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2021
Longlist
The Creak on the Stairs by Eva Bjorg Ægisdottir translated by Victoria Cribb
The Silence by Susan Allott
The Silent Daughter by Emma Christie
The Chalet by Catherine Cooper
City of Ghosts by Ben Creed
Under Violent Skies by Judi Daykin
The One That Got Away by Egan Hughes
The Bone Jar by SW Kane
Cuddies Strip by Rob McInroy
What Is Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
Fortune Favours the Dead by Stephen Spotswood
Three-Fifths by John Vercher
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

Longlist
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

Shortlist
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

Shortlist
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
 
Longlist
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
 
Shortlist
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
 
Shortlist
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
 
Shortlist
The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
The Three Body Problem by Catherine Shaw
The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
2003
Winner
Mission Flats by William Landay
 
Shortlist
Backlash by Rod Duncan
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
2002
Winner
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
 
Shortlist
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
 
Shortlist
Paradise Salvage by John Fusco
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
Good Bad Woman by Elizabeth Woodcraft
2000
Winner
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
 
1999
Winner
Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
 
1998
Winner
Garnethill by Denise Mina
 
1997
Winner
Body Politic by Paul Johnston
 
1995
Winner
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
 
1994
Winner
Big Town by Doug J Swanson
 
1992
Winner
The Ice House by Minette Walters
 
1991
Winner
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
 
1990
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Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
1989
Winner
A Real Shot in the Arm by Annette Roome
 
1988
Winner
Death's Bright Angel by Janet Neel
 
1987
Winner
Dark Apostle by Denis Kilcommons
 
1986
Winner
Tinplate by Neville Steed
 
1985
Winner
The Latimer Mercy by Robert Richards
 
1984
Winner
A Very Private Enterprise by Elizabeth Ironside
 
1983
Winner
The Ariadne Clue by Carol Clemeau
 
1982
Winner
The Night the Gods Smiled by Eric Wright
 
1981
Winner
The Ludi Victory by James Leigh
 
1980
Winner
Dupe by Liza Cody
1979
Winner
Saturday of Glory by David Serafin
 
1978
Winner
A Running Duck by Paula Gosling
 
1977
Winner
The Judas Pair by Jonathan Gash
 
1976
Winner
Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal by Patrick Alexander
 
1975
Winner
Acid Drop by Sara George
 
1974
Winner
The Big Fix by Roger L Simon
 
1973
Winner
Don't Point That Thing at Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli