomas Cook | Moon Over Manhattan | |
| King, Laurie R. | Keeping Watch | Barry Nominee Best Mystery Novel |
| Kirino, Natsuo | Out | Edgar Best Novel Nominee |
| Klavan, Andrew | Dynamite Road | |
| Koontz, Dean | Odd Thomas | PW Best Books Booklist Top 10 SF/Fantasy |
| Koontz, Dean | By the Light of the Moon | |
| Koontz, Dean | The Face | |
| Krich, Rochelle | Dream House | Agatha Nomination Best Book |
| Krieg, Joyce | Murder Off the Mike: A Talk Radio Mystery | 1st Winner St Martins/ Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Agatha Nomination Best First Book |
| Lamar, Jake | Rendezvous Eighteenth | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best Debuts |
| Landay, Bill | Mission Flats | 1st Booklist Best First Novel Barry Nominee Best First Mystery Novel |
| Lanier, Virginia | A Bloodhound to Die For | Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee |
| Lashner, William | Fatal Flaw | Shamus Best P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Lawton, John | Old Flames | |
| Lehane, Dennis | Shutter Island | PW Best Books SF Chronicle Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Hammett Nominee Barry Nominee Best Mystery Novel Anthony Best Novel Nominee |
| Leon, Donna | Uniform Justice | PW Best Books |
| Lippman, Laura | Every Secret Thing | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Hammett Nominee Barry Winner Best Mystery Novel Anthony Best Novel Winner |
| Liss, David | The Coffee Trader | NYT Notable Books |
| Liu, Aimee | Flash House | |
| Lock, Joan | Dead Letters | |
| Longworth, Gay | Dead Alone | 1st US pub |
| Maclarty, Jay | The Courier | Barry Nominee Best Paperback Original |
| MacKay, Scott | Old Scores: Barry Gilbert | |
| Mackle, Elliott | It Takes Two (paper) | Lambda Finalist Gay Man's Mystery |
| Madison, Lauren | Epitaph for an Angel (paper) | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery |
| Mahoney, Dan | Justice: A Novel of the NYPD | |
| Malcolm, John | Circles and Squares: Tim Simpson | |
| Mankell, Henning | The Dogs of Riga: Kurt Wallendar | PW Best Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist Mystery/Thriller |
| Maron, Margaret | Last Lessons of Summer | Agatha Nomination Best Book |
| Martell, Dominic | The Republic of Night | |
| Massey, Sujata | The Samurai's Daughter: Rei Shimura | Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee |
| Mayor, Archer | Gatekeeper: Joe Gunther | |
| McCarthy, Keith | Feast of the Carrion | |
| McDermid, Val | The Distant Echo | PW Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| McGarrity, Michael | Everyone Dies: Kevin Kerney | |
| McGown, Jill | Death in the Family | |
| McKinty, Adrian | Dead I Well May Be | 1st SF Chronicle Best Books Booklist Best First Novels Booklist Best Crime Novels |
| McMahon, Neil | To the Bone | |
| Mills, Kyle | Smoke Screen | |
| Mitchell, James C. | Lovers Crossing | 1st Shamus Bet First P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Mitchell, Kirk | Sky Woman Falling | |
| Monsour, Theresa | Clean Cut | 1st Booklist Best First Crime Novel |
| Moore, Harker | A Cruel Season for Dying | 1st Booklist Best First Novels |
| Mortimer, John | Rumpole and the Primrose Path | |
| Mosley, Walter | Fear Itself | NYT Notable Books |
| Mosley, Walter | Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories | |
| Muller, Marcia | Cyanide Wells | |
| Nadel, Barbara | Belshazzar's Daughter: A Mystery of Isanbul | 1st |
| O'Connell, Carol | Dead Famous: Mallory | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| O'Neill, Anthony | Lamplighter | |
