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2021
Winner
The Unwanted Dead by Chris Lloyd

Shortlist
V For Victory by Lissa Evans
Arrowood and the Thames Corpses by Mick Finlay
The Silver Collar by Antonia Hodgson
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

Longlist
Spirited by Julie Cohen
Tell Me How It Ends by VB Grey
Cathedral by Ben Hopkins
The Second Marriage by Gill Paul
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
The Last Protector by Andrew Taylor
2020
Winner
The King’s Evil by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
The Darker Arts by Oscar de Muriel
The Year Without Summer by Guinevere Glasfurd
Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
The Bastille Spy by CS Quinn
The Hiding Game by Naomi Wood

Longlist
The New Achilles by Christian Cameron
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Coming up for Air by Sarah Leipciger
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing by Mary Paulson-Ellis
The Bone Fire by SD Sykes
2019
Winner
​Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

Shortlist
Little by Edward Carey
The Lighthousekeeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor
Lancelot by Giles Kristian
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
Mrs Whistler by Matthew Plampin

Longlist
The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes
Dark Water by Elizabeth Lowry
Triumph in Dust by Ian Ross
Tombland by CJ Sansom
A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott
Caligula by SJ Turney
2018
Winner
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothman translated by Shaun Whiteside
 
Shortlist
Blood’s Game by Angus Donald
Sugar Money by Jane Harris
The Valentine House by Emma Henderson
The Last Hour by Harry Sidebottom
The Zoo by Christopher Wilson
 
Longlist
Vanishing of Audrey Wilde by Eve Chase
The Coffin Path by Katherine Clements
The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey
Pilgrim’s War by Michael Jecks
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
The Tyrant’s Shadow by Antonia Senio