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2025

Winner
The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell

Nominees
Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins
My Favorite Scar by Nicolas Ferraro translated by Mallory Craig-Kuhn
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Listen For The Lie by Amy Tintera

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Best First Novel

Best Paperback Original

2024

Winner
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke

Nominees
All the Sinners Bleed by SA Cosby
The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein
Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll
An Honest Man by Michael Koryta
The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

2023

Winner
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

Nominees
Devil House by John Darnielle
Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
Gangland by Chuck Hogan
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
The Maid by Nita Prose

2022

Winner
Five Decembers by James Kestrel

Nominations
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby
How Lucky by Will Leitch
No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield

2021

Winner
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

Nominations
Before She Was Helen by Caroline B Cooney
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
These Women by Ivy Pochoda
The Missing American by Kwei Quartey
The Distant Dead by Heather Young

2020

Winner
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Nominations
Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland
The River by Peter Heller
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham

2019

Winner
Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley

Nominations
The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard
House Witness by Mike Lawson
A Gambler’s Jury by Victor Methos
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

2018

Winner
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Shortlist
The Dime by Kathleen Kent
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

2017

Winner
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Shortlist
The Ex by Alafair Burke
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

2016

Winner
Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy

Shortlist
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr
Life or Death by Michael Robotham
Canary by Duane Swierczynski
Night Life by David C Taylor

2015

Winner
Mr Mercedes by Stephen King

Shortlist
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Wolf by Mo Hayder
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter

2014

Winner
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger

Shortlist
Sandrine's Case by Thomas H Cook
The Humans by Matt Haig
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy

2013

Winner
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane

Shortlist
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
Sunset by Al Lamanda
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley

2012

Winner
Gone by Mo Hayder

Shortlist
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt
Field Gray by Philip Kerr

2011

Winner
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton

Shortlist
Caught by Harlan Coben
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan
I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

2010

Winner
The Last Child by John Hart

Shortlist
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
The Odds by Kathleen George
Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

2009

Winner
Blue Heaven by CJ Box

Shortlist
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
The Night Following by Morag Joss
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

2008

Winner
Down River by John Hart

Shortlist
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Priest by Ken Bruen
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman

2007

Winner
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin

Shortlist
The Pale Blue Eyes by Louis Bayard
Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer

2006

Winner
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter

Shortlist
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Red Leaves by Thomas H Cook
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
Drama City by George Pelecanos

2005

Winner
California Girl by T Jefferson Parker

Shortlist
Evan's Gate by Rhys Bowen
By a Spiders Thread by Laura Lippman
Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2004

Winner
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin

Shortlist
The Guards by Ken Bruen
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

2003

Winner
Winter and Night by SJ Rozan

Shortlist
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Jolie Blon's Bounce by James Lee Burke
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
No Good Deed by Manda Scott

2002

Winner
Silent Joe by T Jefferson Parker

Shortlist
The Judgment by DW Buffa
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain
Reflecting the Sky by SJ Rozan

2001

Winner
The Bottoms by Joe R Lansdale

Shortlist
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
Red Light by T Jefferson Parker
The Whole Truth by Nancy Pickard

2000

Winner
Bones by Jan Burke

Shortlist
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

1999

Winner
Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark

Shortlist
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard
A Likeness in Stone by J Wallis Martin
The Last Days of Il Duce by Domenic Stansberry

1998

Winner
Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke

Shortlist
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
The Purification Ceremony by Mark T Sullivan

1997

Winner
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H Cook

Shortlist
With Child by Laurie R King
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry
Mean Streak by Carolyn Wheat

1996

Winner
Come to Grief by Dick Francis

Shortlist
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
The Shadow Man by John Katzenbach
The Summons by Peter Lovesey
The Roaring Boy by Edward Marston

1995

Winner
The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker

Shortlist
Lights Out by Peter Abrahams
A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block
Miami, It's Murder by Edna Buchanan
Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson

1994

Winner
The Sculptress by Minette Walters

Shortlist
Free Fall by Robert Crais
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
The Journeyman Tailor by Gerald Seymour

1993

Winner
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron

Shortlist
Backhand by Liza Cody
32 Cadillacs by Joe Gores
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
Pomona Queen by Kem Nunn

1992

Winner
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block

Shortlist
Don't Say a Word by Andrew Klavan
Prior Convictions by Lia Matera
I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
Palindrome by Stuart Woods

1991

Winner
New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith

Shortlist
Fade the Heat by Jay Brandon
Whiskey River by Loren Estleman
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
Deadfall In Berlin by RD Zimmerman

1990

Winner
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke

Shortlist
Goldilocks by Andrew Coburn
A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield
Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill
The Booster by Eugene Izzi

1989

Winner
A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M Kaminsky

Shortlist
Joey's Case by KC Constantine
Sacrificial Ground by Thomas H Cook
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
In the Lake of the Moon by David L Lindsey

1988

Winner
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins

Shortlist
A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes
Nursery Crimes by BM Gill
Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond by Charlotte MacLeod

1987

Winner
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine

Shortlist
The Blind Run by Brian Freemantle
Come Morning by Joe Gores
A Taste for Death by PD James
The Straight Man by Roger L Simon

1986

Winner
The Suspect by LR Wright

Shortlist
City of Glass: The New York Trilogy, Part 1 by Paul Auster
A Shock to the System by Simon Brett
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell
The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell

