“You hacked the FBI?” I said incredulously.
“And Interpol,” Sloane replied brightly. “And you’ll never guess what I found.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes
They say that travel broadens the mind. It is unlikely that reading a foreign book will give you quite the same benefit, but it won’t hurt, and you can do it from the safety of your sitting room.
- Crime Writers Association (Great Britain) — Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
- Svenska Deckarakademin (Sweden) — Bästa Översatta Kriminalroman
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (France) — Romans Étrangers
- Deutscher Krimipreis (Germany) — Kategorie International
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Crime Writers Association, Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger
International Crime Fiction awarded in Great Britain
| Novel | Author | Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Even the Darkest Night | Javier Cercas | 2023 |
| Hotel Cartagena | Simone Huchholz | 2022 |
| The Disaster Tourist | Yun Ko-eun | 2021 |
| The Godmother (Review) | Hannelore Cayre | 2020 |
| A Long Night in Paris | Dov Alfon | 2019 |
| After the Fire | Henning Mankell | 2018 |
| The Dying Detective | Leif G.W. Persson | 2017 |
| The Great Swindle (Review) | Pierre Lemaitre | 2016 |
| Camille | Pierre Lemaitre | 2015 |
| The Siege | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 2014 |
| Ghost Riders of Ordebec | Fred Vargas | 2013 |
| Alex | Pierre Lemaitre | 2013 |
| The Potter’s Field | Andrea Camilleri | 2012 |
| Three Seconds (Review) | Roslund and Hellström | 2011 |
| The Darkest Room (Review) | Johan Theorin | 2010 |
| The Chalk Circle Man | Fred Vargas | 2009 |
| Lorraine Connection (Review) | Dominique Manotti | 2008 |
| Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand (Review) | Fred Vargas | 2007 |
| The Three Evangelists | Fred Vargas | 2006 |
Svenska Deckarakademin — Bästa Översatta Kriminalroman
International Crime Fiction awarded in Sweden
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière — Romans Étrangers
International Crime Fiction awarded in France
| Novel | Author | Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| American Predator | Maureen Callahan | 2022 |
| Crvena Voda — Croatian | Jurica Pavičić | 2021 |
| Bearskin | James A. McLaughlin | 2020 |
| Green Sun | Kent Anderson | 2019 |
| No Tomorrow | Jake Hinkson | 2018 |
| The Truth Behind the Lie (Review) | Sara Lövestam | 2017 |
| Perro Muerto — Spanish | Boris Quercia | 2016 |
| A Million Drops | Víctor del Árbol | 2015 |
| The Cove | Ron Rash | 2014 |
| The Killer Is Dying | James Sallis | 2013 |
| The Devil All The Time | Donald Ray Pollock | 2012 |
| Limassol | Yishai Sarid | 2011 |
| Twilight | William Gay | 2010 |
| Priest | Ken Bruen | 2009 |
| The Ice Princess | Camilla Läckberg | 2008 |
| Voices | Arnaldur Indriðason | 2007 |
| The Librarian | Larry Beinhart | 2006 |
| Dead Souls (Review) | Ian Rankin | 2005 |
| The Analyst | John Katzenbach | 2004 |
| Dead Before Dying | Deon Meyer | 2003 |
| One Foot in the Grave | Peter Dickinson | 2002 |
| In a Dry Season | Peter Robinson | 2001 |
| River of Darkness | Rennie Airth | 2000 |
| Blood Work | Michael Connelly | 1999 |
| Shadow Play | Frances Fyfield | 1998 |
| Imperfect Strangers | Stuart Woods | 1997 |
| The Alienist | Caleb Carr | 1996 |
| Degree of Guilt | Richard North Patterson | 1995 |
| Cabal | Michael Dibdin | 1994 |
| The Flanders Panel | Arturo Pérez-Reverte | 1993 |
| Black Cherry Blues | James Lee Burke | 1992 |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris | 1991 |
| A Great Deliverance | Elizabeth George | 1990 |
| Snowbound | Bill Pronzini | 1989 |
| A Taste for Death | P.D. James | 1988 |
| Strega | Andrew Vachss | 1988 |
| Dance Hall of the Dead | Tony Hillerman | 1987 |
| City Primeval | Elmore Leonard | 1986 |
| Swing, Swing Together | Peter Lovesey | 1985 |
| The Maine Massacre | Janwillem Van de Wetering | 1984 |
| No Comebacks | Frederick Forsyth | 1983 |
| Party of the Year | John Crosby | 1982 |
| The Southern Seas | Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | 1981 |
| A Stranger is Watching | Mary Higgins Clark | 1980 |
| The Chain of Chance | Stanisław Lem | 1979 |
| And on the Eighth Day | Ellery Queen | 1978 |
| City of the Dead | Herbert Lieberman | 1977 |
| Doctor Frigo | Eric Ambler | 1976 |
| The Dark Number | Edward Boyd & Roger Parkes | 1975 |
| Mirror, Mirror on the Wall | Stanley Ellin | 1974 |
| Millie | E. V. Cunningham | 1973 |
| The Children Are Watching | Laird Koenig & Peter L. Dixon | 1972 |
| Hit and Run, Run, Run | Anders Bodelsen | 1971 |
| The Ledger | Dorothy Uhnak | 1971 |
| The Flaw | Antonis Samarakis | 1970 |
| The Daughter of Time | Josephine Tey | 1969 |
| Fire, Burn! | John Dickson Carr | 1969 |
| Betrayal | Giorgio Scerbanenco | 1968 |
| I Start Counting | Audrey Erskine Lindop | 1967 |
| The Berlin (Quiller) Memorandum | Adam Hall | 1966 |
| Gun Before Butter | Nicolas Freeling | 1965 |
| A Key to the Suite | John D. MacDonald | 1964 |
| The Ballad of the Running Man | Shelley Smith | 1963 |
| The Green Stone | Suzanne Blanc | 1962 |
| No prize awarded | 1961 | |
| The Evil of the Day | Thomas Sterling | 1960 |
| Orders to Kill | Donald Downes | 1959 |
| A Rage in Harlem | Chester Himes | 1958 |
| The Talented Mr Ripley (Review) | Patricia Highsmith | 1957 |
| The Desperate Hours | Joseph Hayes | 1956 |
| Nothing in Her Way | Charles Williams | 1956 |
| Death in Captivity | Michael Gilbert | 1955 |
| The Body in Grant’s Tomb | Cornell Woolrich | 1954 |
| The End is Known | Geoffrey Holiday Hall | 1953 |
| Horns for the Devil | Louis Malley | 1953 |
| Follow as the Night | Patricia McGerr | 1952 |
| The Red Right Hand | Joel Townsley Rogers | 1951 |
| After Midnight | Martha Albrand | 1950 |
| Puzzle for Pilgrims | Patrick Quentin | 1949 |
| The Bellamy Trial | Frances Noyes Hart | 1948 |
Deutscher Krimipreis — Kategorie International
International Crime Fiction awarded in Germany
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