The Spotted Owl Award

Friends of Mystery, a non-profit literary/educational organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon, gives an annual award, the Spotted Owl, for the best mystery by a Pacific Northwest author.

2007: Tie: Days of Rage by Kris Nelscott (St. Martin's Minotaur); Lost Angel by Mike Doogan (Putnam)

2006: The Last Victim by Kevin O'Brien (Pinnacle Books)

2005: Stone Cribs by Kris Nelscott (St. Martin's Minotaur)

2004: Second Watch by Lowen Clausen (Silo Press)

2003: Black River by G. M. Ford (Wm. Morrow)

2002: Desperate Measures by Kate Wilhelm (St. Martin's Minotaur)

2001: Crow in Stolen Colors by Marcia Simpson (Poisoned Pen Press)

2000: First Avenue by Lowen Clausen (Watershed Books)

1999: Charlie's Bones by L. L. Thrasher (Write Way Publishing)

1998: Katie's Will by Tom Mitcheltree (Write Way Publishing)

1997: The Music of What Happens by John Straley (Bantam)

1996: The Vanishing Smile by Earl Emerson (Ballantine)