Macavity_Award

Macavity Awards

Mystery writer award

The Macavity Awards, established in 1987, are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.^[1] The award is given in four categories—best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. The Sue Feder Historical Mystery has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical

This category has had multiple names since its inception and review the best mystery-related critical, biographical, and otherwise nonfiction titles.

2000s

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Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 2000-2009^[2]^[3]^[4]
Year	Author(s)	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Tom Nolan	Ross Macdonald	Penguin Rough Guides	Winner
	Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl (eds.)	A Taste of Murder	Dell	Finalist
	Daniel Stashower	Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle	Henry Holt & Co.	Finalist
2001	Marvin Lachman	The American Regional Mystery	Minotaur Books	Winner
	Martin Booth	The Doctor and the Detective: A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Margaret Caldwell Thomas	essays	Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Martha Hailey Dubose	Women of Mystery: the Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 2000	Finalist
	Jim Huang (ed.)	100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century	Crum Creek Press	Finalist
2002	G. Miki Hayden	Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional	Howdunit Series, Writers Digest Books	Winner
	Max Allan Collins	The War of the World Murders	Collectors Press	Finalist
	Michael J. Hayde	My Name’s Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb	Cumberland House	Finalist
	Tony Hillerman	Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Jeffrey Marks	Who Was that Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery	Delphi Books	Finalist
2003	Jim Huang (ed.)	They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels	William Morrow & Co.	Winner
	Mike Ashley	The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Crime Fiction	Carroll & Graf	Finalist
	Jeff Marks	Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel	Deadly Alibi Press	Finalist
	Eddie Muller	The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir	The Overlook Press	Finalist
2004	Gary Warren Niebuhr	Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction	Putnam	Winner
	Colleen A Barnett	Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl	A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Andrew Wilson	Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith	Bloomsbury Publishing	Finalist
2005	D. P. Lyle, MD	Forensics for Dummies	William Morrow & Co.	Winner	^[54]
	Frankie Y. Bailey and Steven Chermak	Famous American Crimes & Trials, Vol. 1	Praeger Publishers	Finalist
	Jim Doherty	Just the Facts: True Tales of Cops & Criminals	Deadly Serious Press	Finalist
	Leslie S. Klinger	The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories	W. W. Norton	Finalist
	Darrell B. Lockhart	Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide	Greenwood Press	Finalist
2006	Melanie Rehak	Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her	Columbia University Press	Winner	^[9]
	Jonathan Goodman	Tracks to Murder	Kent State University Press	Finalist
	Stuart Kaminsky with Laurie Roberts (photo)	Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed	Hothouse Press	Finalist
	Leslie S. Klinger (ed.)	New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist
	Mary Roach	Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist
2007	Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (eds.)	Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers	Five Star	Winner
	Chris Roerden	Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Ending Up D.O.A.	Bella Rosa Books	Finalist
	Daniel Stashower	The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder	Dutton	Finalist
2008	Roger Sobin (ed.)	The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians	Harcourt	Winner
	Barry Forshaw	Rough Guide to Crime Fiction	McFarland & Co.	Finalist
	Jean Gould O'Connell	Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy	Michael Joseph/ Delacorte	Finalist
	Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley (eds.)	Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters	Walker	Finalist
	Lee Lofland	Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers	HarperPress/Penguin	Finalist
2009	Frankie Y. Bailey	African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study	Onyx	Winner
	Leonard Cassuto	Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories		Finalist	^[55]
	Kathy Lynn Emerson	How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries	St. Martin’s	Finalist
	David Geherin	Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction	Bleak House Books	Finalist
	Harry Lee Poe	Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist
	Kate Summerscale	The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist

2010s

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Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 2010-2019^[2]^[3]^[4]
Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	P.D. James	Talking About Detective Fiction	Alfred A. Knopf	Winner	^[11]
	John Buntin	L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City	Random House: Harmony Books	Finalist
	Craig McDonald	Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life	Bleak House Books	Finalist
	Otto Penzler (ed.)	The Line Up: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives	Little, Brown, & Co.	Finalist
	Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo	Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art	Penguin Books	Finalist
	Elena Santangelo	Dame Agatha’s Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion	Bella Rosa Books	Finalist
2011	John Curran	Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making	HarperCollins	Winner	^[12]
	Deborah Blum	The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York	Penguin Books	Finalist
	Yunte Huang	Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist
	Maxim Jakubowski (ed.)	Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction	New Holland	Finalist
	David Morrell and Hank W. Wagner (eds.)	Thrillers: 100 Must Reads	Oceanview Publishing	Finalist
2012	Charlaine Harris	The Sookie Stackhouse Companion	Ace Books	Winner	^[14]^[15]
	Leslie Budewitz	Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure	Linden	Finalist
	John Curran	Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks	HarperCollins	Finalist
	A.B. Emrys	Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel	McFarland & Company	Finalist
	T. J. English	The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
2013	John Connolly and Declan Burke (eds.)	Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels	Simon & Schuster – Atria/Emily Bestler	Winner	^[16]
	Paul French	Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China	Penguin Books	Finalist
