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Crime Fiction Hot
List 2000 Authors A - L
Page Modified: April 2, 2008
Some of the major hardcover titles scheduled for release in the
U.S. All information is subject to change and dyslexic typos.
Alphabetically arranged by author. Starting in March, the date
in the notes column indicates the last update for that entry.
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
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| Author | Title | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abel, Kenneth | Cold Steel Rain | Sept | |
| Abella, Alex | Final Acts | Dec | |
| Abrahams, Peter | Crying Wolf | March | |
| Adam, Paul | Unholy Trinity | May | |
| Albert, Susan Wittig | Mistletoe Man: China Bayles | Oct | |
| Aldrin, Buzz & John Barnes | The Return | June | |
| Alexander, Bruce | The Color of Death | Sept | |
| Allen, Conrad | Murder on the Mauretania | Dec | |
| Altman, John | A Gathering of Spies | July | |
| Amato, Angela | Jackpot | Aug | |
| Anderson, Greg | Laria | May | |
| Andreae, Christine | Smoke Eaters | Feb | |
| Andrews, Donna | Murder with Puffins | May | |
| Andrews, Sarah | An Eye for Gold | Sept | |
| Arvin, Reed | The Will | Nov | |
| Asinof, Eliot | Off-Season | April | |
| Atherton, Nancy | Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil | Oct | |
| Atkins, Ace | Leavin' Trunk Blues | July | |
| Aubert, Brigette | Death from the Woods | Jan | |
| Auiler, Dan | The Vertigo Murders | Nov | |
| Ayres, Noreen | The Juan Doe Murders: Smokey Brandon | Nov | |
| Babson, Marian | To Catch a Cat | Nov | |
| Baer, Will Christopher | Penny Dreadful | March | |
| Baker, James | Testosterone | Oct | |
| Ballard, Mignon F. | An Angel to Die For | Nov | |
| Bannister, Jo | Changelings | Nov | |
| Barnard, Robert | A Murder in Mayfair | April | |
| Barr, Nevada | Deep South | March | NYT Notable |
| Barron, Stephanie | Jane and the Stillroom Maid: Being the Fifth Jane Austen Mystery | Aug 1st | |
| Barth, Richard | Jumper | Sept | |
| Bartholomew, Nancy | Film Strip | Nov | |
| Barton, Dan | Killer Material | April | |
| Beaton, M.C. | Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam | June | |
| Belgrave, Laura | In the Spirit of Murder | Feb | |
| Benjamin, Carol Lea | The Wrong Dog: Rachel Alexander & Dash | Nov | |
| Benson, Raymond | Double Shot: James Bond | June | |
| Berenson, Laurien | Unleashed: Melanie Travis | Sept | |
| Bernhardt, William | Silent Justice | Feb | |
| Berry, Linda | Death and the Hubcap | Sept | |
| Bettle, Janet | Unnatural Causes | June | |
| Billheimer, John | Highway Robbery | Feb | |
| Bingham, Robert | Lightning on the Sun | April 14th | NYT Notable |
| Bishop, Paul | Pattern of Behavior: Short Story Collection | Aug | |
| Bishop, Paul | Chalk Whispers: Fey Croaker | May | |
| Black, Cara | Murder in Belleville | Oct | |
| Black, Ethan | Irrestible | Jan | |
| Blackstock, Teri | Word of Honor | June | |
| Bland, Eleanor | Scream in Silence | Feb | |
| Blank, Hannah | Brave Man Dead | Nov | |
| Block, Lawrence | Hit List | Nov | |
| Bogosian, Eric | Mall | Nov | |
| Booth, Stephen | Black Dog: A Crime Novel | Oct | |
| Borthwick, J.S. | Coup de Grace | Feb | |
| Bowen, Michael | The Fourth Glorious Mystery | Jan | |
| Bowen, Peter | The Stick Game | April | |
| Bowen, Rhys | Evan and Elle | Feb | |
| Boyle, Gerry | Cover Story | Jan | |
| Brandon, Jay | Afterimage | Feb | |
| Branham, Mary | Three Deadly Days in Spain | Dec | |
