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The Barry Award is a crime literary prize awarded annually since 1997 by the editors of Deadly Pleasures, an American quarterly publication for crime fiction readers. From 2007 to 2009 the award was jointly presented with the publication Mystery News. The prize is named after Barry Gardner, an American critic. ^[1]

Winners

Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade

Barry Award for Best Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Stieg Larsson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Winner
	Ken Bruen	The Guards	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River	Finalist
	Louise Penny	Still Life	Finalist
	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	The Shadow of the Wind	Finalist
2020	Robert Crais	Suspect	Winner	[3] [4]
	Lou Berney	November Road	Finalist	[3]
	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	Finalist	[3]
	Jane Harper	The Dry	Finalist	[3]
	Peter May	The Blackhouse	Finalist	[3]
	Don Winslow	The Border	Finalist	[3]

Best British Crime Novel

The "British Crime Novel" in this context is best crime fiction novel first published in English in the United Kingdom and does not reflect the author's nationality.

2000s

Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, 2000-2009 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result
2000	Val McDermid	A Place of Execution	Winner
	Rennie Airth	River of Darkness	Finalist
	John Connolly	Every Dead Thing	Finalist
	Colin Falconer	Rough Justice	Finalist
	Barry Maitland	The Chalon Heads	Finalist
2001	Stephen Booth	Black Dog	Winner
	John Connolly	Dark Hollow	Finalist
	Sarah Diamond	The Beach Road	Finalist
	Colin Falconer	The Certainty of Doing Evil	Finalist
	Peter Lovesey	The Reaper	Finalist
2002	Stephen Booth	Dancing with the Virgins	Winner
	Caroline Carver	Blood Junction	Finalist
	John Connolly	The Killing Kind	Finalist
	Reginald Hill	Dialogues of the Dead	Finalist
	P. D. James	Death in Holy Orders	Finalist
	Val McDermid	Killing the Shadows	Finalist
	Ian Rankin	The Falls	Finalist
2003	John Connolly	The White Road	Winner
	Mark Billingham	Scaredy Cat	Finalist
	Tom Bradby	The Master of Rain	Finalist
	Simon Kernick	The Business of Dying	Finalist
	Peter Lovesey	Diamond Dust	Finalist
	Ed O'Connor	The Yeare’s Midnight	Finalist
2004	Val McDermid	The Distant Echo	Winner
	Mark Billingham	Lazybones	Finalist
	Christopher Fowler	Full Dark House	Finalist
	Simon Kernick	The Murder Exchange	Finalist
	Peter Lovesey	The House Sitter	Finalist
	Andrew Taylor	The American Boy (An Unpardonable Crime)	Finalist
2005	John Harvey	Flesh & Blood	Winner
	Mark Billingham	The Burning Girl	Finalist
	Ken Bruen	The Dramatist	Finalist
	Mo Hayder	Tokyo (The Devil of Nanking)	Finalist
	Simon Kernick	The Crime Trade	Finalist
	Zoë Sharp	First Drop	Finalist
2006	Denise Mina	Field of Blood	Winner
	Rennie Airth	The Blood-Dimmed Tide	Finalist
	Mark Billingham	Lifeless	Finalist
	Arnaldur Indridason	Silence of the Grave	Finalist
	Simon Kernick	A Good Day to Die	Finalist
	Michael Robotham	Lost	Finalist
2007	Ken Bruen	Priest	Winner
	Stuart MacBride	Dying Light	Finalist
	C. J. Sansom	Sovereign	Finalist
	Nick Stone	Mr. Clarinet	Finalist
	Edward Wright	Red Sky Lament	Finalist
2008	Edward Wright	Damnation Falls	Winner
	R. J. Ellory	A Quiet Belief In Angels	Finalist
	Mo Hayder	Pig Island	Finalist
	Graham Hurley	One Under	Finalist
	Paul Johnston	The Death List	Finalist
	Steve Mosby	The 50/50 Killer	Finalist
2009	Stieg Larsson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Winner
	R. J. Ellory	A Simple Act of Violence	Finalist
	Mo Hayder	Ritual	Finalist
	Michael Robotham	Shatter	Finalist
	Andrew Taylor	Bleeding Heart Square	Finalist
	Martin Walker	Bruno, Chief of Police	Finalist

2010s

Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, 2010-2012 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Philip Kerr	If the Dead Rise Not	Winner
	S. J. Bolton	Awakening	Finalist
	John Connolly	The Lovers	Finalist
	Reginald Hill	Midnight Fugue	Finalist
	Denise Mina	Still Midnight	Finalist
	Robert Wilson	The Ignorance of Blood	Finalist
2011	Reginald Hill	The Woodcutter	Winner	[5]
	Kate Atkinson	Started Early, Took My Dog	Finalist
	S. J. Bolton	Blood Harvest	Finalist
	John Connolly	The Whisperers	Finalist
	Roslund & Hellström	Three Seconds	Finalist
	Zoë Sharp	Fourth Day	Finalist
2012	Peter James	Dead Man’s Grip	Winner
	S. J. Bolton	Now You See Me	Finalist
	John Connolly	Hell’s Bells (The Infernals)	Finalist
	R. J. Ellory	Bad Signs	Finalist
	Elly Griffiths	The House at Sea’s End	Finalist
	Arnaldur Indridason	Outrage	Finalist

