Nero Award

This article is about the American book award. For the British book award, see Nero Book Awards.

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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