The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, established in 2000, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

Recipients +Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller winners and finalistsYearAuthorTitleResultRef.2000WinnerBlood Rain: An Aurelio Zen MysteryFinalistCold Is the GravePurple Cane RoadShame the Devil2001Silent JoeWinnerChasing the Devil’s Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New OrleansFinalistLittle AmericaOpen Season: A Joe Pickett Novel2002Hell to PayWinnerLiving Dead GirlFinalist and Ebba SegerbergOne Step BehindReversible Errors2003Soul CircusWinnerDeath of a NationalistFinalist and Laurie Thompson2004Tijuana StraitsWinnerFinalistDark VoyageOld Boys and Laurie Thompson2005LegendsWinnerAsh & BoneFinalistStrange Affair2006Echo ParkWinnerCity of Tiny LightsFinalist2007 with Charlotte Barslund (trans.)WinnerChristine FallsFinalistFrozen TracksIce MoonIn the Woods2008Envy the NightWinnerBad TrafficFinalistChild 442009WinnerFinalistBlack Water RisingBury Me Deep2010Crooked Letter, Crooked LetterWinnerCity of DragonsFinalistCollusionFaithful PlaceI’d Know You Anywhere201111/22/63WinnerPlugged Finalist SnowdropsStarted Early, Took My Dog2012Broken HarborWinnerAngelmakerFinalist2013 (J. K. Rowling)WinnerHour of the Red GodFinalistSycamore Row2014Dry Bones in the ValleyWinnerAfter I’m GoneFinalistSins of Our Fathers2015WinnerBull MountainFinalist2016DodgersWinnerDarktownFinalistHis Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae2017WinnerBluebird, BluebirdFinalistWonder Valley2018My Sister, the Serial KillerWinnerGive Me Your HandFinalistGreen SunNovember Road2019Your House Will PayWinnerHeaven, My HomeFinalistLady In the Lake2020Blacktop WastelandWinnerAnd Now She’s GoneFinalistLittle SecretsThese Women2021WinnerFinalistRazorblade TearsVelvet Was the Night2022Secret IdentityWinnerWe Lie Here Finalist Back to the Garden All That's Left Unsaid 2023Sing Her DownWinnerDark RideFinalistAll the Sinners BleedEverybody KnowsTime’s Undoing

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