Best First Novel

1990s

Barry Award for Best First Novel, 1997-1999 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1997	Charles Todd	A Test of Wills	Winner	[6] [7]
	Jameson Cole	A Killing in Quail Country	Finalist
	H. Michael Frase	Fatal Gift	Finalist
	G. D. Gearino	What the Deaf Mute Heard	Finalist
	Michael C. White	A Brother’s Blood	Finalist
1998	Lee Child	Killing Floor	Winner
	Rosemary Aubert	Free Reign	Finalist
	Maureen Jennings	Except the Dying	Finalist
	Joseph Kanon	Los Alamos	Finalist
	Lisa See	Flower Net	Finalist
	Barbara Seranella	No Human Involved	Finalist
1999	William Kent Krueger	Iron Lake	Winner
	John Billheimer	The Contrary Blues	Finalist
	Steve Hamilton	A Cold Day in Paradise	Finalist
	Robin Hathaway	The Doctor Digs a Grave	Finalist
	William Hoffman	Tidewater Blood	Finalist
	J. Wallis Martin	A Likeness in Stone	Finalist
	Lisa Reardon	Billy Dead	Finalist
	D.R. Schanker	A Criminal Appeal	Finalist

2000s

Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2000-2009 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	Donna Andrews	Murder With Peacocks	Winner
	Mark Coggins	The Immortal Game	Finalist
	Dan Fesperman	Lie in the Dark	Finalist
	Stan Jones	White Sky, Black Ice	Finalist
	Gregg Main	Every Trace	Finalist
2001	David Liss	A Conspiracy of Paper	Winner
	Stephen Horn	In Her Defense	Finalist
	Scott Phillips	The Ice Harvest	Finalist
	Bob Truluck	Street Level	Finalist
	Qiu Xiaolong	Death of a Red Heroine	Finalist
2002	C. J. Box	Open Season	Winner	[8]
	K. J. Erickson	Third Person Singular	Finalist
	David Fulmer	Chasing the Devil’s Tail	Finalist
	M. K. Preston	Perhaps She’ll Die	Finalist
	Karin Slaughter	Blindsighted	Finalist
	Sarah Strohmeyer	Bubbles Unbound	Finalist
2003	Julia Spencer-Fleming	In the Bleak Midwinter	Winner
	David Corbett	The Devil’s Redhead	Finalist
	Pip Granger	Not All Tarts Are Apple	Finalist
	Jonathan King	The Blue Edge of Midnight	Finalist
	Eddie Muller	The Distance	Finalist
	Ben Rehder	Buck Fever	Finalist
2004	P. J. Tracy	Monkeewrench	Winner
	William Landay	Mission Flats	Finalist
	Olen Steinhauer	The Bridge of Sighs	Finalist
	Wallace Stroby	Barbed Wire Kiss	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs	Finalist
	Edward Wright	Clea’s Moon	Finalist
2005	Carlos Ruiz Zafón	The Shadow of the Wind	Winner
	Charles Benoit	Relative Danger	Finalist
	James O. Born	Walking Money	Finalist
	Colin Cotterill	The Coroner's Lunch	Finalist
	Claire Matturro	Skinny-Dipping	Finalist
	Will Thomas	Some Danger Involved	Finalist
2006	Stuart MacBride	Cold Granite	Winner
	Megan Abbott	Die a Little	Finalist
	Brian Freeman	Immoral	Finalist
	Randall Hicks	The Baby Game	Finalist
	David Hosp	Dark Harbor	Finalist
2007	Louise Penny	Still Life	Winner
	Alex Berenson	The Faithful Spy	Finalist
	Gillian Flynn	Sharp Objects	Finalist
	Tom Gabbay	The Berlin Conspiracy	Finalist
	John Hart	The King of Lies	Finalist
	Cornelia Read	A Field of Darkness	Finalist
2008	Tana French	In the Woods	Winner
	Gordon Campbell	Missing Witness	Finalist
	Sean Chercover	Big City, Bad Blood	Finalist
	Lisa Lutz	The Spellman Files	Finalist
	Matt Beynon Rees	The Collaborator of Bethlehem	Finalist
	Marcus Sakey	The Blade Itself	Finalist
2009	Tom Rob Smith	Child 44	Winner
	Tom Epperson	The Kind One	Finalist
	Julie Kramer	Stalking Susan	Finalist
	David Levien	City of the Sun	Finalist
	Michael Stanley	A Carrion Death	Finalist
	Carolyn D. Wall	Sweeping Up Glass	Finalist

