Nominations Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March Catherine House by Elizabeth Thomas Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
2020 Winner Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Nominations My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing The Good Detective by John McMahon The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott Three-Fifths by John Vercher American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
2019 Winner Bearskin by James A McLaughlin
Nominations A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper The Captives by Debra Jo Immergut The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
2018 Winner She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
Shortlist Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li Idaho by Emily Ruskovich Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
2017 Winner Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
Shortlist Dodgers by Bill Beverly IQ by Joe Ide The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright The Lost Girls by Heather Young
2016 Winner The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Shortlist Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm
2015 Winner Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
Shortlist Invisible City by Julia Dahl The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens Bad Country by CB McKenzie Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver
2014 Winner Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Shortlist The Resurrectionist by Matthew Guinn Ghostman by Roger Hobbs Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
2013 Winner The Expats by Chris Pavone
Shortlist The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal Black Fridays by Michael Sears
2012 Winner Bent Road by Lori Roy
Shortlist Red on Red by Edward Conlon Last to Fold by David Duffy All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder
2011 Winner Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
Shortlist The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto Snow Angels by James Thompson
2010 Winner In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
Shortlist The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
2009 Winner The Foreigner by Francie Lin
Shortlist The Kind One by Tom Epperson Sweetsmoke by David Fuller Calumet City by Charlie Newton A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
2008 Winner In the Woods by Tana French
Shortlist Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard Head Games by Craig McDonald Pyres by Derek Nikitas
2007 Winner The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
Shortlist Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn The King of Lies by John Hart Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
2006 Winner Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel
Shortlist Die A Little by Megan Abbott Immoral by Brian Freeman Run the Risk by Scott Frost Hide Your Eyes by Alison Gaylin
2005 Winner Country of Origin by Don Lee
Shortlist Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas Relative Danger by Charles Benoit Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta Bahamarama by Bob Morris
2004 Winner Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel
Shortlist 12 Bliss Street by Martha Conway Offer of Proof by Robert Heilbrun Night of the Dance by James Hime The Bridge of Sights by Olen Steinhauer
2003 Winner The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King
Shortlist Southern Latitudes by Stephen J Clark High Wire by Kam Majd Buck Fever by Ben Rehder Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt
2002 Winner Line of Vision by David Ellis
Shortlist Open Season by CJ Box Red Hook by Gabriel Cohen Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton The 500 by Matthew Quirk
2001 Winner A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
Shortlist Raveling by Peter Moore Smith The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips Crow in Stolen Colors by Marcia Simpson Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
2000 Winner The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison
Shortlist Certifiably Insane by Arthur W Bahr Big Trouble by Dave Barry God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran Inner City Blues by Paula L Woods
1999 Winner A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton
Shortlist Reckless Homicide by Ira Genberg Numbered Account by Christopher Reich Nice by Jen Sacks A Criminal Appeal by DR Schanker
1998 Winner Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
Shortlist A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne Bird Dog by Philip Reed Flower Net by Lisa See 23 Shades of Black by KJA Wishnia
1997 Winner Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson
Shortlist Bonita Faye by Margaret Moseley The Queen's Man by Sharon Kay Penman A Test of Wills by Charles Todd A Brother's Blood by Michael White
1996 Winner Penance by David Housewright
Shortlist Tight Shot by Kevin Allman Murder in Scorpio by Martha C Lawrence The Harry Chronicles by Allan Pedrazas Fixed in His Folly by David J Walker
1995 Winner The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green
Shortlist One for the Money by Janet Evanovich Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'Connell Suspicion of Innocence by Barbara Parker Big Town by Doug J Swanson
1994 Winner A Grave Talent by Laurie R King
Shortlist The List of 7 by Mark Frost Criminal Seduction by Darian North The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz by Manuel Ramos Zaddik by David Rosenbaum
1993 Winner The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Shortlist Trail of Murder by Christine Andreae Ladystinger by Craig Smith Trick of the Eye by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
1992 Winner Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner
Shortlist Deadstick by Terence Faherty Deadline by Marcy Heidish Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker A Cool Breeze in the Underground by Don Winslow
1991 Winner Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Shortlist Come Nightfall by Gary Amo Passion Play by W Edward Blain Nobody Lives Forever by Edna Buchanan Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
1990 Winner The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe
Shortlist Hide and Seek by Barry Berg The Story of Annie D. by Susan Taylor Chehak The Mother Shadow by Melodie Johnson Howe Blood Under the Bridge by Bruce Zimmerman
1989 Winner Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
Shortlist Murder Once Done by Mary Lou Bennett The Murder of Frau Schutz by J. Madison Davis A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George Julian Solo by Shelley Reuben
1988 Winner Death Among Strangers by Deidre S Laiken
Shortlist Detective by Parnell Hall Heat Lightning by John Lantigua Lover Man by Dallas Murphy The Spoiler by Domenic Stansberry