	Otto Penzler (ed.)	In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero	BenBella/Smart Pop	Finalist
2014	Daniel Stashower	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[17]^[18]
	Roseanne Montillo	The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[51]
	Charles J. Rzepka	Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard	Johns Hopkins University Press	Finalist	^[51]
2015	Hank Phillippi Ryan (ed.)	Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey	Henery Press	Winner	^[19]
	Charles Brownson	The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis	McFarland & Company	Finalist	^[20]
	J.W. Ocker	Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe	Countryman	Finalist	^[20]
	Adam Plantinga	400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman	Quill Driver	Finalist	^[20]
2016	Martin Edwards	The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story	HarperCollins	Winner
	Kathryn Harkup	A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie	Bloomsbury Sigma	Finalist	^[22]
	Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (eds.)	Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald	Arcade	Finalist	^[22]
	Val McDermid	Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime	Grove Press	Finalist	^[22]
	Nathan Ward	The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett	Bloomsbury Publishing	Finalist	^[22]
2017	Margaret Kinsman	Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction	McFarland & Company	Winner	^[56]
	Jane K. Cleland	Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats	Writer’s Digest Books	Finalist	^[23]
	Ruth Franklin	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life	Liveright Publishing	Finalist	^[23]
	David J. Skal	Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula	Liveright Publishing	Finalist	^[23]
	Kate Summerscale	The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer	Penguin Books	Finalist	^[23]
2018	Martin Edwards	The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books	Poisoned Pen Press/British Library	Winner	^[24]
	Mattias Bostrom	From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon	Mysterious Press	Finalist	^[24]
	Lawrence P. Jackson	Chester B. Himes: A Biography	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist	^[24]
	Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James	The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery	Scribner	Finalist	^[24]
	Michael Sims	Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes	Bloomsbury	Finalist	^[24]
	Tori Telfer	Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History	Harper Perennial	Finalist	^[24]
2019	Sarah Weinman	The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World	HarperCollins	Winner	^[25]
	Laird R. Blackwell	The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction	McFarland & Company	Finalist
	Margalit Fox	Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer	Random House	Finalist
	Leslie S. Klinger	Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s	Pegasus Books	Finalist
	Michelle McNamara	I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Laura Thompson	Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life	Pegasus Books	Finalist

2020s

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Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1990	Carolyn Hart	A Little Class on Murder		Winner
1991	Sharyn McCrumb	If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O		Winner
1992	Nancy Pickard	I.O.U.		Winner
1993	Margaret Maron	Bootlegger’s Daughter		Winner	^[5]
1994	Minette Walters	The Sculptress		Winner
1995	Sharyn McCrumb	She Walks These Hills		Winner
1996	Mary Willis Walker	Under the Beetle’s Cellar	Doubleday	Winner
1997	Peter Lovesey	Bloodhounds	Mysterious Press	Winner
1998	Deborah Crombie	Dreaming of the Bones	Scribner	Winner
	Jan Burke	Hocus	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	Trunk Music	Little Brown & Co.	Finalist
	Arturo Perez-Reverte	The Club Dumas	Harcourt Brace	Finalist
	Donald Westlake	The Ax	Mysterious Press	Finalist
1999	Michael Connelly	Blood Work	Little Brown & Co.	Winner	^[6]
	Nevada Barr	Blind Descent	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	Butchers Hill	Avon	Finalist	^[7]
	Margaret Maron	Home Fires	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Abigail Padgett	Blue	Mysterious Press	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Sujata Massey	The Flower Master	Knopf	Winner
	Rennie Airth	River of Darkness	Viking Press	Finalist
	Robert Crais	L.A. Requiem	Doubleday	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	In a Dry Season	Avon	Finalist
2001	Val McDermid	A Place of Execution	Berkley Books	Winner
	Taffy Cannon	Guns and Roses	Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co.	Finalist
	Joe Lansdale	The Bottoms	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Anne Perry	Half Moon Street	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	Nancy Pickard	The Whole Truth	Pocket Books	Finalist
2002	Laurie R. King	Folly	Wiley	Winner	^[8]
	Harlan Coben	Tell No One	Delacorte Press	Finalist
	Linda Fairstein	The Deadhouse	Scribner	Finalist
	Dennis Lehane	Mystic River	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe	Hyperion	Finalist
2003	S.J. Rozan	Winter and Night	Intrigue	Winner
	Mary Kay Andrews	Savannah Blues	HarperCollins	Finalist
	James Lee Burke	Jolie Blon’s Bounce	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Jan Burke	Nine	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Michael Connelly	City of Bones	Little, Brown & Co.	Finalist
2004	Peter Lovesey	The House Sitter	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Winner
	Giles Blunt	The Delicate Storm	Putnam	Finalist
	Rhys Bowen	For the Love of Mike	St. Martin’s	Finalist
	Ken Bruen	The Guards	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Finalist
	David Corbett	Done for a Dime	Ballantine Books	Finalist
2005	Ken Bruen	The Killing of the Tinkers	Little, Brown & Co.	Winner
	Robin Burcell	Cold Case	Avon	Finalist
	Jeff Lindsay	Darkly Dreaming Dexter	Doubleday	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	High Country Fall	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	T. Jefferson Parker	California Girl	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	Playing with Fire	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
2006	Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer	Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Winner	^[9]^[10]
	Lee Child	One Shot	Delacorte Press	Finalist
	Reed Farrel Coleman	The James Deans	Plume	Finalist
	Tess Gerritsen	Vanish	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	Paul Levine	Solomon vs. Lord	Bantam Books	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	Strange Affair	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Don Winslow	The Power of the Dog	Knopf	Finalist
2007	Nancy Pickard	The Virgin of Small Plains	Thorndike/ Random House UK	Winner
	Benjamin Black	Christine Falls	Henry Holt/Picador	Finalist
	Jason Goodwin	The Janissary Tree	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Denise Mina	The Dead Hour	Bantam Books	Finalist