2010s

Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2010-2019 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Alan Bradley	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Winner
	Josh Bazell	Beat the Reaper	Finalist
	Rebecca Cantrell	A Trace of Smoke	Finalist
	Sophie Littlefield	A Bad Day for Sorry	Finalist
	Attica Locke	Black Water Rising	Finalist
	Stuart Neville	The Ghosts of Belfast	Finalist
2011	Paul Doiron	The Poacher’s Son	Winner
	Lou Berney	Gutshot Straight	Finalist
	Bruce DeSilva	Rogue Island	Finalist
	Graham Moore	The Sherlockian	Finalist
	William Ryan	The Holy Thief	Finalist
	Keith Thomson	Once a Spy	Finalist
2012	Taylor Stevens	The Informationist	Winner
	Sara Henry	Learning To Swim	Finalist
	Keigo Higashino	The Devotion of Suspect X	Finalist
	Lene Kaaberbol and Agnette Friis	The Boy in the Suitcase	Finalist
	Alice LaPlante	Turn of Mind	Finalist
	S. J. Bolton	Before I Go To Sleep	Finalist
2013	Julia Keller	A Killing in the Hills	Winner	[9]
	Alex Grecian	The Yard	Finalist
	Owen Laukkanen	The Professionals	Finalist
	David Mark	The Dark Winter	Finalist
	Tim O'Mara	Sacrifice Fly	Finalist
	Michael Sears	Black Fridays	Finalist
2014	Barry Lancet	Japantown	Winner
	Hannah Kent	Burial Rites	Finalist
	Charlie Lovett	The Bookman’s Tale	Finalist
	Becky Masterman	Rage Against the Dying	Finalist
	Jenny Milchman	Cover of Snow	Finalist
	Derek B. Miller	Norwegian by Night	Finalist
2015	Julia Dahl	Invisible City	Winner
	Adam Brookes	Night Heron	Finalist
	M. P. Cooley	Ice Shear	Finalist
	Elizabeth Little	Dear Daughter	Finalist
	Laura McHugh	The Weight of Blood	Finalist
	William Shaw	She’s Leaving Home	Finalist
2016	Ausma Zehanat Khan	The Unquiet Dead	Winner
	John A. Connell	Ruins of War	Finalist
	Glen Erik Hamilton	Past Crimes	Finalist
	Elsa Hart	Jade Dragon Mountain	Finalist
	Paula Hawkins	The Girl on the Train	Finalist
	Brian Panowich	Bull Mountain	Finalist
2017	Nicholas Petrie	The Drifter	Winner
	Bill Beverly	Dodgers	Finalist
	Samuel Bjork	I’m Traveling Alone	Finalist
	Joe Ide	IQ	Finalist
	Iain Reid	I’m Thinking of Ending Things	Finalist
	Susie Steiner	Missing, Presumed	Finalist
2018	Jane Harper	The Dry	Winner
	Jordan Harper	She Rides Shotgun	Finalist
	Sheena Kamal	The Lost Ones	Finalist
	H. B. Lyle	The Irregular	Finalist
	Abir Mukherjee	A Rising Man	Finalist
	Gabriel Tallent	My Absolute Darling	Finalist
2019	C.J. Tudor	The Chalk Man	Winner	[10] [11]
	Oyinkan Braithwaite	My Sister, the Serial Killer	Finalist
	Karen Cleveland	Need To Know	Finalist
	John Copenhaver	Dodging and Burning	Finalist
	Caz Frear	Sweet Little Lies	Finalist
	James A. McLaughlin	Bearskin	Finalist

2020s

Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2020–present ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Søren Sveistrup	The Chestnut Man	Winner	[3] [4]
	Chris Hammer	Scrublands	Finalist	[3]
	S. A. Lelchuk	Save Me from Dangerous Men	Finalist	[3]
	Alex Michaelides	The Silent Patient	Finalist	[3]
	Holly Watt	To the Lions	Finalist	[3]
	Lauren Wilkinson	American Spy	Finalist	[3]
2021	David Heska Wanbli Weiden	Winter Counts	Winner	[12]
	Chris Hauty	Deep State	Finalist	[12]
	Nev March	Murder in Old Bombay	Finalist	[12]
	Richard Osman	The Thursday Murder Club	Finalist	[12]
	Alex Pavesi	The Eighth Detective	Finalist	[12]
	Stephanie Wrobel	Darling Rose Gold	Finalist	[12]
2022	Connor Sullivan	Sleeping Bear	Winner	[13] [14]
	Alexandra Andrews	Who Is Maud Dixon?	Finalist	[13]
	Abigail Dean	Girl A	Finalist	[13]
	Taylor Moore	Down Range	Finalist	[13]
	T. J. Newman	Falling	Finalist	[13]
	Brandon Webb and John David Mann	Steel Fear	Finalist	[13]
2023	Jacqueline Bublitz	Before You Knew My Name	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Eli Cranor	Don't Know Tough	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Ramona Emerson	Shutter	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Nita Prose	The Maid	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Sascha Rothchild	Blood Sugar	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Hayley Scrivenor	Dirt Creek	Finalist	[15] [16]

Best Novel

1990s

Barry Award for Best Novel, 1997-1999 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result
1997	Peter Lovesey	Bloodhounds	Winner
	Thomas H. Cook	The Chatham School Affair	Finalist
	Reginald Hill	The Wood Beyond	Finalist
	Rochelle Krich	Speak No Evil	Finalist
	Margaret Lawrence	Hearts and Bones	Finalist
	Thomas Perry	Dance for the Dead	Finalist
1998	Michael Connelly	Trunk Music	Winner
	James Lee Burke	Cimarron Rose	Finalist
	Jan Burke	Hocus	Finalist
	Deborah Crombie	Dreaming of the Bones	Finalist
	Bill Pronzini	A Wasteland of Strangers	Finalist
	S. J. Rozan	No Colder Place	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Death and Life of Bobby Z	Finalist
1999	Reginald Hill	On Beulah Height	Winner
	Dennis Lehane	Gone, Baby, Gone	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Evan Help Us	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	Blood Work	Finalist
	Jeffery Deaver	The Coffin Dancer	Finalist
	Carol O'Connell	Judas Child	Finalist
	Ian Rankin	The Hanging Garden	Finalist
	Mary Willis Walker	All the Dead Lie Down	Finalist