| O'Shaughnessy, Perri | Presumption of Death: Nina Reilly | |
| Page, Katherine Hall | The Body in the Lighthouse: Faith Fairchild | Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee |
| Paretsky, Sara | Blacklist: V.I.Warshawski | |
| Parker, Ann | Silver Lies | 1st PW Best Books |
| Parker, I.J. | The Hell Screen: Akitada Sugawara | |
| Parker, Robert B. | Back Story | |
| Parker, Robert B. | Stone Cold | |
| Parker, T. Jefferson | Cold Pursuit | Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Parrish, P.J. | Thicker Than Water | Shamus Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel Nominee Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee |
| Paton Walsh, Jill & Dorothy L. Sayers | A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey & Harriet Vane Mystery | |
| Patterson, Richard North | Balance of Power | |
| Patterson, James | The Big Bad Wolf | |
| Patterson, James | Lake House | |
| Patton, Jim | Dying for Dana | |
| Pawel, Rebecca | Death of a Nationalist | 1st PW Best Books Edgar Best First Novel Winner LA Times Book Prize Finalist Mystery/Thriller Macavity Nominee Best First Novel Anthony Best First Novel nominee |
| Pearl, Matthew | The Dante Club | 1st Booklist Top 10 Historical Novel SF Chronicle Best Books |
| Pelecanos, George P. | Soul Circus | Booklist Best Crime Novel PW Best Books NYT Notable Books Washington Post Rave LA Times Book Prize Winner Mystery/Thriller |
| Perry, Anne | No Graves As Yet | |
| Preston, M. K. | Song of the Bones: A Chantalene Mystery | Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner |
| Pronzini, Bill | Spook: Nameless | |
| Pye, Michael | The Pieces from Berlin | NYT Notable Books |
| Rankin, Ian | Resurrection Men: Inspector Rebus | NYT Notable Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Edgar Best Novel Winner |
| Reed, Mary & Eric Mayer | Four for a Boy: John the Eunuch | Booklist Best Little Known Series Crime Novel |
| Rendell, Ruth | The Babes in the Woods: Chief Inspector Wexford | NYT Notable Books |
| Rickards, John | Winter's End | 1st |
| Riehl, Gene | Quantico Rules | 1st Booklist Best First Novel |
| Rigby, Liz | Summertime | |
| Riordan, Rick | Cold Springs | standalone Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Robb, J.D. | Portrait in Death (paper) | |
| Robb, J.D. & Nora Roberts | Remember When | PW Best Books |
| Robbins, David L. | The Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk | |
| Roberts, David | Hollow Crown: Lord Eward Corinth and Verity Brown | |
| Robins, Madeleine E. | Point of Honour | Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
| Robinson, Peter | Close to Home: Inspector Banks | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries Anthony Nominee Best Novel |
| Rosenfelt, David | First Degree | PW Best Books |
| Royal, Priscilla | Wine of Violence: A Medieval Mystery | |
| Ruiz, Luis Manuel | Only One Thing Missing | |
| Sallis, James | Cypress Grove | |
| Sanchez, Thomas | King Bongo | |
| Sandford, John | Naked Prey | |
| Saulnier, Beth | Ectasy: Alex Bernier | Booklist Best Little Known Series Crime Novel |
| Seranella, Barbara | Unpaid Dues: Munch Mancini | |
| Shannon, John | City of Strangers: Jack Liffey | Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Shannon, Ray | Man Eater | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Siegel, James | Derailed | |
| Siegel, Sheldon | Final Verdict | SF Chronicle Best Books |
| Silva, Daniel | The Confessor: Gabriel Allon | Booklist Best Crime Novel Runners-up |
| Sims, Elizabeth | Damn Straight (paper) | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery |
