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2025

Winner
The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale

Shortlist
Unmasking Lucy Letby by Jonathan Coffey & Judith Moritz
The Lady in the Lake by Jeremy Craddock
Framed by John Grisham & Jim McCloskey
The Criminal Mind by Duncan Harding
Four Shots In the Night: A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming

Longlist
Secrets From the Agatha Christie Archive by Jared Cade
The Autistic Sleuth by Chris Chan & Patricia Meyer Chan, Ph.D.
The Book Forger by Joseph Hone
The Serial Killer Next Door by Emma Kenny
Getting Away with Murder by Lynda LaPlante
Drawn Testimony by Jane Rosenberg

2024

Winner
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare

Shortlist
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
No Ordinary Day by Matt Johnson & John Murray
Seventy Times Seven by Alex Mar
Devil’s Coin by Jennifer McAdam & Douglas Thompson
How Many More Women? by Jennifer Robinson & Keina Yoshida

Longlist
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
Chasing Shadows by Miles Johnson
The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Prison Journey - To Hell and Back by Lara Love Hardin
No Comment by Jess McDonald
The Snakehead by Patrick Radden Keefe
Murder at Home by David Wilson

2023

Winner
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Wendy Joseph

Shortlist
The Poisonous Solicitor by Stephen Bates
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards
Tremors In The Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector by Amit Katwala
To Hunt a Killer by Julie Mackay & Robert Murphy
About A Son by David Whitehouse

Longlist
Dead in the Water: Murder and Fraud in the World’s Most Secretive Industry by Matthew Campbell & Kit Chellel
What We Fear Most by Ben Cave
Scandal at Dolphin Square by Simon Danczuk & Daniel Smith
The Real Special Relationship by Michael Smith
The Life Inside by Andy West
Stitched Up: Stories of life and death from a prison doctor by Shahed Yousaf

2022

Winner
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice by Julia Laite

Shortlist
The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion by Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire by Julie Kavanagh
The Unusual Suspect by Ben Machell
The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Longlist
The Jigsaw Murders by Jeremy Craddock
What Lies Buried by Kerry Daynes
The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins
The Seven Ages of Death by Dr Richard Shepherd

2021

Winner
Written in Bone by Sue Black

Shortlist
We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
These Are Not Gentle People by Andrew Harding
Dancing with the Octopus by Debora Harding
The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes
Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

Longlist
The Prison Doctor; Women Inside by Amanda Brown
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards
Hell in the Heartland by Jax Miller
The Peer and the Gangster by Daniel Smith
Operation Morthor by Ravi Somaiya
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
No Return by Mark Townsend

2020

Winner
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Shortlist
Corrupt Bodies by Peter Everett
Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod by Caroline Goode
The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury by Sean O'Connor
The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking by Adam Sisman
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective by Susannah Stapleton

Longlist
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner
Red River Girl by Joanna Jolly
She Said by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Dead Fashion Girl: A Situationist Detective Story by Fred Vermorel

2019

Winner
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

Shortlist
All That Remains by Sue Black
An Unexplained Death by Mikita Brottman
Murder by the Book by Claire Harman
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold

Longlist
Trace by Rachael Brown
Eve Was Shamed by Helena Kennedy
In Your Defence by Sarah Langford
My Life with Murderers by David Wilson

2018

Winner
Blood On The Page by Thomas Harding

Shortlist
Black Dahlia Red Rose by Piu Eatwell
Killers Of The Flower Moon by David Grann
The Fact Of A Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
A False Report by T Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Rex v Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson

Longlist
The Story Of Classic Crime In 100 Books by Martin Edwards
Operation Chaos by Matthew Sweet
Getting Carter by Nick Triplow
Past Mortems by Carla Valentine

2017

Winner
Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba by Stephen Purvis

Shortlist
A Dangerous Place by Simon Farquhar
The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage by Anja Reich-Osang
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II by AT Williams
Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge

Longlist
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
The Ice Age: A Journey into Crystal-Meth Addiction by Luke Williams

2016

Winner
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson

Shortlist
Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob by Wensley Clarkson
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories by Thomas Grant
A Very Expensive Poison by Luke` Harding
John le Carré: The Biography by Adam Sisman