2000s

Barry Award for Best Novel, 2000-2009 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result
2000	Peter Robinson	In a Dry Season	Winner
	Michael Connelly	Angels Flight	Finalist
	Robert Crais	L.A. Requiem	Finalist
	Janet Evanovich	High Five	Finalist
	John Katzenbach	Hart’s War	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Prayers for Rain	Finalist
2001	Nevada Barr	Deep South	Winner
	Lee Child	Running Blind	Finalist
	Thomas H. Cook	Places in the Dark	Finalist
	Bill Fitzhugh	Cross Dressing	Finalist
	Steve Hamilton	Winter of the Wolf Moon	Finalist
	Barbara Seranella	Unwanted Company	Finalist
2002	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River	Winner
	Harlan Coben	Tell No One	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	A Darkness More Than Night	Finalist
	William Kent Krueger	Purgatory Ridge	Finalist
	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe	Finalist
	George P. Pelecanos	Right as Rain	Finalist
	Donald E. Westlake	Bad News	Finalist
2003	Michael Connelly	City of Bones	Winner
	Lee Child	Without Fail	Finalist
	Tim Cockey	The Hearse Case Scenario	Finalist
	Steve Hamilton	North of Nowhere	Finalist
	George P. Pelecanos	Hell to Pay	Finalist
	S. J. Rozan	Winter and Night	Finalist
2004	Laura Lippman	Every Secret Thing	Winner
	Ken Bruen	The Guards	Finalist
	Dan Fesperman	The Small Boat of Great Sorrows	Finalist
	Laurie R. King	Keeping Watch	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Shutter Island	Finalist
	Julia Spencer-Fleming	A Fountain Filled with Blood	Finalist
2005	Lee Child	The Enemy	Winner
	K. J. Erickson	Alone at Night	Finalist
	Jeff Lindsay	Darkly Dreaming Dexter	Finalist
	Chris Mooney	Remembering Sarah	Finalist
	Walter Mosley	Little Scarlet	Finalist
	George P. Pelecanos	Hard Revolution	Finalist
2006	Thomas H. Cook	Red Leaves	Winner
	Jan Burke	Bloodlines	Finalist
	William Kent Krueger	Mercy Falls	Finalist
	David Rosenfelt	Sudden Death	Finalist
	James Swain	Mr. Lucky	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Power of the Dog	Finalist
2007	George Pelecanos	The Night Gardener	Winner
	Ace Atkins	White Shadow	Finalist
	Rhys Bowen	Oh Danny Boy	Finalist
	Dan Fesperman	The Prisoner of Guantanamo	Finalist
	Ariana Franklin	City of Shadows	Finalist
2008	Laura Lippman	What the Dead Know	Winner
	Reed Farrel Coleman	Soul Patch	Finalist
	John Connolly	The Unquiet	Finalist
	John Hart	Down River	Finalist
	J. A. Konrath	Dirty Martini	Finalist
	Peter Spiegelman	Red Cat	Finalist
2009	Arnaldur Indriðason	The Draining Lake	Winner
	Sean Chercover	Trigger City	Finalist
	Michael Koryta	Envy the Night	Finalist
	William Kent Krueger	Red Knife	Finalist
	Louise Penny	The Cruelest Month	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Dawn Patrol	Finalist

2010s

Barry Award for Best Novel, 2010-2019 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	John Hart	The Last Child	Winner	[17]
	John Connolly	The Gates	Finalist
	David Ellis	The Hidden Man	Finalist
	Joe Gores	Spade & Archer	Finalist
	Marcia Muller	Locked In	Finalist
	S. J. Rozan	The Shanghai Moon	Finalist
2011	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist	Winner
	C. J. Box	Nowhere To Run	Finalist
	Tom Franklin	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Moonlight Mile	Finalist
	Louise Penny	Bury Your Dead	Finalist
	Don Winslow	Savages	Finalist
2012	Jussi Adler-Olsen	The Keeper of Lost Causes	Winner
	Linwood Barclay	The Accident	Finalist
	Reed Farrel Coleman	Hurt Machine	Finalist
	John Hart	Iron House	Finalist
	Craig Johnson	Hell Is Empty	Finalist
	Henning Mankell	The Troubled Man	Finalist
2013	Peter May	The Blackhouse	Winner	[9]
	Linwood Barclay	Trust Your Eyes	Finalist
	S. J. Bolton	Dead Scared	Finalist
	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	Finalist
	William Landay	Defending Jacob	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Live by Night	Finalist
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace	Winner
	Jussi Adler-Olsen	A Conspiracy of Faith	Finalist
	Linwood Barclay	A Tap on the Window	Finalist
	Thomas H. Cook	Sandrine’s Case	Finalist
	Robert Crais	Suspect	Finalist
	Ian Rankin	Standing in Another Man’s Grave	Finalist
2015	Greg Iles	Natchez Burning	Winner
	Jussi Adler-Olsen	The Marco Effect	Finalist
	James R. Benn	The Rest Is Silence	Finalist
	Reed Farrel Coleman	The Hollow Girl	Finalist
	Bruce DeSilva	Providence Rag	Finalist
	Arnaldur Indridason	Strange Shores	Finalist
2016	C.J. Box	Badlands	Winner	[8]
	John Connolly	A Song of Shadows	Finalist
	Owen Laukkanen	The Stolen Ones	Finalist
	Michael Robotham	Life or Death	Finalist
	Jeffrey Siger	Devil of Delphi	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Cartel	Finalist
2017	Louise Penny	A Great Reckoning	Winner
	Reed Farrel Coleman	Where It Hurts	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	The Wrong Side of Goodbye	Finalist
	Steve Hamilton	The Second Life of Nick Mason	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	Wilde Lake	Finalist
	David Swinson	The Second Girl	Finalist
2018	Karen Dionne	The Marsh King’s Daughter	Winner
	Michael Connelly	The Late Show	Finalist
	Steve Hamilton	Exit Strategy	Finalist
	Anthony Horowitz	Magpie Murders	Finalist
	Philip Kerr	Prussian Blue	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Force	Finalist
2019	Lou Berney	November Road	Winner	[10] [11]
	Michael Connelly	Dark Sacred Night	Finalist
	Allen Eskens	The Shadows We Hide	Finalist
	Craig Johnson	Depth of Winter	Finalist
	Mindy Mejia	Leave No Trace	Finalist
	Abir Mukherjee	A Necessary Evil	Finalist

