Los Angeles Times Book Prize: mystery/thriller

The Los Angeles Times has honored books annually since 1980. Currently, it does so in many categories that include, among others, biography, current interest, fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. Works are eligible regardless of the language in which they were originally published, but not until the year of their first U.S. publication in English.  The prizes are normally presented before the start of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, another annual event sponsored by the newspaper.

2024: The Puzzle Box: A Novel, by Danielle Trussoni

 

2023: Sing Her Down: A Novel, by Ivy Pochoda

2022: Secret Identity, Alex Segura

2021: The Turnout, by Megan Abbott

2020: Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel, by S.A. Cosby

2019: Your House Will Pay: A Novel, by Steph Cha

2018: My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite

2017: A Book of American Martyrs, by Joyce Carol Oates

2016: Dodgers, by Bill Beverly

2015: The Cartel, by Don Winslow

2014: Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman

2013: The Cuckoo's Calling, by J. K. Rowling (writing as Robert Galbraith)

2012: Broken Harbor, by Tana French

2011: 11/22/63, by Stephen King

2010: Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin

2009: The Ghosts of Belfast, by Stuart Neville

2008: Envy the Night, by Michael Koryta

2007: The Indian Bride, by Karin Fossum

2006: Echo Park, by Michael Connelly

2005: Legends, by Robert Little

2004: Tijuana Straits, by Kem Nunn

2003: Soul Circus, by George P. Pelicans

2002: Hell to Pay, by George P. Pelicans

2001: Silent Joe, by T. Jefferson Parker

2000: A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid