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The ForeWord Book of the Year Award

ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. A jury of readers, librarians and booksellers select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. The winners below are for the Mystery and Thriller/Suspense (added in 2010) categories.

2011
• Mystery: Gold: Trick of the Dark by Val McDermid (Bywater Books)
• Mystery: Silver: Poison Makers by Jimmy Olsen (Hoffman House Press)
• Mystery: Bronze: Medieval Murders by Aaron Stander (Writers and Editors)
• Thriller/Suspense: Gold: Fly by Night by Ward Larsen (Oceanview Publishing)
• Thriller/Suspense: Silver: The Parsifal Pursuit by Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin (Enigma Books)
• Thriller/Suspense: Bronze: Waiting for the Bones by Donna Cousins (iUniverse)

2010
• Mystery: Gold: Water Mark by J. M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
• Mystery: Silver: Shelf Ice by Aaron Stander (Writers & Editors)
• Mystery: Bronze: The Kill by Jan Neuharth (Paper Chase Farms)
• Thriller/Suspense: Gold: Frame Up by John F. Dobbyn (Oceanview Publishing)
• Thriller/Suspense: Silver: The DeValera Deception by Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin (Enigma Books)
• Thriller/Suspense: Bronze: And Then There Was One by Patricia Gussin (Oceanview Publishing)

2009
• Gold: Jump by Tim Maleeny
• Silver: In Their Blood by Sharon Potts
• Bronze: Wrath by Robert Santora

2008
• Gold: Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen
• Silver: Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah and Joel Shlian
• Bronze: Hoodoo by Susan Cummins Miller

2007
• Gold: Stuff To Die For by Don Bruns
• Silver: The Castro Gene by Todd Buchholz
• Bronze: Son of the Ripper! by Patrick Glendon McCullogh

2006
• Gold: Quarry by Susan Cummins Miller
• Silver: The Perfect Assassin by Ward Larsen
• Bronze: Triple Cross by Kit Ehrman

2005
• Gold: The Grail Conspiracy by Lynn Sholes and Joe Moore
• Silver: Judas Burning by Carolyn Haines
• Bronze: Cold Burn by Kit Ehrman

2004
• Gold: Death in the Age of Steam by Mel Bradshaw
• Silver: Chop Shop by Tim Downs
• Bronze: Third and Forever by Lowen Clausen

2003
• Gold: Burn by Sean Doolittle
• Silver: Burning Moon by Richard Barre
• Bronze: Bradley's Ghost by Ray Derby

2002
• Gold: Restless Spirit by Sandra Tooley
• Silver: Beward the Solitary Drinker by Cornelius Lehane
• Bronze: The Whisper of Leaves by Craig Smith

2001
• Gold: The Marquis de Fraud by Philip Reed
• Silver: Home Killings by Marcos McPeek
• Bronze: The Serial Killer's Diet Book by Kevin Postupack

2000
• Gold: Nothing Else Matters by Sandra Tooley
• Silver: Diamond Trump by Ron Robinson
• Bronze: Tracon by Paul McElroy

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