During the 1990s, Smith twice won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers. The first time was for "Rose" in 1996; the second time was for "Havana Bay" in 1999. And on September 5, 2010, he and Arkady Renko returned to the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list when "Three Stations" debuted at No. 7 on the fiction bestsellers list. His most recent novel featuring Renko is "The Siberian Dilemma" (2019).