The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize is an annual award recognizing outstanding books in nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award), history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Below are the winners from the mystery/thriller category which was established in 2000.

2007: The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum (Harcourt)

2006: Echo Park by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

2005: Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation by Robert Littell (Overlook Press)

2004: Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn (Scribner)

2003: Soul Circus by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown)

2002: Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown)

2001: Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Hyperion)

2000: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (St. Martin's Minotaur)