2020s

Barry Award for Best Novel, 2010-2019 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Jane Harper	The Lost Man	Winner	[3] [4]
	Steve Cavanagh	Th1rt3en	Finalist	[3]
	Steph Cha	Your House Will Pay	Finalist	[3]
	Philip Kerr	Metropolis	Finalist	[3]
	Michael Koryta	If She Wakes	Finalist	[3]
	Don Winslow	The Border	Finalist	[3]
2021	S. A. Cosby	Blacktop Wasteland	Winner	[12]
	Harlan Coben	The Boy from the Woods	Finalist	[12]
	Michael Connelly	The Law of Innocence	Finalist	[12]
	Anthony Horowitz	Moonflower Murders	Finalist	[12]
	Rachel Howzell Hall	And Now She’s Gone	Finalist	[12]
	Louise Penny	All the Devils Are Here	Finalist	[12]
2022	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears	Winner	[13] [14]
	Michael Connelly	The Dark Hours	Finalist	[13]
	Matt Coyle	Last Redemption	Finalist	[13]
	Naomi Hirahara	Clark and Division	Finalist	[13]
	Stephen King	Billy Summers	Finalist	[13]
	Chris Whitaker	We Begin at the End	Finalist	[13]
2023	Steve Cavanagh	The Accomplice	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Michael Connelly	Desert Star	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Deon Meyer	The Dark Flood	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Chris Offutt	Shifty's Boys	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Alex Segura	Secret Identity	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Don Winslow	City on Fire	Finalist	[15] [16]

Best Paperback Original

1990s

Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, 1997-1998 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result
1997	Susan Wade	Walking Rain	Winner
	Harlan Coben	Fade Away	Finalist
	Teri Holbrook	The Grass Widow	Finalist
1998	Harlan Coben	Back Spin	Winner
	Sujata Massey	The Salaryman’s Wife	Finalist
	Rick Riordan	Big Red Tequila	Finalist
	Penny Warner	Dead Body Language	Finalist

2000s

Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, 2000-2009 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result
2000	Robin Burcell	Every Move She Makes	Winner
	Caroline Roe	Antidote for Avarice	Winner
	Sinclair Browning	The Last Song Dogs	Finalist
	Carolyn Haines	Them Bones	Finalist
	Jerry Kennealy	The Hunted	Finalist
2001	Eric Wright	The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn	Winner
	Glynn Marsh Alam	Dive Deep and Deadly	Finalist
	Kate Grilley	Death Dances to a Reggae Beat	Finalist
	Cathie John	Little Mexico	Finalist
	Beth Saulnier	Distemper	Finalist
2002	Deborah Woodworth	Killer Gifts	Winner
	Sinclair Browning	Rode Hard, Put Away Dead	Finalist
	Deborah Morgan	Death Is a Cabaret	Finalist
	Beth Saulnier	The Fourth Wall	Finalist
	Martin J. Smith	Straw Men	Finalist
2003	Danielle Girard	Cold Silence	Winner
	Jeff Abbott	Black Jack Point	Finalist
	Robin Burcell	Fatal Truth	Finalist
	Daniel Judson	The Bone Orchard	Finalist
	Anna Salter	Prison Blues	Finalist
	Brian M. Wiprud	Pipsqueak	Finalist
2004	Jason Starr	Tough Luck	Winner
	Elaine Flinn	Dealing in Murder	Finalist
	Christopher Hyde	Wisdom of the Bones	Finalist
	Jay MacLarty	The Courier	Finalist
	Judith Van Gieson	The Shadow of Venus	Finalist
	Elaine Viets	Murder Between the Covers	Finalist
2005	Elaine Flinn	Tagged for Murder	Winner
	Larry Beinhart	The Librarian	Finalist
	Thomas H. Cook	Into the Web	Finalist
	M.G. Kincaid	Last Seen in Aberdeen	Finalist
	Domenic Stansberry	The Confession	Finalist
	Jason Starr	Twisted City	Finalist
2006	Reed Farrel Coleman	The James Deans	Winner
	Charlie Huston	Six Bad Things	Finalist
	Maureen Jennings	Night’s Child	Finalist
	Rochelle Krich	Now You See Me…	Finalist
	Mary Jane Maffini	The Dead Don’t Get Out Much	Finalist
	John Ramsey Miller	Inside Out	Finalist
2007	Sean Doolittle	The Cleanup	Winner
	Ken Bruen and Jason Starr	Bust	Finalist
	Max Allan Collins	The Last Quarry	Finalist
	Jay MacLarty	Live Wire	Finalist
	James Swain	Deadman’s Poker	Finalist
	Brian M. Wiprud	Crooked	Finalist
2008	Megan Abbott	Queenpin	Winner
	Felicia Donovan	The Black Widow Agency	Finalist
	Jay MacLarty	Choke Point	Finalist
	Jason Pinter	The Mark	Finalist
	Fred Vargas	Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand	Finalist
	Kevin Wignall	Who Is Conrad Hirst?	Finalist
2009	Julie Hyzy	State of the Onion	Winner
	Max Allan Collins	The First Quarry	Finalist
	Christa Faust	Money Shot	Finalist
	Åsa Larsson	The Black Path	Finalist
	Duane Swierczynski	Severance Package	Finalist
	Johan Theorin	Echoes from the Dead	Finalist

