THE HAMMETT PRIZE:
PAST WINNERS, NOMINEES, AND JUDGES
2007
WINNER:
The Outlander, by
Gil Adamson (House of Anansi Press)
NOMINEES:
•
The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel,
by Michael Chabon
(HarperCollins)
•
End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery,
by Michael Dibdin [1947-
2007] (Pantheon)
•
Dahlia's Gone: A Novel, by Katie Estill (St. Martin’s)
•
Stalin's Ghost: An Arkady Renko Novel, by
Martin Cruz Smith
(Simon & Schuster)
JUDGES:
• Gary Giddins (Author, Critic)
• Michael Posner (Arts Features writer, Globe
and Mail)
• Luanne Rice (Novelist)
2006
WINNER:
The Prisoner of Guantánamo,
by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)
NOMINEES:
•
Ghost Dancer, by John Case (Ballantine)
• Dark Companion, by Jim
Nisbet (Dennis MacMillan)
• The Crimes of Jordan Wise, by
Bill Pronzini (Walker)
• Four Kinds of Rain, by Robert
Ward (St. Martin's)
JUDGES:
• Joe Drabyak
(Bookseller.
President, New Atlantic Booksellers
Association)
• Jill Lepore (Author, Critic)
• Eric Ormsby (Poet, Essayist)
2005
WINNER:
Alibi: A Novel, by Joseph Kanon (Henry
Holt)
NOMINEES:
•
Islandbridge, by John Brady (McArthur & Co.)
• The Door to Bitterness, by Martin
Límon (Soho Crime)
• No Country for Old Men, by Cormac
McCarthy (Knopf)
• The Power of the Dog, by Don Winslow
(Knopf)
JUDGES:
• André Aciman (Author)
• Karen Rothmyer (Editor, The Nation)
• Lynn Slotkin (Theatre reviewer, CBC-Radio/The
Slotkin Letter)
2004
WINNER: Prince of
Thieves: A Novel by Chuck Hogan
(Scribner)
NOMINEES:
• The Havana Room by Colin Harrison (Farrar, Straus
& Giroux)
• The Madman's Tale: A Novel by John Katzenbach
(Ballantine)
• California Girl: A Novel by T. Jefferson Parker (William
Morrow)
• Playing with Fire: A Novel of Suspense by Peter
Robinson
(William Morrow)
JUDGES:
• Joe Cahill (Editor,
Crain’s Chicago Business)
• Mary Ann Caws (Critic, Translator)
• Benjamin Cheever (Author)
2003
WINNER: The Seduction of Water
by Carol Goodman (Ballantine)
NOMINEES:
-
The Delicate Storm by
Giles Blunt (Putnam Publishing Group)
-
Tropic of Night by Michael
Gruber (William Morrow)
-
Shutter Island by Dennis
Lehane (William Morrow)
-
Every Secret Thing: A Novel
by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
2002
WINNER: Honor's Kingdom by Owen Parry
(Morrow)
NOMINEES:
-
Jolie Blon's Bounce by
James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster)
-
The Eighth Day by John
Case (Ballantine)
-
Flykiller by Robert Janes
(McArthur/Orion)
-
Bad Boy Brawly Brown by
Walter Mosley (Little, Brown)
2001
WINNER: Kingdom of Shadows by Alan
Furst (Random House)
NOMINEES:
-
Mystic River by Dennis
Lehane (William Morrow)
-
Silent Joe by T. Jefferson
Parker (Hyperion)
-
Right as Rain by George
P. Pelecanos (Little, Brown)
-
Hollowpoint by Rob Reuland
(Random House)
2000
WINNER: The Blind Assassin by Margaret
Atwood (Doubleday/McClelland & Stewart)
NOMINEES:
-
Hot Springs by Stephen
Hunter (Simon & Schuster)
-
The Bottoms by Joe R.