	Peter Robinson	Piece of My Heart	McClelland & Stewart	Finalist
	Julia Spencer-Fleming	All Mortal Flesh	Minotaur Books	Finalist
2008	Laura Lippman	What the Dead Know	William Morrow	Winner
	Reed Farrel Coleman	Soul Patch	Midnight Ink	Finalist
	John Connolly	The Unquiet	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	David Corbett	Blood of Paradise	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Deborah Crombie	Water Like a Stone	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
2009	Deborah Crombie	Where Memories Lie	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Winner
	Sean Chercover	Trigger City	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Declan Hughes	The Dying Breed (UK) / The Price of Blood (US)	John Murray/ William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Arnaldur Indridason	The Draining Lake	UK: The Price of Blood	Finalist
	Lisa Lutz	Curse of the Spellmans	Doubleday	Finalist
	Louise Penny	The Cruelest Month	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Louise Ure	The Fault Tree	HarperCollins	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman	Tower	Busted Flush Press	Winner	^[11]
	Megan Abbott	Bury Me Deep	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Deborah Crombie	Necessary as Blood	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Jo Nesbø with Don Bartlett (trans.)	Nemesis	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Louise Penny	The Brutal Telling	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	S.J. Rozan	The Shanghai Moon	Minotaur Books	Finalist
2011	Louise Penny	Bury Your Dead	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[12]^[13]
	James Lee Burke	The Glass Rainbow	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Tana French	Faithful Place	Viking Press	Finalist
	Timothy Hallinan	The Queen of Patpong	HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Deon Meyer	Thirteen Hours	Grove Atlantic	Finalist
	Nancy Pickard	The Scent of Rain and Lightning	Ballantine	Finalist
2012	Sara Gran	Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Winner	^[14]^[15]
	Anne Holt with Marlaine Delargy (trans.)	1222	Scribner	Finalist
	Anthony Horowitz	The House of Silk	Mulholland Books	Finalist
	Michael Koryta	The Ridge	Little, Brown, & Co.	Finalist
	Louise Penny	A Trick of the Light	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Marcus Sakey	The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes	Dutton	Finalist
	Duane Swierczynski	Hell & Gone	Mulholland Books	Finalist
2013	Louise Penny	The Beautiful Mystery	Minotaur	Winner	^[16]
	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl	Crown	Finalist
	Peter May	The Black House	Silver Oak	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	The Other Woman	Forge Books	Finalist
	B.A. Shapiro	The Art Forger	Algonquin Books	Finalist
	Ariel S. Winter	The Twenty Year Death	Hard Case Crime	Finalist
	Ben H. Winters	The Last Policeman	Quirk Books	Finalist
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace	Atria Books	Winner	^[17]^[18]
	Thomas H. Cook	Sandrine’s Case	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Mick Herron	Dead Lions	Soho Crime	Finalist
	Alex Marwood	The Wicked Girls	Penguin Books	Finalist
	Louise Penny	How the Light Gets In	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Ian Rankin	Standing in Another Man’s Grave	Reagan Arthur Books	Finalist
2015	Alex Marwood	The Killer Next Door	Penguin Books	Winner	^[19]
	Sophie Littlefield	The Missing Place	Gallery	Finalist	^[20]
	Peter May	The Lewis Man	Quercus	Finalist	^[20]
	Catriona McPherson	The Day She Died	Midnight Ink	Finalist	^[20]
	Louise Penny	The Long Way Home	Minotaur	Finalist	^[20]
	Terry Shames	The Last Death of Jack Harbin	Seventh Street Books	Finalist	^[20]
2016	Lou Berney	The Long and Faraway Gone	William Morrow & Co.	Winner	^[21]
	Sharon Bolton	Little Black Lies	Minotaur	Finalist	^[22]
	Tim Hallinan	The Hot Countries	Soho Press	Finalist	^[22]
	Catriona McPherson	The Child Garden	Midnight Ink	Finalist	^[22]
	Michael Robotham	Life or Death	Mulholland Books	Finalist	^[22]
	Don Winslow	The Cartel	Alfred A. Knopf	Finalist	^[22]
2017	Louise Penny	A Great Reckoning	Minotaur	Winner
	Megan Abbott	You Will Know Me	Little, Brown, & Co.	Finalist	^[23]
	Matt Coyle	Dark Fissures	Oceanview	Finalist	^[23]
	Noah Hawley	Before the Fall	UK: Hodder & Stoughton US: Grand Central Publishing	Finalist	^[23]
	Mick Herron	Real Tigers	UK: John Murray US: Soho Press	Finalist	^[23]
	Laura Lippman	Wilde Lake	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[23]
2018	Anthony Horowitz	Magpie Murders	Harper	Winner	^[24]
	Karen Dionne	The Marsh King’s Daughter	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist	^[24]
	Attica Locke	Bluebird, Bluebird	Mulholland Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Louise Penny	Glass Houses	Minotaur	Finalist	^[24]
	Thomas Perry	The Old Man	Mysterious Press	Finalist	^[24]
	Don Winslow	The Force	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[24]
2019	Lou Berney	November Road	William Morrow & Co.	Winner	^[25]
	Alison Gaylin	If I Die Tonight	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Jane Harper	The Lost Man	Flat Iron Books	Finalist
	Jennifer Hillier	Jar of Hearts	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Naomi Hirahara	Hiroshima Boy	Prospect Park Books	Finalist
	Lisa Unger	Under My Skin	Harlequin – Park Row Books	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	Adrian McKinty	The Chain	Mulholland Books	Winner	^[26]
	Steph Cha	Your House Will Pay	Ecco Press	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	William Kent Krueger	This Tender Land	Atria	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Laura Lippman	Lady in the Lake	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Hank Philippi Ryan	The Murder List	Forge Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]^[28]
	James Sallis	Sarah Jane	Soho Crime	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
2021	S. A. Cosby	Blacktop Wasteland	Flatiron Books	Winner	^[29]
	Caroline B. Cooney	Before She Was Helen	Ecco Press	Finalist
	Matt Coyle	Blind Vigil	Oceanview Publishing	Finalist
	Louise Penny	All the Devils Are Here	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Ivy Pochoda	These Women	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Michael Robotham	When She Was Good	Scribner	Finalist
2022	S. A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears	Flatiron Books	Winner	^[30]^[31]
	Michael Connelly	The Dark Hours	Little, Brown, & Co.	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Val McDermid	1979	Atlantic Monthly	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Alan Parks	Bobby March Will Live Forever	World Noir	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Chris Whitaker	We Begin at the End	Henry Holt & Co.	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Colson Whitehead	Harlem Shuffle	Doubleday	Finalist	^[30]^[31]

Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result	Ref.
