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The Dashiell Hammett Prize
Past Winners, Nominees, and Judges
2023
Winner: Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Nominees:
The Almost Widow by Gail AndersonDargatz (Harper Avenue)
Night Letter by Sterling Watson (Akashic)
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon (Alfred A. Knopf)
Stealing by Margaret Verble (Mariner)
Judges:
Janet Jacobsen (Author/Professor)
Ralph Beliveau (Media expert)
R. Grant Tate (IT expert in business and education)
2022
Winner: Pay Dirt Road by Samantha Jayne Allen (Minotaur)
Nominees:
Copperhead Road by Brad Smith (At Bay Press)
Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline (G.P. Putnam)
Gangland by Chuck Hogan
Judges:
Kenneth Turan (Film critic)
Nancy Kilpatrick (Horror writer and editor)
Ann Goldstein (Translator)
2021
Winner: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
Nominees:
Stung by William Deverell (ECW)
Five Decembers by James Kestrel (Hard Case)
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
The Sacrifice of Lester Yates by Robin Yocum (Arcade CrimeWise)
Judges:
Mae Woods (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Meta Carstarphen (Editor at Communication Booknotes Quarterly)
Jennifer Fremlin (Writer and professor, Huntingdon College, Alabama)
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