| Braver, Gary | Elixer | April | |
| Brejla, Terry | Senator's Son | Nov | |
| Brett, Simon | The Body on the Beach: A Fethering Mystery | Aug | |
| Brewer, Steve | End Run: Drew Gavin | Oct | |
| Brod, D.C. | Paid in Full | Aug | |
| Brown, Dan | Angels and Demons: A Thriller | May | |
| Brown, Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie | Pawing Through the Past | May 2nd | |
| Brown, Rita Mae | Outfoxed | Jan | |
| Brown, Sandra | The Switch | Sept | |
| Brown, Sandra | The Standoff | May | |
| Brown, Sandra | In a Class by Itself | Jan | |
| Bruno, Anthony | Hot Fudge | Aug | |
| Buckley, Fiona | To Ruin a Queen: Ursula Blanchard | Dec | |
| Buckley, Fiona | Queens Ransom: Ursula Blanchard | Jan | |
| Buckley, William F. | Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton | July | |
| Bunn, T. Davis | The Great Divide | June 18th | |
| Buff, Joe | Deep Sound Channel | July 5th | |
| Bugge, Carole | The Haunting of Torre Abbey | April | |
| Burke, James Lee | Purple Cane Road: Dave Robicheaux | Aug 15th | NYT Notable |
| Burke, Jan | Flight: Irene Kelly | spring 2001 | |
| Burnwell, Mark | The Rhythm Section | Jan | |
| Butler, Gwendoline | Grave Coffin | Aug | |
| Calia, Charles Laird | The Lazarus Man | March | |
| Cannell, Dorothy | Bridesmaids Revisted | June | |
| Campbell, Ramsey | The Silent Children | July | |
| Carlon, Patricia | Unquiet Night | June | |
| Carr, Caleb | Killing Time | Sept | |
| Carter, Charlotte | Drumstick | Jan | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Caudwell, Sarah | The Sibyl in Her Grave | July 11th | NYT Notable |
| Caverly, Carol | Dead in Hog Heaven | Dec | |
| Champion, David | Too Rich and Too Thin: Bomber Hanson | Dec | |
| Charles, Paul | The Ballad of Sean and Wilko: Christy Kennedy | Sept | |
| Child, Lee | Running Blind | July | |
| Chiu, Hsiao-Lung | Death of a Red Heroine | June | |
| Christie, Agatha & Charles Osborne | Spider's Web | Nov | |
| Christofferson, April | Clinical Trial | Oct | |
| Churchill, Jill | Mulch Ado About Nothing: Jane Jeffrey | Nov | |
| Clancy, Tom | The Bear and the Dragon: Jack Ryan | August | |
| Clare, Alys | Fortune Like the Moon | May | |
| Clark, Mary Higgins & Carol Higgins | Deck the Halls | Oct | |
| Clark, Mary Higgins | Before I Say Goodbye | April | |
| Clark, Mary Jane | Let Me Whisper in Your Ear | Sept | |
| Cleary, Jon | Dilemma: Scobie Malone | April | |
| Cobb, James H. | Sea Fighter | March | |
| Coben, Harlan | Darkest Fear | June 13th | |
| Cockey, Tim | The Hearse You Came In On: Hitchcock Sewell | March | |
| Coe, Tucker | Murder Among Children | Nov | |
| Coe, Tucker | Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death | Aug | |
| Coel, Margaret | The Spirit Woman | Sept | |
| Coggins, Mark | The Immortal Game | Jan | |
| Cohen, Nancy J. | Hair Raiser | Dec | |
| Cohen, Nancy J. | Permed to Death: A Bad Hair Day Mystery | Jan | |
| Collins, Barbara & Max Allan | Too Many Tomcats and Other Feline Tales of Suspense | Nov | |
| Conant, Susan | Creature Discomforts: A Dog Lover's Mystery | April | |
| Connelly, Michael | Void Moon | Jan | |
| Constantine, K.C. | Grievance: Rugs Carlucci | June | |
| Coonts, Stephen | Hong Kong: Jake Grafton | Sept | |
| Cook, Christopher | Robbers | Dec | |
| Cook, Robin | Shock | Dec | |
| Cook, Thomas H. | Places in the Dark | May 2nd | |
| Cooper, Natasha | Prey to All | Dec | |
| Cooper, Natasha | Fault Lines | April | |
| Cornwell, Patricia | The Last Precinct: Kay Scarpetta | Nov 13th | |
