L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZES: Mystery/Thriller Category Finalists

The 45th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes Honorees. Congratulations to all!

2024 Finalists in the Mystery/Thriller Category

LA Times Book Prize Finalists in Mystery/Thriller

The finalists for the 41st Los Angeles Time Book Prizes were announced today. Winners will be announced in a live-streamed virtual ceremony on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on April 16, the day before the 26th Los Angeles Times Festival of Books kicks off its second virtual event during the ongoing pandemic. Special category winners also will be celebrated that day. Congratulations to all!

Mystery/Thriller Finalists

A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen 

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby 

And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall 

Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier 

These Women by Ivy Pochoda

Los Angeles Times Book Prize: Best Mystery/Thriller

The Los Angeles Time Book Prizes were announced on Friday night, kicking off the LA Times Festival of Books. 

Bill Beverly won for Dodgers (Crown) in the Best MysteryThriller category.

Also nominated in the Best Mystery/Thriller category: 
His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Skyhorse)
The Girls by Emma Cline (Random House)
The North Water by Ian McGuire (Henry Holt
Darktown by Thomas Mullen (37 Ink/Atria Books).

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LA Times

The 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes ceremony honors the best books of 2010. The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be awarded April 29, 2011, in a ceremony at the Los Angeles Times building.

The 2010 Book Prizes Innovator’s Award Winner, Robert Kirsch Award Winner, and the category finalists were announced publicly today, February 22, 2011. Congrats to all!

Mystery / Thriller Category
Finalists

Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow)
Tana French, Faithful Place (Viking)
Laura Lippman, I’d Know You Anywhere (William Morrow)
Stuart Neville, Collusion (SoHo Press)
Kelli Stanley, City of Dragons (Minotaur Books/A Thomas Dunne Book)

To see the complete list, go HERE.