1990	Jill Churchill	Grime and Punishment		Winner	^[33]
1991	Patricia Cornwell	Postmortem		Winner	^[34]
1992	Sue Henry	Murder on the Iditarod Trail		Winner
1992	Mary Willis Walker	Zero at the Bone		Winner
1993	Barbara Neely	Blanche on the Lam		Winner	^[35]^[36]^[37]
1994	Sharan Newman	Death Comes as Epiphany		Winner
1995	Jeff Abbott	Do Unto Others		Winner
1996	Dianne Day	The Strange Files of Fremont Jones	Doubleday	Winner
1997	Dale Furutani	Death in Little Tokyo	St. Martin’s	Winner
1998	Penny Warner	Dead Body Language	Bantam Books	Winner
	Lee Child	Killing Floor	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist
	Aljean Harmetz	Off the Face of the Earth	Scribner	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	Charm City	Avon	Finalist
	Sujata Massey	The Salaryman’s Wife	HarperPaperbacks	Finalist
1999	Jerrilyn Farmer	Sympathy for the Devil	Avon	Winner
	Jacqueline Fiedler	Tiger’s Palette	Pocket Books	Finalist
	Robin Hathaway	The Doctor Digs a Grave	St. Martin’s	Finalist

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Year	Author	Title	Result
1987	P. D. James	A Taste for Death	Winner
1988	Nancy Pickard	Marriage is Murder	Winner
1989	Tony Hillerman	A Thief of Time	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1987	Faye Kellerman	The Ritual Bath	Winner
1987	Marilyn Wallace	A Case of Loyalties	Winner
1988	Robert Crais	The Monkey’s Raincoat	Winner	^[32]^[6]
1989	Caroline Graham	The Killings at Badger’s Drift	Winner

Year	Year	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Paula L. Woods	Inner City Blues	Soho Press	Winner
	Donna Andrews	Murder with Peacocks	St. Martin’s	Finalist
	Cara Black	Murder in the Marais	Soho Press	Finalist
	Kris Neri	Revenge of the Gypsy Queen	Rainbow Books	Finalist
2001	David Liss	A Conspiracy of Paper	St. Martin’s	Winner
	Kate Grilley	Death Dances to a Reggae Beat	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist
	Marcia Simpson	Crow in Stolen Colors	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist
	Julie Wray Herman	Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death	Silver Dagger Mysteries	Finalist
2002	C. J. Box	Open Season	Henry Holt & Co.	Winner	^[38]^[39]
	Denise Hamilton	The Jasmine Trade	Scribner	Finalist
	M.K. Preston	Perhaps She’ll Die	Intrigue	Finalist
	Karin Slaughter	Blindsighted	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
2003	Julia Spencer-Fleming	In the Bleak Midwinter	Hodder & Stoughton/Viking	Winner
	Jonathon King	The Blue Edge of Midnight	Dutton	Finalist
	Eddie Muller	The Distance	Scribner	Finalist
	Radine Trees Nehring	A Valley To Die For	St. Kitts Press	Finalist
2004	Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs	Libraries Unlimited	Winner	^[40]^[41]
	James Hime	Night of the Dance	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Rebecca C. Pawel	Death of a Nationalist	Soho Press	Finalist
	Olen Steinhauer	The Bridge of Sighs	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Finalist
2005	Harley Jane Kozak	Dating Dead Men	Midnight Ink	Winner
	Sandra Balzo	Uncommon Grounds	Five Star	Finalist
	Naomi Hirahara	Summer of the Big Bachi	Delta	Finalist
	J A Konrath	Whiskey Sour	Hyperion	Finalist
	Dylan Schaffer	Misdemeanor Man	Bloomsbury Publishing	Finalist
2006	Brian Freeman	Immoral	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Winner	^[9]
	Mike Harrison	All Shook Up	ECW Press	Finalist
	Randall Hicks	Baby Game	Wordslinger Press	Finalist
2007	Nick Stone	Mr. Clarinet	Crum Creek	Winner
	Jane K. Cleland	Consigned to Death	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Troy Cook	47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers	Capital Crime Press	Finalist
	John Hart	King of Lies	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Cornelia Read	A Field of Darkness	Mysterious	Finalist
2008	Tana French	In the Woods	W. W. Norton	Winner	^[42]^[43]^[44]
	Matt Beynon Rees	The Collaborator of Bethlehem	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Joe Hill	Heart-Shaped Box	Penguin	Finalist
	Lisa Lutz	The Spellman Files	Hodder & Stoughton/Atria	Finalist
	Tim Maleeny	Stealing the Dragon	Oceanview	Finalist
2009	Stieg Larsson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	HarperCollins / Ecco	Winner	^[45]
	Zoë Ferraris	Finding Nouf	Bantam Books	Finalist
	G.M. Malliet	Death of a Cozy Writer	Metro	Finalist
	Charlie Newton	Calumet City	McFarland & Company	Finalist
	Scott Pratt	An Innocent Client	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	Michael Stanley	A Carrion Death	Random House	Finalist
	Dan Waddell	The Blood Detective	Soho Press	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	Alan Bradley	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Delacorte Publishing	Winner	^[11]
	Jamie Freveletti	Running from the Devil	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[46]
	Sophie Littlefield	A Bad Day for Sorry	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Stuart Neville	The Ghosts of Belfast	Soho Crime	Finalist
	Malla Nunn	A Beautiful Place to Die	Picador	Finalist
2011	Bruce DeSilva	Rogue Island	Forge Books/Tom Doherty Associates	Winner	^[12]^[47]^[48]
	Hilary Davidson	The Damage Done	Forge Books	Finalist
	Paul Doiron	The Poacher’s Son	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Sasscer Hill	Full Mortality	Wildside Press	Finalist
	Simon Lelic	A Thousand Cuts	Viking Press	Finalist
2012	Leonard Rosen	All Cry Chaos	Permanent Press	Winner	^[14]^[15]^[49]
	Sara J. Henry	Learning to Swim	Crown	Finalist
	Darrell James	Nazareth Child	Midnight Ink	Finalist
	Alice LaPlante	Turn of Mind	Atlantic Monthly	Finalist
	Taylor Stevens	The Informationist	Crown	Finalist
	S. J. Watson	Before I Go To Sleep	Harper	Finalist
2013	Daniel Friedman	Don’t Ever Get Old	Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books	Winner	^[16]
	Susan M. Boyer	Low Country Boil	Henery Press	Finalist
	Susan Elia MacNeal	Mr. Churchill’s Secretary	Random House – Bantam Books	Finalist	^[50]
	Chris Pavone	The Expats	Crown	Finalist
2014	Terry Shames	A Killing at Cotton Hill	Seventh Street Books	Winner	^[17]^[18]
	Matt Coyle	Yesterday’s Echo	Oceanview Publishing	Finalist	^[51]
	Becky Masterman	Rage Against the Dying	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[51]
	Jenny Milchman	Cover of Snow	Ballantine Books	Finalist	^[51]
	Derek Miller	Norwegian by Night	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Finalist	^[51]
2015	Julia Dahl	Invisible City	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[19]
	Kristi Belcamino	Blessed Are the Dead	Witness Impulse	Finalist	^[20]
	Tom Bouman	Dry Bones in the Valley	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist	^[20]
	Sarah Hilary	Someone Else’s Skin	Penguin Books	Finalist	^[20]
