Nero Award
The Nero Award is a literary award for excellence in the mystery genre presented by The Wolfe Pack, a society founded in 1978 to explore and celebrate the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout. The Nero Award is presented annually at the Black Orchid Banquet, traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City.
Winners
| Year | Title | Author | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling | Lawrence Block | |
| 1980 | Burn This | Helen McCloy | |
| 1981 | Death in a Tenured Position | Amanda Cross | |
| 1982 | Past, Present and Murder | Hugh Pentecost | |
| 1983 | The Anodyne Necklace | Martha Grimes | [1] |
| 1984 | Emily Dickinson is Dead | Jane Langton | |
| 1985 | Sleeping Dog | Dick Lochte | |
| 1986 | Murder in E Minor | Robert Goldsborough | |
| 1987 | The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond | Charlotte MacLeod | |
| 1988 1989 1990 |
no award presented | ||
| 1991 | Coyote Waits | Tony Hillerman | [2] |
| 1992 | A Scandal in Belgravia | Robert Barnard | |
| 1993 | Booked to Die | John Dunning | |
| 1994 | Old Scores | Aaron Elkins | [2] |
| 1995 | She Walks These Hills | Sharyn McCrumb | |
| 1996 | A Monstrous Regiment of Women | Laurie R. King | [2] |
| 1997 | The Poet | Michael Connelly | [2] |
| 1998 | Sacred | Dennis Lehane | [2] |
| 1999 | The Bone Collector | Jeffery Deaver | |
| 2000 | Coyote Revenge | Fred Harris | |
| 2001 | Sugar House | Laura Lippman | |
| 2002 | The Deadhouse | Linda Fairstein | |
| 2003 | Winter and Night | S. J. Rozan | |
| 2004 | Fear Itself | Walter Mosley | [2] |
| 2005 | The Enemy | Lee Child | [3] |
| 2006 | Vanish | Tess Gerritsen | [2] |
| 2007 | All Mortal Flesh | Julia Spencer-Fleming | |
| 2008 | Anatomy of Fear | Jonathan Santlofer | |
| 2009 | The Tenth Case | Joseph Teller | [4] |
| 2010 | Faces of the Gone | Brad Parks | [5] |
| 2011 | Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny | [6][7] |
| 2012 | Though Not Dead | Dana Stabenow | [8][9] |
| 2013 | Dead Anyway | Chris Knopf | [10] |
| 2014 | Murder as a Fine Art | David Morrell | [11] |
| 2015 | Peter Pan Must Die | John Verdon | [12] |
| 2016 | Night Life | David C. Taylor | [13] |
| 2017 | With Six You Get Wally | Al Lamanda | [14] |
| 2018 | August Snow | Stephen Mack Jones | [15] |
| 2019 | Down the River unto the Sea | Walter Mosley | [16] |
| 2020 | One Good Deed | David Baldacci | [17] |
| 2021 | Fortune Favors the Dead | Stephen Spotswood | [18] |
| 2022 | Tower of Babel | Michael Sears | [19] |
| 2023 | The Day He Left | Frederick Weisel |
References
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