A star indicates the book received at least one starred review (indicating that review source felt the title was exceptional) from the following sources: Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, and Library Journal.
First novel information is derived from a variety of sources. A * notes a large print run (35,000 or more). This information may not be comprehensive.
| Author | Title ~ Main Character(s) | Stars Notes |
1st |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akunin, Boris | Murder on the Leviathan: Erast Fandorin* |  Kirkus Best Mysteries Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best European Crime Novel |
|
| Aleas, Richard | Little Girl Lost | Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel | |
| Allebeury, Ted | Hostage | |
|
| Allyn, Doug | The Burning of Rachel Hayes | |
|
| Andrews, Donna | Access Denied: Turing Hopper | |
|
| Andrews, Donna | We'll Always Have Parrots: Meg Langslow | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Lefty Winner (tie) Agatha Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Andrews, Russell | Aphrodite* | |
|
| Arvin, Reed | The Last Goodbye* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Auster, Paul & Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli | City of Glass (paper) | graphic novel |
|
| Baldacci, David | Hour Game:Sean King & Michelle Maxwell.* | |
|
| Balzo, Sandra | Uncommon Grounds | Anthony Nominee Best First Novel Macavity Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Barclay, Linwood | Bad Move | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels |
1st |
| Barnes, Linda | Deep Pockets: Carlotta Carlyle* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Barr, Nevada | High County* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Bear, Greg | Dead Lines* | |
|
| Bebris, Carrie A. | Pride and Prescience: Mr. & Mrs. Darcy | LJ Best Genre Books |
|
| Beinhart, Larry | The Librarian (paper) | Edgar Award Nominee Best Paperback Original |
|
| Benoit, Charles | Relative Danger | Booklist Best First Novel Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels PW Best Books PW Best Fiction Debuts Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Bernhardt, William | Hate Crime: Ben Kincaid* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels | |
| Bernstein, Michael Andrew | Conspirators* | LJ Best Debuts L. A. Times Best Books |
1st |
| Bidulka, Anthony | Flight of Aquavit: Russell Quant (paper) | Lambda Gay Mystery Nominee | |
| Billingham, Mark | Lazybones: Thorne | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries |
|
| Bland, Eleanor Taylor (ed) | Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African American Authors | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries |
|
| Blevins, Meredith | The Vanished Priestess: Annie Szabo | LJ Best Genre Books | |
| Blissett, Luther | Q* | Booklist Best Literary Crossovers |
|
| Block, Lawrence | The Burglar on the Prowl: Bernie Rhodenbarr* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Borden, Kate | Death of a Tart | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Originals | |
| Born, James O. | Walking Money* | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels Sun Sentinel Top Mystery Debuts Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts |
1st |
| Bowen, Peter | The Tumbler: Gabriel Du Pre | Booklist Best New Installments in Long-Running Series |
|
| Bowen, Rhys | Evan's Gate: Evan Evans | Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel | |
| Bowker, David | I Love My Smith and Wesson (paper) | |
|
| Box, C.J. | Trophy Hunt: Joe Pickett* | |
|
| Brett, Simon | The Hanging in the Hotel: Fethering | |
|
| Brooks, Larry | Bait and Switch (paper) | PW Best Paperbacks PW Best Overlooked Books |
|
| Bruen, Ken | The Killing of the Tinkers: Jack Taylor | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Anthony Nominee Best Novel Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Buchanan, Edna | Cold Case Squad* | new series |
|
| Buckley, Fiona | The Siren Queen: Ursula Blanchard | |
|
| Burcell, Robin | Cold Case | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Originals Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Burke, James Lee | In the Moon of Red Ponies: Billy Bob Holland* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Kirkus Best Mysteries |
|
| Burke, Jan | 18 (paper) | |
|
| Caldwell, Ian and Dustin Tomason | The Rule of Four* | LJ Best Debuts Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels SF Chronicle Best Books Washington Post Book World Rave PW Best Books |
1st |
| Callahan, Liam | Cloud Atlas | Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Canales, Juan Diaz | Blacksad Book 2: Arctic Nation | (graphic novel) |
|
| Cannell, Stephen J. | Vertical Coffin: Shane Scully* | |
|
| Case, John | The Murder Artist | |
|
| Chang, Leonard | Fade to Clear: Allen Choice | |
|
| Child, Lee | The Enemy: Jack Reacher* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Dilys Nominee |
|
| Child, Lincoln | Death Match | |
|
| Chittenden, Meg | Snap Shot (paper) | Calavera Nominee | |
| Clemens, Judy | Till the Cows Come Home: Stella Crown | Agatha Nominee Best First Novel Anthony Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Cleverly, Barbara | Damascened Blade: Joe Sandilands | PW Best Books |
|
| Coben, Harlan | Just One Look* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels SF Chronicle Best Books Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries |
|
| Coel, Margaret | Wife of Moon: O'Malley & Holden | PW Best Books |
|
| Cole, David | Shadow Play (paper) | Calavera Nominee | |
| Compton, Jodi | The 37th Hour* | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels |
1st |
| Connelly, Michael | The Narrows: Harry Bosch/the Poet* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels PW Best Books Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Cook, Thomas | Into the Web (paper) | Edgar Award Nominee Best Paperback Original | |
| Coonts, Stephen | Liars and Thieves: Tommy Carmellini* | |
|
| Cotterill, Colin | Coroner's Lunch | Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts |
1st |
| Craig, Peter | Hot Plastic (paper) | |
|
| Cray, David | Partners | |
|
| Crichton, Michael | State of Fear* | PW Best Books | |
| Daniel, David | Goofy Foot: Alex Rasmussen | |
|
| Davidson, Diane Mott | Double Shot: Goldy Schulz | |
|
| Davis, Carol Anne | Kiss It Away | |
|
| Davis, Lindsey | The Accusers: Marcus Didius Falco | |
|
| de Kretser, Michelle | The Hamilton Case | Booklist Best Literary Crossovers Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 B&N Discover Great New Writers Nominee |
|
| Deaver, Jeffrey | Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1939* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award |
|
| Demille, Nelson | Night Fall* | |
|
| Dezenhall, Eric | Shakedown Beach: Jonah Eastman | |
|
| Dibdin, Michael | Medusa: Aurelio Zen | Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 |
|
| Doss, James | The Witch's Tongue: Charlie Moon | |
|
| Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (2 vols) | PW Best Books Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 Fresh Air/Corrigan Best Books |
|
| Druett, Joan | A Watery Grave: Wicki Coffin | LJ Best First Novels |
1st |
| Drummond, Laurie Lynn | Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You: Stories | Edgar Award Winner Best Short Story - "Something About a Scar" |
1st |
| Dunning, John | The Bookman's Promise: Cliff Janeway* | Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 | |
| Dymmoch, Michael Allen | The Fall | |
|
| Edwards, Ruth Dudley | Carnage On the Committee | Lefty Nominee | |
| Eglin, Anthony | The Blue Rose: An English Garden Mystery | |
|
| Eisler, Barry | Rain Storm: John Rain* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels SF Chronicle Best Books Mystery Ink Gumshoe Winner Best Thriller Barry Award for Thrillers Nominee |
|
| Emerson, Earl | Pyro | Kirkus Best Mysteries Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 |
|
| Erickson, KJ | Alone at Night: Mars Bahr | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Evanovich, Janet | Ten Big Ones: Stephanie Plum* | Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 |
|
| Evanovich, Janet | Metro Girl* | |
|
| Evans, Geraldine | Dying For You | |
|
| Fairbanks, Nancy | Holy Guacamole (paper) | Lefty Nominee | |
