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2020
Winner
The Chain by Adrian McKinty

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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Worst Case Scenario by Helen Fitzgerald
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
Joe Country by Mick Herron
Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee

Longlist
Fallen Angel by Christopher Brookmyre
Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver
Cruel Acts by Jane Casey
Blue Moon by Lee Child
The Long Call by Ann Cleeves
Red Snow by Will Dean
Platform Seven by Louise Doughty
How the Dead Speak by Val McDermid
Conviction by Denise Mina
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Blood and Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
2019
Winner
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh

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Snap by Belinda Bauer
London Rules by Mick Herron
Broken Ground by Val McDermid
The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney
East Of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman

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Our House by Louise Candlish
Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves
This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan
Take Me In by Sabine Durrant
The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths
The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
Hell Bay by Kate Rhodes
Salt Lane by William Shaw
The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan
Changeling by Matt Wesolowski​
2018
Winner
The Intrusions by Stav Sherez

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Spook Street by Mick Herron
Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner

Longlist
Want You Gone by Christopher Brookmyre
The Seagull by Ann Cleeves
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths
A Death at Fountains Abbey by Antonia Hodgson
He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
Sirens by Joseph Knox
The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet
You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
Rather be the Devil by Ian Rankin​
2017
Winner
Black Widow by Christopher Brookmyre
 
Shortlist
After You Die by Eva Dolan
Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant
Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Out Of Bounds by Val McDermid
Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
 
Longlist
Die Of Shame by Mark Billingham
Night School by Lee Child
Tastes Like Fear by Sarah Hilary
The Last Confession Of Thomas Hawkins by Antonia Hodgson
The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood
Coffin Road by Peter May
Those We Left Behind by Stuart Neville
Even Dogs In The Wild by Ian Rankin
Murderabilia by Craig Robertson
Birdwatcher by William Shaw
The Woman In Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Stasi Wolf by David Young
2016
Winner
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
 
Shortlist
Time of Death by Mark Billingham
Tell No Tales by Eva Dolan
Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith
Disclaimer by Renée Knight
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
 
Longlist
The Moth Catcher by Ann Cleeves
The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths
Black Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
The Missing and the Dead by Stuart MacBride
Every Night I Dream of Hell by Malcolm Mackay
Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid
The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney
The Nightmare Place by Steve Mosby
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
Death is a Welcome Guest by Louise Welsh
Stasi Child by David Young
2015
Winner
Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
 
Shortlist
The Facts of Life and Death by Belinda Bauer
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin
The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson
Entry Island by Peter May
 
Longlist
Eeny Meeny by MJ Arlidge
The Ghost Runner by Parker Bilal
The Strangler Vine by MJ Carter
Personal by Lee Child
The Killing Season by Mason Cross
Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart by Christopher Fowler
The Telling Error by Sophie Hannah
Darkness, Darkness by John Harvey
Disappeared by Anthony J Quinn
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith
A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh
2014
Winner
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer
 
Shortlist
Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
The Chess Men by Peter May
The Red Road by Denise Mina
Eleven Days by Stav Sherez
 
Longlist
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
The Dying Hours by Mark Billingham
Like This, For Ever by Sharon Bolton
A Wanted Man by Lee Child
The Honey Guide by Richard Crompton
The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald
Until You're Mine by Samantha Hayes
I Hear the Sirens in the Street by Adrian McKinty
Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin
Children of the Revolution by Peter Robinson
Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth
2013
Winner
Gods And Beasts by Denise Mina
 
Shortlist
Rush Of Blood by Mark Billingham
Safe House by Chris Ewan
The Lewis Man by Peter May
Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville
A Dark Redemption by Stav Sherez
 
Longlist
The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne
Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer
Dead Scared by SJ Bolton
The Affair by Lee Child
A Foreign Country by Charles Cumming
Not Dead Yet by Peter James
Siege by Simon Kernick
Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr
The Rage by Gene Kerrigan
Birthdays for the Dead by Stuart MacBride
The Dark Winter by David Mark
Sacrilege by SJ Parris
2012
Winner
The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina
 
Shortlist
Now You See Me by SJ Bolton
Where the Bodies are Buried by Christopher Brookmyre
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
Black Flowers by Steve Mosby
Before I Go to Sleep by SJ Watson
2011
Winner
61 Hours by Lee Child
 
Shortlist
From the Dead by Mark Billingham
Blood Harvest by SJ Bolton
Dark Blood by Stuart MacBride
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
2010
Winner
A Simple Act of Violence by RJ Ellory
 
Shortlist
In the Dark by Mark Billingham
The Surrogate by Tania Carver
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
Dead Tomorrow by Peter James
Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
Doors Open by Ian Rankin
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
2009
Winner
Death Message by Mark Billingham
 
Shortlist
The Accident Man by Tom Cain
Bad Luck And Trouble by Lee Child
Gone To Ground by John Harvey
Ritual by Mo Hayder
Garden Of Evil by David Hewson
A Cure For All Diseases by Reginald Hill
The Colour Of Blood by Declan Hughes
Dead Man’s Footsteps by Peter James
Broken Skin by Stuart MacBride
Beneath The Bleeding by Val McDermid
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
Friend Of The Devil by Peter Robinson
Savage Moon by Chris Simms
2008
Winner
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
 
Shortlist
The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett
Buried by Mark Billingham
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil by Christopher Brookmyre
The Death of Dalziel by Reginald Hill
One Under by Graham Hurley
Not Dead Enough by Peter James
Relentless by Simon Kernick
Dying Light by Stuart MacBride
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Piece of my Heart by Peter Robinson
Sovereign by CJ Sansom
2007
Winner
Two-Way Split by Allan Guthrie
 
Shortlist
The Dead Place by Stephen Booth
All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye by Christopher Brookmyre
Blood and Honey by Graham Hurley
The Deathship of Dartmouth by Michael Jecks
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride
2006
Winner
The Torment of Others by Val McDermid
 
Shortlist
Strange Blood by Lindsay Ashford
One Last Breath by Stephen Booth
The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards
The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin
2005
Winner
Lazybones by Mark Billingham
 
Shortlist
The Murder Exchange by Simon Kernick
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor
Disordered Minds by Minette Walters