Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Mystery/Thriller

The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners were announced last night at the LA Times Festival of Books. Winner and nominees in Mystery/Thriller category below.  For the complete list of winners in All Categories, go Here.  .

MYSTERY/THRILLER

Joyce Carol Oates, A Book of American Martyrs (Ecco)

Other nominees:
Michael Connelly, The Late Show (Little, Brown)

Paul LaFarge, The Night Ocean (Penguin Press)

Attica Locke, Bluebird, Bluebird (Mulholland)

Ivy Pochoda, Wonder Valley (Ecco)

HT: J. Kingston Pierce, The Rap Sheet

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

The Los Angeles Time Book Prizes were announced last night during the Los Angeles Festival of Books.

Winner in the Mystery/Thriller category:  
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (Norton)


Other Category Winners:
Biography: Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts (Viking)
Current interest: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs (Scribner)
Fiction: The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (Simon & Schuster)
First fiction: Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House Press)
Graphic novel: The Love Bunglers by Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics Books)
History: The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze (Viking)
Poetry: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)
Science and technology: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (Holt)
Young adult literature: The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming (Schwartz & Wade/Random House Children's)
Lifetime achievement: T.C. Boyle
Innovator's award: LeVar Burton 


For winners in all categories, go here.

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes

Tana French's Broken Harbor won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category.

Other Nominees:
Angelmaker, by Nick Harkaway (Knopf)
The Thief, by Fuminori Nakamura (Soho Crime)
The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)
The Twenty-Year Death, by Ariel S. Winter (Hard Case Crime)

For the complete list LA Times Book Prize Winners, go here.