| Crabbe, Richard E. | Suspension | Nov | |
| Craft, Michael | Name Games | June | |
| Craig, Phillip R. | Vineyard Blues: Martha's Vineyard Mystery | June | |
| Crais, Robert | Demolition Angel: Carol Starkey | May 16th | |
| Crider, Bill | A Ghost of a Chance: Dan Rhodes | July | |
| Cross, Amanda | Honest Doubt | Nov | |
| Curzon, Clare | Guilty Knowledge | Aug | |
| Curzon, Clare | Cold Hands: Mike Yeadings | April | |
| Dalton, James | City of Shadows | Nov | |
| Dain, Catherine | Ddeath of the Party: Faith Cassidy | June | |
| D'Amato, Barbara | Authorized Personnel Only | Dec | |
| D'Amato, Barbara | Of Course You Know That Chocolate is a Vegetable and Other Stories | June | |
| Dams, Jeanne M. | Killing Cassidy: Dorothy Martin | Nov | |
| Dams, Jeanne M. | The Red, White and Blue Murders: Hilda Johansson | May | |
| David, James F. | Ship of the Damned | Aug | |
| Davidson, Diane Mott | Tough Cookie | April | |
| Davis, Lindsey | One Virgin Too Many: Marcus Didius Falco | Sept | |
| Day, Dianne | Beacon Street Mourning: Freemont Jones | Sept 5 | |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | Speaking in Tongues | Dec? | |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | The Empty Chair: Lincoln Rhyme | May 9th | NYT Notable |
| Deere, Dicey | The Irish Manor House Murder | Sept | |
| DeMille, Nelson | The Lion's Game | Jan | |
| Desmond, Sean | Adam's Fall | Oct | |
| Dexter, Colin | The Remorseful Day: The Final Morse | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Diamond, Diana | The Trophy Wife | April | |
| Dibdin, Michael | Blood Rain: Aurelio Zen | April | |
| Dietrich, William | Getting Back | Feb | |
| Dobson, Joanne | Cold and Pure and Very Dead: Karen Pelletier | Dec 26 | |
| Doherty, P.C. | The Horus Killing | March | |
| Dorsey, Tim | Hammerhead Ranch Motel | Aug | |
| Doughty, Louise | An English Murder | May | |
| Douglas, Carole Nelson | The Cat and the Jill of Diamonds | June | |
| Douglas, Carole Nelson | Cat in a Kiwi Con | May | |
| Dunn, Carola | Rattle His Bones | June | |
| Eccles, Marjorie | The Superintendent's Daughter | Dec | |
| Eddy, Paul | Flint | Sept | |
| Edwards, Grace F. | Do or Die: Mali Anderson | June 20th | |
| Eickhoff, Randy Lee | Falon's Wake | Feb | |
| Eidson, Bill | One Bad Thing | Sept | |
| Elkins, Aaron | Skeleton Dance: Gideon Oliver | April | |
| Ellis, Kate | The Armada Boy | July | |
| Ellis, Rhian | After Life | July | |
| Elrod, P.N. | Lady Crymsyn | Nov | |
| Emerson, Kathy Lynn | Face Down Under the Wych Elm | Dec | |
| Emerson, Kathy Lynn | Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross | March | |
| Engle, Howard | There Was an Old Woman | Aug | |
| Engleman, Paul | The Man With My Cat | Jan | |
| Ephron, G.H. | Amnesia | Sept | |
| Eslick, Tom | Snow Kill | May | |
| Estleman, Loren D. | A Smile on the Face of the Tiger | Aug | |
| Evanovich, Janet | Hot Six | June 20th | |
| Evans, Penelope | First Fruits | July | |
| Evans, Roy Aaron | Bloodroot | Oct | |
| Fackler, Elizabeth | Patricide | March | |
| Faherty, Terence | Raise the Devil | Oct | |
| Farren, Mick | Darklost | March | |
| Fawcett, Quinn | The Scottish Ploy | Dec | |
| Fiske, Dorsey | Raptor | Oct | |
| Fluke, Joanne | Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder: Hannah Swenson | April | |
| Flynn, Joseph | The Next President | June 6th | |
| Flynn, Vince | The Third Option | Nov | |
| Follett, Ken | Code to Zero | Dec | |
| Ford, G.M. | Deader the Better: Leo Waterman | Feb | |
| Ford, Peter Shann | The Keeper of Dreams | Sept | |
| Fowler, Earlene | Seven Sisters | March | |
| Francis, Dick | Shattered | Sept | |
| Fraser, Anthea | The Ten Commandments | March | |
| Fraser, Caro | Judicial Whispers | May | |
| Frazer, Margaret | The Squire's Tale | Dec | |
| Freadhoff, Chuck | A Permanent Twilight | Sept | |
| Freedman, J.F. | Above the Law | April | |
| Freeling, Nicholas | Some Day Tomorrow | Aug | |
| Freemantle, Brian | Dead Men Living | April | |
| French, Nicci | Beneath the Skin | May | |
| Freydont, Shelley | High Seas Murder: Lindy Haggery | Aug | |
| Friedman, Kinky | The Mile High Club | Sept | |
| Furutani, Dale | Kill the Shogun | Sept | |
| Fyfield, Frances | Staring at the Light | Feb | |
| Gabriel, Marius | The Seventh Moon | Jan | |
| Garcia-Aguilera, Carolina | Havana Heat: Lupe Solano | Oct | |
| Gardner, John | Day of Absolution | Sept | |
| Garland, Ardella | Details at Ten: Georgia Barrett | Sept | |
| Garrison, Paul | Red Sky at Morning: A Novel of Suspense | March | |
| Garwood, Julie | Heartbreaker | July | |
| Gash, Jonathan | A Rag, A Bone and a Hank of Hair: Lovejoy | March | |
| Gates, John | Brigham's Day | June | |
| Gaus, P.L. | Broken English: Ohio Amish | June | |
| Gay, William | Provinces of Night | Dec 26 | |
| George, Anne | Murder Carries a Torch | July | |
| Gilbert, Anna | A Hint of Witchcraft | Aug | |
| Gill, Bartholomew | Death of an Irish Lover | June | |
| Gilman, Dorothy | Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled | Feb | |
| Gilstrap, John | Even Stephen | Sept | |
| Girdner, Jacqueline | Murder My Deer: Kate Jasper | April | |
| Glass, Joseph | Blood: Susan Shader | July | |
| Glass, Leslie | Tracking Time: April Woo | Oct | |
| Goldberg, Leonard | Lethal Measures | March | |
| Golub, Aaron Richard | The Big Cut | April | |
| Gordon, Alan | Jester Leaps In: A Medieval Mystery | Nov | |
| Gorman, Ed (ed) | World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories | Aug | |
| Gorman, Carol and Ed (ed) | Felonious Felines | Aug | |
| Gorman, Ed | Voodoo Moon | April | |
| Gorman, Ed | Wake Up Little Susie: Sam McCain | Jan | |
| Gotti, Victoria | Super Star | Aug | |
| Goudge, Eileen | Second Silence | June | |
| Grace, Tom | Quantum | Aug | |
| Grange, Jean-Christophe | Blood-Red Rivers | June | |
| Granger, Ann | Beneath These Stones | Feb | |
| Greeley, Andrew | The Bishop and the Missing L Train | July | |
| Greeley, Andrew | Irish Eyes: Nuala Anne McGrail | March | |
| Green, Chloe | Going Out of Style | July | |
| Green, Tim | The Letter of the Law | July | |
| Greenleaf, Stephen | Ellipsis: John Marshall Tanner | July | |
| Greer, Robert O. | Limited Time: A Medical Thriller | Jan | |
| Grell, Mike | Sable | July | |
| Griffin, W.E.B. | Fighting Agents | July 3rd | |
| Griffin, W.E.B. | Secret Honor | Jan | |
| Grippando, James | Under Cover of Darkness | Aug | |
| Grisham, John | The Brethern | March | |
| Haddam, Jane | Skeleton Key | Feb | |
| Hagberg, David | Joshua's Hammer | June | |
| Hall, James | Rough Draft | Jan | |
| Parnell Hall | Last Will and Puzzle | Sept 5 | |
| Hall, Patricia | The Italian Girl | May | |
| Hambly, Barbara | Sold Down the River | Juy 5th | |
| Hamill, Denis | Fork in the Road | Feb | |
| Hamilton, Laurell K. | Obsidian Butterfly | Jan | |
| Hamilton, Laurell K. | Kiss of Shadows | Sept | |
| Hamilton, Julia | Other People's Rules | Nov | |
| Hamilton, Lyn | The Celtic Riddle | Feb | |