	Elizabeth Little	Dear Daughter	Viking Press	Finalist	^[20]
	Lori Rader-Day	The Black Hour	Seventh Street Books	Finalist	^[20]
2016	Glen Erik Hamilton	Past Crimes	William Morrow & Co.	Winner
	Patricia Abbott	Concrete Angel	Polis	Finalist	^[22]
	Chris Holm	The Killing Kind	Mulholland Books	Finalist	^[22]
	David Joy	Where All Light Tends to Go	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist	^[22]
	Ausma Zehanat Khan	The Unquiet Dead	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[22]
	Art Taylor	On the Road with Del and Louise	Henery	Finalist	^[22]
2017	Joe Ide	IQ	Mulholland Books	Winner
	Fiona Barton	The Widow	UK: Bantam Books US: NAL	Finalist	^[23]
	Flynn Berry	Under the Harrow	Penguin Books	Finalist	^[23]
	Bill Beverly	Dodgers	No Exit Press	Finalist	^[23]
	Renee Patrick	Design for Dying	Forge Books	Finalist	^[23]
2018	Sheena Kamal	The Lost Ones	William Morrow & Co.	Winner	^[24]
	Kellye Garrett	Hollywood Homicide	Midnight Ink	Finalist	^[24]
	Jane Harper	The Dry	Flatiron Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Jordan Harper	She Rides Shotgun	Ecco Press	Finalist	^[24]
	Kristen Lepionka	The Last Place You Look	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Wendall Thomas	Lost Luggage	Poisoned Pen	Finalist	^[24]
2019	John Copenhaver	Dodging and Burning	Pegasus Books	Winner	^[52]
	Oyinkan Braithwaite	My Sister, the Serial Killer	Doubleday	Finalist
	Delia Owens	Where the Crawdads Sing	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist
	Catherine Steadman	Something in the Water	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	C.J. Tudor	The Chalk Man	Crown	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	Tara Laskowski	One Night Gone	Graydon House Books	Winner	^[26]
	Samantha Downing	My Lovely Wife	Penguin Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Tori Eldridge	The Ninja Daughter	Agora Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Angie Kim	Miracle Creek	Sarah Crichton Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	J.P. Pomare	Call Me Evie	G.P. Putnam’s Sons	Finalist	^[26]^[27]^[53]
	Lauren Wilkinson	American Spy	Random House	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
2021	David Heska Wanbli Weiden	Winter Counts	Ecco Press	Winner	^[29]
	Deepa Anappara	Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line	Random House	Finalist
	Nev March	Murder in Old Bombay	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Richard Osman	The Thursday Murder Club	Pamela Dorman Books	Finalist
	Stephanie Wrobel	Darling Rose Gold	Berkley Books	Finalist
2022	Mia P. Manansala	Arsenic and Adobo	Berkley Books	Winner	^[30]^[31]
	Alexandra Andrews	Who is Maude Dixon?	Little, Brown, & Co.	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Abigail Dean	Girl A	Viking Press	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Erin Flanagan	Deer Season	University of Nebraska Press	Finalist	^[30]^[31]
	Wanda M. Morris	All Her Little Secrets	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[30]^[31]

Year	Author	Title	Result
1987	Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini	1001 Midnights	Winner
1988	Bill Pronzini	Son of Gun in Cheek	Winner
1989	Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson	Silk Stalkings	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
1990	H. R. F. Keating	The Bedside Companion to Crime		Winner
1991	Gillian Gill	Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries		Winner
1992	Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow	Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman		Winner
1993	Ellen Nehr	Doubleday Crime Club Compendium	Doubleday	Winner
1994	Ed Gorman (ed.)	The Fine Art of Murder		Winner
1995	Dean James and Jean Swanson	By a Woman’s Hand		Winner
1996	Willetta L. Heising	Detecting Women	Purple Moon	Winner
1997	Willetta Heising	Detecting Women 2	Purple Moon Press	Winner
1998	Jan Grape, Dean James, and Ellen Nehr	Deadly Women	Carroll & Graf	Winner
	Ben Macintyre	The Napoleon of Crime: Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Finalist
	Natalie Kaufman and Carol Kay	G is for Grafton	Henry Holt & Co.	Finalist
	Ian Ousby	Guilty Parties: A Mystery Lover’s Companion	Thames & Hudson	Finalist
1999	Jean Swanson and Dean James	Killer Books	Berkley Books	Winner
	Alzina Stone Dale	Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide to Washington, DC	Passport Books	Finalist
	Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg	Speaking of Murder	Berkley Books	Finalist
	Eddie Muller	Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir	St. Martin’s	Finalist
	Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson	Silk Stalkings II	Scarecrow	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	John Billheimer	Hitchcock and the Censors	University Press of Kentucky	Winner	^[26]
	Laird R. Blackwell	Frederic Dannay	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story, McFarland & Company	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Ursula Buchan	Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan	Bloomsbury Publishing	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Peter Houlahan	Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery	American History, Counterpoint	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Mo Moulton	The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women	Basic Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	James Polchin	Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall	Counterpoint	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
2021	Sheila Mitchell	H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime	Level Best Books	Winner	^[29]
	Leslie Brody	Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy	Seal Press	Finalist
	Martin Edwards (ed.)	Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Erin E. MacDonald	Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction	McFarland & Company	Finalist
	Craig Sisterson	Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand	Oldcastle Books	Finalist
2022	Lee Child with Laurie R. King	How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America	Scribner	Winner	^[8]
	Mark Aldridge	Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Margalit Fox	The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History	Random House	Finalist
	Richard Greene	The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist
	James McGrath Morris	Tony Hillerman: A Life	University of Oklahoma Press	Finalist
	John Tresch	The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Finalist
	Edward White	The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense	W. W. Norton & Co.	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1987	Sue Grafton	The Parker Shotgun	Winner
