| Author | Title ~ Main Character | Date | Stars Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abel, Kenneth | The Burying Field | April |  |
| Abrahams, Peter | The Tutor | June | |
| Andrews, Donna | You've Got Murder | April | Dilys Award Nominee Agatha Award Winner Best Novel |
| Andrews, Mary Kay | Savannah Blues | Feb | Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel Macavity Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Andrews, Robert | A Murder of Promise | March | |
| Arnott, Jake | He Kills Coppers | Jan | Washington Post Rave |
| Axelrod, Larry | Plea Bargain | Oct | Washington Post Rave |
| Bailey, Robert | Private Heat: Art Hardin | Feb | Shamus Award Nominee Best First P.I. Novel |
| Barr, Nevada | Hunting Season | Feb | |
| Bayer, William | Dream of Broken Horses | Feb | |
| Beaton, M. C. | Death of a Celebrity: Hamish McBeth | Jan | Booklist Best Crime Novels |
| Bevill, C.L. | Bayou Moon | Oct | 1st |
| Biehl, Michael | Doctored Evidence | June | 1st LJ Best Debut |
| Billingham, Mark | Sleepyhead | July |
1st Sun-Sentinel Best Booklist Best First Crime Novel |
| Bissell, Sallie | A Darker Justice | Jan 2 | LA Times Best Books |
| Black, Cara | Murder in the Sentier | April | Anthony Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Bloch, Jon P. | Best Murder of the Year | May | |
| Block, James B./Zagel, James | Money to Burn | June | |
| Booth, Stephen | Blood on the Tongue | Oct | PW Best of 2002 Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Bowen, Peter | Ash Child: Gabriel Du Pre | April | |
| Bowen, Rhys | Death of Riley: Molly Murphy | Dec | Agatha Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Box, C.J. | Savage Run | June | Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Brett, Simon | The Torso in Town | Aug | |
| Broadbent, Tony | The Smoke: A Creeping Narrative | Sept | 1st Booklist Best First Crime Novel Booklist Best Historical Crime Novel |
| Bruen, Ken | London Boulevard (trade paper) | March | |
| Buchanan, Edna | The Ice Maiden | Nov | |
| Buckley, Fiona | Queen of Ambition: Ursula Blanchard | Jan | |
| Burke, James Lee | Jolie Blon's Bounce: Dave Robicheaux | June | NYTBR Notable Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel Hammett Nominee Macavity Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Burke, Jan | Nine | Oct | Sun-Sentinel Best Macavity Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Camilleri, Andrea | The Terra-Cotta Dog: Salvo Montabano | Nov | Booklist Best Crime Novel Runners-up |
| Camilleri, Andrea | The Shape of Water: Salvo Montabano | May | |
| Carter, Stephen L. | The Emperor of Ocean Park | June | 1st NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
| Carver, Caroline | Blood Junction | Sept |
1st PW Best of 2002 |
| Case, John | The Eighth Day | Nov 2 | Hammett Nominee |
| Champion, David | She Died for Her Sins: Bomber Hanson | May | LJ Best Genre Fiction |
| Chandler, Raymond | Collected Stories (paper) | Oct | |
| Child, Lee | Without Fail | May | Booklist Best Crime Novel Runners-up Dilys Award Nominee |
| Child, Lincoln | Utopia | Dec 24 | |
| Clark, Mary Higgins | Daddy's Little Girl | April | PW Best of 2002 |
| Clark, Jack | Westerfield's Chain: Nick Acropolis | Nov | Shamus Award Nominee Best First P.I. Novel |
| Cleverly, Barbara | The Last Kashmiri Rose: Murder and Mystery in the Final Days of the Raj | Sept | NYTBR Notable |
| Coben, Harlan | Gone for Good | April | Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Connelly, Michael | Chasing the Dime | Oct 15 | LA Times Best Books |