| Farmer, Jerrilyn | Perfect Sax: Madeline Bean | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Lefty Nominee Mary Higgins Award Nominee |
|
| Faust, Ron | Dead Men Rise Up Never (paper) | Edgar Award Nominee Best Paperback Original | |
| Ferrigno, Robert | The Wake-Up | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Thriller |
|
| Fesperman, Dan | The Warlord's Son | Washington Post Book World Rave Pittsburgh Tribune Best Books |
|
| Fforde, Jasper | Something Rotten: Thursday Next* | Dilys Nominee | |
| Finder, Joseph | Paranoia* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels SF Chronicle Best Books Barry Award for Thrillers Nominee |
|
| Folsom, Allan | The Exile | Book Sense Picks Highlights | |
| Forbes, Leslie | Waking Raphael | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Ford, G.M. | Red Tide | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Forrest, Katherine V. | Hancock Park: Kate Delafield | Lambda Best Lesbian Mystery Nominee | |
| Fossum, Karin | Don't Look Back: Inspector Sejer | Kirkus Best Mysteries |
|
| Fowler, Christopher | Full Dark House | |
|
| Fowler, Earlene | Broken Dishes: Benni Harper | |
|
| Francisco, Ruth | Good Morning, Darkness | PW Best Books |
|
| Freemantle, Brian | The Holmes Inheritance | |
|
| French, Nicci | Secret Smile* | |
|
| Furst, Alan | Dark Voyage | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Thriller LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
|
| Fusilli, Jim | Hard, Hard City | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Mystery Ink Gumshoe Winner Best Mystery |
|
| Garber, Joseph R. | Whirlwind | Barry Award for Thrillers Nominee | |
| Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo | Southwesterly Wind: Inspector Espinosa | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Gash, Jonathan | The Ten Word Game: Lovejoy | Booklist Best New Installments in Long-Running Series |
|
| Gerritsen, Tess | Body Double* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Gleeson, Janet | The Grenadillo Box | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels |
1st |
| Goldsmith, Alan | Waldo Chicken Wakes the Dead (paper) | LJ Best Genre Books |
|
| Gooden, Philip | Mask of Night | Booklist Top 10 Historical Fiction Books |
|
| Goodger, John | The Druperman Tapes | |
1st |
| Goodman, Carol | The Drowning Tree | Mary Higgins Award Nominee | |
| Gordon, Alan | An Antic Disposition: Medieval Mystery (Fool's Guild) | |
|
| Graham, Caroline | The Ghost in the Machine: Chief Inspector Barnaby | |
|
| Green, Norman | Way Past Legal | |
|
| Greenwood, Kerry | Murder in Montparnasse: Phryne Fisher | |
|
| Grey, Dorien | Role Players (paper) | Lambda Best Gay Mystery Nominee | |
| Grisham, John | Last Juror* | |
|
| Grossman, Lev | Codex* | SF Chronicle Best Books | |
| Guest, Judith | The Tarnished Eye: A Novel of Suspense | Booklist Editors' Choice |
|
| Gur, Batya | Bethlehem Road Murder: Michael Ohayon | PW Best Books |
|
| Haines, Carolyn | Hallowed Bones: Mississippi Delta | LJ Best Genre Books | |
| Hambly, Barbara | Dead Water: Benjamin January | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Hamilton, Denise | Last Lullaby: Eve Diamond | L. A. Times Best Books Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Mystery |
|
| Hamilton, Steve | Ice Run: Alex McKnight | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Harrington, Kent | Red Jungle | Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Harrison, Colin | Havana Room* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Hammett Prize Nominee |
|
| Hart, Ellen | An Intimate Ghost: Jane Lawless | Lambda Best Lesbian Mystery Nominee | |
| Harvey, John | Flesh and Blood: Frank Elder | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Silver Dagger Award |
|
| Harwin, Patricia | Arson and Old Lace (paper) | Agatha Nominee Best First Novel | |
| Harwood, John | Ghost Writer | LJ Best Debuts |
1st |
| Haslam, Chris | Twelve-Step Fandango (paper) | Edgar Award Nominee Best Paperback Original | |
| Hayden, L.C. | What Others Know (paper) | Calavera Nominee | |
| Hayes, J.M. | Plains Crazy: Mad Dog & Englishman | |
|
| Heggan, Christiane | Scent of a Killer (paper) | Mary Higgins Award Nominee | |
