Green Room · selections
18 books recognised by this prize; those with a page and an offer in your market are below · About the prize.
English-language · US offers
Robert Crais
The 20th Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel: a private eye hired to find an influencer’s father, missing from a desert town for ten years. Works as a straightforward, fast hardboiled mystery.
Robert Jackson Bennett
A murder mystery set in an empire shielded from sea-leviathans by living bio-engineered defences, told through a brilliant, reclusive investigator and her memory-gifted assistant. A good pick for readers who like a Holmes-and-Watson puzzle inside inventive fantasy worldbuilding.
William Kent Krueger
A coming-of-age mystery set in a Minnesota town in 1961, narrated decades later by a boy whose sister’s death shapes the town. For readers who like literary, character-led crime.
Adam Plantinga
Unforgiving desert setting
Charlotte McConaghy
Eloquent nature writing
Liz Moore
Beautiful and dangerous wilderness
Amy Tintera
Small-town Texas setting
Sarah Easter Collins
Charlotte Vassell
A police-procedural whodunit featuring DI Caius Beauchamp, set among London's wealthy and well-connected. It suits readers who like crime fiction that mixes a puzzle with social comedy about class and status.
Katrina Carrasco
Evocative historical setting
Yvonne Woon
A fit for readers seeking a character-focused YA mystery with social scandal and serious themes; that reading-fit assessment is inferred from the review’s description.