2010s

Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, 2010-2019 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Bryan Gruley	Starvation Lake	Winner
	Megan Abbott	Bury Me Deep	Finalist
	Max Allan Collins	Quarry in the Middle	Finalist
	Heather Gudenkauf	The Weight of Silence	Finalist
	Frank Tallis	Fatal Lies	Finalist
	L. C. Tyler	The Herring Seller’s Apprentice	Finalist
2011	Val McDermid	Fever of the Bone	Winner
	Bryan Gruley	The Hanging Tree	Finalist
	Sophie Hannah	The Dead Lie Down	Finalist
	Julie Hyzy	Eggsecutive Orders	Finalist
	Judith Rock	The Rhetoric of Death	Finalist
	A. D. Scott	A Small Death in the Great Glen	Finalist
2012	Michael Stanley	The Death of the Mantis	Winner
	Brett Battles	The Silenced	Finalist
	Oliver Pötzsch	The Hangman's Daughter	Finalist
	A. D. Scott	A Double Death on the Black Isle	Finalist
	Duane Swierczynski	Fun & Games	Finalist
	Nicola Upson	Two for Sorrow	Finalist
2013	Susan Elia MacNeal	Mr. Churchill’s Secretary	Winner	[9]
	John Enright	Pago Pago Tango	Finalist
	Alan Glynn	Bloodland	Finalist
	Sophie Hannah	The Other Woman’s House	Finalist
	Malla Nunn	Blessed Are the Dead	Finalist
	A. D. Scott	Beneath the Abbey Wall	Finalist
2014	Adrian McKinty	I Hear the Sirens in the Street	Winner	[18]
	Paul Cleave	Joe Victim	Finalist
	Ian Hamilton	The Disciple of Las Vegas	Finalist
	Gene Kerrigan	The Rage	Finalist
	Nicola Upson	Fear in the Sunlight	Finalist
	Elaine Viets	Fixing to Die	Finalist
2015	Allen Eskens	The Life We Bury	Winner
	Joël Dicker	The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair	Finalist
	Alex Marwood	The Killer Next Door	Finalist
	Malla Nunn	Present Darkness	Finalist
	Lori Rader-Day	The Black Hour	Finalist
	Stav Sherez	Eleven Days	Finalist
2016	Lou Berney	The Long and Faraway Gone	Winner
	Kristi Belcamino	Blessed Are Those Who Weep	Finalist
	Max Allan Collins	Quarry’s Choice	Finalist
	Sarah Hilary	No Other Darkness	Finalist
	Ragnar Jónasson	Snowblind	Finalist
	James W. Ziskin	Stone Cold Dead	Finalist
2017	Adrian McKinty	Rain Dogs	Winner	[18]
	Flynn Berry	Under the Harrow	Finalist
	Allen Eskens	The Heavens May Fall	Finalist
	Susan Elia MacNeal	The Queen’s Accomplice	Finalist
	Alex Marwood	The Darkest Secret	Finalist
	Jake Needham	The Girl in the Window	Finalist
2018	Allen Eskens	The Deep Dark Descending	Winner
	R. J. Bailey	Safe from Harm	Finalist
	Kristi Belcamino	Blessed Are the Peacemakers	Finalist
	Kellye Garrett	Hollywood Homicide	Finalist
	Lori Rader-Day	The Day I Died	Finalist
	James Swain	Super Con	Finalist
2019	Dervla McTiernan	The Rúin	Winner	[10] [11] [19]
	Christine Carbo	A Sharp Solitude	Finalist
	David Mark	Dead Pretty	Finalist
	Sherry Thomas	The Hollow of Fear	Finalist
	Emma Viskic	Resurrection Bay	Finalist

2020s

Barry Award for Best Paperback Original, 2020–present ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Rick Mofina	Missing Daughter	Winner	[3] [4]
	RJ Bailey	Winner Kills All	Finalist	[3]
	Hannelore Cayre	The Godmother	Finalist	[3]
	Max Allan Collins	Killing Quarry	Finalist	[3]
	Ian Hamilton	Fate: The Lost Decades of Uncle Chow Tung	Finalist	[3]
	James Swain	No Good Deed	Finalist	[3]
2021	James W. Ziskin	Turn to Stone	Winner	[12]
	Alyssa Cole	When No One Is Watching	Finalist	[12]
	Jake Needham	Monkok Station	Finalist	[12]
	Jason Pinter	Hide Away	Finalist	[12]
	James Swain	Bad News Travels Fast	Finalist	[12]
	Emma Viskic	Darkness for Light	Finalist	[12]
2022	Dervla McTiernan	The Good Turn	Winner	[13] [14]
	Gabriel Bergmoser	The Hunted	Finalist	[13]
	Mia P. Manansala	Arsenic and Adobo	Finalist	[13]
	Andrew Mayne	Black Coral	Finalist	[13]
	Rick Mofina	Search for Her	Finalist	[13]
	Vanda Symon	Bound	Finalist	[13]
			Finalist	[15] [16]
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			Finalist
			Finalist
			Finalist