| Herren, Greg | Jackson Square Jazz: Scotty Bradley | Lambda Best Gay Mystery Nominee | |
| Hess, Joan | Muletrain to Maggody | |
|
| Hewson, David | Lucifer's Shadow | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Hiaasen, Carl | Skinny Dip* | Book Sense Picks Highlights Washington Post Book World Rave |
|
| Hill, Reginald | Good Mornng, Midnight | People's Choice Award - British Crime Writer's Association |
|
| Hillerman, Tony | Skeleton Man: Leaphorn & Chee* | |
|
| Hillhouse, Raelynn | Rift Zone* | Book Sense Picks Highlights Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Debut LJ Best First Novels |
1st |
| Hills, Kathleen | Hunter's Dance | |
|
| Hirahara, Naomi | Summer of the Big Bachi (paper) | SF Chronicle Best Books PW Best Books Macavity Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Hoffman, Jilliane | Retribution* | LJ Best First Novels Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels Anthony Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Hogan, Chuck | Prince of Thieves | Book Sense Picks Highlights Hammett Prize Nominee |
|
| Huston, Charles | Caught Stealing | Gumshoe Best Debut Nominee |
1st |
| Isenberg, Jane | Hot on the Trail (paper) | |
|
| Isleib, Roberta | Putt to Death | Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel | |
| Jance, Judith | Day of the Dead: Brandon Walker* | |
|
| Johnson, Wayne | The Devil You Know | Booklist Editors' Choice |
|
| Jordan, Jennifer L. | Commitment to Die: Kristin Ashe (paper) | Lambda Best Lesbian Mystery Nominee | |
| Kaminsky, Stuart | Now You See It: Toby Peters | |
|
| Kandel, Susan | I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason: Cece Caruso | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels Agatha Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Karp, Larry | First, Do No Harm | |
|
| Katzenbach, John | The Madman's Tale | Hammett Prize Nominee Anthony Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Kellerman, Jonathan and Faye | Double Homicide* | |
|
| Kelly, Jim | The Fire Baby: Philip Dryden | Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Kent, Gordon | Force Protection | |
|
| Kerley, Jack | The Hundredth Man* | Booklist Best First Novel LJ Best Debuts Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels Sun Sentinel Top Mystery Debuts |
1st |
| Kernick, Simon | The Murder Exchange | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| King, Jonathon | Shadow Men: Max Freeman | Booklist Best Crime Novels Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries |
|
| King, Laurie R. | The Game: Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes* | Booklist Best New Installments in Long-Running Series Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 SLJ Best Adult Books for Young Adults |
|
| Klavan, Andrew | Shotgun Alley | |
|
| Klavan, Laurence | The Cutting Room | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Konrath, J. A. | Whiskey Sour: A Jack Daniels Mystery* | Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Debut Anthony Nominee Best First Novel Macavity Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Koontz, Dean | Life Expectancy* | PW Best Books Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Thriller |
|
| Koontz, Dean | The Taking* | |
|
| Koryta, Michael | Tonight I Said Goodbye: Lincoln Perry | 2003 SMP/PWA Prize for Best First PI Novel Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel LJ Best First Novels |
1st |
| Kozak, Harley Jane | Dating Dead Men |
|
1st |
| Krich, Rochelle | Grave Endings: Molly Blume | Calavera Nominee Mary Higgins Award Winner |
|
| Krueger, William Kent | Blood Hollow: Cork O'Connor | Anthony Nominee Best Novel | |
| Lankford, Terrill Lee | Earthquake Weather | |
|
| Lansdale, Joe R. | Sunset and Sawdust | Booklist Best Crime Novels |
|
| Lashner, William | Past Due* | |
|
| Latour, Jose | Havana World Series | |
|
| Lawrence, David | The Dead Sit Round in a Ring: Stella Mooney | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts |
1st |
| Lawton, John | Blufffing Mr. Churchill* | |
|
| Le Carre, John | Absolute Friends* | Booklist Best Crime Novels Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels PW Best Books |
|
| Lee, Don | Country of Origin | Edgar Award Winner Best First Novel |
