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Crime Fiction Notable Books: 2000
Some of the major hardcover titles scheduled for release in the
U.S. All information is subject to change and dyslexic typos.
Alphabetically arranged by author.A star indicates the book received at least one starred review
(indicating that review source felt the title was exceptional)
from the following sources: Booklist
(BL), Publisher's
Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library
Journal (LJ).
| Author | Title | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abel, Kenneth | Cold Steel Rain | Sept |  |
| Aubert, Brigette | Death from the Woods | Jan | |
| Barr, Nevada | Deep South | March | NYT Notable |
| Bingham, Robert | Lightning on the Sun | April 14th | NYT Notable |
| Bland, Eleanor | Scream in Silence | Feb | |
| Block, Lawrence | Hit List | Nov | |
| Bowen, Peter | The Stick Game | April | |
| Boyle, Gerry | Cover Story | Jan | |
| Brett, Simon | The Body on the Beach: A Fethering Mystery | Aug | |
| Brown, Rita Mae | Outfoxed | Jan | |
| Bugge, Carole | The Haunting of Torre Abbey | April | |
| Burke, James Lee | Purple Cane Road: Dave Robicheaux | Aug 15th | NYT Notable |
| Cannell, Dorothy | Bridesmaids Revisted | June | |
| Campbell, Ramsey | The Silent Children | July | |
| Carlon, Patricia | Unquiet Night | June | |
| Carter, Charlotte | Drumstick | Jan | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Caudwell, Sarah | The Sibyl in Her Grave | July 11th | NYT Notable |
| Chiu, Hsiao-Lung | Death of a Red Heroine | June | |
| Clancy, Tom | The Bear and the Dragon: Jack Ryan | August | |
| Coben, Harlan | Darkest Fear | June 13th | |
| Connelly, Michael | Void Moon | Jan | |
| Constantine, K.C. | Grievance: Rugs Carlucci | June | |
| Cook, Christopher | Robbers | Dec | |
| Cook, Thomas H. | Places in the Dark | May 2nd | |
| Crabbe, Richard E. | Suspension | Nov | |
| Crais, Robert | Demolition Angel: Carol Starkey | May 16th | |
| Cross, Amanda | Honest Doubt | Nov | |
| David, James F. | Ship of the Damned | Aug | |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | The Empty Chair: Lincoln Rhyme | May 9th | NYT Notable |
| DeMille, Nelson | The Lion's Game | Jan | |
| Dexter, Colin | The Remorseful Day: The Final Morse | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Diamond, Diana | The Trophy Wife | April | |
| Dibdin, Michael | Blood Rain: Aurelio Zen | April | |
| Dorsey, Tim | Hammerhead Ranch Motel | Aug | |
| Doughty, Louise | An English Murder | May | |
| Eddy, Paul | Flint | Sept | |
| Elkins, Aaron | Skeleton Dance: Gideon Oliver | April | |
| Ellis, Rhian | After Life | July | |
| Emerson, Kathy Lynn | Face Down Under the Wych Elm | Dec | |
| Ephron, G.H. | Amnesia | Sept | |
| Estleman, Loren D. | A Smile on the Face of the Tiger | Aug | |
| Evanovich, Janet | Hot Six | June 20th | |
| Evans, Roy Aaron | Bloodroot | Oct | |
| Follett, Ken | Code to Zero | Dec | |
| Francis, Dick | Shattered | Sept | |
| Frazer, Margaret | The Squire's Tale | Dec | |
| Fyfield, Frances | Staring at the Light | Feb | |
| Gill, Bartholomew | Death of an Irish Lover | June | |
| Gorman, Ed | Wake Up Little Susie: Sam McCain | Jan | |
| Greenleaf, Stephen | Ellipsis: John Marshall Tanner | July | |
| Grisham, John | The Brethern | March | |
| Hamilton, Steve | Winter of the Wolf Moon | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Harper, Karen | The Tidal Pool: An Elizabeth I Mystery | Feb | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Harrison, Colin | Afterburn | Jan | |
| Harrison, Jamie | Blue Deer Thaw | Feb | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Hawke, Simon | A Mystery of Errors | Dec | |
| Hayder, Mo | Birdman | Jan | |
| Haywood, Anthony Gar | All the Lucky Ones are Dead: Aaron Gunner | Jan | |
| Henderson, Lauren | The Strawberry Tattoo (trade paper) | Sept | |
| Henderson, Lauren | Freeze My Margarita trade paper | Feb | |
| Hess, Joan | A Conventional Corpse | June | |
| Hess, Joan | Murder at Maggody.Com | Jan | |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Sick Puppy | Feb | NYT Notable |
| Higgins, George | At End of Day | May | |
| Hillerman, Tony | Hunting Badger: Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn | Jan | |
| Hirshfield, Corson | Aloha Mr. Lucky | March | |
| Hoffman, William | Blood and Guile | Nov | |
| Holman, Sheri | The Dress Lodger | Jan | |
| Holmes, Guy | P.E.A.C.E : A Novel of Police Terror | Dec | |
| Horn, Stephen | In Her Defense | May | |