Best Short Story

2000s

Barry Award for Best Short Story, 2000-2009 ^[2]

Year	Author	Story	Publication	Result	Ref.
2004	Robert Barnard	Rogues’ Gallery	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2003	Winner
	Doug Allyn	The Blind Pig	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2003	Finalist
	Brendan DuBois	Always Another War	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, July/August 2003	Finalist
	Clark Howard	The Mask of Peter	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, April 2003	Finalist
	Donald Olson	Rogue's Run	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, April 2003	Finalist
2005	Edward D. Hoch	The War in Wonderland	Green for Danger	Winner
	Catherine Aird	Cold Comfort	Chapter & Hearse & Other Mysteries	Finalist
	Melodie Johnson Howe	Facing Up	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2004	Finalist
	John Mortimer	Rumpole and the Christmas Break	The Strand Magazine, #14, 2004	Finalist
	Amy Myers	Murder, the Missing Heir, and the Boiled Egg	Criminal Appetites	Finalist
	Neil Schofield	Ledgers	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2004	Finalist
2006	Nancy Pickard	There is no Crime on Easter Island	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2005	Winner
	Steve Hockensmith	The Big Road	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May 2005	Finalist
	Peter Lovesey	Needle Match	Murder Is My Racquet	Finalist
	Joan Richter	Love and Death in Africa	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2005	Finalist
	Tom Savage	The Method in her Madness	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2005	Finalist
2007	Brendan DuBois	The Right Call	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2006	Winner
	Simon Brett	Cain Was Innocent	Thou Shalt Not Kill	Finalist
	Judith Cutler	Shaping the Ends	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2006	Finalist
	Kate Ellis	A Man of Taste	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2006	Finalist
	Paul Halter	The Flower Girl	The Night of the Wolf	Finalist
	June Thomson	A Case for Inspector Ghote	The Verdict of Us All	Finalist
2008	Edward D. Hoch	The Problem of the Summer Snowman	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2007	Winner
	Doug Allyn	Dead As a Dog	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2007	Finalist
	Dale C. Andrews and Kurt Sercu	The Book Case	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2007	Finalist
	Jon L. Breen	The Missing Elevator Puzzle	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 2007	Finalist
	Jeffrey Deaver	Bump	Dead Man’s Hand	Finalist
	Gillian Roberts	The Old Wife’s Tale	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2007	Finalist
	Neil Schofield	Murder: A User's Guibe	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, July/August 2007	Finalist
2009	James O. Born	The Drought	The Blue Religion	Winner
	Jan Burke	The Fallen	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 2008	Finalist
	Brendan DuBois	A Trace of a Trace	At the Scene of the Crime	Finalist
	G. Miki Hayden	A Killing in Midtown	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2008	Finalist
	Mick Herron	Proof of Love	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2008	Finalist
	Edward D. Hoch	The Problem of the Secret Patient	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2008	Finalist

2010s

Barry Award for Best Short Story, 2010-2019 ^[2]

Year	Author	Story	Publication	Result	Ref.
2010	Brendan DuBois	The High House Writer	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, July–August 2009	Winner
	Barbara Callahan	My Mother's Keeper	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2009	Finalist
	David Dean	Erin's Journal	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2009	Finalist
	John H. Dirckx	Real Men Die	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September 2009	Finalist
	Melodie Johnson Howe	A Hollywood Ending	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2009	Finalist
	Morley Swingle	Hard Blows	The Prosecution Rests	Finalist
2011	Loren D. Estleman	The List	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2010	Winner
	Mitch Alderman	Requiem for Antlers	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January–February 2010	Finalist
	Robert Barnard	Family Values	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 2010	Finalist
	Caroline Benton	The Body in the Dunes	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2010	Finalist
	Terence Faherty	The Seven Sorrows	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March–April 2010	Finalist
	Ellen Larson	When the Apricots Bloom	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, July–August 2010	Finalist
2012	Jeffrey Cohen	The Gun Also Rises	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January–February 2011	Winner
	Doug Allyn	Thicker Than Blood	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September 2011	Finalist
	Mike Cooper	Whiz Bang	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September–October 2011	Finalist
	Trina Corey	Facts Exhibiting Wantonness	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2011	Finalist
	James Powell	Last Laugh in Floogle Park	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2011	Finalist
	Eric Rutter	Purge	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 2011	Finalist

Best Thriller

2000s

Barry Award for Best Thriller, 2005-2009 ^[2]

Yeat	Author	Title	Result
2005	Barry Eisler	Rain Storm	Winner
	Joseph Finder	Paranoia	Finalist
	Joseph Garber	Whirlwind	Finalist
	Jay MacLarty	Bagman	Finalist
	Matthew Reilly	Scarecrow	Finalist
	Daniel Silva	A Death in Vienna	Finalist
2006	Joseph Finder	Company Man (No Hiding Place)	Winner
	Vince Flynn	Consent To Kill	Finalist
	Mike Lawson	The Inside Ring	Finalist
	Matthew Reilly	Seven Deadly Wonders	Finalist
	James Rollins	Map of Bones	Finalist
	Greg Rucka	Private Wars	Finalist
2007	Daniel Silva	The Messenger	Winner
	Joe Finder	Killer Instinct	Finalist
	Alan Furst	The Foreign Correspondent	Finalist
	Simon Kernick	Relentless	Finalist
	Stephen Leather	Cold Kill	Finalist
	Stephen White	Kill Me	Finalist
2008	Robert Crais	The Watchman	Winner
	Linwood Barclay	No Time for Goodbye	Finalist
	Brett Battles	The Cleaner	Finalist
	Brent Ghelfi	Volk’s Game	Finalist
	Thomas Perry	Silence	Finalist
	James Swain	Midnight Rambler	Finalist
2009	Brett Battles	The Deceived	Winner
	Jeff Abbott	Collision	Finalist
	Tom Cain	The Survivor	Finalist
	Colin Harrison	The Finder	Finalist
	Stephen Hunter	Night of Thunder	Finalist
	Marcus Sakey	Good People	Finalist

