2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

The Cuckoo’s Calling,

J. K. Rowling Writing As Robert Galbraith

A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, a…

Hour of the Red God

Richard Crompton

Sycamore Row

John Grisham

The Collini Case

Ferdinand von Schirach

The Cuckoo’s Calling

Robert Galbraith

The Rage

Gene Kerrigan