2024Winner
Prom Mom by Laura Lippman Shortlist Don’t Look Away by Rachel Abbott The Close by Jane Casey Sepulchre Street by Martin Edwards Murder at Bletchley Park by Christina Koning The Devil’s Playground by Craig Russell |
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2023Winner
The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran Shortlist The Cliff House by Christopher Brookmyre Desert Star by Michael Connelly The Botanist by MW Craven A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin Nine Lives by Peter Swanson |
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2022Winner
Girl A by Abigail Dean Shortlist The Turnout by Megan Abbott The Measure of Time by Gianrico Carofiglio The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly Running Out of Road by Cath Staincliffe The Royal Secret by Andrew Taylor |
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2021Winner
A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin Shortlist The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser The Split by Sharon Bolton A Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke Little Boy Lost by JP Carter Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh Fair Warning by Michael Connelly The Dead Line by Holly Watt |
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2020Winner
To The Lions by Holly Watt Shortlist Worst Case Scenario by Helen Fitzgerald Never Be Broken by Sarah Hilary The King's Evil by Andrew Taylor The Maltese Herring by LC Tyler The Border by Don Winslow |
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2019Winner
Sunburn by Laura Lippman Shortlist When Trouble Sleeps by Leye Adenle Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh Gallows Court by Martin Edwards Homegrown Hero by Khurrum Rahman The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor The Shrouded Path by Sarah Ward |
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2018Winner
The Late Show by Michael Connelly Shortlist Want You Gone by Christopher Brookmyre The Ghosts of Galway by Ken Bruen IQ by Joe Ide Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane You Can Run by Steve Mosby Wolves in the Dark by Gunnar Staalesen Exquisite by Sarah Stovell |
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2017Winner
Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman Shortlist The Twenty Three by Linwood Barclay Deep Down Dead by Steph Broadribb The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly Blackout by Ragnar Jonasson Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin The Ashes of London by Andrew Taylor Cat Among the Herrings by LC Tyler |
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2016Winner
The Crossing by Michael Connelly Shortlist Broken Promise by Linwood Barclay A Bed of Scorpions by Judith Flanders A Southwold Mystery by Suzette A Hill Dreaming Spies by Laurie R King Freedom's Child by Jax Miller Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor |
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2015Winner
A Colder War by Charles Cumming Shortlist No Safe House by Linwood Barclay The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons by Lawrence Block Dark Tides by Chris Ewan Natchez Burning by Greg Iles Hollow Mountain by Thomas Mogford Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Thomas Sweterlitsch |
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2014Winner
Norwegian by Night by Derek B Miller Shortlist The Beauty of Murder by AK Benedict Sandrine (Sandrine's Case) by Thomas H Cook Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran Under a Silent Moon by Elizabeth Haynes Cross and Burn by Val McDermid The Red Road by Denise Mina Sign of the Cross by Thomas Mogford The Double by George Pelecanos The Feast of Artemis by Anne Zouroudi |
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2013Winner
Bryant & May and the Invisible Code by Christopher Fowler Shortlist The Age of Doubt by Andrea Camilleri Killing The Emperors by Ruth Dudley Edwards Dominion by CJ Sansom |
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2012Winner
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina Shortlist The Accident by Linwood Barclay Burned by Thomas Enger Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane Death on the Rive Nord by Adrian Magson Black Flowers by Steve Mosby The Cut by George Pelecanos |
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2011Winner
Field Gray by Philip Kerr Shortlist Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst A Room Swept White by Sophie Hannah Where the Shadows Lie by Michael Ridpath Heartstone by CJ Sansom The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor To Kill A Tsar by Andrew Williams |
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2010Winner
Beat The Reaper by Josh Bazell Shortlist The Charlemagne Pursuit by Steve Berry Contract With God by Juan Gomez-Jurado Crowner Royal by Bernard Knight The Alchemy of Murder by Carol McCleary |
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