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2020
Winner
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

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
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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
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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