Lansdale (Mysterious Press)
-
The Ice Harvest by Scott
Phillips (Ballantine)
- One-Eyed Jacks by Brad Smith (Doubleday
Canada)
1999
WINNER: Havana Bay by Martin Cruz
Smtih (Random House)
NOMINEES:
-
Heartwood by James Lee
Burke (Doubleday)
-
L.A. Requiem by Robert
Crais (Doubleday)
-
In a Dry Season by Peter
Robinson (Avon)
-
Personal Injuries by Scott
Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
-
Lewis Lapham (Harper's Magazine)
-
Katha Pollitt (poet, critic, The
Nation)
-
Marie Winn (author)
1998
WINNER: Tidewater Blood by William
Hoffman (Algonquin)
NOMINEES:
-
Praying to a Laughing God
by Kevin McColley (Simon & Schuster)
-
The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
by Robert Noah (St. Martin's)
-
The Last Days of Il Duce
by Domenic Stansberry (Permanant)
-
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
(Holt)
-
Barbara Ehrenreich (author)
-
Nina King (Washington Post Book World)
-
Ann Porter (Key Porter Books)
1997
WINNER: Trial of Passion by William
Deverell (McClelland & Stewart)
NOMINEES:
-
Cimarron Rose by James
Lee Burke (Hyperion)
-
Trunk Music by Michael
Connelly (Little, Brown)
-
A Wasteland of Strangers
by Bill Pronzini (Walker)
-
Acts of Murder by L. R.
Wright (Doubleday Canada)
1996
WINNER: Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
(Random House)
NOMINEES:
-
The Poet by Michael Connelly
(Little, Brown)
-
Buzz Cut by James W. Hall
(Delacorte)
-
Innocent Graves by Peter
Robinson (Viking)
-
Damaged Goods by Stephen
Solomita (Scribner)
1995
WINNER: Under the Beetle's Cellar
by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday)
NOMINEES:
-
Smithereens by Susan Taylor
Chehak (Doubleday)
-
The Last Coyote by Michael
Connelly (Little, Brown)
-
Breakheart Hill by Thomas
H. Cook (Bantam)
-
True Crime by Andrew Klavan
(Crown)
1994
WINNER: Dixie City Jam by James Lee
Burke (Hyperion)
NOMINEES:
-
Dogs of God by Pinckney
Benedict (Doubleday)
-
Shot in the Heart by Mikal
Gilmore (Doubleday)
-
Third and Indiana by Steve
Lopez (Viking)
-
Shinju by Laura Joh Rowland
(Random House)
-
Frederick Barthelme (author)
-
Alan Cheuse (All Things Considered)
-
Esther Margolis (Newmarket Press)
1993
WINNER: The Mexican Tree Druck by
James Crumley (Mysterious Press)
NOMINEES:
-
The Black Ice by Michael
Connelly (Little Brown)
-
By Evil Means by Sandra
West Prowell (Walker)
-
Catilina's Riddle by Steven
Saylor (St. Martin's Press)
-
An Occasional Hell by
Randall Silvis (Permanent Press)
1992
WINNER: Turtle Moon by Alice Hoffman
(Putnam)
SPECIAL MENTION: The Ones You Do by
Daniel Woodrell (Holt)
NOMINEES:
-
Trick of the Eye by Jane
Stanton Hitchcock (Dutton)
-
White Butterfly by Walter
Mosley (Norton)
-
Humans by Donald E. Westlake
(Mysterious Press)
1991
WINNER: Maximum Bob by Elmore Leonard
(Delacorte)
NOMINEES:
-
Elsinore by Jerome Charyn
(Mysterious Press)
-
Murther & Walking Spirits
by Robertson Davies (Viking)
-
Harlot's Ghost by Norman
Mailer (Random House)
-
The Women of Whitechapel &
Jack the Ripper by Paul West (Random House)
-
Joyce Carol Oates (author)
-
Elizabeth Pochoda (Entertainment
Weekly)
-
Alan D. Williams (Grove Press)
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