Awards Won by Down & Out Books Authors and Titles

2016 — Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 by Art Taylor, editor for Best Anthology or Collection

2017 — Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 by Greg Herren, editor for Best Anthology or Collection

2018 — “My Side of the Matter” by Hilary Davidson for Best Short Story (included in Killing Malmon)

2020 — “Red Zone” by Alex Segura for Best Short Story (included in ¡Pa’que Tu Lo Sepas!)

2020 — Seven Ways to Get Rid of Harry by Jen Conley for Best Young Adult Novel

2018 — Second Story Man by Charles Salzberg for Best Crime Novel

2016 — Big Shoes by Jack Getze for Best Crime Novel of 2015

2016 — 3 Women Walk Into a Bar by Linda Sands for Best Detective/Mystery

2017 — The Origins of Benjamin Hackett by Gerald M. O’Connor for New Adult Fiction (Silver)

2012 — Hard Bite by Anonymous-9 for Best Indie

2014 — Bite Harder by Anonymous-9 for Best Indie

2017 — The Origins of Benjamin Hackett by Gerald M. O’Connor for Best Adult Fiction eBook (Bronze)

2016 — 3 Women Walk Into a Bar by Linda Sands for Best Neo-Noir

2016 — 3 Women Walk Into a Bar by Linda Sands for Best P.I. Novel

2018 — Grand Theft Cargo by Linda Sands for Best Action Adventure

2015 — “Honeymoon Sweet” by Craig Faustus Buck for Best Mystery Short Story (included in Murder at the Beach: Bouchercon Anthology 2014)

2018 — “Windward” by Paul D. Marks for Best Mystery Short Story (included in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea)

2015 — Murder in the Slaughterhouse by Tom Crowley for Thriller/Mystery — Bronze Medal

2017 — The Devil Dogs of Belleau Wood by Terrence McCauley for Historical Fiction — Silver Medal

2014 — The Devil and the Diva by David Housewright and Renee Valois for Best Books of 2014

2017 — The Origins of Benjamin Hackett by Gerald M. O’Connor for Young Adult — General (Bronze)

1996 — The Innocents by Richard Barre for Best First Private Eye Novel (originally published by Walker & Co.)

2015 — Moonlight Weeps by Vincent Zandri for Best Paperback Original PI Novel

2016 — Circling the Runway by J.L. Abramo for Best Paperback Original PI Novel

2012 — All the Young Warriors by Anthony Neil Smith for Best Novel: Rising Star!

2000 — Catching Water in a Net by J.L. Abramo for Best First Private Eye Novel (originally published by St. Martin’s Press)

2015 — Moonlight Weeps by Vincent Zandri for Best Paperback Original