# Hammett Prize

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

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