Trigger City by Sean Chercover won the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association annual Dilys award for 2009. Barbara Peters, owner of the Poisoned Pen bookstore, Scottsdale, Ariz., announced the winner at the Left Coast Crime conference in Honolulu, Hawaii.
"To know that you enjoyed selling Trigger City is an incredible honor," said Chercover, who was not able to attend. "I am completely floored by your generosity, and I only wish I could be there in person. You have made me very happy."
The Dilys award is named in honor of Dilys Winn, founder of the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the U.S.