1st |
| Leon, Donna | Doctored Evidence: Guido Brunetti* | Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best European Crime Novel | |
| Leonard, Elmore | Mr. Paradise* | SF Chronicle Best Books Washington Post Book World Rave Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 |
|
| Lindsay, Jeff | Darkly Dreaming Dexter | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Dilys Winner LJ Best First Novels Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
1st |
| Lippman, Laura | By a Spider's Thread: Tess Monaghan* | Book Sense Picks Highlights Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Mystery Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel Anthony Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Liss, David | A Spectacle of Corruption: Benjamin Weaver* | Booklist Best Crime Novels Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 |
|
| Lynn, Allison | Now You See It (paper) | |
|
| MacLarty, Jay | Bagman (paper) | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Originals Barry Award for Thrillers Nominee |
|
| Mankell, Henning | The Return of the Dancing Master | Mystery Ink Gumshoe Winner Best European Crime Novel LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
|
| Margolin, Phillip | Sleeping Beauty* | |
|
| Marinick, Richard | Boyos | Kirkus Best Mysteries |
|
| Maron, Margaret | High Country Fall: Deborah Knott* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Agatha Nominee Best Novel Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Marshall, Michael | The Upright Man | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Originals | |
| Massey, Sujata | The Pearl Diver | Agatha Nominee Best Novel | |
| Matturro, Claire Hamner | Skinny-Dipping | Book Sense Picks Highlights Sun Sentinel Top Mystery Debuts |
1st |
| Mayor, Archer | The Surrogate Thief: Gunther | PW Best Overlooked Books |
|
| McBain, Ed | Hark!: A Novel of the 87th Precinct* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| McBride, Susan | Blue Blood (paper) | Lefty Winner (tie) Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel |
|
| McCall Smith, Alexander | The Sunday Philosophy Club: An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery* | |
|
| McCall Smith, Alexander | The Full Cupboard of Life: More From the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency: Precious Ramotswe | |
|
| McCarry, Charles | The Old Boys: Paul Christopher* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Washington Post Book World Rave Kirkus Best Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
|
| McEvoy, John | Blind Switch | |
|
| McGrory, Brian | Dead Line | |
|
| McNab, Claire | The Wombat Strategy (paper) | Lambda Best Lesbian Mystery Nominee | |
| Meltzer, Brad | The Zero Game* | |
|
| Meyer, Deon | Heart of the Hunter | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Mills, Mark | Amagansett | John Creasey Memorial Dagger Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts |
1st |
| Mina, Denise | Deception | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries |
|
| Mitchell, James C. | Choke Point: Brinker | |
|
| Mooney, Chris | Remembering Sarah | Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel | |
| Morgan, Phillipa | Chaucer and the House of Fame | |
|
| Morris, Bob | Bahamarama: Zack Chasteen | LJ Best Genre Books Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel LJ Best First Novels |
1st |
| Mortimer, John | Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders | Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Mosley, Walter | Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Mystery* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Washington Post Book World Rave PW Best Books Kirkus Best Mysteries Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 L. A. Times Best Books Pittsburgh Tribune Best Books Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Murakami, Ryu | In the Miso Soup | |
|
| Murphy, Margaret | Darkness Falls | |
|
| Murphy, Shirley Rousseau | Cat Fear No Evil | |
|
| Nelscott, Kris | Stone Cribs: Smokey Dalton | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Newman, Sharan | The Witch In the Well: Catherine Levendeur | Bruce Alexander Winner | |