1988	Robert Barnard	The Woman in the Wardrobe	Winner
1989	Doug Allyn	Deja Vu	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Publication	Ref.	Ref.
1990	Nancy Pickard	Afraid All the Time		Winner
1991	Joan Hess	Too Much to Bare		Winner	^[57]
1992	Margaret Maron	Deborah’s Judgement		Winner	^[5]
1993	Carolyn Hart	Henrie O's Holiday		Winner
1994	Susan Dunlap	Checkout		Winner
1995	Deborah Adams	Cast Your Fate to the Wind		Winner
1995	Jan Burke	Unharmed		Winner
1996	Colin Dexter	Evans Tries an O-Level	Morse’s Greatest Mystery (Crown)	Winner
1997	Carolyn Wheat	Cruel & Unusual	Guilty As Charged (Pocket Books)	Winner
1998	Peter Robinson	Two Ladies of Rose Cottage	Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)	Winner
	William Bankier	Real Bullets This Time	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1997	Finalist
	Stuart Kaminsky	Find Miriam	New Mystery Magazine, Summer 1997	Finalist
	Edward Marston and Peter Lovesey	The Corbett Correspondence	Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)	Finalist
	Polly Whitney	Etiquette Lesson	Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine	Finalist
1999	Barbara D’Amato	Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 98	Winner
	Laurien Berenson	Sleeping Dogs Lie by	Canine Crimes (Ballantine Books)	Finalist
	Harlan Coben	A Simple Philosophy	Malice Domestic 7 (Avon)	Finalist
	Dean James	The Village Vampire & the Oboe of Death	Malice Domestic 7 (Avon)	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publications	Result	Ref.
2000	Kate Grilley	Maubi and the Jumbies	The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007	Winner
	Laurie King	Paleta Man	Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins)	Finalist
	Anne Perry	Heroes	Murder & Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler (Delacorte Press)	Finalist
	Carolyn Wheat	Show Me the Bones	Diagnosis Dead, edited by Jonathan Kellerman (Pocket Books)	Finalist
2001	Reginald Hill	A Candle for Christmas	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep-Oct 2007	Winner
	Jan Burke	The Man in the Civil Suit	Malice Domestic 9 (Avon)	Finalist
	Joyce Christmas	The Chosen	Unholy Orders (Intrigue Press)	Finalist
2002	Jan Burke	The Abbey Ghosts	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003	Winner
	Katherine Hall Page	The Would-Be Widower	Malice Domestic 10, edited by Nevada Barr (Avon)	Finalist
	Ted Hertel	My Bonnie Lies	The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, edited by Michael Hemmingson (Carroll & Graf)	Finalist
	Rochelle Krich	Bitter Waters	Criminal Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence W. Raphael (Jewish Lights)	Finalist
2003	Janet Dawson	Voice Mail	Harper / Headline	Winner
	Diana Deverell	Boot Scoot	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2002	Finalist
	Brendan DuBois	An Empire’s Reach	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November 2002	Finalist
	Toni L.P. Kelner	Bible Belt	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2002	Finalist
	Marcia Talley	Too Many Cooks	Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime)	Finalist
	Carolyn Wheat	The Adventure of the Rara Avis	Murder, My Dear Watson, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower (Carroll & Graf)	Finalist
2004	Sandy Balzo	The Grass Is Always Greener	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb 2007	Winner
	Robert Barnard	Rogues Gallery	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003	Finalist
	Diana Deverell	Texas Two-Step	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 2003	Finalist
	Beth Foxwell	No Man’s Land	Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime)	Finalist	^[58]
	G. Miki Hayden	War Crimes	A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime)	Finalist
	Ronnie Klaskin	Child Support	A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime)	Finalist
	Elaine Viets	Red Meat	Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime)	Finalist
2005	Terence Faherty	The Widow of Slane	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2005	Winner
	Sandra Balzo	Viscery	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2004	Finalist
	Alana White	The Lady’s Not for Dying	Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Winter 2004	Finalist
2006	Nancy Pickard	There Is No Crime on Easter Island	Scam and Eggs, Five Star	Winner
	Robert Barnard	Everybody’s Girl	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2005	Finalist
	David Corbett	It Can Happen	San Francisco Noir, Akashic Books	Finalist
	Steve Hockensmith	The Big Road	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2005	Finalist
2007	Tim Maleeny	Til Death Do Us Part	MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben (Little, Brown & Co.)	Winner	^[9]
	Robert Barnard	Provenance	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jul 2006	Finalist
	Roberta Isleib	Disturbance in the Field	Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw (Level Best Books)	Finalist
2008	Rhys Bowen	Please Watch Your Step	Hardly Knew Her (William Morrow & Co.)	Winner
	Donna Andrews	A Rat’s Tale	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2007	Finalist
	Jon L. Breen	The Missing Elevator Puzzle	Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin)	Finalist
	Beverle Graves Myers	Brimstone P.I.	Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin)	Finalist
	Gillian Roberts	The Old Wife’s Tale	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004	Finalist
2009	Dana Cameron	The Night Things Changed	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mar-Apr 2007	Winner
	Sean Chercover	A Sleep Not Unlike Death	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep/Oct 2008	Finalist
	Toni L.P. Kelner	Keeping Watch Over His Flock	Murderous Intent, Fall 1999	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	Scratch a Woman	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 2001	Finalist
	Tom Piccirilli	Between the Dark and the Daylight	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2007	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result	Ref.
