The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing. Established in 1991, it is named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett.
Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Elmore Leonard | Maximum Bob | Winner | |
| Jerome Charyn | Elsinore | Finalist | ||
| Norman Mailer | Harlot’s Ghost | Finalist | ||
| Paul West | The Women of Whitechapel & Jack the Ripper | Finalist | ||
| Robertson Davies | Murther & Walking Spirits | Finalist | ||
| 1992 | Alice Hoffman | Turtle Moon | Winner | |
| Daniel Woodrell | The Ones You Do | Special mention | ||
| Donald E. Westlake | Humans | Finalist | ||
| Jane Stanton Hitchcock | Trick of the Eye | Finalist | ||
| Walter Mosley | White Butterfly | Finalist | ||
| 1993 | James Crumley | The Mexican Tree Duck | Winner | |
| Michael Connelly | The Black Ice | Finalist | ||
| Randall Silvis | An Occasional Hell | Finalist | ||
| Sandra West Prowell | By Evil Means | Finalist | ||
| Steven Saylor | Catilina’s Riddle | Finalist | ||
| 1994 | James Lee Burke | Dixie City Jam | Winner | |
| Laura Joh Rowland | Shinjū | Finalist | ||
| Mikal Gilmore | Shot in the Heart | Finalist | ||
| Pinckney Benedict | Dogs of God | Finalist | ||
| Steve Lopez | Third and Indiana | Finalist | ||
| 1995 | Mary Willis Walker | Under the Beetle's Cellar | Winner | |
| Andrew Klavan | True Crime | Finalist | ||
| Michael Connelly | The Last Coyote | Finalist | ||
| Susan Taylor Chehak | Smithereens | Finalist | ||
| Thomas H. Cook | Breakheart Hill | Finalist | ||
| 1996 | Martin Cruz Smith | Rose | Winner | |
| James W. Hall | Buzz Cut | Finalist | ||
| Michael Connelly | The Poet | Finalist | ||
| Peter Robinson | Innocent Graves | Finalist | ||
| Stephen Solomita | Damaged Goods | Finalist | ||
| 1997 | William Deverell | Trial of Passion | Winner | |
| Bill Pronzini | A Wasteland of Strangers | Finalist | ||
| James Lee Burke | Cimarron Rose | Finalist | ||
| L. R. Wright | Acts of Murder | Finalist | ||
| Michael Connelly | Trunk Music | Finalist | ||
| 1998 | William Hoffman | Tidewater Blood | Winner | |
| Daniel Woodrell | Tomato Red | Finalist | ||
| Domenic Stansberry | The Last Days of Il Duce | Finalist | ||
| Kevin McColley | Praying to a Laughing God | Finalist | ||
| Robert Noah | The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa | Finalist | ||
| 1999 | Martin Cruz Smith | Havana Bay | Winner | |
| James Lee Burke | Heartwood | Finalist | ||
| Peter Robinson | In a Dry Season | Finalist | ||
| Robert Crais | L.A. Requiem | Finalist | ||
| Scott Turow | Personal Injuries | Finalist | ||
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | Winner | |
| Brad Smith | One-Eyed Jacks | Finalist | ||
| Joe R. Lansdale | The Bottoms | Finalist | ||
| Scott Phillips | The Ice Harvest | Finalist | ||
| Stephen Hunter | Hot Springs | Finalist | ||
| 2001 | Alan Furst | Kingdom of Shadows | Winner | |
| Dennis Lehane | Mystic River | Finalist | ||
| George Pelecanos | Right as Rain | Finalist | ||
| Rob Reuland | Hollowpoint | Finalist | ||
| T. Jefferson Parker | Silent Joe | Finalist | ||
| 2002 | Owen Parry | Honor’s Kingdom | Winner | |
| J. Robert Janes | Flykiller | Finalist | ||
| James Lee Burke | The Jolie Blon’s Bounce | Finalist | ||
| John Case | The Eighth Day | Finalist | ||
| Walter Mosley | Bad Boy Brawly Brown | Finalist | ||
| 2003 | Carol Goodman | The Seduction of Water | Winner | |
| Dennis Lehane | Shutter Island | Finalist | ||
| Giles Blunt | The Delicate Storm | Finalist | ||
| Laura Lippman | Every Secret Thing | Finalist | ||
| Michael Gruber | Tropic of Night | Finalist | ||
| 2004 | Chuck Hogan | Prince of Thieves | Winner | |
| Colin Harrison | The Havana Room | Finalist | ||
| John Katzenbach | The Madman's Tale | Finalist | ||
| Peter Robinson | Playing with Fire | Finalist | ||
| T. Jefferson Parker | California Girl | Finalist | ||
| 2005 | Joseph Kanon | Alibi | Winner | |
| Cormac McCarthy | No Country for Old Men | Finalist | ||
| Don Winslow | The Power of the Dog | Finalist | ||
| John Brady | Islandbridge | Finalist | ||
| Martin Límon | The Door to Bitterness | Finalist | ||
| 2006 | Dan Fesperman | The Prisoner of Guantánamo | Winner | |
| Bill Pronzini | The Crimes of Jordan Wise | Finalist | ||
| Jim Nisbet | Dark Companion | Finalist | ||
| John Case | Ghost Dancer | Finalist | ||
| Robert Ward | Four Kinds of Rain | Finalist | ||
| 2007 | Gil Adamson | The Outlander | Winner | |
| Katie Estill | Dahlia’s Gone | Finalist | ||
