# Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, established in 2000, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.

## Recipients

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller winners and finalists :
| Year | Author | Title | Result |
| 2000 | Val McDermid | A Place of Execution | Winner |
| 2000 | Michael Dibdin | Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery | Finalist |
| 2000 | Peter Robinson | Cold Is the Grave | Finalist |
| 2000 | James Lee Burke | Purple Cane Road | Finalist |
| 2000 | George P. Pelecanos | Shame the Devil | Finalist |
| 2001 | T. Jefferson Parker | Silent Joe | Winner |
| 2001 | David Fulmer | Chasing the Devil’s Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans | Finalist |
| 2001 | Henry Bromell | Little America | Finalist |
| 2001 | C. J. Box | Open Season: A Joe Pickett Novel | Finalist |
| 2001 | Marshall Browne | The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders | Finalist |
| 2002 | George P. Pelecanos | Hell to Pay | Winner |
| 2002 | Tod Goldberg | Living Dead Girl | Finalist |
| 2002 | Henning Mankell and Ebba Segerberg | One Step Behind | Finalist |
| 2002 | Scott Turow | Reversible Errors | Finalist |
| 2002 | Stephen L. Carter | The Emperor of Ocean Park | Finalist |
| 2003 | George P. Pelecanos | Soul Circus | Winner |
| 2003 | Rebecca Pawel | Death of a Nationalist | Finalist |
| 2003 | Neil Gordon | The Company You Keep | Finalist |
| 2003 | Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson | The Dogs of Riga | Finalist |
| 2003 | Peter Lovesey | The House Sitter | Finalist |
| 2004 | Kem Nunn | Tijuana Straits | Winner |
| 2004 | Ian Rankin | A Question of Blood | Finalist |
| 2004 | Alan Furst | Dark Voyage | Finalist |
| 2004 | Charles McCarry | Old Boys | Finalist |
| 2004 | Henning Mankell and Laurie Thompson | The Return of the Dancing Master | Finalist |
| 2005 | Robert Littell | Legends | Winner |
| 2005 | John Harvey | Ash & Bone | Finalist |
| 2005 | Peter Robinson | Strange Affair | Finalist |
| 2005 | Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer | Finalist |
| 2005 | James Crumley | The Right Madness | Finalist |
| 2006 | Michael Connelly | Echo Park | Winner |
| 2006 | Patrick Neate | City of Tiny Lights | Finalist |
| 2006 | George P. Pelecanos | The Night Gardener | Finalist |
| 2006 | Don Winslow | The Winter of Frankie Machine | Finalist |
| 2006 | Jess Walter | The Zero | Finalist |
| 2007 | Karin Fossum with Charlotte Barslund (trans.) | The Indian Bride | Winner |
| 2007 | Benjamin Black | Christine Falls | Finalist |
| 2007 | Åke Edwardson | Frozen Tracks | Finalist |
| 2007 | Jan Costin Wagner | Ice Moon | Finalist |
| 2007 | Tana French | In the Woods | Finalist |
| 2008 | Michael Koryta | Envy the Night | Winner |
| 2008 | Simon Lewis | Bad Traffic | Finalist |
| 2008 | Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 | Finalist |
| 2008 | Nina Revoyr | The Age of Dreaming | Finalist |
| 2008 | Colin Harrison | The Finder | Finalist |
| 2009 | Stuart Neville | The Ghosts of Belfast | Winner |
| 2009 | Val McDermid | A Darker Domain | Finalist |
| 2009 | Attica Locke | Black Water Rising | Finalist |
| 2009 | Megan Abbott | Bury Me Deep | Finalist |
| 2009 | David Ellis | The Hidden Man | Finalist |
| 2010 | Tom Franklin | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Winner |
| 2010 | Kelli Stanley | City of Dragons | Finalist |
| 2010 | Stuart Neville | Collusion | Finalist |
| 2010 | Tana French | Faithful Place | Finalist |
| 2010 | Laura Lippman | I’d Know You Anywhere | Finalist |
| 2011 | Stephen King | 11/22/63 | Winner |