| Slaughter, Karin | A Faint Cold Fear | SF Chronicle Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Sloan, Bob | The Middle of Nowhere: Lenny Bliss | |
| Smith, April | Good Morning, Killer: Ana Grey | |
| Smith, Brad | All Hat | Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Spencer, Sally | A Death Left Hanging | |
| Spencer, Sally | The Enemy Within | |
| Spencer-Fleming, Julia | A Fountain Filled with Blood: Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne | Barry Nominee Best Mystery Novel |
| Spiegelman, Peter | Black Maps | 1st Shamus Best First P.I. Novel Winner |
| Stabenow, Dana | A Grave Denied: Kate Shugak | |
| Starr, Jason | Tough Luck | Barry Nominee Best Paperback Original Anthony Best Paperback Original Winner |
| Steinhauer, Olen | The Bridge of Sighs | 1st Edgar Best First Novel Nominee Barry Nominee Best First Mystery Novel Macavity Nominee Best First Mystery Anthony Best Historical Mystery Nominee |
| Stella, Charlie | Charlie Opera | PW Best Books Booklist Best Crime Novels Runners-Up |
| Straka, Andy | Cold Quarry | Shamus Best Paperback Original P.I. Novel Nominee |
| Stroby, Wallace | The Barbed-Wire Kiss | 1st Barry Nominee Best First Mystery Novel |
| Stroud, Carsten | Cuba Strait | |
| Stukas, David | Wearing Black to a White Party | Lambda Finalist Gay Man's Mystery |
| Swearingen, Ida | Owl of the Desert (paper) | Lambda Finalist Lesbian Mystery |
| Taylor, Sarah Stewart | O' Artful Death | 1st Agatha Nomination Best First Book |
| Thomas, Scarlett | Dead Clever: Lily Pascale | |
| Thurlo, Aimee & David | Tracking Bear: Ella Clah | |
| Tolkien, Simon | Final Witness | |
| Torres, Steven | Death in Precinct Puerto Rico | |
| Tracy, P.J. | Monkeewrench | 1st Dilys Nomination Barry Nominee Best First Mystery Novel Anthony Best First Novel Winner |
| Truluck, Bob | Saw Red | PW Best Books |
| Van Gieson, Judith | The Shadow of Venus: Claire Reynier | Barry Nominee Best Paperback Original |
| Viets, Elaine | Shop Til You Drop (paper) | Agatha Nomination Best Book Barry Nominee Best Paperback Original |
| Villatora, Marcos, M. | Minos: A Romilia Chacon Mystery | |
| Walter, Jess | Land of the Blind: Caroline Mabry | Booklist Best Little Known Series Crime Novel |
| Warsh, Sylvia Maultash | Find Me Again | Edgar Winner Best Paperback Original Anthony Best Paperback Original Nominee Anthony Best Historical Mystery Nominee |
| Watts, Timothy | Grand Theft | |
| West, Bing | The Pepperdogs | |
| White, Randy Wayne | Everglades | |
| Wilson, F. Paul | Sims | |
| Wilson, John Morgan | Blind Eye: Benjamin Justice | Lambda Finalist Gay Man's Mystery |
| Wilson, Robert | The Big Killing (paper) | |
| Winspear, Jacqueline | Maisie Dobbs | PW Best Books SF Chronicle Best Books NYT Notable Books Dilys Nomination SLJ Best Books Edgar Best Novel Nominee Agatha Winner Best First Book Alex Award Barry Nominee Best First Mystery Novel Anthony Best First Novel Nominee Anthony Best Historical Mystery Nominee Macavity Winner Best First Novel |
| Woods, Paula L. | Dirty Laundry: Charlotte Justice | Sun-Sentinel Best Mysteries |
| Woods, Stuart | Dirty Work: Stone Barrington | |
| Wright, Edward | Clea's Moon | 1st Barry Nominee Best First Mystery Novel |
| Wright, Eric | A Killing Climate: The Collected Mystery Stories | |
| Zubro, Mark Richard | Dead Egotistical Morons: Paul Turner | Lambda Finalist Gay Man's Mystery |
| Lovesey, Peter | The House Sitter | LA Times Book Prize Finalist Mystery/Thriller Macavity Winner Best Mystery Novel |
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