| Nova, Craig | Cruisers | L. A. Times Best Books | |
| Nunn, Kem | Tijuana Straits | LA Times Book Prize Winner |
|
| Nykanen, Mark | The Bone Parade* | |
|
| O'Brien, Charles | Noble Blood | |
|
| O'Neil, Tom | Shark Tank | |
|
| Parker, T. Jefferson | California Girl* | Book Sense Picks Highlights SF Chronicle Best Books Kirkus Best Mysteries Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Mystery Hammett Prize Nominee Edgar Award Winner Best Novel Anthony Nominee Best Novel Macavity Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Parrish, P.J. | Island of Bones (paper) | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Originals PW Best Paperbacks |
|
| Patterson, James & Andrew Gross | 3rd Degree* | |
|
| Pattison, Eliot | Beautiful Ghosts: Shan Tao Yun | |
|
| Pearce, Michael | Death of an Effendi: Mamur Zapt | |
|
| Pelecanos, George | Hard Revolution* | Booklist Best Crime Novels Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels SF Chronicle Best Books Washington Post Book World Rave Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Pittsburgh Tribune Best Books |
|
| Perez-Reverte, Arturo | The Queen of the South* | Booklist Best Crime Novels Runners-Up Book Sense Picks Highlights Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Perry, Anne | Shoulder the Sky* | |
|
| Phelan, Twist | Family Claims | Calavera Nominee | |
| Phillips, Scott | Cottonwood | |
|
| Pickens, Cathy | Southern Fried: Avery Andrews | Malice Domestic winner for 1st novel | 1st |
| Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child | Brimstone* | PW Best Books |
|
| Qiu, Xiaolong | When Red is Black: Inspector Chen | |
|
| Rankin, Ian | The Question of Blood: Rebus* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best European Crime Novel LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
|
| Reardon, Lisa | The Mercy Killers | Washington Post Book World Rave | |
| Reed, Mary | Five for Silver: John the Eunuch | Bruce Alexander Award Nominee |
|
| Rehder, Ben | Flat Crazy: Blanco County, TX (John Marlin) | Kirkus Best Mysteries |
|
| Reid, Elwood | Db | Pittsburgh Tribune Best Books |
|
| Reilly, Matthew | Scarecrow: Shane Schofield | Barry Award for Thrillers Nominee |
|
| Reuben, Shelly | Weeping: A Fritillary Quilter Mystery (paper) | Booklist Best First Novel |
|
| Reuland, Bob | Semiautomatic | Washington Post Book World Rave |
|
| Rickman, Phil | The Prayer of the Night Shepherd: Rev Merrily Watkins | |
|
| Riordan, Rick | Southtown: Tres Navarre | |
|
| Robb, J.D. | Visions in Death: Eve Dallas* | |
|
| Roberts, Gregory | Shantaram | Book Sense Picks Highlights |
|
| Robins, Madeleine | Petty Treason: Sarah Tolerance | |
|
| Robinson, Kim Stanley | Forty Signs of Rain* | SLJ Best Adult Books for Young Adults | |
| Robinson, Peter | The First Cut: A Novel of Suspense (paper) | |
|
| Robinson, Peter | Playing With Fire: Inspector Banks* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Hammett Prize Nominee Macavity Nominee Best NovelMacavity Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Rose, M.J. | The Halo Effect | Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel | |
| Royal, Priscilla | Tyrant of the Mind | Bruce Alexander Award Nominee | |
| Rozan, S.J. | Absent Friends* | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries Seattle Times Scene of the Crime's Top 12 Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Mystery Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Russell, Kirk | Night Game: John Marquez | |
|
| Ryan, P.B. | Murder in a Mill Town (paper) | Edgar Nominee Best Paperback Original | |
| Sampson, Catherine | Falling Off Air | Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts |
1st |
| Sandford, John | Hidden Prey* | |
|
| Saylor, Steven | The Judgement of Caesar: Gordianus the Finder | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels PW Best Books |
|
| Schaffer, Dylan | Misdemeanor Man* | Mystery Ink Gumshoe Winner Best Debut Macavity Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Schutz, Benjamin M. | The Mongol Reply | |
|
| Seranella, Barbara | Unwilling Acomplice: Munch Mancini | Booklist Best Crime Novels Runners-Up Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Sherman, Dayne | Welcome to the Fallen Paradise | Booklist Best Crime Novel Debuts | 1st |
