Nero Award

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.^[1]

Winners

• 1979 – The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block
• 1980 – Burn This by Helen McCloy
• 1981 – Death in a Tenured Position by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun (writing as Amanda Cross)
• 1982 – Past, Present and Murder by Hugh Pentecost
• 1983 – The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes
• 1984 – Emily Dickinson is Dead by Jane Langton
• 1985 – Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
• 1986 – Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough
• 1987 – The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond by Charlotte MacLeod
• 1988 – no award presented
• 1989 – no award presented
• 1990 – no award presented
• 1991 – Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman
• 1992 – A Scandal in Belgravia by Robert Barnard
• 1993 – Booked To Die by John Dunning
• 1994 – Old Scores by Aaron Elkins
• 1995 – She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
• 1996 – A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
• 1997 – The Poet by Michael Connelly
• 1998 – Sacred by Dennis Lehane
• 1999 – The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
• 2000 – Coyote Revenge by Fred Harris
• 2001 – Sugar House by Laura Lippman
• 2002 – The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein
• 2003 – Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
• 2004 – Fear Itself by Walter Mosley
• 2005 – The Enemy by Lee Child
• 2006 – Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
• 2007 – All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
• 2008 – Anatomy of Fear by Jonathan Santlofer
• 2009 – The Tenth Case by Joseph Teller
• 2010 – Faces of the Gone by Brad Parks
• 2011 – Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

References

External links

• Guidelines for the Nero Award for Best Mystery Fiction at The Wolfe Pack, the official site of the Nero Wolfe Society