TITLES ELIGIBLE FOR THE HAWAII 5-0 AWARD

This is not a definitive list, but should assist you when nominating books for the Hawaii 5-0 award. Thanks to Kate Derie for putting together such a great list. Be sure and send your nominations to Cheryl Stevens at: cheryl@cherylstevenslaw.com by January 15.

Aird, Catherine - Losing Ground (Minotaur) - DCI C.D. Sloane, "Calleshire" Police, England
Armstrong, David - A Kind of Acquaintance (Severn House) - DI Frank Kavanagh & DC Jane Salt, London
Ashford, Jeffrey [Roderic Jeffries] - Dangerous Friendship (Severn House) - Kent CID, England (non-series)
Barr, Nevada - Winter Study (Putnam) - Anna Pigeon, NPS Law Enforcement Ranger, Michigan
Beaton, M C - Death of a Gentle Lady (Grand Central) - PC Hamish Macbeth, Lochdubh, Scotland
Booth, Stephen - Scared to Live (Bantam) - DSgt Diane Fry & DC Ben Cooper, Peak District, England
Born, James O. - Burn Zone (Putnam) - Alex Duarte, BATF, Florida
Box, C. J. - Blood Trail (Putnam) - Joe Pickett, Game Warden, Wyoming
Brand, Axel - The Hotel Dick (Five Star) - Lt Joe Burgess, Milwaukee PD, Wisconsin, 1948
Brophy, Grace - A Deadly Paradise (Soho) - Commissario Alessandro Cenni, Umbria, Italy
Bruen, Ken - Once Were Cops (Minotaur) - Matthew Patrick O'Shea, Garda/NYPD (non-series)
Burcell, Robin - The Face of a Killer (Poisoned Pen) - Special Agent Sydney Fitzpatrick, FBI forensic artist, San Francisco
Cannell, Stephen J. - Three Shirt Deal (St Martin's) - Shane Scully, LAPD, Los Angeles
Casey, Kathryn - Singularity (Minotaur) - Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong
Chang, Henry - Year of the Dog (Soho) - Det. Jack Yu, NYPD
Church, James - Bamboo and Blood (Minotaur) - Inspector O, North Korea
Cornwall, Patricia - Scarpetta (Putnam) - Kay Scarpetta, forensic pathologist working for NYPD (Note 1)
Cotterill, Colin - Curse of the Pogo Stick (Soho) - Dr Siri Paiboun, coroner, Laos (Note 1)
Crider, Bill - Of All Sad Words (Minotaur) - Sheriff Dan Rhodes, Texas
Crombie, Deborah - Where Memories Lie (Morrow) - DSup Duncan Kincaid & DI Gemma James, Met Police, London
Curzon, Claire - Payback (Minotaur) - DSup Mike Yeadings, Thames Valley Police, England
Dahl, K.O. - The Fourth Man (Minotaur) - Det Insp Frank Frølich, Oslo Police, Norway
Darrell, Elizabeth - Dutch Courage (Severn House) - Max Rydal, Special Investigation Branch, Royal Army (UK), Germany
Deaver, Jeffery - The Broken Window (Simon & Schuster) - Lincoln Rhyme, NYPD Criminalist & Det. Amelia Sachs, NYPD (Note 1)
Fairstein, Linda - Killer Heat (Doubleday) - Alex Cooper, ADA, New York (Note 1)
Ericksson, Kjell - The Demon of Dakar (Minotaur) - Det Ann Lindell, Sweden
Evans, Geraldine - Death Dues (Severn House) - DI Joe Rafferty & DSgt Dafyd Llewellen, UK
Evans, Geraldine - A Killing Karma (Severn House) - DCI Will Casey & DSgt Thomas Catt, King's Langley, England
Fanning, Diane - The Trophy Exchange (Severn House) - Lt Lucinda Pierce
Flora, Kate - The Angel of Knowlton Park (Five Star) - Det. Joe Burgess, Portland PD, Maine
Fossum, Karin - Black Seconds (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Ch Insp Konrad Sejer, Norway
Fowler, Christopher - The Victoria Vanishes (Bantam) - Dets John May & Arthur Bryant, Peculiar Crimes Unit, London
Fraser, Sara - The Resurrection Men (Severn House) - Parish Constable Thomas Potts, Worcestershire, England, 1826
French, Tana - The Likeness (Viking) - Det. Cassie Maddox, Dublin
Garcia-Roza, Luiz Alfredo - Blackout (Henry Holt) - Ch. Insp. Espinosa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
George, Elizabeth - Careless in Red (HarperCollins) - DSup Thomas Lynley/DSgt Barbara Havers, Met Police, England
