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
2024	The Frozen River	Ariel Lawhon	[20]

References

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External links

• Official website