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2025

Winner
All Us Sinners by Katy Massey

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Miss Austen Investigates by Jessica Bull
Knife River by Justine Champine
Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten
A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder by Gay Marris
Deadly Animals by Marie Tierney

Longlist
The Grief Doctor by Jack Anderson
My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-White
The Glass Woman by Alice McIlroy
An Honest Living by Dwyer Murphy
Five by Five by Claire Wilson

2024

Winner
In The Blink of An Eye by Jo Callaghan

Shortlist
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua
The Maiden by Kate Foster
West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman
Go Seek by Michelle Teahan
The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh

Longlist
A Most Unusual Demise by Kathryn Black
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
Murder By Natural Causes by Helen Erichsen
The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell
Obsessed by Liza North
The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell

2023

Winner
Dirt Town by Hayley Scrivenor

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Breaking by Amanda Cassidy
The Local by Joey Hartstone
London in Black by Jack Lutz
No Country for Girls by Emma Styles
Outback by Patricia Wolf

Longlist
A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge
Better the Blood by Michael Bennett
Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor
The Truth Will Out by Rosemary Hennigan
Nobody But Us by Laure Van Rensburg
The Partisan by Patrick Worrall

2022

Winner
The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Shortlist
Welcome to Cooper by Tariq Ashkanani
Repentance by Eloisa Diaz
The Mash House by Alan Gillespie
Where Ravens Roost by Karin Nordin
How to Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina
Waking the Tiger by Mark Wightman

Longlist
Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan
Hunted by Antony Dunford
Raft of Stars by Andrew J Graff
Falling by TJ Newman
The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou
A Mumbai Murder Mystery by Meeti Shroff-Shah
The Source by Sarah Sultoon

2021

Winner
The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdottir translated by Victoria Cribb

Shortlist
City of Ghosts by Ben Creed
The One That Got Away by Egan Hughes
The Bone Jar by SW Kane
Fortune Favours the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
Three-Fifths by John Vercher

Longlist
The Silence by Susan Allott
The Silent Daughter by Emma Christie
The Chalet by Catherine Cooper
Under Violent Skies by Judi Daykin
Cuddies Strip by Rob McInroy
What Is Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
Hermit by SR White

2020

Winner
The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood

Shortlist
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
Little White Lies by Philippa East
The Wreckage by Robin Morgan-Bentley

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Trust Me, I’m Dead by Sherryl Clark
Whirligig by Andrew James Greig
This Dark Little Place by AS Hatch
Hold Your Tongue by Deborah Masson
Black Sun by Owen Matthews
The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean
A Death in the Medina by James Von Leyden

2019

Winner
Scrublands by Chris Hammer

Shortlist
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew
The Boy At The Door by Alex Dahl
Turn A Blind Eye by Vicky Newham
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Overkill by Vanda Symon

Longlist
Motherland by GD Abson
When Darkness Calls by Mark Griffin
Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup

2018

Winner
Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love

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Gravesend by William Boyle
IQ by Joe Ide
Girl in Snow by Danya Kukafka
East Of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman
Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic

Longlist
Soho Dead by Greg Keen
Ravenhill by John Steele
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

2017

Winner
Tall Oaks by Chris Whitaker

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The Pictures by Guy Bolton
Ragdoll by Daniel Cole
Distress Signals by Catherine Ryan Howard
Sirens by Joseph Knox
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land

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The Watcher by Ross Armstrong
What You Don’t Know by JoAnn Chaney
Sunset City by Melissa Ginsburg
Epiphany Jones by Michael Grothaus
Himself by Jess Kidd
The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy

2016

Winner
Dodgers by Bill Beverly

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Fever City by Tim Baker
Freedom’s Child by Jax Miller
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle

2015

Winner
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson

Shortlist
The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer
The Abrupt Physics of Dying by Paul E Hardisty
You by Caroline Kepnes
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Longlist
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
The Well by Catherine Chanter
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little
The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

2014

Winner
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin

Shortlist
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Longlist
Night Heron by Adam Brookes
Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh

2013

Winner
Norwegian by Night by Derek B Miller

Shortlist
Something You Are by Hanna Jameson
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
Shadow of the Rock by Thomas Mogford

Longlist
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman
The City Of Shadows by Michael Russell
City of Blood by MD Villiers

2012

Winner
Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash

Shortlist
Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne
Good People by Ewart Hutton
What Dies in Summer by Tom Wright

Longlist
The Doll Princess by Tom Benn
So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
The Expats by Chris Pavone

2011

Winner
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson

Shortlist
The Dogs of Rome by Conor Fitzgerald
The Dead Women of Juarez by Sam Hawken
Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller

Longlist
Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly
Sister by Rosamund Lupton
Or the Bull Kills You by Jason Webster

2010

Winner
Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn

Shortlist
The Pull of the Moon by Diane Janes
Rupture by Simon Lelic
The Holy Thief by William Ryan

Longlist
Martyr by Rory Clements
Stop Me by Richard Jay Parker
Random by Craig Robertson
Cut Short by Leigh Russell

2009

Winner
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin

Shortlist
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
Bad Catholics by James Green
No Way To Say Goodbye by Rod Madocks
Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg
The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell

2008

Winner
The Bethlehem Murders by Matt Rees

Shortlist
The Night of the the Mi’raj by Zoë Ferraris
Die With Me by Elena Forbes
Absolution by Caro Ramsay
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

2007

Winner
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Shortlist
Objects of Desire by CJ Emerson
The Wrong Kind of Blood by Declan Hughes
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
Last Days of Newgate by Andrew Pepper
The Dead of Summer by Camilla Way

2006

Winner
Still Life by Louise Penny

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Immoral by Brian Freeman
Ice Trap by Kitty Sewell

2005

Winner
Running Hot by Dreda Say Mitchell

Shortlist
The Great Stink by Clare Clark
Bloody Harvests by Richard Kunzmann
Grip by David McKeowen

2004

Winner
Amagansett by Mark Mills

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The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
The Three Body Problem by Catherine Shaw
The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez

2003

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Mission Flats by William Landay

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Backlash by Rod Duncan
Dissolution by CJ Sansom

2002

Winner
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh

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The 25th Hour by David Benioff
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L Carter
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
The Water Clock by Jim Kelly

2001

Winner
The Earthquake Bird by Susanna Jones

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Paradise Salvage by John Fusco
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft

2000

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God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran

1999

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Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman

1998

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Garnethill by Denise Mina

1997

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Body Politic by Paul Johnston

1995

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One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

1994

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Big Town by Doug J Swanson

1992

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The Ice House by Minette Walters

1991

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Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

1990

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Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

1989

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A Real Shot in the Arm by Annette Roome

1988

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Death's Bright Angel by Janet Neel

1987

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Dark Apostle by Denis Kilcommons

1986

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Tinplate by Neville Steed

1985

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The Latimer Mercy by Robert Richards

1984

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A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside

1983

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The Ariadne Clue by Carol Clemeau

1982

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The Night the Gods Smiled by Eric Wright

1981

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The Ludi Victory by James Leigh

1980

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Dupe by Liza Cody

1979

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Saturday of Glory by David Serafin

1978

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A Running Duck by Paula Gosling

1977

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The Judas Pair by Jonathan Gash

1976

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Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal by Patrick Alexander

1975

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Acid Drop by Sara George

1974

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The Big Fix by Roger L Simon

1973

Winner
Don't Point That Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli

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