Award category archive

Publishers Weekly Best Books – Mystery/Thriller Winners

Browse Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller winners and nominees by year. This archive follows one award category across the full Publishers Weekly Best Books history.

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller Cross-year archive

2025

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2025 award year.

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Crooks

Berney, Lou

Standalone · General Fiction

Sep-2025 Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller *

2024

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2024 award year.

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2023

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2023 award year.

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2022

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2022 award year.

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2021

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2021 award year.

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2020

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2020 award year.

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2019

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2019 award year.

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2018

Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller results for the 2018 award year.

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City of Ink

Hart, Elsa

A Li Du Novel Series · Book 3 · Historical Mystery

Aug-2018 Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller *
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Savage Liberty

Pattison, Eliot

Bone Rattler / A Mystery of Colonial America Series · Book 6 · Thriller

May-2018 Publishers Weekly Best Books Mystery/Thriller *