2010	Hank Phillippi Ryan	On the House	Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers, Level Best Books	Winner	^[11]
	Ace Atkins	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	Crossroad Blues, Busted Flush Press	Finalist
	Dana Cameron	Femme Sole	Boston Noir, Akashic Books	Finalist
	Jim Fusilli	Digby, Attorney at Law	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2009	Finalist
	Carolyn Hart	Your Turn	Two of the Deadliest, Harper	Finalist
	Marcus Sakey	The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away	Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down, Mira	Finalist
	Luis Alberto Urrea	Amapola	Phoenix Noir, Akashic Books	Finalist
2011	Dana Cameron	Swing Shift	Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side, Berkley Books	Winner	^[12]
	Doug Allyn	The Scent of Lilacs	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine	Finalist
	Keith Gilman	Devil’s Pocket	Philadelphia Noir, Akashic Books	Finalist
	Richard Helms	The Gods for Vengeance Cry	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine	Finalist
	G.M. Malliet	Bookworm	Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’, Wildside Press	Finalist
2012	Dana Cameron	Disarming	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011	Winner	^[14]^[15]
	Trina Corey	Facts Exhibiting Wantonness	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2011	Finalist
	Daryl Wood Gerber	Palace by the Lake	Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, Wildside Press	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	Truth and Consequences	Mystery Times Ten, Buddhapuss Ink	Finalist
	Kathleen Ryan	Heat of Passion	A Twist of Noir, Feb. 14, 2011	Finalist
	Peter Turnbull	The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011	Finalist
2013	Barb Goffman	The Lord Is My Shamus	Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press	Winner	^[16]
	Jeffrey Deaver	The Sequel	The Strand Magazine, November 2012-February 2013	Finalist
	Jim Fusilli	Blind Justice	Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books	Finalist
	Karin Slaughter	The Unremarkable Heart	Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books	Finalist
	B.K. Stevens	Thea’s First Husband	Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012	Finalist
	Art Taylor	When Duty Calls	Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder, Wildside Press	Finalist
2014	Art Taylor	The Care and Feeding of Houseplants	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013	Winner	^[17]^[18]
	Reed Farrel Coleman	The Terminal	Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler, Thomas & Mercer	Finalist	^[51]
	John Connolly	The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository	Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler, Bookspan	Finalist	^[51]
	Martin Limon	The Dragon’s Tail	Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books	Finalist	^[51]
	Gigi Pandian	The Hindi Houdini	Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long, Wildside Press	Finalist	^[51]
	Travis Richardson	Incident on the 405	The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey, Macmillan	Finalist	^[51]
2015	Craig Faustus Buck	Honeymoon Sweet	Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron, Down & Out	Winner	^[19]
	Barb Goffman	The Shadow Knows	Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley, Wildside Press	Finalist	^[20]
	Paul D. Marks	Howling at the Moon	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014	Finalist	^[20]
	Travis Richardson	The Proxy	Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014	Finalist	^[20]
	Art Taylor	The Odds Are Against Us	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014	Finalist	^[20]
2016	Megan Abbott	The Little Men	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road	Winner
	Mat Coward	On Borrowed Time	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2015	Finalist	^[22]
	Loren D. Estleman	Sob Sister	Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus	Finalist	^[22]
	Barb Goffman	A Year Without Santa Claus	Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015	Finalist	^[22]
	Travis Richardson	Quack and Dwight	Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press	Finalist	^[22]
	B.K. Stevens	A Joy Forever	Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2015	Finalist	^[22]
2017	Art Taylor	Parallel Play	Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press	Winner	^[59]
	Lawrence Block	Autumn at the Automat	In Sunlight or in Shadow, Pegasus Books	Finalist	^[23]
	Craig Faustus Buck	Blank Shot	Black Coffee, Darkhouse Books	Finalist	^[23]
	Greg Herren	Survivor’s Guilt	Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016, Down & Out Books	Finalist	^[23]
	Paul D. Marks	Ghosts of Bunker Hill	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2016	Finalist	^[23]
	Joyce Carol Oates	The Crawl Space	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2016	Finalist	^[23]
2018	Paul D. Marks	Windward	Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books	Winner	^[60]^[24]
	Craig Faustus Buck	As Ye Sow	Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017, Down and Out Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Matt Coyle	The #2 Pencil	Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Terence Faherty	Infinite Uticas	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017	Finalist	^[24]
	Barb Goffman	Whose Wine is it Anyway?	50 Shades of Cabernet, Koehler Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Art Taylor	A Necessary Ingredient	Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books	Finalist	^[24]
2019	Art Taylor	English 398: Fiction Workshop	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018	Winner
	Craig Faustus Buck	Race to Judgment	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018	Finalist
	Leslie Budewitz	All God’s Sparrows	Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May/Jun 2018	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	Bug Appétit	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018	Finalist
	Barry Lancet	Three-Star Sushi	Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3	Finalist
	Gigi Pandian	The Cambodian Curse	The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	Art Taylor	Better Days	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019	Winner	^[26]
	Michael Chandos	West Texas Barbecue	The Eyes of Texas, edited by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books)	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Terence Faherty	The Cardboard Box	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Barb Goffman	Alex’s Choice	Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman(Wildside Press)	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	G.M. Malliet	Whiteout	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019	Finalist	^[26]^[27]^[61]
	Dave Zeltserman	Brother’s Keeper	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
2021	Gabriel Valjan	Elysian Fields	California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor (Wildside Press)	Winner	^[29]
	Barb Goffman	Dear Emily Etiquette	Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2020	Finalist
	Art Taylor	The Boy Detective & The Summer of ‘74	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , Jan/Feb 2020	Finalist
	Elaine Viets	Dog Eat Dog	The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter (Untreed Reads Publishing)	Finalist
	James W. Ziskin	The Twenty-Five Year Engagement	In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King (Pegasus Crime)	Finalist
2022	Richard Helms	Sweeps Week	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021	Winner	^[31]
	Tracy Clark	Lucky Thirteen	Midnight Hour (Crooked Lane Books)	Finalist	^[31]
	Steve Hockensmith	Curious Incidents	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021	Finalist	^[31]
	R.T. Lawton	The Road to Hana	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2021	Finalist	^[31]
	G.M. Malliet	The White Star	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021	Finalist	^[31]^[62]
	Gigi Pandian	The Locked Room Library	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021	Finalist	^[31]
	Dave Zeltserman	Julius Katz and the Two Cousins	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021	Finalist	^[31]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Ref.	Ref.
