The Dilys Award

The Dilys Award has been given annually since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) to the mystery titles of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, the founder of Murder Ink (now sadly closed), the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.

2008 Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger

2007: Still Life by Louise Penny

2006: Thirty-Three Teeth by Colin Cotterill

2005: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffrey Lindsay

2004: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde

2003: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2002: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

2001: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid

2000: L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais

1999: Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

1998: Three to Get Deadly by Janet Evanovich

1997: The Poet by Michael Connelly

1996: The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

1995: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

1994: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

1993: Booked to Die by John Dunning

1992: Native Tongue by Carl Hiaasen