| Howatch, Susan | The High Flyer | July | |
| Hunter, Stephen | Hot Springs | June | |
| Iles, Greg | 24 Hours | Sept | |
| Jackson, Jon A. | La Donna Detroit: Sgt Mulheisen | Aug | |
| James, Bill | Kill Me: Harpur & Iles | May | |
| Jeffries, Roderic | An Enigmatic Disappearance | Oct | |
| Kanar, Stephen | The J Factor (mass market paper) | Jan | |
| Kellerman, Faye | Stalker | Aug | |
| Kelley, Norman | The Big Mango (trade paper) | Sept | |
| Kimball, Michael | Mouth to Mouth | Feb | |
| King, Laurie R. | Night Work: Kate Martinelli | March | |
| Klein, Daniel | Kill Me Tender | July | |
| Koontz, Dean | False Memory | Jan | |
| Krabbe, Tim | The Cave | Oct | |
| Krist, Gary | Chaos Theory | Jan | |
| Landsale, Joe R. | The Bottoms | Sept | NYT Notable |
| Law, Janice | The Night Bus | June | |
| Leonard, Elmore | Pagan Babies | Sept 12 | |
| Lescroart, John | Nothing But the Truth | Jan | |
| Lippman, Laura | The Sugar House | Sept | |
| Livesey, Margot | The Missing World | Jan | NYT Notable |
| Logue, Mary | Dark Coulee: Claire Watkins | Oct | |
| Lovesey, Peter | The Vault | Sept | |
| Maitland, Barry | The Malcontenta: Kathy Kolla and David Brock | Aug | |
| Mankell, Henning | Fifth Woman: Kurt Wallender | Aug | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Margolin, Philip | Wild Justice | Sept | |
| Marshall, James Vance | White-Out | Dec | |
| McClister, Michael | Double Deal | Oct | |
| McCrumb, Sharon | The PMS Outlaws: Elizabeth McPherson | Sept | |
| McDermid, Val | Place of Execution | Sept | NYT Notable |
| McNab, Andy | Crisis Four | July | |
| Mesce Bill & Steve Szilagyi | The Advocate: A Novel of World War II | Sept 5 | |
| Muller, Marcia | Listen to the Silence | July | |
| Nadelson, Reggie | Bloody London | Jan | |
| Parker, Robert B. | Hugger Mugger: Spenser | March | |
| Parker, T. Jefferson | Red Light | April | |
| Patterson, James | Roses are Red: Alex Cross | Nov | |
| Pears, Iain | The Immaculate Deception | Oct | |
| Pearson, Ridley | Middle of Nowhere | June | |
| Pelecanos, George | Shame the Devil | Jan | |
| Perdue, Lewis | Daughter of God | April | |
| Perry, Thomas | Blood Money: Jane Whitefield | Jan | |
| Peters, Elizabeth | He Shall Thunder the Sky | May 3rd | |
| Phillips, Scott | The Ice Harvest | Nov | NYT Notable SF Chronicle Best Mystery |
| Pickard, Nancy | The Whole Truth | March | |
| Pottinger, Stanley | A Slow Burning | Feb | |
| Porter, Henry | Remembrance Day | May | |
| Powers, Thomas | The Confirmation | June | |
| Prieto, Jose Manuel | Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire | Nov | |
| Puzo, Mario | Omerta | June | |
| Pyper, Andrew | Lost Girls | June | NYT Notable |
| Rankin, Ian | Set in Darkness: Rebus | Nov | LJ Best Books - Genre |
| Rawlinson, Peter | Indictment for Murder | Feb | |
| Reichs, Kathy | Deadly Decisions: Tempe Brennan | July | |
| Riordan, Rick | The Last King of Texas | Feb | |
| Robinson, Peter | Cold Is the Grave: Alan Banks | Oct | |
| Saylor, Steven | Last Seen in Massilia: A Novel of Ancient Rome | Oct | |
| Scottoline, Lisa | Moment of Truth | April | |
| Seymour, Gerald | A Line in the Sand | August | |
| Shields, Jody | The Fig Eater | March | |
| Simmons, Dan | Darwin's Blade | Nov | |
| Smith, Peter Moore | Raveling | July | |
| Smith, Sarah | A Citizen of the Country | Aug | |
| Stark, Richard | Flashfire | Nov | |
| Stuart, Leah | Body of a Girl | Aug | |
| Swift, Virginia | Brown-Eyed Girl | April | |
| Taibo, Paco | Just Passing Through | March | |
| Tanenbaum, Robert K. | True Justice | Aug | |
| Tapply, William G. | Scar Tissue: Brady Coyne | Oct | |
| Taylor, Andrew | The Office of the Dead | Aug | |
| Thorpe, Adam | Pieces of Light | Jan | |
| Todd, Charles | Legacy of the Dead: Inspector Ian Rutledge | Oct 3 | NYT Notable |
| Tope, Rebecca | A Dirty Death | June | |
| Truluck, Bob | Street Level | Sept | |
| Vine, Barbara | Grasshopper | Oct | |
| Wager, Walter | Tunnel | April | |
| Waters, Sarah | Affinity | May | |
| White, Randy Wayne | Ten Thousand Islands | May | |
| Whitelaw, Stella | Pray and Die | Dec | |
| Wilhelm, Kate | No Defense | Jan | |
| Wilson, F. Paul | All the Rage: Repairman Jack | Oct | |
| Wilson, John Morgan | The Limits of Justice: A Benjamin Justice | Aug | |
| Wilson, Robert | A Small Death in Lisbon | Oct | NYT Notable LJ Best Books |
| Wright, Lawrence | God's Favorite | March | |
| Xialong, Qui | The Death of a Red Heroine | June | |
| Lynch, Patrick | Figure of 8 | Feb | |