2006	Jacqueline Winspear	Pardonable Lies	Scribner	Winner	^[9]
	Rhys Bowen	In Like Flynn	St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Tony Broadbent	Spectres in the Smoke	St. Martin’s	Finalist
	Max Allan Collins	The War of the World Murders		Finalist
	Maureen Jennings	Night’s Child	McClelland & Stewart	Finalist
2007	Rhys Bowen	Oh Danny Boy	G. P. Putnam’s	Winner
	Brett Ellen Block	The Lightning Rule	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Barbara Cleverly	The Bee’s Kiss	Constable & Robinson	Finalist
	Anne Perry	Dark Assassin	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Messenger of Truth	Henry Holt	Finalist
2008	Ariana Franklin	Mistress of the Art of Death	UK: Michael Joseph Ltd/Penguin Books US: HarperCollins	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Her Royal Spyness	Perseverance Press	Finalist
	Jason Goodwin	The Snake Stone	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Clare Langley-Hawthorne	Consequences of Sin	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Joyce Carol Oates	The Gravedigger’s Daughter	Soho Press	Finalist
2009	Rhys Bowen	A Royal Pain	McFarland & Co.	Winner
	Ward Larsen	Stealing Trinity	Crossover Press	Finalist
	David Liss	The Whiskey Rebels	Crum Creek Press	Finalist
	Karen Maitland	Company of Liars	Viking Press/Penguin	Finalist
	Kelli Stanley	Nox Dormienda	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Jeri Westerson	Veil of Lies	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	Rebecca Cantrell	A Trace of Smoke	Forge Books	Winner	^[11]
	Stefanie Pintoff	In the Shadow of Gotham	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Charles Todd	A Duty to the Dead	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Jeri Westerson	Serpent in the Thorns	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Among the Mad	Henry Holt & Co.	Finalist
2011	Kelli Stanley	City of Dragons	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[12]
	Barbara Hamilton	A Marked Man	Berkley Books	Finalist
	David Mitchell	The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet	Random House	Finalist
	Charles Todd	The Red Door	HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
	Kenneth Wishnia	The Fifth Servant	HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co.	Finalist
2012	Catriona McPherson	Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains	Thomas Dunne Books/Minotaur	Winner	^[14]^[15]
	Rhys Bowen	Naughty in Nice	Berkley Books	Finalist
	Jim Fusilli	Narrows Gate	AmazonEncore	Finalist
	Ann Parker	Mercury’s Rise	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Jeri Westerson	Troubled Bones	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	A Lesson in Secrets	Harper	Finalist
2013	Charles Todd	An Unmarked Grave	HarperCollins	Winner	^[16]
	Rebecca Cantrell	A City of Broken Glass	Forge Books	Finalist
	Susan Elia MacNeal	Princess Elizabeth’s Spy	Random House – Bantam Books	Finalist	^[50]
	Charles Todd	The Confession	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Elegy For Eddie	HarperCollins	Finalist
2014	David Morrell	Murder as a Fine Art	Little, Brown, & Co.	Winner	^[17]^[18]
	Susanna Calkins	A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[51]
	Robert Kresge	Saving Lincoln	ABQ Press	Finalist	^[51]
	Catriona McPherson	Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[51]
	Stuart Neville	Ratlines	Soho Crime	Finalist	^[51]
2015	Catriona McPherson	A Deadly Measure of Brimstone	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[19]
	Rhys Bowen	Queen of Hearts	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist	^[20]
	Alan Finn	Things Half in Shadow	Gallery	Finalist	^[20]
	Robert Harris	An Officer and a Spy	Alfred A. Knopf	Finalist	^[20]
	Malla Nunn	Present Darkness	Atria	Finalist	^[20]
	Charles Todd	Hunting Shadows	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[20]
2016	Susanna Calkins	The Masque of a Murderer	Minotaur Books	Winner
	Shelley Freydont	A Gilded Grave	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist	^[22]
	C. Joseph Greaves	Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo)	Bloomsbury	Finalist	^[22]
	Philip Kerr	The Lady from Zagreb	Marian Wood/G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist	^[22]
	Jennifer Kincheloe	Secret Life of Anna Blanc	Seventh Street Books	Finalist	^[22]
	Laurie R. King	Dreaming Spies	Bantam Books	Finalist	^[22]
2017	James W. Ziskin	Heart of Stone	Seventh Street Books	Winner
	Susanna Calkins	A Death Along the River Fleet	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[23]
	Lyndsay Faye	Jane Steele	UK: Headline Review US: G. P. Putnam's Sons	Finalist	^[23]
	Edith Maxwell	Delivering The Truth	Midnight Ink	Finalist	^[23]
	Catriona McPherson	The Reek of Red Herrings	US: Minotaur UK: Houghton Stodder	Finalist	^[23]
	Ann Parker	What Gold Buys	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist	^[23]
2018	Rhys Bowen	In Farleigh Field	Lake Union Publishing	Winner	^[24]
	James R. Benn	The Devouring	Soho Crime	Finalist	^[24]
	Abir Mukherjee	A Rising Man	Pegasus	Finalist	^[24]
	Renee Patrick	Dangerous to Know	Forge Books	Finalist	^[24]
	Charles Todd	Racing the Devil	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[24]
	James W. Ziskin	Cast the First Stone	Seventh Street Books	Finalist	^[24]
2019	Sujata Massey	The Widows of Malabar Hill	Soho Crime	Winner
	Dianne Freeman	A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder	Kensington Books	Finalist
	Elsa Hart	City of Ink	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Laurie R. King	Island of the Mad	Bantam Books	Finalist
	Ann Parker	A Dying Note	Poisoned Pen	Finalist
	Charles Todd	A Forgotten Place	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	Lara Prescott	The Secrets We Kept	Vintage	Winner	^[26]
	Susanna Calkins	Murder Knocks Twice	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	L.A. Chandlar	The Pearl Dagger	Kensington Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Dianne Freeman	A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder	Kensington Books	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Sujata Massey	The Satapur Moonstone	Soho Crime	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
	Edith Maxwell	Charity’s Burden	Midnight Ink	Finalist	^[26]^[27]
2021	James Ziskin	Turn to Stone	Seventh Street Books	Winner	^[29]
	Rhys Bowen	The Last Mrs. Summers	Berkeley Books	Finalist
	Elsa Hart	The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Catriona McPherson	The Turning Tide	Quercus	Finalist
	Ann Parker	Mortal Music	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Ovidia Yu	The Mimosa Tree Mystery	Constable Press	Finalist
2022	Naomi Hirahara	Clark and Division	Soho Crime	Winner	^[31]
	Rhys Bowen	The Venice Sketchbook	Lake Union	Finalist	^[31]
	Susan Elia MacNeal	The Hollywood Spy	Bantam Books	Finalist	^[31]^[50]
	Sujata Massey	The Bombay Prince	Soho Crime	Finalist	^[31]
	Silvia Moreno-Garcia	Velvet was the Night	Del Rey Books	Finalist	^[31]
	Lori Rader-Day	Death at Greenway	William Morrow & Co.	Finalist	^[31]