2015

Winner
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Dan Davies

Shortlist
A Kim John Il Production by Paul Fischer
Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic by Jill Leovy
Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of the Gun by Iain Overton
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Ǻsne Seierstad
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson

2014

Winner
The Siege by Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark

Shortlist
Did She Kill Him? by Kate Colquhoun
Life after Death by Damien Echols
Undercover by Rob Evans & Paul Lewis
The Girl by Samantha Geimer
Manson by Jeff Guinn

2013

Winner
Midnight in Peking by Paul French

Shortlist
The Boy in the River by Richard Hoskins
Against a Tide of Evil by Mukesh Kapila & Damien Lewis
A Find Day for a Hanging by Carol Ann Lee
Murder at Wrotham Hill by Diana Souhami
Injustice by Clive Stafford Smith

2012

Winner
The Eleventh Day by Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

Shortlist
To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding
Dark Market by Misha Glenny
Hood Rat by Gavin Knight
The Negotiator by Ben Lopez
Witness by David Smith & Carol Ann Lee

2011

Winner
The Killer of Little Shepherds by Douglas Starr

Shortlist
The Murder Room by Michael Capuzzo
Mr Briggs’ Hat by Kate Colquhoun
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn by Colin Evans
The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

2010

Winner
Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice by Ruth Dudley Edwards

Shortlist
Major Farran’s Hat by David Cesarani
Killing Time by David R Dow

2008

Winner
Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale by Kester Aspden

Shortlist
The Art of Political MurdeR: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi by Francisco Goldman
Violation by David Rose
The Lost Boy by Duncan Staff
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Into The Darkness by Peter Zimonjic

2006

Winner
The Dagenham Murder by Linda Rhodes, Lee Shelden & Kathryn Abnett

Shortlist
A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
The Story of Chicago May by Nuala O'Faolain
The Death of Innocents by Sister Helen Prejean
Under and Alone by William Queen
And Then the Darkness by Sue Williams

2005

Winner
On The Run by Gregg & Gina Hill

Shortlist
The Wreckers by Bella Bathurst
The Last Duel by Eric Jager
The Trial by Sadakat Kadri
A Serpent in Eden by James Owen

2004

Winner
Cosa Nostra by John Dickie

Shortlist
The Swamp of Death by Rebecca Gowers
The Trials of Hank Janson by Steve Holland
Slave by Mende Nazer & Damien Lewis
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise

2003

Winner
Pointing from the Grave by Samantha Weinberg

Shortlist
Wicked Beyond Belief by Michael Bilton
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Gang War by Peter Walsh

2002

Winner
Dead Man's Wages by Lillian Pizzichini

Shortlist
Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
Scene of the Crime by Julian Earwaker & Kathleen Becker
Town Without Pity by Don Hale

2001

Winner
The Infiltrators by Philip Etienne & Martin Maynard

Shortlist
Maggots, Murder and Men by Dr Zacaria Erzinclioglu
Patriot Traitors by Adrian Weale

2000

Winner
Mr Blue by Edward Bunker

1999

Winner
The Case of Stephen Lawrence by Brian Cathcart

1998

Winner
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny

1997

Winner
The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton

1996

Winner
The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser

1995

Winner
Dead Not Buried by Martin Beales

1994

Winner
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer by David Canter

1993

Winner
Murder in the Heart by Alexandra Artley

1992

Winner
The Reckoning by Charles Nicholl

1991

Winner
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy

1990

Winner
The Passing of Starr Faithful by Jonathan Goodman

1989

Winner
A Gathering of Saints by Robert Lindsay

1988

Winner
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein

1987

Winner
Perfect Murder by Benard Taylor & Stephen Knight

1986

Winner
Evil Angels by John Bryson

1985

Winner
Killing for Company by Brian Masters

1984

Winner
In God's Name by David Yallop

1983

Winner
Double Dealer by Peter Watson

1982

Winner
Earth to Earth by John Cornwell

1981

Winner
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without A Number by Jacobo Timerman

1980

Winner
Conspiracy by Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan

1979

Winner
Rachman by Shirley Green

1978

Winner
The Mystery of the Princes by Audrey Williamson

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