Shortlist The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart The Turning Tide by Catriona McPherson Mortal Music by Ann Parker The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
Shortlist Murder Knocks Twice by Susanna Calkins The Pearl Dagger by LA Chandlar A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder by Dianne Freeman The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey Charity’s Burden by Edith Maxwell
2019 Winner The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey Shortlist A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman City of Ink by Elsa Hart Island of the Mad by Laurie R King A Dying Note by Ann Parker A Forgotten Place by Charles Todd
2018 Winner In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen Shortlist The Devouring by James R Benn A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee Dangerous to Know by Renee Patrick Racing the Devil by Charles Todd Cast the First Stone by James W Ziskin
2017 Winner Heart of Stone by James W Ziskin
Shortlist A Death Along the River Fleet by Susanna Calkins Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Delivering The Truth by Edith Maxwell The Reek of Red Herrings by Catriona McPherson What Gold Buys by Ann Parker
2016 Winner The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins
Shortlist A Gilded Grave by Shelley Freydont Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) by C Joseph Greaves The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr Secret Life of Anna Blanc by Jennifer Kincheloe Dreaming Spies by Laurie R King
2015 Winner A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson
Shortlist Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn An Officer and A Spy by Robert Harris Present Darkness by Malla Nunn Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd
2014 Winner Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
Shortlist A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate by Susanna Calkins Saving Lincoln by Robert Kresge Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson Ratlines by Stuart Neville
2013 Winner An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
Shortlist A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell Princess Elizabeth’s Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal The Confession by Charles Todd Elegy For Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
2012 Winner Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson
Shortlist Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen Narrows Gate by Jim Fusilli Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
2011 Winner City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley
Shortlist A Marked Man by Barbara Hamilton The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell The Red Door by Charles Todd The Fifth Servant by Kenneth Wishnia
2010 Winner A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell
Shortlist In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
2009 Winner A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen
Shortlist Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss Company of Liars by Karen Maitland Nox Dormienda by Kelli Stanley Veil of Lies by Jeri Westerson
2008 Winner Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Shortlist Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
2007 Winner Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen
Shortlist The Lightning Rule by Brett Ellen Block The Bee’s Kiss by Barbara Cleverly Dark Assassin by Anne Perry Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
2006 Winner Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Shortlist In Like Flynn by Rhys Bowen Spectres in the Smoke by Tony Broadbent The War of the World Murders by Max Allan Collins Night’s Child by Maureen Jennings