2010s

Barry Award for Best Thriller, 2010-2019 ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Jamie Freveletti	Running from the Devil	Winner
	Tom Cain	No Survivors	Finalist
	Mark Greaney	The Gray Man	Finalist
	Derek Haas	Columbus (Hunt for the Bear)	Finalist
	Mike Lawson	House Secrets	Finalist
	Greg Rucka	Walking Dead	Finalist
2011	Deon Meyer	Thirteen Hours	Winner
	Noah Boyd	The Bricklayer	Finalist
	Charlie Charters	Bolt Action	Finalist
	Vince Flynn	American Assassin	Finalist
	Mark Greaney	On Target	Finalist
	Daniel Silva	The Rembrandt Affair	Finalist
2012	Thomas Perry	The Informant	Winner
	Tom Cain	Carver	Finalist
	Ben Coes	Coup d’Etat	Finalist
	Matthew Dunn	Spycatcher (Spartan)	Finalist
	Mark Greaney	Ballistic	Finalist
	Mike Lawson	House Divided	Finalist
2013	Daniel Silva	The Fallen Angel	Winner	[9]
	Ben Coes	The Last Refuge	Finalist
	Charles Cumming	A Foreign Country	Finalist
	Brian Freemantle	Red Star Burning	Finalist
	Derek Haas	The Right Hand	Finalist
	Mike Lawson	House Blood	Finalist
2014	Taylor Stevens	The Doll	Winner
	Mick Herron	Dead Lions	Finalist
	Roger Hobbs	Ghostman	Finalist
	Jason Matthews	Red Sparrow	Finalist
	Charles McCarry	The Shanghai Factor	Finalist
	Stuart Neville	Ratlines	Finalist
2015	Michael Koryta	Those Who Wish Me Dead	Winner
	Joe Finder	Suspicion	Finalist
	Ian Hamilton	The Water Rat of Wanchai	Finalist
	Robert Harris	An Officer and a Spy	Finalist
	Terry Hayes	I Am Pilgrim	Finalist
	Mike Lawson	House Reckoning	Finalist
2016	Taylor Stevens	The Mask	Winner
	Marc Cameron	Brute Force	Finalist
	Chris Holm	The Killing Kind	Finalist
	M. A. Lawson	Viking Bay	Finalist
	Stefanie Pintoff	Hostage Taker	Finalist
	A.J. Tata	Foreign and Domestic	Finalist
2017	Joseph Finder	Guilty Minds	Winner
	Matthew Betley	Overwatch	Finalist
	Ben Coes	First Strike	Finalist
	Mark Greaney	Back Blast	Finalist
	Andrew Gross	The One Man	Finalist
	Spencer Kope	Collecting the Dead	Finalist
2018	Meg Gardiner	UNSUB	Winner
	Ben Coes	Trap the Devil	Finalist
	Mark Greaney	Gunmetal Gray	Finalist
	Mick Herron	Spook Street	Finalist
	K. J. Howe	The Freedom Broker	Finalist
	Thomas Perry	The Old Man	Finalist
2019	Dan Fesperman	Safe Houses	Winner	[10] [11]
	Jack Carr	The Terminal List	Finalist
	Mick Herron	London Rules	Finalist
	Anthony Horowitz	Forever and a Day	Finalist
	Nick Petrie	Light It Up	Finalist
	James Swain	The King Tides	Finalist

2020s

Barry Award for Best Thriller, 2010–present ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Adrian McKinty	The Chain	Winner	[3] [4]
	Jack Carr	True Believer	Finalist	[3]
	Mark Greaney	Mission Critical	Finalist	[3]
	Thomas Perry	The Burglar	Finalist	[3]
	Henry Porter	White Hot Silence	Finalist	[3]
	Brad Thor	Backlash	Finalist	[3]
2021	Thomas Perry	Eddie’s Boy	Winner	[12]
	Tom Bradby	Double Agent	Finalist	[12]
	Matt Coyle	Blind Vigil	Finalist	[12]
	Mark Greaney	One Minute Out	Finalist	[12]
	Deon Meyer	The Last Hunt	Finalist	[12]
	Nick Petrie	The Wild One	Finalist	[12]
2022	James Kestrel	Five Decembers	Winner	[13] [14]
	Jack Carr	The Devil’s Hand	Finalist	[13]
	John Connolly	The Nameless Ones	Finalist	[13]
	Paul Doiron	Dead by Dawn	Finalist	[13]
	Mark Greaney	Relentless	Finalist	[13]
	Mick Herron	Slough House	Finalist	[13]
2023	Jack Carr	In the Blood	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Dan Fesperman	Winter Work	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Mark Greaney	Sierra Six	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Mick Herron	Bad Actors	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Deanna Raybourn	Killers of a Certain Age	Finalist	[15] [16]
	Richard O'Rawe	Goering's Gold	Finalist	[15] [16]

References