| Martin Cruz Smith | Stalin’s Ghost | Finalist | ||
| Michael Chabon | The Yiddish Policemen's Union | Finalist | ||
| Michael Dibdin | End Games | Finalist | ||
| 2008 | George Pelecanos | The Turnaround | Winner | |
| Abraham Rodríguez | South by South Bronx | Finalist | ||
| Colin Harrison | The Finder | Finalist | ||
| David Levien | City of the Sun | Finalist | ||
| Heywood Gould | Leading Lady | Finalist | ||
| 2009 | Jedediah Berry | The Manual of Detection | Winner | |
| Ace Atkins | Devil’s Garden | Finalist | ||
| George Pelecanos | The Way Home | Finalist | ||
| Megan Abbott | Bury Me Deep | Finalist | ||
| Walter Mosley | The Long Fall | Finalist | ||
| 2010 | Olen Steinhauer | The Nearest Exit | Winner | |
| Jonathan Eig | Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster | Finalist | ||
| T. Jefferson Parker | Iron River | Finalist | ||
| Tom Franklin | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Finalist | ||
| 2011 | James Sallis | The Killer Is Dying | Winner | |
| James Lee Burke | Feast Day of Fools | Finalist | ||
| Michael Ondaatje | The Cat's Table | Finalist | ||
| Sara Gran | Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead | Finalist | ||
| Thomas Perry | The Informant | Finalist | ||
| 2012 | Howard Owen | Oregon Hill | Winner | |
| G. Willow Wilson | Alif the Unseen | Finalist | ||
| Jim Lynch | Truth Like the Sun | Finalist | ||
| Kurt Palka | Patient Number 7 | Finalist | ||
| William Landay | Defending Jacob | Finalist | ||
| 2013 | Richard Lange | Angel Baby | Winner | |
| Craig Davidson | Cataract City | Finalist | ||
| George P. Pelecanos | The Double | Finalist | ||
| Heywood Gould | Green Light for Murder | Finalist | ||
| Lisa Moore | Caught | Finalist | ||
| 2014 | Stephen King | Mr. Mercedes | Winner | |
| James Lee Burke | Wayfaring Stranger | Finalist | ||
| Krista Foss | Smoke River | Finalist | ||
| Peyton Marshall | Goodhouse | Finalist | ||
| Tod Goldberg | Gangsterland | Finalist | ||
| 2015 | Lisa Sandlin | The Do-Right | Winner | |
| Harlan Coben | The Stranger | Finalist | ||
| Harry Brandt | The Whites | Finalist | ||
| Michael J. McCann | Sorrow Lake | Finalist | ||
| Stu Strumwasser | The Organ Broker | Finalist | ||
| 2016 | Domenic Stansberry | The White Devil | Winner | |
| Bob Truluck | The Big Nothing | Finalist | ||
| Duane Swierczynski | Revolver | Finalist | ||
| Nicholas Petrie | The Drifter | Finalist | ||
| Steve Hamilton | The Second Life of Nick Mason | Finalist | ||
| 2017 | Stephen Mack Jones | August Snow | Winner | |
| Ernest J. Gaines | The Tragedy of Brady Sims | Finalist | ||
| Karen Dionne | The Marsh King’s Daughter | Finalist | ||
| Randall Silvis | Two Days Gone | Finalist | ||
| 2018 | Lou Berney | November Road | Winner | |
| Lisa Unger | Under My Skin | Finalist | ||
| Robert Olen Butler | Paris in the Dark | Finalist | ||
| Sam Wiebe | Cut You Down | Finalist | ||
| William Boyle | The Lonely Witness | Finalist | ||
| 2019 | Jane Stanton Hitchcock | Bluff | Winner | |
| Jonathan Moore | Blood Relations | Finalist | ||
| Nicholas Meyer | The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols | Finalist | ||
| Peter Houlahan | Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Finalist | ||
| William Bayer | The Murals | Finalist | ||
| 2020 | David Joy | When These Mountains Burn | Winner | |
| Cara Black | Three Hours in Paris | Finalist | ||
| David Heska Wanbli Weiden | Winter Counts | Finalist | ||
| Nev March | Murder in Old Bombay | Finalist | ||
| Sarah Stewart Taylor | The Mountains Wild | Finalist | ||
| 2021 | S. A. Cosby | Razorblade Tears | Winner | |
| William Deverell | Stung | Finalist | ||
| James Kestrel | Five Decembers | Finalist | ||
| Colson Whitehead | Harlem Shuffle | Finalist | ||
| Robin Yocum | The Sacrifice of Lester Yates | Finalist | ||
| 2022 | Samantha Jayne Allen | Pay Dirt Road | Winner | |
| Brad Smith | Copperhead Road | Finalist | ||
| Eli Cranor | Don't Know Tough | Finalist | ||
| Lisa Scottoline | What Happened to the Bennetts | Finalist | ||
| Chuck Hogan | Gangland | Finalist | ||
| 2023 | Colson Whitehead | Crook Manifesto | Winner | |
| Gail Anderson-Dargatz | The Almost Widow | Finalist | ||
| Sterling Watson | Night Letter | Finalist | ||
| Clémence Michallon | The Quiet Tenant | Finalist | ||
| Margaret Verble | Stealing | Finalist |
References
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External links
- Award guidelines Archived July 2, 2018, at the Wayback Machine