| Connelly, Michael | City of Bones: Harry Bosch | April | NYTBR Notable Sun-Sentinel Best Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel Anthony Award Winner Best Novel Macavity Award Nominee Best Novel Barry Award Winner Best Novel |
| Connolly, John | Killing Kind | Sept | Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Connors, Rose | Absolute Certainty | Aug | 1st Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner |
| Constantine, K.C. | Saving Room for Dessert: Rocksburg | Aug | Washington Post Rave |
| Corbett, David | The Devil's Redhead | June | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best Anthony Award Nominee Best First Novel |
| Correa, Arnaldo | Spy's Fate | May | |
| Craft, ichael | Hot Spot: Mark Manning | June | Lambda Finalist |
| Crichton, Michael | Prey | Nov 25 | PW Best of 2002 Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults |
| Cross, Amanda | The Edge of Doom | Oct 29 | |
| Dams, Jeanne M. | Silence is Golden: Hilda Johansen | April | |
| Darnton, John | Mind Catcher | Aug | NYTBR Notable |
| David, James F. | Before the Cradle Falls | June | |
| Deaver, Jeffrey | Stone Monkey: Lincoln Rhyme | March 4 | NYTBR Notable |
| Dewberry, Elizabeth | Sacrament of Lies | March | |
| Dezenhall, Eric | Money Wanders | Feb | 1st |
| Dickinson, David | Goodnight Sweet Prince | Jan | |
| Diehl, William | Eureka | Jan | |
| Douglas, Carole Nelson | Cat in a Midnight Choir | May | |
| Eisler, Barry | Rain Fall | July | 1st PW Best of 2002 |
| Elkins, Aaron | Turncoat | May | |
| Ellroy, James (ed) | Best American Mystery Stories 2002 | Oct | |
| Engel, Howard | The Cooperman Variations | Aug | |
| Estleman, Loren | Sinister Heights: Amos Walker | Feb | |
| Evanovich, Janet | Visions of Sugar Plums | Nov 5 | |
| Evanovich, Janet | Hard Eight: Stephanie Plum | June 4th | Booklist Best Crime Novel Runners-up |
| Eversz, Robert M. | Killing Paparazzi | Jan | Washington Post Rave |
| Fforde, Jasper | The Eyre Affair | Jan | |
| Ford, G.M. | Black River | June | |
| Fowler, Earlene | Steps to the Alter | April | |
| Fry, Stephen | Revenge | July | |
| Furst, Alan | Blood of Victory | Aug | LA Times Best Books |
| Fusilli, Jim | A Well-Known Secret | Oct | |
| Garcia-Roza, Luiz | The Silence of Rain | June | Washington Post Rave Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Garrison, Paul | Buried at Sea | Feb | |
| Gerritsen, Tess | The Apprentice | Aug | |
| Goldberg, Tod | Living Dead Girl | May | LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
| Gooden, Philip | Pale Companion: Shakespearean Mystery | July | Booklist Best Crime Novel Runners-up |
| Gordon, Alan | A Death in the Venetian Quarter: Medieval Mystery (Jester series) | March | |
| Gorman, Ed (ed) | The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories | Aug | |
| Grafton, Sue | Q is for Quarry | Oct 14 | NYTBR Notable |
| Grand, David | The Disappearing Body | March | |
| Granger, Pip | Not All Tarts are Apples | Oct | 1st Anthony Award Nominee Best First Novel |
| Gunn, Elizabeth | Seventh Inning Stretch: Jake Hines | June | |
| Hall, James W. | Blackwater Sound: Thorn | Jan | Sun-Sentinel Best Shamus Award Winner Best P.I. Novel |
| Hamilton, Steve | North of Nowhere: Alex McKnight | May | PW Best of 2002 Anthony Award Nominee Best Novel Shamus Award Nominee Best P.I. Novel |
| Hansen, Joseph | Bohannon's Women: Stories | June | |
| Harrison, Sarah | A Dangerous Thing | Jan | |
| Harstad, Donald | Code Sixty-One | March | |
| Hart, Ellen | Immaculate Midnight: Jane Lawless | July | Lambda Winner |