| Hamilton, Steve | Winter of the Wolf Moon | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Hansen, Joseph | Blood, Snow, and Classic Cars: Stories | Nov | |
| Hardwick, Gary | The Color of Justice | Nov | |
| Harper, Karen | The Tidal Pool: An Elizabeth I Mystery | Feb | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Harper, Philip | Death Benefit: Gray Investigative Thriller | July | |
| Harrington, Kent | The American Boys | June | |
| Harris, Charlaine | Shakespeare's Trollop | Aug | |
| Harris, Fred | Easy Pickins | Nov | |
| Harrison, Colin | Afterburn | Jan | |
| Harrison, Jamie | Blue Deer Thaw | Feb | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Harrison, Janis | Murder Sets Seed | Aug | |
| Harstad, Donald | The Big Thaw | July 18th | |
| Hart, Carolyn G. | The Rich Die Young | Nov | |
| Hart, Carolyn | Sugar Plum Dead | Nov | |
| Hart, Carolyn | Skulduggery | Aug | |
| Hathaway, Robin | The Doctor Makes a Dollhouse Call | Jan | |
| Hauser, Thomas | Finding the Princess | Aug | |
| Havill, Steven | Dead Weight | Oct | |
| Hawke, Simon | A Mystery of Errors | Dec | |
| Hayder, Mo | Birdman | Jan | |
| Hayter, Sparkle | The Chelsea Girls Murder | June | |
| Hayes, J.M. | Mad Dog and Englishman | Nov | |
| Haywood, Anthony Gar | All the Lucky Ones are Dead: Aaron Gunner | Jan | |
| Heffernan, William | Red Angel | Oct | |
| Hegwood, Martin | A Green-Eyed Hurricane | July | |
| Heller, Jane | Name Dropping | June | |
| Henderson, Charles W. | Silent Warrior: Marine Sniper | Oct | |
| Henderson, Lauren | The Strawberry Tattoo (trade paper) | Sept | |
| Henderson, Lauren | Freeze My Margarita trade paper | Feb | |
| Hendricks, Vicki | Voluntary Madness | Nov | |
| Henry, April | Square in the Face: Claire Montrose | Feb | |
| Henry, Sue | Beneath the Ashes | Aug | |
| Hess, Joan | A Conventional Corpse | June | |
| Hess, Joan | Murder at Maggody.Com | Jan | |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Sick Puppy | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Higgins, George | At End of Day | May | |
| Higgins, Jack | Day of Reckoning | March | |
| Hightower, Lynn | The Debt Collector | Oct 10 | |
| Hill, David | Butterfly Sunday | Nov 7 | |
| Hillerman, Tony (ed) | Best American Mystery Stories of the Century | April | |
| Hillerman, Tony | Hunting Badger: Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn | Jan | |
| Hirshfield, Corson | Aloha Mr. Lucky | March | |
| Hoag, Tami | Dust to Dust | Sept | |
| Hoffman, William | Blood and Guile | Nov | |
| Holman, Sheri | The Dress Lodger | Jan | |
| Holmes, Guy | P.E.A.C.E : A Novel of Police Terror | Dec | |
| Holton, Hugh | Time of the Assassins | Feb | |
| Holtzer, Susan | The Wedding Game | April | |
| Horn, Stephen | In Her Defense | May | |
| Hougan, Jim | Kingdom Come | Jan | |
| Howard, Linda | Mister Perfect | Aug | |
| Howard, Mary | Discovering the Body | Sept | |
| Howatch, Susan | The High Flyer | July | |
| Hoyt, Richard | Vivienne | Dec | |
| Hunt, E. Howard | Sonora: Jack Novak | Jan | |
| Hunter, Fred | Ransom at the Opera | Nov | |
| Hunter, Evan | Barking at Butterflies and Other Stories | JUne | |
| Hunter, Fred | National Nancys | May | |
| Hunter, Stephen | Hot Springs | June | |
| Huston, James | Flashpoint | June | |
| Hutchings, Janet | Crime De La Crime | April | |
| Iles, Greg | 24 Hours | Sept | |
| Ing, Dean | Loose Cannon | Nov | |
| Jackson, Jon A. | La Donna Detroit: Sgt Mulheisen | Aug | |
| Jacobs, Jonnie | Murder Among Strangers: Kate Austen | April | |
| Jahn, Michael | Murder in Central Park | March | |
