Publishers Weekly Best Books - Mystery/Thriller (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

2023

Everybody Knows
(*)
Jordan Harper

The Eden Test
(*)
Adam Sternbergh

All the Sinners Bleed
(*)
S.A. Cosby

The Devil's Playground
(*)
Craig Russell

Excavations
(*)
Hannah Michell

Flags on the Bayou
(*)
James Lee Burke

How Can I Help You
(*)
Laura Sims

A Most Agreeable Murder
(*)
Julia Seales

Strange Sally Diamond
(*)
Liz Nugent

Tell Me What I Am
(*)
Una Mannion

Bright Young Women
(*)
Jessica Knoll

The Most Secret Memory of Men
(*)
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

2022

Targeted
(*)
Stephen Hunter

Her Perfect Twin
(*)
Sarah Bonner

Blood Sugar
(*)
Sascha Rothchild

Death and the Conjuror
(*)
Tom Mead

The Kingdoms of Savannah
(*)
George Dawes Green

Dear Little Corpses
(*)
Nicola Upson

All That's Left Unsaid
(*)
Tracey Lien

The Wheel of Doll
(*)
Jonathan Ames

Double Exposure
(*)
Ava Barry

Jackal
(*)
Erin E. Adams

Anywhere You Run
(*)
Wanda M. Morris

Blackwater Falls
(*)
Ausma Zehanat Khan

2021

The Bloodless Boy
(*)
Robert J. Lloyd

Midnight, Water City
(*)
Chris McKinney

The Push
(*)
Ashley Audrain

Who is Maud Dixon?
(*)
Alexandra Andrews

The Anatomy of Desire
(*)
L.R. Dorn

The Photographer
(*)
Mary Dixie Carter

The Plot
(*)
Jean Hanff Korelitz

Black Ice
(*)
Carin Gerhardsen

Steel Fear
(*)
Brandon Webb

These Toxic Things
(*)
Rachel Howzell Hall

The Anomaly
(*)
Herve Le Tellier

Five Decembers
(*)
James Kestrel

2020

Eight Perfect Murders
(*)
Peter Swanson

The End of October
(*)
Lawrence Wright

The Familiar Dark
(*)
Amy Engel

Black Sun Rising
(*)
Matthew Carr

Seven Lies
(*)
Elizabeth Kay

The Golden Cage
(*)
Camilla Lackberg

The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne
(*)
Elsa Hart

The Wicked Sister
(*)
Karen Dionne

Winter Counts
(*)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

And Now She's Gone
(*)
Rachel Howzell Hall

The Forger's Daughter
(*)
Bradford Morrow

The Devil and the Dark Water
(*)
Stuart Turton

2019

The Silent Patient
(*)
Alex Michaelides

Alice's Island
(*)
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo

Conviction
(*)
Denise Mina

Good Girl, Bad Girl
(*)
Michael Robotham

Lady in the Lake
(*)
Laura Lippman

Red Metal
(*)
Mark Greaney; H. Ripley Rawlings IV

Game of Snipers
(*)
Stephen Hunter

This Poison Will Remain
(*)
Fred Vargas

The Bone Fire
(*)
S.D. Sykes

Your House Will Pay
(*)
Steph Cha

2018

The Widows of Malabar Hill
(*)
Sujata Massey

American by Day
(*)
Derek B. Miller

The 8 Mansion Murders
(*)
Takemaru Abiko

Savage Liberty
(*)
Eliot Pattison

The Word Is Murder
(*)
Anthony Horowitz

City of Ink
(*)
Elsa Hart

Our House
(*)
Louise Candlish

Red, White, Blue
(*)
Lea Carpenter

The Man Who Came Uptown
(*)
George P. Pelecanos

Resurrection Bay
(*)
Emma Viskic

The Fox
(*)
Frederick Forsyth

Nine Perfect Strangers
(*)
Liane Moriarty

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018