| 2011 | Eoin Colfer | Plugged | Finalist |
| 2011 | A.D. Miller | Snowdrops | Finalist |
| 2011 | Kate Atkinson | Started Early, Took My Dog | Finalist |
| 2011 | Denise Mina | The End of the Wasp Season | Finalist |
| 2012 | Tana French | Broken Harbor | Winner |
| 2012 | Nick Harkaway | Angelmaker | Finalist |
| 2012 | Chris Pavone | The Expats | Finalist |
| 2012 | Fuminori Nakamura | The Thief | Finalist |
| 2012 | Ariel S. Winter | The Twenty-Year Death | Finalist |
| 2013 | Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling) | The Cuckoo's Calling | Winner |
| 2013 | Richard Crompton | Hour of the Red God | Finalist |
| 2013 | John Grisham | Sycamore Row | Finalist |
| 2013 | Ferdinand von Schirach | The Collini Case | Finalist |
| 2013 | Gene Kerrigan | The Rage | Finalist |
| 2014 | Tom Bouman | Dry Bones in the Valley | Winner |
| 2014 | Laura Lippman | After I’m Gone | Finalist |
| 2014 | Shawn Lawrence Otto | Sins of Our Fathers | Finalist |
| 2014 | Peter Swanson | The Girl With a Clock for a Heart | Finalist |
| 2014 | Peter Heller | The Painter | Finalist |
| 2015 | Don Winslow | The Cartel | Winner |
| 2015 | Brian Panowich | Bull Mountain | Finalist |
| 2015 | Lou Berney | The Long and Faraway Gone | Finalist |
| 2015 | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | Finalist |
| 2015 | Richard Price | The Whites | Finalist |
| 2016 | Bill Beverly | Dodgers | Winner |
| 2016 | Thomas Mullen | Darktown | Finalist |
| 2016 | Emma Cline | The Girls | Finalist |
| 2016 | Graeme Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae | Finalist |
| 2016 | Ian McGuire | The North Water | Finalist |
| 2017 | Joyce Carol Oates | A Book of American Martyrs | Winner |
| 2017 | Attica Locke | Bluebird, Bluebird | Finalist |
| 2017 | Michael Connelly | The Late Show | Finalist |
| 2017 | Paul LaFarge | The Night Ocean | Finalist |
| 2017 | Ivy Pochoda | Wonder Valley | Finalist |
| 2018 | Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, the Serial Killer | Winner |
| 2018 | Megan Abbott | Give Me Your Hand | Finalist |
| 2018 | Kent Anderson | Green Sun | Finalist |
| 2018 | Lou Berney | November Road | Finalist |
| 2018 | Leïla Slimani | The Perfect Nanny | Finalist |
| 2019 | Steph Cha | Your House Will Pay | Winner |
| 2019 | Attica Locke | Heaven, My Home | Finalist |
| 2019 | Laura Lippman | Lady In the Lake | Finalist |
| 2019 | Jane Harper | The Lost Man | Finalist |
| 2019 | Michael Connelly | The Night Fire | Finalist |
| 2020 | S. A. Cosby | Blacktop Wasteland | Winner |
| 2020 | Rachel Howzell Hall | And Now She’s Gone | Finalist |
| 2020 | Christopher Bollen | A Beautiful Crime | Finalist |
| 2020 | Jennifer Hillier | Little Secrets | Finalist |
| 2020 | Ivy Pochoda | These Women | Finalist |
| 2021 | Megan Abbott | The Turnout | Winner |
| 2021 | Alison Gaylin | The Collective | Finalist |
| 2021 | Michael Connelly | The Dark Hours | Finalist |
| 2021 | S. A. Cosby | Razorblade Tears | Finalist |
| 2021 | Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Velvet Was the Night | Finalist |
| 2022 | Alex Segura | Secret Identity | Winner |
| 2022 | Rachel Howzell Hall | We Lie Here | Finalist |
| 2022 | Laurie R. King | Back to the Garden | Finalist |
| 2022 | Tracy Lien | All That's Left Unsaid | Finalist |
| 2022 | Peng Shepherd | The Cartographers | Finalist |
| 2023 | Ivy Pochoda | Sing Her Down | Winner |
| 2023 | Lou Berney | Dark Ride | Finalist |
| 2023 | S. A. Cosby | All the Sinners Bleed | Finalist |
| 2023 | Jordan Harper | Everybody Knows | Finalist |
| 2023 | Cheryl A. Head | Time’s Undoing | Finalist |