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| 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 | |
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