Grabenstein, Chris - Hell Hole (Minotaur) - Officer John Ceepak, Sea Haven Police, New Jersey
Gregson, J M - A Good Walk Spoiled (Severn House) - DI John Lambert & DSgt Bert Hook, UK
Gregson, J M - Pastures New (Severn House) - DCI Percy Peach & DSgt Lucy Blake, UK
Gunn, Elizabeth - Cool in Tucson (Severn House) - Det. Sarah Burke, Tucson PD, Arizona
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - Game Over (Severn House) - DI Bill Slider, Met Police, London
Harvey, John - Cold in Hand (HMH) - DI Charlie Resnick, Nottingham, England
Havill, Steven F. - The Fourth Time Is Murder (Minotaur) - Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, Posadas County, New Mexico
Hewson, David - The Garden of Evil (Delacorte) - Det Nic Costa, Roman Police, Italy
Heywood, Joseph - Death Roe (Lyons) - Det. Grady Service, Dept Natural Resources, Michigan
Hill, Reginald - The Price of Butcher's Meat (Harper) - DSupt Andy Dalziel & DCI Peter Pascoe, Yorkshire
Hunt, James Patrick - Goodbye Sister Disco (Minotaur) - Lt George Hastings, St Louis PD, Missouri
Indridason, Arnaldur - The Draining Lake (Minotaur) - Insp Erlendur Sveinsson, Iceland
Ingraham, Jim - Remains To Be Seen (Five Star) - Lt Webb Harrington & Deputy Sheriff Perci Piper, Maine
Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's Burglar (Severn House) - Divisional DI Ernest Hardcastle & DS Charles Marriott, Met Police, London, 1916
Ison, Graham - Jack in the Box (Severn House) - DCI Harry Brock & DS Dave Poole, Met Police, London
James, P. D. - The Private Patient (Knopf) - Cdr Adam Dalgliesh, Met Police, England
Jance, J.A. - Damage Control (Wm. Morrow) - Sheriff Joanna Brady, Cochise County, Arizona
Jeffries, Roderic - An Instinctive Solution (Severn House) - Insp. Enrique Alvarez, Mallorca, Spain
Johnson, Craig - Another Man's Moccasins (Viking) - Sheriff Walt Longmire, Wyoming
Jungstedt, Mari - The Inner Circle (Minotaur) - Insp. Anders Knutas, Gotland, Sweden
Kaminsky, Stuart M. - People Who Walk in Darkness (Forge) - Insp. Porfiry Rostnikov, Moscow
Keating, H R F - Rules, Regs and Rotten Eggs (Minotaur) - DSupt Harriet Martens, Met Police CID, London
Kellerman, Faye - The Mercedes Coffin (Wm. Morrow) - Lt Peter Decker, LAPD, California
Konrath, J.A. - Fuzzy Navel (Hyperion) - Lt Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, Chicago PD, Illinois
La Plante, Lynda - Clean Cut (Touchstone) - DI Anna Travis, London
Lamanda, Al - Dunston Falls (Five Star) - Sheriff David Peck, Dunston Falls, Maine, 1959
Larsson, Asa - The Black Path (Delta) - Insp. Anna-Maria Mella, Sweden
Leon, Donna - The Girl of His Dreams (Atlantic Monthly Press) - Commissario Guido Brunetti, Venice
Lovesey, Peter - The Headhunters (Soho) - DI Hen Malin, CID, Chichester, England
MacBride, Stuart - Flesh House (Minotaur) - DSgt Logan McRae, Aberdeen, Scotland
Mankell, Henning - The Pyramid (New Press) - Insp. Kurt Wallander, Sweden (novella + 4 stories)
Magnan, Pierre - Death in the Truffle Wood (Minotaur) - Commissaire Laviolette, Provence, France
Mayor, Archer - The Catch (Minotaur) - Joe Gunther, head of Vermont Bureau of Investigation
McCrery, Nigel - Still Waters (Pantheon) - DCI Mark Lapslie, Essex Police, England
McFetridge, John - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Harcourt) - Dets. Armstrong & Bergeron, Toronto PD, Ontario
McGarrity, Michael - Dead or Alive (Dutton) - Kevin Kerney, retired police chief and acting special investigator for New Mexico State Police
McGilloway, Brian - Borderlands (Minotaur) - Insp Benedict Devlin, Garda, Ireland
Merkel, E. L. - Virgins and Martyrs (Five Star) - Det. Aria Quynn, Spanish Bay, Florida
Meyers, Maan - The Organ Grinder (Five Star) - John "Dutch" Tonneman, NYPD Commissioner's Squad, 1899
