The Hillerman Prize was established in 2006 to honor Tony Hillerman [1925-2008], considered by many mystery readers and writers to be “the dean of Southwestern mysteries” for his hugely successful Jim Chee/Joe Leaphorn Arapaho mystery series. The prize goes to an unpublished author for a first mystery novel set in the Southwest, and is selected by judges chosen by the editorial staff of St. Martin’s Press, which was, for many years, Tony Hillerman’s primary publisher. After going on hiatus from 2018 to 2020, publisher MacMillan has now taken over this award, and it will return in 2021. For more information, including the full rules and guidelines for this award, click on the The Official Hillerman Prize web site (https://us.macmillan.com/minotaurbooks/tonyhillermanprize/ currently unavailable).
[Note: No prize was given in 2009, 2012, 2016, 2018 or 2021.]
The titles in this list are “hotlinked” to the library’s catalog, for all those titles currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. For titles not currently owned by our system, please consider requesting them through our Interlibrary Loan service.
2020
Christina Estes
Off the Air (schedule for wide publication in 2023)
2019
Samantha Jayne Allen
Pay Dirt Road
2017
Carol Potenza
Hearts of the Missing
2015
Kevin Wolf
The Home Place
2014
John Fortunato
Dark Reservations
2013
C.B. McKenzie
Bad Country
2011
Andrew Hunt
City of Saints
2010
Tricia Fields
The Territory
2008
Roy Chaney
The Ragged Edge of Nowhere
2007
Christine Barber
The Replacement Child