2025 Barry Award winners
Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine has announced the winners for the 2025 Barry Awards as follows:

Best Mystery Novel: (6)
WINNER The Waiting, by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
Spirit Crossing, by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin (Mulholland)
California Bear, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland)
All the Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Crown)

Best First Mystery Crime Novel: (6)
The Expectant Detectives, by Kat Ailes (Minotaur)
Paper Cage, by Tom Baragwanath (Knopf)
WINNER Ordinary Bear, by C.B. Bernard (Blackstone)
In the Blink of an Eye, by Jo Callaghan (Random House)
First Lie Wins, by Ashley Elston (Pamela Dorman)
Listen for the Lie, by Amy Tintera (Celadon)

Best Paperback Original Mystery Novel: (6)
WINNER Double Barrel Bluff, by Lou Berney (Morrow Paperbacks)
All the Rage, by Cara Hunter (Morrow Paperbacks)
Smoke Kings, by Jahmal Mayfield (Melville House)
Someone Saw Something, by Rick Mofina (Mira)
Wordhunter, by Stella Sands (Harper Paperbacks)
Sin City, by James Swain (Independently published)

Best Action Thriller: (6)
Assassin Eighteen, by John Brownlow (Hanover Square Press)
First Strike, by Stephen Leather (Independently published)
The Seventh Floor, by David McCloskey (Norton)
Hunted, by Abir Mukherjee (Mulholland)
WINNER Hero, by Thomas Perry (Mysterious Press)
The Price You Pay, by Nick Petrie (Putnam)

The winners were voted by Deadly Pleasures readers and announced on Thursday, September 04 during the opening ceremonies of 2025 Bouchercon held in New Orleans, Louisiana from September 03 through 07.

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