| Shiflett, Shawn | Hidden Place (paper) | LJ Best Debuts | 1st |
| Sidor, Steven | Skin River | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels |
1st |
| Silbert, Leslie | The Intelligencer | Dilys Nominee | 1st |
| Siler, Jenny | Flashback | SF Chronicle Best Books | |
| Silva, Daniel | A Death in Vienna* | Mystery Ink Gumshoe Nominee Best Thriller Barry Award for Thrillers Nominee |
|
| Siverling, Mike | The Sterling Inheritance: Jason Wilder | St Martins Best First P.I. Novel winner | 1st |
| Smiley, Patricia | False Profits | |
1st |
| Smith, Ian | The Blackbird Papers | LJ Best Debuts BCALA Lit Award Honor Book |
1st |
| Smith, Martin Cruz | Wolves Eat Dogs: Arkady Renko* | PW Best Books Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone | She Smiled Sweetly: Poppy Rice | |
|
| Smolens, John | Fire Point | |
|
| Spencer-Fleming, Julia | Out of the Deep I Cry: Clare Fergusson/Russ van Alstyne | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel Anthony Nominee Best Novel |
|
| Stansberry, Domenic | Chasing the Dragon: Dante Mancuso | |
|
| Stansberry, Domenic | The Confession (paper) | Edgar Award Winner Best Paperback Original | |
| Stark, Richard | Nobody Runs Forever | |
|
| Starr, Jason | Twisted City | Anthony Nominee Best Paperback Original Novel | |
| Steinhauer, Olen | The Confession: Ferenc Kolyeszar* | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Swain, James | Loaded Dice | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Taichert, Pari Noskin | The Clovis Incident | LJ Best Debuts Agatha Nominee Best First Novel |
1st |
| Thomas, Will | Some Danger Involved | Deadly Pleasures Best First Crime Novels | 1st |
| Thompson, Victoria | Murder on Marble Row | Bruce Alexander Award Nominee | |
| Tracy, P.J. | Live Bait* | Sun Sentinel Top Mysteries |
|
| Tramble, Nichelle | The Lost Way Back: Maceo Redfield (paper) | SF Chronicle Best Books | |
| Vachss, Andrew | Down Here: Burke | |
|
| Van Gieson, Judith | The Shadow of Venus | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Originals | |
| Vermillion, Mary | Death by Discount: Mara Gilgannon (paper) | Lambda Best Lesbian Mystery Nominee | |
| Waiwaiole, Lono | Wiley's Shuffle | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Walker, Sue | The Reunion | Sun Sentinel Top Mystery Debuts | 1st |
| Walter, Jess | Citizen Vince | |
|
| Westlake, Donald E. | Thieves' Dozen: Dortmunder Stories (paper) | Deadly Pleasures Best Paperback Crime Novels Kirkus Best Mysteries |
|
| Whitcomb, Christopher | Black* | |
|
| White, Randy Wayne | Tampa Burn: Doc Ford* | |
|
| Wilson, F. Paul | Crisscross: Repairman Jack | |
|
| Wilson, John Morgan | Moth and Flame: Benjamin Justice | Lambda Best Gay Mystery Nominee |
|
| Wilson, Laura | Telling Lies to Alice | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Winegardner, Mark | The Godfather Returns: The Lost Years: The Saga of the Family Corleone | Booklist Year's Best Crime Novels |
|
| Winspear, Jacqueline | Birds of a Feather: Maisie Dobbs | Book Sense Picks Highlights Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels SLJ Best Adult Books for Young Adults Dilys Nominee Bruce Alexander Award Nominee Agatha Winner Best Novel |
|
| Wright, Edward | While I Disappear: John Ray Horn | Deadly Pleasures Best Crime Novels |
|
| Zafon, Carlos Ruiz | Shadow of the Wind | Dilys Nominee Gumshoe Best European Crime Novel Nominee Borders Original Voices Award Winner Washington Post Book World Rave Kirkus Best Novels |
|
| Zebrun, Gary | Someone You Know (paper) | Lambda Best Gay Mystery Nominee |
overbooked.com | Contact I am sorry I am not able to respond to all emails, I do appreciate comments and suggestions.
Please read the Faq before fequesting a review or listing.
Sign up for the Overbooked mailing list for information about updates and news.
"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." - Lemony Snicket
"...But a culture that doesn't value librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?" --Neil Gaiman (Sandman: The Kindly Ones)
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable." - Augustin Birrell
