The Hammett Prize
The North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers presents the Dashiell Hammett Award (the Hammett Prize) annually for literary excellence in the field of crime writing. (Note: the date refers to the year of the book's publication; the prize was awarded in the following year.)
2009
◊ Nominee: Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
◊ Nominee: Devil's Garden by Ace Atkins (Putnam)
◊ Nominee: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (Penguin)
◊ Nominee: The Long Fall by Walter Mosley (Riverhead)
◊ Nominee: The Way Home by George Pelecanos (Little, Brown)
2008
◊ Winner: The Turnaround by George Pelecanos (Little, Brown)
2007
◊ Winner: The Outlander by Gil Adamson (HarperCollins)
2006
◊ Winner: The Prisoner of Guantanamo by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)
2005
◊ Winner: Alibi by Joseph Kanon (Henry Holt)
2004
◊ Winner: Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan (Scribner)
2003
◊ Winner: The Seduction of Water by Carol Goodman (Ballantine)
2002
◊ Winner: Honor's Kingdom by Owen Parry (Morrow)
2001
◊ Winner: Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst (Random House)
2000
◊ Winner: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)
1999
◊ Winner: Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smtih (Random House)
1998
◊ Winner: Tidewater Blood by William Hoffman (Algonquin)
1997
◊ Winner: Trial of Passion by William Deverell (McClelland & Stewart)
1996
◊ Winner: Rose by Martin Cruz Smith (Random House)
1995
◊ Winner: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday)
1994
◊ Winner: Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke (Hyperion)
1993
◊ Winner: The Mexican Tree Duck by James Crumley (Mysterious Press)
1992
◊ Winner: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman (Putnam)
1991
◊ Winner: Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard (Delacorte)