2018 SPOTTED OWL AWARD WINNER

The Friends of Mystery announced the 2018 Spotted Owl Award Winner 

Ingrid Thoft for Duplicity

Other Finalists

• Robert Dugoni for Close to Home
• Matthew Sullivan for Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
• Mike Lawson for K Street
• G.M. Ford for Family Values
• Rene Denfeld for The Child Finder
• Martin Limon for The Nine-Tailed Fox
• Michael Niemann for Illicit Trade
• Lisa Alber for Path into Darkness
• Warren Easley for Blood for Wine
• Stephen Holgate for Tangier

The Spotted Owl is chosen by a volunteer committee of Friends of Mystery members, and is announced in the spring of the year. For a book to be considered for the Spotted Owl Award: The author must have primary residence in the states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho or the Province of British Columbia. The mystery is published in the current calendar year.