| Harvey, John | In a True Light | Sept |
Washington Post Rave Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Heffernan, William | Unholy Order: Paul Devlin | Feb | |
| Heitman, Lynne | Tarmac (paper) | Feb | |
| Hellmann, Libby Fischer | An Eye for Murder | Nov | Anthony Award Nominee Best First Novel |
| Henderson, Lauren | Chained (trade paper) | Jan | Booklist Best Breakout Bets |
| Henderson, Lauren | Pretty Boy (trade paper) | Sept | |
| Henry, April | Learning to Fly | May | LJ Best Genre Fiction |
| Heywood, Joseph | Blue Wolf in Green Fire: Woods Cop | Sept | |
| Highsmith, Patricia | Nothing That Meets The Eye: Stories | Oct | Washington Post Rave NYTBR Notable |
| Hill, Reginald | Dialogues of the Dead | Jan 2 | |
| Hill, Tobias | The Love of Stones | Jan | |
| Hillerman, Tony | The Wailing Wind: Leaphorn & Chee | June | |
| Holden, Craig | Jazz Bird | Jan |
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| Horn, Stephen | Law of Gravity | Aug | |
| Hunt, Angela Elwell | The Justice (trade paper) | Jan | |
| James, Bill | Double Jeopardy | Jan | |
| James, Bill | Split (new series) | March | |
| James, Dean | Posted to Death: Simon Kirby | April | |
| Johnson, Claire | Beat Until Stiff | Nov | 1st Agatha Award Nominee Best First Novel |
| Kaminsky, Stuart | Not Quite Kosher: Abe Lieberman | Dec | |
| Katzenbach, John | The Analyst | Jan |
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| Kaye, John | The Dead Circus | July | NYTBR Notable Booklist Editor's Choice |
| Kellerman, Faye | Stone Kiss | Aug | |
| Kellerman, Jonathan | The Murder Book | Oct 1 | PW Best of 2002 |
| Kelly, Jack | Mobtown | Jan | |
| Kelly, Nora | Hot Pursuit | April | Ellis Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Kerr, Baine | Wrongful Death | May | |
| Kerr, Philip | Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton | Oct | PW Best of 2002 Booklist Best Historical Crime Novel |
| Killham, Nina | How to Cook a Tart | Oct | Washington Post Rave |
| King, Jonathon | Blue Edge of Midnight | Jan | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best Edgar Award Winner Best First Novel Anthony Award Nominee Best First Novel Macavity Award Best Novel |
| King, Laurie R. | Justice Hall | March 26 | |
| King, Ross | Domino | Nov | |
| Kling, Christine | Surface Tension | Nov | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Krich, Rochelle | Blues in the Night | Oct | Agatha Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Lehane, Cornelius | Beware the Solitary Dinker | Sept | |
| Leonard, Elmore | Tishomingo Blues | Feb | Booklist Best Crime Novels PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books |
| Lescroart, John | The Oath | Jan | |
| Lindsey, Paul | Traps: A Novel of the FBI | Sept | |
| Linscott, Gillian | Dead Man Riding: Nell Bray | Dec | |
| Lippman, Laura | The Last Place | Sept | Sun-Sentinel Best Shamus Award Nominee Best P.I. Novel |
| Lira, Gonzalo | Acrobat | June | |
| Littell, Robert | The Company: The Novel of the CIA 1951-1991 | March | Booklist Best Spy Novels |
| Logan, Chuck | Absolute Zero | Feb | |
| Long, Jeff | Year Zero | April | |
| Lovesey, Peter | Diamond Dust | June | |
| Magnan, Pierre | Beyond the Grave | Oct | |
| Mahoney, Dan | The Protectors: Brian McKenna | Aug | |
| Manchette, Jean-Patrick | The Prone Gunman (paper) | Aug | NYTBR Notable |
| Mankell, Henning | One Step Behind: Kurt Wallander | Feb | LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
| Maron, Margaret | Slow Dollar* | Aug | |
| Martell, Dominic | Lying, Crying, Dying | Feb | 1st Booklist Best Spy Novels |
