2024Winner
The Cracked Mirror by Christopher Brookmyre Shortlist A Divine Fury by DV Bishop Past Lying by Val McDermid Hunted by Abir Mukherjee A Spy Like Me by Kim Sherwood Longlist Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming The Girl in the Loch by Andrew James Greig The Collapsing Wave by Doug Johnstone The Winter List by SG MacLean The Trials of Marjory Crowe by CS Robertson Blood Runs Deep by Doug Sinclair The Hollow Mountain by Douglas Skelton |
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2023Winner
Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley Shortlist The Second Murderer by Denise Mina Cast a Cold Eye by Robbie Morrison The Devil’s Playground by Craig Russell Longlist Ritual of Fire by DV Bishop The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent The Maiden by Kate Foster Penitent by Mark Leggatt The Bookseller of Inverness by SG MacLean 1989 by Val McDermid A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin An Honourable Thief by Douglas Skelton |
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2022Winner
May God Forgive by Alan Parks Shortlist The Heretic by Liam McIlvanney A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry The Second Cut by Louise Welsh Longlist A Matter of Time by Claire Askew The Sound of Sirens by Ewan Gault The Blood Tide by Neil Lancaster From the Ashes by Deborah Masson Rizzio by Denise Mina A Rattle of Bones by Douglas Skelton |
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2021Winner
Hyde by Craig Russell Shortlist The Silent Daughter by Emma Christie The Coffinmaker's Garden by Stuart MacBride Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison The April Dead by Alan Parks Longlist The Cut by Christopher Brookmyre Before the Storm by Alex Gray Dead Man's Grave by Neil Lancaster Still Life by Val McDermid Bad Debt by William McIntyre The Less Dead by Denise Mina How To Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman |
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2020Winner
Pine by Francine Toon Shortlist Whirligig by Andrew James Greig A Dark Matter by Doug Johnstone The Art of Dying by Ambrose Parry Longlist Time for the Dead by Lin Anderson Bad Memory by Lisa Gray How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid The Island by Ben McPherson Bury Them Deep by James Oswald The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing by Mary Paulson-Ellis The Red, Red Snow by Caro Ramsay Watch Him Die by Craig Robertson |
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2019Winner
A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott Shortlist Breakers by Doug Johnstone Conviction by Denise Mina The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry Longlist All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew No Man's Land by Neil Broadfoot Fallen Angel by Christopher Brookmyre All That's Dead by Stuart MacBride In the Silence by MR Mackenzie Broken Ground by Val McDermid A Breath on Dying Embers by Denzil Meyrick In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin Thunder Bay by Douglas Skelton |
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2018Winner
The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney Shortlist Follow the Dead by Lin Anderson Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre The Man Between by Charles Cumming Longlist Presumed Dead by Mason Cross The Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel Perfect Death by Helen Fields Now She's Gone by Alison James No Time to Cry by James Oswald The Suffering of Strangers by Caro Ramsay The Hunter by Andrew Reid The Photographer by Craig Robertson |
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2017Winner
The Long Drop by Denise Mina Shortlist Out Of Bounds by Val McDermid Murderabilia by Craig Robertson The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid by Craig Russell How to Kill Friends and Implicate People by Jay Stringer Longlist None But the Dead by Lin Anderson Want You Gone by Christopher Brookmyre Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves Perfect Remains by Helen Fields Cross Purpose by Claire MacLeary Games People Play by Owen Mullen Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin |
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20162016
Winner Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre Shortlist The Jump by Doug Johnstone Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid Even Dogs In The Wild by Ian Rankin Longlist The Special Dead by Lin Anderson A Fine House in Trinity by Lesley Kelly In the Cold Dark Ground by Stuart MacBride The Damage Done by James Oswald Open Wounds by Douglas Skelton Beloved Poison by ES Thomson |
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2015Winner
The Ghosts of Altona by Craig Russell Shortlist Paths of the Dead by Lin Anderson DM For Murder by Matt Bendoris Dead Girl Walking by Christopher Brookmyre Thin Air by Ann Cleeves Death is a Welcome Guest by Louise Welsh |
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2014Winner
Entry Island by Peter May Shortlist Falling Fast by Neil Broadfoot Flesh Wounds by Christopher Brookmyre The Amber Fury by Natalie Haynes A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh In The Rosary Garden by Nicola White |
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2013Winner
How a Gunman Says Goodbye by Malcolm Mackay Shortlist Dead Water by Ann Cleeves Pilgrim Soul by Gordon Ferris The Vanishing Point by Val McDermid The Red Road by Denise Mina Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin |
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2012Winner
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming Shortlist Redemption by Will Jordan Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr The Lewis Man by Peter May Gods And Beasts by Denise Mina Dead Men and Broken Hearts by Craig Russell |
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