Barry Award (for crime novels)

Winners

2019

• Best novel: Lou Berney for November Road
• Best First Novel: C.J. Tudor for The Chalk Man
• Best Paperback Original: Dervla McTiernan for The Ruin
• Best Thriller: Dan Fesperman for Safe Houses

  2018

• Best Novel: Karen Dionne, for The Marsh King's Daughter
• Best First Novel: Jane Harper, for The Dry
• Best Paperback Original: Allen Eskens, for The Deep Dark Descending
• Best Thriller: Meg Gardiner, for Unsub

  2017

• Best novel: Louise Penny for A Great Reckoning
• Best First Novel: Nicholas Petrie for The Drifter
• Best Paperback Original: Adrian McKinty for Rain Dogs
• Best Thriller: Joseph Finder for Guilty Minds

  2016

• Best novel: C. J. Box for Badlands
• Best First Novel: Ausma Zehanat Khan for The Unquiet Dead
• Best Paperback Original: Lou Berney for The Long and Faraway Gone
• Best Thriller: Taylor Stevens for The Mask

  2015

• Best Novel: Greg Iles, for Natchez Burning
• Best First Novel: Julia Dahl, for Invisible City
• Best Paperback Original: Allen Eskens, for The Life We Bury
• Best Thriller: Michael Koryta, for Those Who Wish Me Dead

  2014

• Best Novel: William Kent Krueger, for Ordinary Grace
• Best First Novel: Barry Lancet, for Japantown
• Best Paperback Original: Adrian McKinty, for I Hear the Sirens in the Street
• Best Thriller: Taylor Stevens, for The Doll

  2013

• Best Novel: Peter May, for The Blackhouse
• Best First Novel: Julia Keller, for A Killing in the Hills
• Best Thriller: Daniel Silva, for The Fallen Angel
• Best Paperback Original: Susan Elia MacNeal, for Mr. Churchill's Secretary

  2012

• Best Novel: Jussi Adler-Olsen, for The Keeper of Lost Causes
• Best First Novel: Taylor Stevens, for The Informationist
• Best British Novel: Peter James, for Dead Man's Grip
• Best Thriller: Thomas Perry, for The Informant
• Best Paperback Original: Michael Stanley, for Death of the Mantis
• Best Short Story: Jeffrey Cohen, for "The Gun Also Rises"

  2011

• Best Novel: Steve Hamilton, for The Lock Artist
• Best First Novel: Paul Doiron, for The Poacher's Son
• Best British Novel: Reginald Hill, for The Woodcutter
• Best Thriller: Deon Meyer, for Thirteen Hours
• Best Paperback Novel: Val McDermid, for Fever of the Bone
• Best Short Story: Loren D. Estleman, for "The List"

  2010

• Best Novel: John Hart for The Last Child
• Best First Novel: Alan Bradley for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
• Best British Novel: Philip Kerr for If The Dead Not Rise
• Best Paperback Novel: Bryan Gruley for Starvation Lake
• Best Thriller: Jamie Freveletti for Running from the Devil
• Mystery/Crime Novel Of The Decade: Stieg Larsson for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Best Short Story Brendan DuBois for "The High House Writer"

  2009

• Best Novel: Arnaldur Indridason for The Draining Lake
• Best First Novel: Tom Rob Smith for Child 44
• Best British Novel: Stieg Larsson for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Best Paperback Novel: Julie Hyzy for State of the Onion
• Best Thriller: Brett Battles for The Deceived
• Best Short Story James O. Born for "The Drought"

  2008

• Best Novel: Laura Lippman, for What the Dead Know
• Best Thriller: Robert Crais, for The Watchman
• Best British Novel: Edward Wright, for Damnation Falls
• Best Paperback Novel: Megan Abbott, for Queenpin
• Best First Novel: Tana French, for In the Woods

  2007

• Best Novel: George Pelecanos, for The Night Gardener
• Best Thriller: Daniel Silva, for The Messenger
• Best British Novel: Ken Bruen, for Priest
• Best Paperback Novel: Sean Doolittle, for The Cleanup
• Best First Novel: Louise Penny, for Still Life
• Best Short Story: Brendan DuBois, for "The Right Call"

  2006

• Best Novel: Thomas H. Cook, for Red Leaves
• Best Thriller: Joseph Finder, for Company Man
• Best British Novel: Denise Mina, for The Field of Blood
• Best Paperback Novel: Reed Farrel Coleman, for The James Deans
• Best First Novel: Stuart MacBride, for Cold Granite
• Best Short Story: Nancy Pickard, for "There is No Crime on Easter Island"

  2005

• Best Novel: Lee Child, for The Enemy
• Best Thriller: Barry Eisler, for Rain Storm
• Best British Crime Novel: John Harvey, for Flesh & Blood
• Best Paperback Original: Elaine Flinn, for Tagged for Murder
• Best First Novel: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, for The Shadow of the Wind
• Best Short Story: Edward D. Hoch, for "The War in Wonderland"

  2004

• Best Novel: Laura Lippman, for Every Secret Thing
• Best British Crime Novel: Val McDermid, for The Distant Echo
• Best Paperback Original: Jason Starr, for Tough Luck
• Best First Mystery Novel: P. J. Tracy, for Monkeewrench
• Best Mystery Short Story: Robert Barnard, for "Rogues' Gallery"

  2003

• Best Novel: Michael Connelly, for City of Bones
• Best British Crime Novel: John Connolly, for The White Road
• Best Paperback Original: Danielle Girard, for Cold Silence
• Best First Novel: Julia Spencer-Fleming, for In the Bleak Midwinter

  2002

• Best Novel: Dennis Lehane, for Mystic River
• Best British Crime Novel: Stephen Booth, for Dancing with the Virgins
• Best Paperback Original: Deborah Woodworth, for Killing Gifts
• Best First Novel: C. J. Box, for Open Season

  2001

• Best Hardcover Novel: Nevada Barr, for Deep South
• Best British Crime Novel: Stephen Booth, for Black Dog
• Best Paperback Novel: Eric Wright, for The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn
• Best First Novel: David Liss, for A Conspiracy of Paper

  2000

• Best Novel: Peter Robinson, for In a Dry Season
• Best British Novel: Val McDermid, for A Place of Execution
• Best paperback Original: Robin Burcell, for Every Move She Makes
• Best First Novel: Donna Andrews, for Peacocks

  1999

• Best Novel: Reginald Hill, for On Beulah Height and Dennis Lehane for Gone, Baby, Gone
• Best First Novel: William Kent Krueger, for Iron Lake

  1998

• Best Novel: Michael Connelly, for Trunk Music
• Best Paperback Original: Harlan Coben, for Backspin
• Best First Novel: Lee Child, for Killing Floor

  1997

• Best Novel: Peter Lovesey, for Bloodhounds
• Best Paperback Original: Susan Wade, for Walking Rain
• Best First Novel: Charles Todd, for Test of Wills
• Best Non-Fiction: Willetta L. Heising, for Detecting Women 2