Montanari, Richard - Badlands (Ballantine) - Dets. Kevin Byrne & Jessica Balzano, Philadelphia PD, Pennsylvania
Morris, R.N. - A Vengeful Longing (Penguin Press) - Insp. Porfiry Petrovich, St Petersburg, Russia, 1860s
Nabb, Magdalen - Vita Nuova (Soho) - Marshall Guarnaccia, Carabinieri, Florence, Italy
Nelson, Rick - Bound by Blood (Minotaur) - Det Jack Brenner, New Orleans PD, Louisiana
Nesser, Hakan - Mind's Eye (Pantheon) - Ch. Insp. Van Veeteren, Sweden
Norman, Michael - Silent Witness (Poisoned Pen) - Ch. Sam Kincaid, Dept of Corrections Special Investigations Branch, Salt Lake City, Utah
Oldham, Nick - Screen of Deceit (Severn House) - DCI Henry Christie, England
Parker, Robert B. - Stranger in Paradise (Putnam) - Police Chief Jesse Stone, Massachusetts
Patterson, James - Cross Country (Little, Brown) - Dr. Alex Cross, consultant psychologist for Wash. DC Major Case Squad (Note 1)
Pearce, Michael - A Dead Man in Barcelona (Soho) - Det. Sandor Seymour, Scotland Yard Special Branch, Spain, 1910
Pearson, Ridley - Killer View (Putnam) - Sheriff Walt Fleming, Idaho
Penny, Louise - The Cruelest Month (Minotaur) - Chief Insp. Armand Gamache, Quebec
Perry, Anne - Buckingham Palace Gardens (Ballantine) - Insp. Thomas Pitt, Scotland Yard Special Branch, England, 1893
Price, Richard - Lush Life (FSG) - Det. Matty Clark et al, NYPD (non-series)
Rankin, Ian - Exit Music (Little, Brown) - DI John Rebus, Edinburgh
Rehder, Ben - Holy Moly (Minotaur) - Game Warden John Marlin, Blanco County, Texas
Reichs, Kathy - Devil Bones (Scribner) - Dr. Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist working for Chief Medical Examiner, North Carolina (Note 1)
Robb, J.D. [Nora Roberts] - Strangers in Death (Putnam) - Lt Eve Dallas, NYPD, 2060
Robinson, Peter - Friend of the Devil (Morrow) DCI Alan Banks, Yorkshire
Rowson, Pauline - The Suffocating Sea (Severn House) - DI Andy Horton, CID, Portsmouth, England
Sandford, John - Heat Lightning (Putnam) - Inv. Virgil Flowers, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Minnesota
Sandford, John - Phantom Prey (Putnam) - Inv. Lucas Davenport, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Minnesota
Santlofer, Jonathan - The Murder Notebook (HarperCollins) - Nate Rodriguez, NYPD sketch artist (Note 1)
Shaughnessy, Brian - Man Under (Shannon Road Press) - Transit Police investigative squad, NYPD
Smith, Frank - Breaking Point (Severn House) - DCI Neil Paget, Broadminster, Shropshire
Spencer, Sally [Alan Rustage] - A Dying Fall (Severn House) - DCI Charlie Woodend, Met Police, London
Spencer, Sally [Alan Rustage] - Fatal Quest: Woodend's First Case (Severn House) - DCI Charlie Woodend, Met Police, London
Stanley, Michael - A Carrion Death (Harper) - Asst. Supt. David "Kubu" Bengu, CID, Botswana
Thurlo, Aimée & David - Coyote's Wife (Forge) - Spec. Inv. Ellah Clah, Navajo Tribal Police, New Mexico
Todd, Charles - A Pale Horse (Morrow) - Insp. Ian Rutledge, England, 1920
Turnbull, Peter - No Stone Unturned (Severn House) - DCI George Hennessey & DSgt Yellich, Met Police, London
Turnbull, Peter - Turning Point (Severn House) - DCI George Hennessey & DSgt Yellich, Met Police, London
Wambaugh, Joseph - Hollywood Crows (Little, Brown) - LAPD Hollywood Station, California
Williams, H. R. - The Whiskey Killing (Five Star) - Capt Billy Walker & Sgt Cordelia Hull, PD, Arkansas
Wolfe, Inger Ash - The Calling (Harcourt) - Det. Insp. Hazel Micallef, Port Dundas, Ontario

(Note 1) Protagonist is employee/contractor of criminal justice system rather than sworn LEO, with strong procedural or forensic elements

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