| Jakubowski, Maxim | On Tenderness Express | Oct | |
| James, Bill | In Good Hands: Harpur & Iles | Oct | |
| James, Bill | Kill Me: Harpur & Iles | May | |
| Jance, J.A. | Devil's Claw: Joanna Brady | July | |
| Jance, J. A. | Kiss of the Bees | Jan | |
| Jeffries, Roderic | An Enigmatic Disappearance | Oct | |
| Jellison, Jerry | Measure of Vengeance | Jan | |
| Johanson, Iris | The Search | June 6th | |
| Johnson, Wayne | Six Crooked Highways | July | |
| Johnston, Paul | The Bone Yard | Aug | |
| Joyce, Graham | Indigo: A Thriller | Feb | |
| Kahn, Larry | The Jinx | Jan | |
| Kahn, Michael A. | Bearing Witness: Rachel Gold | Sept | |
| Kahn, Sharon | Never Nosh a Matzo Ball: Ruby the Rabbi's Wife | March | |
| Kaminsky, Stuart M. | The Big Silence: Abe Lieberman | Dec | |
| Kaminsky, Stuart M. | Fall of a Cosmonaut: Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov | Sept | |
| Kanar, Stephen | The J Factor (mass market paper) | Jan | |
| Karp, Larry | Scamming the Birdman | March | |
| Kava, Alex | A Perfect Evil | Aug | |
| Keating, H.R.F. | The Hard Detective | May | |
| Kellerman, Faye | Stalker | Aug | |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | Dr. Death | Dec | |
| Kelly, Jack | Line of Sight | Sept | |
| Kelly, Lelia | False Witness: A Novel of Legal Suspense | Jan | |
| Kelly, Susan | Lone Traveller | July | |
| Kelley, Norman | The Big Mango (trade paper) | Sept | |
| Kerr, Philip | The Shot: A Thriller | April | |
| Kilian, Michael | Murder at Manassas: Harrison Raines Civil War Mystery | Jan | |
| Kimball, Michael | Mouth to Mouth | Feb | |
| King, Laurie R. | Night Work: Kate Martinelli | March | |
| King, Peter | A Healthy Place to Die | June | |
| Klein, Daniel | Kill Me Tender | July | |
| Koch, Eric | The Man Who Knew Charlie Chaplin: A Murder Mystery | May | |
| Koontz, Dean | False Memory | Jan | |
| Krabbe, Tim | The Cave | Oct | |
| Krich, Rochelle | Dead Air: Jesse Drake | April | |
| Krist, Gary | Chaos Theory | Jan | |
| Land, Jon | A Walk in the Darkness | April | |
| Lanier, Margery | Tainted Roses | March | |
| Landsale, Joe R. | The Bottoms | Sept | NYT Notable |
| Larsgaard, Chris | The Heir Hunter | March | |
| Joyce & Jim Lavene | One Last Goodbye: Sharyn Howard | Oct | |
| Law, Janice | The Night Bus | June | |
| Law, J. Patrick | The Assistant | July | |
| Lawrence, Martha | Pisces Rising: Elizabeth Chase | March | |
| Lawson, Philip | Muskrat Courage | June | |
| Leahey, Michael | Broken Machines | Oct | |
| Lee, Wendi | He Who Dies: Angela Matelli | June | |
| Leebron, Fred | Six Figures | March | |
| Leib, Franklin | Behold a Pale Horse | Jan | |
| Leonard, Elmore | Pagan Babies | Sept 12 | |
| Lescroart, John | Nothing But the Truth | Jan | |
| Levinson, Robert S. | The James Dean Affair | Aug | |
| Levy, Bob | Broken Hearts | Sept | |
| Lewis, John Hamilton | Opal Eye Devil | Nov | |
| Lindsey, Paul | The Fuhrer's Reserve: Taz Fallon | May | |
| Lippman, Laura | The Sugar House | Sept | |
| Liss, David | A Conspiracy of Paper | March | |
| Livesey, Margot | The Missing World | Jan | NYT Notable |
| Lochte, Dick | Lucky Dog and Other Stories | June | |
| Logue, Mary | Dark Coulee: Claire Watkins | Oct | |
| Lofthouse, Jacqui | A Bluethroat Morning | July | |
| Long, David | The Daughters of Simon Lamoreaux | May | |
| Lovesey, Peter | The Vault | Sept | |
| Ludlum, Robert | The Prometheus Deception | Nov | |
| Lynch, Patrick | Figure of 8 | Feb | |
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