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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 |
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