1987 Winner No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart
Shortlist Lost by Gary Devon Riceburner by Richard Hyer Floater by Joseph Koenig Dead Air by Mike Lupica
1986 Winner When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
Shortlist The Glory Hole Murders by Tony Fennelly Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man by Daniel Stashower
1985 Winner Strike Three, You're Dead by RD Rosen
Shortlist A Creative Kind of Killer by Jack Early Foul Shot by Doug Hornig Sweet, Savage Death by Orania Papazoglou Someone Else's Grave by Alison Smith
1984 Winner The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss
Shortlist The Gold Solution by Herbert Resnicow Red Diamond, Private Eye by Mark Schorr Caroline Minuscule by Andrew Taylor Dead Man's Thoughts by Carolyn Wheat
1983 Winner The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry
Shortlist By Frequent Anguish by SFX Dean Unholy Communion by Richard Hughes In the Heat of the Summer by John Katzenbach Two If By Sea by Ernest Savage
1982 Winner Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Shortlist Giant Killer by Vernon Tom Hyman Not A Through Street by Ernest Larsen The Black Glove by Geoffrey Miller Murder at the Red October by Anthony Olcott
1981 Winner The Watcher by K Nolte Smith
Shortlist Winds of the Old Days by Betsy Aswald The Rembrandt Panel by Oliver Banks Double Negative by David Carkeet The Other Ann Fletcher by Susanne Jaffe
1980 Winner The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson
Shortlist Night Trains by Peter Heath Fine Follow the Leader by John Logue
1979 Winner Killed in the Ratings by William L DeAndrea
Shortlist The Scourge by Thomas L Dunne Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg Blood Secrets by Craig Jones The Memory of Eva Ryker by Donald A Stanwood
1978 Winner A French Finish by Robert Ross
Shortlist Dewey Decimated by Charles A Goodrum The Fan by Bob Randall
1977 Winner The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson
Shortlist Your Day in the Barrel by Alan Furst Straight by Steve Knickmeyer The Big Pay-Off by Janice Law Final Proof by Marie R Reno
1976 Winner The Alvarez Journal by Rex Burns
Shortlist Waltz Across Texas by Max Crawford Harmattan by Thomas Klop Paperback Thriller by Lynn Meyer The Devalino Caper by AJ Russell
1975 Winner Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Shortlist The Kreutzman Formula by Dominic Koski & Virgil Scott Saturday Games by Brown Meggs Target Practice by Nicholas Meyer The Jones Man by Vern E Smith
1974 Winner The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul Erdman
Shortlist Kicked to Death by a Camel by Richard Bulliet Someone's Death by Charles Larson Many Happy Returns by Justin Scott Man on a String by Michael Wolfe
1973 Winner Squaw Point by RH Shimer
Shortlist A Person Shouldn't Die Like That by Arthur Goldstein The Dead of Winter by William H Hallahan Box 100 by Frank Leonard The Heart of the Dog by Thomas A Roberts
1972 Winner Finding Maubee by AHZ Carr
Shortlist To Spite Her Face by Hildegarde Dolson Ask the Right Question by Michael Lewin The Stalker by Bill Pronzini Gypsy in Amber by Martin Cruz Smith
1971 Winner The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders
Shortlist Incident at 125th Street by JE Brown Taking Gary Feldman by Stanley Cohen The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon
1970 Winner A Time for Predators by Joe Gores
Shortlist You'll Like My Mother by Naomi Hintze Quicksand by Myrick Land
1969 Winners Silver Street by E Richard Johnson The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak
Shortlist The Dinosaur by Lawrence Kamarck
1968 Winner Act of Fear by Michael Collins
Shortlist Hell Gate by James Dawson Mortissimo by PEH Dunston The Tigers Are Hungry by Charles Early The Killing Season by John Redgate
1967 Winner The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas
Shortlist Fancy's Knell by Babs Deal A Kind of Treason by Robert S Elegant The Pedestal by George Lanning
1966 Winner In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
Shortlist The Expendable Spy by Jack D Hunter The French Doll by Vincent McConnor Before the Ball Was Over by Alexandra Roudybush
1965 Winner Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
Shortlist In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross The Gravemaker's House by Rubin Weber
1964 Winner Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg
Shortlist The Fifth Woman by Maria Fagyas The Prowler by Frances Rickett The Neon Haystack by James M Ullman
1963 Winner The Fugitive by Robert L Fish
Shortlist Counterweight by Daniel Broun The Chase by Richard Unekis
1962 Winner The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc
Shortlist Felony Tank by Malcolm Braly Close His Eyes by Olivia Dwight The Cipher by Alex Gordons Night of the Kill by Breni James Shock Treatment by Winfred Van Atta
1961 Winner The Man in the Cage by John Holbrooke Vance
Shortlist The Marriage Cage by William Johnston The Killing at Big Tree by David McCarthy Case Pending by Dell Shannon The Mercenaries by Donald E Westlake
1960 Winner The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar
Shortlist A Dream of Falling by Mary O Rank
1959 Winner The Bright Road to Fear by Richard Martin Stern
Shortlist The Man Who Disappeared by Edgar J Bohle Death of a Spinster by Frances Duncombe Now Will You Try for Murder? by Harry Olesker
1958 Winner Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks
Shortlist Bay of the Damned by Warren Carrier Root of Evil by James Cross
1957 Winner Rebecca's Pride by Donald McNutt Douglass
1956 Winner The Perfectionist by Lane Kauffman
Shortlist In His Blood by Harold R Daniels Much Ado About Murder by Fred Levon
1955 Winner Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts
1954 Winner A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin
1953 Winner Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault
Shortlist The Inward Eye by Peggy Bacon
1952 Winner Strangle Hold by Mary McMullen
Shortlist Carry My Coffin Slowly by Lee Herrington The Christmas Card Murders by David William Meredith Cure it with Honey by Thurston Scott The Eleventh Hour by Robert B Sinclair
1951 Winner Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh
Shortlist Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith Happy Holiday! by Thaddeus O'Finn The House Without a Door by Thomas Sterling
1950 Winner What A Body by Alan Green
Shortlist The End is Known by Geoffrey Holiday Hall Walk the Dark Streets by William Krasner The Shadow and the Blot by GG Lobell & ND Lobell The Innocent by Evelyn Piper The Dark Light by Bart Spicer
1949 Winner The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis
Shortlist Wilders Walk Away by Herbert Brean Shoot the Works by Richard Ellington
1948 Winner The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown