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2024Winner
The Peacock and the Sparrow by IS Berry Nominees The Golden Gate by Amy Chua Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji |
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2023Winner
Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor Nominees Jackal by Erin E Adams Shutter by Ramona Emerson More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li |
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2022Winner
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan Nominations Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer |
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2021Winner
Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen 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 |
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2020Winner
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 |
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2019Winner
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 |
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2018Winner
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper Shortlist Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li Idaho by Emily Ruskovich Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love |
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2017Winner
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 |
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2016Winner
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 |
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2015Winner
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 |
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2014Winner
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 |
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2013Winner
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 |
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2012Winner
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 |
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2011Winner
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 |
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2010Winner
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 |
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2009Winner
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 |
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2008Winner
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 |
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2007Winner
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 |
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2006Winner
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 |
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2005Winner
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 |
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2004Winner
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 |
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2003Winner
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 |
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2002Winner
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 |
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2001Winner
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 |
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2000Winner
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 |
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1999Winner
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 |
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1998Winner
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 |
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1997Winner
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 |
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1996Winner
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 |
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1995Winner
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 |
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1994Winner
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 |
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1993Winner
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 |
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1992Winner
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 |
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1991Winner
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 |
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1990Winner
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 |
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1989Winner
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 |
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1988Winner
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 |
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1987Winner
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 |
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1986Winner
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 |
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1985Winner
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 |
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1984Winner
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 |
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1983Winner
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 |
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1982Winner
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 |
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1981Winner
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 |
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1980Winner
The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson Shortlist Night Trains by Peter Heath Fine Follow the Leader by John Logue |
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1979Winner
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 |
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1978Winner
A French Finish by Robert Ross Shortlist Dewey Decimated by Charles A Goodrum The Fan by Bob Randall |
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1977Winner
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 |
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1976Winner
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 |
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1975Winner
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 |
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1974Winner
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 |
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1973Winner
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 |
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1972Winner
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 |
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1971Winner
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 |
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1970Winner
A Time for Predators by Joe Gores Shortlist You'll Like My Mother by Naomi Hintze Quicksand by Myrick Land |
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1969Winners
Silver Street by E Richard Johnson The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak Shortlist The Dinosaur by Lawrence Kamarck |
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1968Winner
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 |
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1967Winner
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 |
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1966Winner
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 |
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1965Winner
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman Shortlist In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross The Gravemaker's House by Rubin Weber |
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1964Winner
Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg Shortlist The Fifth Woman by Maria Fagyas The Prowler by Frances Rickett The Neon Haystack by James M Ullman |
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1963Winner
The Fugitive by Robert L Fish Shortlist Counterweight by Daniel Broun The Chase by Richard Unekis |
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1962Winner
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 |
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1961Winner
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 |
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1960Winner
The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar Shortlist A Dream of Falling by Mary O Rank |
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1959Winner
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 |
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1958Winner
Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks Shortlist Bay of the Damned by Warren Carrier Root of Evil by James Cross |
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1957Winner
Rebecca's Pride by Donald McNutt Douglass |
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1956Winner
The Perfectionist by Lane Kauffman Shortlist In His Blood by Harold R Daniels Much Ado About Murder by Fred Levon |
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1955Winner
Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts |
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1954Winner
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin |
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1953Winner
Don't Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault Shortlist The Inward Eye by Peggy Bacon |
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1952Winner
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 |
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1951Winner
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 |
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1950Winner
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 |
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1949Winner
The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis Shortlist Wilders Walk Away by Herbert Brean Shoot the Works by Richard Ellington |
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1948Winner
The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown |
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1947Winner
The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis |
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1946Winner
Watchful at Night by Julius Fast |
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