1985

Winner
Briarpatch by Ross Thomas

Shortlist
The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert
The Twelfth Juror by BM Gill
Emily Dickinson is Dead by Jane Langton
Chessplayer by William Pearson

1984

Winner
LaBrava by Elmore Leonard

Shortlist
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
Texas Station by Christopher Leach
The Papers of Tony Vietch by William McIlvanney

1983

Winner
Billinsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer

Shortlist
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
Split Images by Elmore Leonard
The Captain by Seymour Shubin
Kahawa by Donald E Westlake

1982

Winner
Peregrine by William Bayer

Shortlist
The Other Side of Silence by Ted Allbeury
Death in a Cold Climate by Robert Barnard
Dupe by Liza Cody
The Amateur by Robert Littell
Bogmail by Patrick McGinley

1981

Winner
Whip Hand by Dick Francis

Shortlist
Death of a Literary Widow by Robert Barnard
Death Drop by BM Gill
The Spy's Wife by Reginald Hill
Man on Fire by AJ Quinnell

1980

Winner
The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling

Shortlist
Death of a Mystery Writer by Robert Barnard
Fire in the Barley by Frank Parrish
Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell
A Coat of Varnish by CP Snow

1979

Winner
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett

Shortlist
The Snake by John Godey
Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
The Shallow Grave by Jack S Scott

1978

Winner
Catch Me: Kill Me by William H Hallahan

Shortlist
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith

1977

Winner
Promised Land by Robert B Parker

Shortlist
The Cavanaugh Quest by Thomas Gifford
A Madness of the Heart by Richard Neely
The Glory Boys by Gerald Seymour
The Main by Trevanian

1976

Winner
Hopscotch by Brian Garfield

Shortlist
The Gargoyle Conspiracy by Marvin Albert
Operation Alcestic by Maggie Rennert
Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour
The Money Harvest by Ross Thomas

1975

Winner
Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary

Shortlist
The Man Who Loved Zoos by Malcolm Bosse
Goodbye and Amen by Francis Clifford
The Silver Bears by Paul Erdman
The Lester Affair by Andrew Garve

1974

Winner
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman

Shortlist
The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning
Amigo, Amigo by Francis Clifford
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by PD James
Dear Laura by Jean Stubbs

1973

Winner
The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer

Shortlist
Five Pieces of Jade by John Ball
Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh
The Shooting Gallery by Hugh C Rae
Canto for a Gypsy by Martin Cruz Smith

1972

Winner
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

Shortlist
The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
Shroud for a Nightingale by PD James
Sir, You Bastard by GF Newman
Who Killed Enoch Powell? by Arthur Wise

1971

Winner
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Shortlist
The Hound and the Fox and the Harper by Shaun Herron
Beyond this Point Are Monsters by Margaret Millar
Many Deadly Returns by Patricia Moyes
Autumn of a Hunter by Pat Stadley
The Hot Rock by Donald E Westlake

1970

Winner
Forfeit by Dick Francis

Shortlist
A Pride of Heroes (The Old English Peep Show) by Peter Dickinson
Miro by Shaun Herron
Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
When in Greece by Emma Lathen
Where the Dark Streets Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

1969

Winner
A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson (Michael Crichton)

Shortlist
Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
Skin Deep (A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest) by Peter Dickinson
The Valentine Estate by Stanley Ellin
Blood Sport by Dick Francis
God Speed the Night by Dorothy Salisbury Davis & Jerome Ross,

1968

Winner
God Save the Mark by Donald E Westlake

Shortlist
Lemon in the Basket by Charlotte Armstrong
The Gift Shop by Charlotte Armstrong
A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures by George Baxt
Flying Finish by Dick Francis
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin

1967

Winner
King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling

Shortlist
Odds Against by Dick Francis
Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
The Busy Body by Donald E Westlake

1966

Winner
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall

Shortlist
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
The Perfect Murder by HRF Keating
The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald
The Pale Betrayer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart

1965

Winner
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

Shortlist
The Night of the Generals by Hans Hellmut Kirst
The Fiend by Margaret Millar
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

1964

Winner
The Light of the Day by Eric Ambler

Shortlist
The Make-Believe Man by Elizabeth Fenwick
Grieve for the Past by Stanton Forbes
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes
The Player on the Other Side by Ellery Queen

1963

Winner
Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters

Shortlist
The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald
Seance by Mark McShane
The Evil Wish by Jean Potts
Knave of Hearts by Dell Shannon
The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith

1962

Winner
Gideon's Fire by JJ Marric

Shortlist
Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell
The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc
The Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

1961

Winner
Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons

Shortlist
The Traces of Brillhart by Herbert Brean
The Devil's Own by Peter Curtis
Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household

1960

Winner
The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin

Shortlist
The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald

1959

Winner
The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin

Shortlist
The Madhouse in Washington Square by David Alexander
Miss Fenny (The Woman in the Woods) by Charity (Lee) Blackstock & Ursula Torday
A Gentleman Called by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

1958

Winner
Room to Swing by Ed Lacy

Shortlist
The Longest Second by Bill Ballinger
The Night of the Good Children by Marjorie Carleton
The Bushman Who Came Back by Arthur Upfield

1957

Winner
A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong

Shortlist
The Man Who Didn't Fly by Margot Bennett

1956

Winner
Beast in View by Margaret Millar

Shortlist
The Case of the Talking Bug by Gordon Gordon & Mildred Gordon
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

1955

Winner
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

1954

Winner
Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay

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