| Matheson, Richard | Hunted Past Reason | July | PW Best of 2002 |
| Mayor, Archer | The Sniper's Wife | Oct | NYTBR Notable |
| McDermid, Val | The Last Temptation | Sept | Washington Post Rave LA Times Best Books |
| McGarrity, Michael | The Big Gamble* | July | |
| McKinzie, Clinton | The Edge of Justice | May | 1st Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Miller, John | Tropical Heat | Feb | 1st |
| Mina, Denise | Resolution | June | NYTBR Notable LJ Best Genre Fiction |
| Miscione, Lisa | Angel Fire | Feb | 1st |
| Moorcraft, Paul | Anchoress of Shere | April | |
| Morgan, Mary | Deeper Waters | June | 1st |
| Morganroth, Kate | Saved | Aug | |
| Mortimer, John | Rumpole Rest His Case | Nov | |
| Mosley, Walter | Bad Boy Brawly Brown: Easy Rawlins* | July | LA Times Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best Hammett Nominee |
| Muller, Eddie | The Distance: Billy Nichols | Jan | 1st Anthony Award Nominee Best First Novel Macavity Award Nominee Best First Novel Shamus Award Winner Best First P.I. Novel |
| Muller, Marcia | Dead Midnight: Sharon McCone* | June | PW Best of 2002 |
| Nabb, Magdalen | Some Bitter Taste | Oct | |
| Nelscott, Kris | Thin Walls: Smokey Dalton | Sept | |
| O'Connell, Carol | Crime School: Mallory | Sept | |
| Page, Katherine Hall | The Body in the Bonfire: Faith Fairchild | March | Agatha Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Palahniuk, Chuck | Lullaby | Oct | PW Best of 2002 |
| Palmer, Shirley | Danger Zone | Oct | |
| Parker, Robert B. | Shrink Rap: Sunny Randall* | Sept | |
| Parker, T. Jefferson | Black Water: Merci Rayborn* | April | |
| Parry, Owen | Honor's Kingdom: Abel Jones | July | Hammett Nominee |
| Passaro, Vince | Violence, Nudity, Adult Content | Feb | |
| Patterson, James | Four Blind Mice: Alex Cross | Nov 18 | PW Best of 2002 |
| Patterson, James w/Andrew Gross | 2nd Chance | March | |
| Pattison, Eliot | Bone Mountain: Shan | Sept | |
| Pavlou, Stel | Decipher | Sept | |
| Pears, Iain | Dream of Scipio* | June | Booklist Top Ten Historical Novels Washington Post Rave Christian Science Monitor Noteworthy Booklist Editor's Choice |
| Pearson, Ridley | The Art of Deception* | July | |
| Pelecanos, George | Hell to Pay* | Feb | Booklist Best Crime Novels Runners-Up PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books Sun-Sentinel Best LA Times Book Prize Winner Dilys Award Nominee Anthony Award Nominee Best Novel Shamus Award Nominee Best P.I. Novel |
| Penzler, Otto (ed) | Sudden Death: Football Mysteries | June | |
| Perry, Anne | Southampton Row* | Feb | |
| Perry, Anne | Death of a Stranger: Monk | Oct | |
| Peters, Elizabeth | The Golden One: Amelia Peabody* | May | Agatha Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Pickard, Nancy | Truth Hurts | July | Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee |
| Pirie, David | The Patient's Eyes: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes | May | 1st |
| Preston, Douglas & Lincoln Child | The Cabinet of Curiosities* | June | PW Best of 2002 |
| Pronzini, Bill | Bleeders | Jan | Booklist Best Crime Novels PW Best of 2002 |
| Purser, Ann | Murder on Monday | Aug | |
| Rankin, Ian | A Good Hanging: Short Stories | Jan | |
| Reed, Mary & Eric | Three for a Letter: John the Eunuch | Feb | |
| Rehder, Ben | Buck Fever: Blanco County Texas Novel | Sept | 1st PW Best of 2002 LJ Best Genre Fiction Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel |
| Reichs, Kathy | Grave Secrets | July | Ellis Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Reilly, Matthew | Area 7: Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield* | Feb | |
| Rendell, Ruth | Adam and Eve and Pinch Me* | Feb | Washington Post Rave |
| Rice, Christopher | The Snow Garden* | Feb | Lambda Winner |
| Ridley, John | The Drift | Sept | Washington Post Rave |
| Robbins, David L. | Scorched Earth* | March 26 | |
| Rosenfelt, David | Open and Shut | May | 1st Booklist Best First Crime Novel Edgar Award Nominee Best First Novel Shamus Award Nominee Best First P.I. Novel |
| Rozan, S.J. | Winter and Night: Bill Smith & Lydia Chin | Feb | Sun-Sentinel Best Edgar Award Winner Best Novel Anthony Award Nominee Best Novel Macavity Award Winner Best Novel Shamus Award Nominee Best P.I. Novel |
| Russell, Alan | Exposure: A Novel | May | |
| Sandford, John | Mortal Prey* | May | |
| Scott, Manda | No Good Deed | April | Edgar Award Nominee Best Novel |
| Shannon, John | Streets on Fire: Jack Liffey | May | |
| Silva, Daniel | The English Assassin* | Feb | Booklist Best Spy Novels |
| Simmons, Dan | Hard Freeze: Joe Kurtz | Aug | |
| Simmons, Dan | A Winter Haunting | Feb | |
| Slaughter, Karin | Kisscut | Oct | Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Smith, Julie | Louisiana Bigshot: Baroness Pontalba | Aug | LJ Best Genre Fiction |
| Smith, Martin Cruz | December 6 | Oct | PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable |
| Smith, Mary-Ann Tirone | Love Her Madly: Poppy Rice | Jan | |
| Spencer-Fleming, Julia | In the Bleak Midwinter | March | 1st Dilys Award Winner Agatha Award Winner Best First Novel Anthony Award Winner Best First Novel Macavity Award Winner Best Novel Barry Award Winner Best Novel |
| Stabenow, Dana | Better to Rest: Liam Campbell | Sept | |
| Stabenow, Dana | A Fine and Bitter Snow: Kate Shugak | June | |
| Standiford, Les | Bone Key | April | |
| Stark, Richard | Breakout | Nov | Booklist Best Crime Novel |
| Stewart, Mike | A Clean Kill | Jan | PW Best of 2002 |
| Sullivan, Mark T. | Labyrinth | Aug | |
| Swain, James | Funny Money: Tony Valentine | June | PW Best of 2002 |
| Tapply, William G. | A Fine Line: Brady Coyne | Nov | |
| Tartt, Donna | The Little Friend * | Oct | PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice Booklist Best Adult Books for Young Adults |
| Thurlo, Aimee & David | Bad Faith: Sister Agatha | Nov | Willa Finalist - Women Writing the West |
| Todd, Charles | A Fearsome Doubt: Inspector Ian Rutledge | Oct | |
| Torres, Steven | Precinct Puerto Rico: Book One: Luis Gonzalo | June | 1st LJ Best Genre Fiction |
| Turow, Scott | Reversible Errors | Oct 28 | PW Best of 2002 NYTBR Notable LA Times Best Books LA Times Book Prize Finalist |
| Vachss, Andrew | Only Child: Burke | Oct 8 | LA Times Best Books |
| Van Wormer, Laura | The Bad Witness | Nov | Mary Higgins Clark Award Nominee |
| Wait, Lea | Shadows at the Fair: Antique Print Mystery | July | Agatha Award Nominee Best First Novel |
| Walker, David J. | No Show of Remorse: Mal Foley | April | |
| Wall, Alan | The School of Night | March | |
| Walters, Minette | Acid Row* | July | PW Best of 2002 Sun-Sentinel Best |
| Westlake, Donald | Put a Lid on It* | April | LA Times Best Books |
| White, Kate | If Looks Could Kill* | May | 1st PW Best of 2002 |
| White, Robin | The Ice Curtain | Jan 29 | |
| Wilcken, Hugo | The Execution | Jan | 1st |
| Woodcraft, Elizabeth | Good Bad Woman | Sept | 1st Lambda Winner |
| Yu, Miri | Gold Rush | March | |
| Zagel, James | Money to Burn | July | Washington Post Rave |
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