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Crime & Thriller Book of the Year - British Book Awards

2021
Winner
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith

Shortlist
The Sentinel by Lee Child & Andrew Child
The Patient Man by Joy Ellis
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
2020
Winner
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Shortlist
Blue Moon by Lee Child
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Impostor by LJ Ross
2019
Winner
Our House by Louise Candlish

Shortlist
The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
Close to Home by Cara Hunter
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
2018
Winner
The Dry by Jane Harper

Shortlist
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
The Girl Before by JP Delaney
Spook Street by Mick Herron
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough​
2017
Winner
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
 
Shortlist
The Widow by Fiona Barton
Night School by Lee Child
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
Conclave by Robert Harris
I See You by Clare Mackintosh

Crime Thriller of the Year - British Book Awards

2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
 
2008
Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
 
2007
The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin
 
2006
The Take by Martina Cole
 
2005
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin