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35 years tracked (1986–2023), 136 entries total.
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2023
Like a Sister
Kellye Garrett
Winner
A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny
Nominee
The Bullet That Missed
Richard Osman
Nominee
The Devil Takes You Home
Gabino Iglesias
Nominee
2022
Razorblade Tears
SA Cosby
Winner
Runner
Tracy Clark
Nominee
The Collective
Alison Gaylin
Nominee
These Toxic Things
Rachel Howzell Hall
Nominee
2021
Blacktop Wasteland
SA Cosby
Winner
And Now She’s Gone
Rachel Howzell Hall
Nominee
Little Secrets
Jennifer Hillier
Nominee
What You Don’t See
Tracy Clark
Nominee
2020
The Murder List
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Winner
Lady in the Lake
Laura Lippman
Nominee
They All Fall Down
Rachel Howzell Hall
Nominee
Your House Will Pay
Steph Cha
Nominee
2018
Glass Houses
Louise Penny · Best Novel and Nominee for Best Novel in a Series (Bill Crider Award)
Nominee
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz · Best Novel
Nominee
The Late Show
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Nominee
Two Kinds of Truth
Michael Connelly · Best Novel in a Series (Bill Crider Award)
Nominee
2017
A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Winner
The Girl I Used to Be
April Henry · Best Young Adult Novel
Winner
2016
Need
Joelle Charbonneau · Best Young Adult Novel
Winner
The Long and Faraway Gone
Louis Berney · Best Paperback Original
Winner
The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Nominee
2015
The Killer Next Door
Alex Marwood · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
The Life We Bury
Allen Eskens · Best First Novel
Nominee
The Long Way Home
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Nominee
The Secret Place
Tana French · Best Novel
Nominee
2014
Ordinary Grace
William Kent Krueger · Best Novel
Winner
The Testing
Joelle Charbonneau · Best Children's or Young Adult Novel
Winner
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
Chris Grabenstein · Best Children's or Young Adult Novel
Nominee
Ghostman
Roger Hobbs · Best First Novel
Nominee
Joyland
Stephen King · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
Reconstructing Amelia
Kimberly McCreight · Best First Novel
Nominee
Suspect
Robert Crais · Best Novel
Nominee
The Wicked Girls
Alex Marwood · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
2013
The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Winner
The Expats
Chris Pavone · Best First Novel
Winner
Dare Me
Megan E. Abbott · Best Novel
Nominee
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · Best Novel
Nominee
2012
A Trick of the Light
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Winner
Before I Go to Sleep
S.J. Watson · Best First Novel
Nominee
The Drop
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Nominee
The End of Everything
Megan E. Abbott · Best Novel
Nominee
The Informationist
Taylor Stevens · Best First Novel
Nominee
2011
Bury Your Dead
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Winner
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Tom Franklin · Best Novel
Nominee
Faithful Place
Tana French · Best Novel
Nominee
Long Time Coming
Robert Goddard · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
The Lock Artist
Steve Hamilton · Best Novel
Nominee
2010
The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Winner
The Ghosts of Belfast
Stuart Neville · Best First Novel
Nominee
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson · Best Novel
Nominee
The Last Child
John Hart · Best Novel
Nominee
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley · Best First Novel
Nominee
2009
The Brass Verdict
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Winner
The Crossroads
Chris Grabenstein · Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
Winner
Child 44
Tom Rob Smith · Best First Novel
Nominee
Paper Towns
John Green · Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
Nominee
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash
Wendelin Van Draanen · Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
Nominee
The Cruelest Month
Louise Penny · Best Novel
Nominee
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
Trenton Lee Stewart · Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
Nominee
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Kate Summerscale · Best Critical Nonfiction
Nominee
2008
In the Woods
Tana French · Best First Novel
Winner
What the Dead Know
Laura Lippman · Best Novel
Winner
Bad Luck and Trouble
Lee Child · Best Novel
Nominee
Queenpin
Megan E. Abbott · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz · Best First Novel
Nominee
The Tin Roof Blowdown
James Lee Burke · Best Novel
Nominee
Thunder Bay
William Kent Krueger · Best Novel
Nominee
2007
Still Life
Louise Penny · Best First Novel
Winner
A Field of Darkness
Cornelia Read · Best First Novel
Nominee
All Mortal Flesh
Julia Spencer-Fleming · Best Novel
Nominee
The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard · Best Novel
Nominee
2006
Immoral
Brian Freeman · Best First Novel
Nominee
Red Leaves
Thomas H. Cook · Best Novel
Nominee
The Lincoln Lawyer
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Nominee
2005
California Girl
T. Jefferson Parker · Best Novel
Nominee
La historia del loco
John Katzenbach · Best Novel
Nominee
Out of the Deep I Cry
Julia Spencer-Fleming · Best Novel
Nominee
Retribution
Jilliane Hoffman · Best First Mystery Novel
Nominee
2004
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J. K. Rowling · Young Adult
Winner
Want To Play?
P.J. Tracy · Best First Novel
Winner
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear · Best First Novel
Nominee
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane · Best Novel
Nominee
2003
City of Bones
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Winner
In the Bleak Midwinter
Julia Spencer-Fleming · Best First Novel
Winner
2002
Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris · Best Paperback Original
Winner
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane · Best Novel
Winner
Open Season
C. J. Box · Best First Novel
Winner
Tell No One
Harlan Coben · Best Novel
Nominee
2001
A Conspiracy of Paper
David Liss · Best First Mystery
Nominee
Deep South
Nevada Barr · Best Novel
Nominee
The Bottoms
Joe R. Lansdale · Best Novel
Nominee
2000
Murder With Peacocks
Donna Andrews · Best First Novel
Winner
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · Best Novel of the Century
Winner
Gaudy Night
Dorothy L. Sayers · Best Novel of the Century
Nominee
High Five
Janet Evanovich · Best Novel
Nominee
L.A. Requiem
Robert Crais · Best Novel
Nominee
The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · Best Novel of the Century
Nominee
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · Best Novel of the Century
Nominee
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie · Best Novel of the Century
Nominee
1999
Blood Work
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Winner
A Cold Day in Paradise
Steve Hamilton · Best First Novel
Nominee
Blind Descent
Nevada Barr · Best Novel
Nominee
Gone, Baby, Gone
Dennis Lehane · Best Novel
Nominee
1998
Big Red Tequila
Rick Riordan · Best Paperback Original
Winner
Killing Floor
Lee Child · Best First Novel
Winner
1997
The Poet
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Winner
Fade Away
Harlan Coben · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
1996
Deal Breaker
Harlan Coben · Best Paperback Original
Winner
The Last Coyote
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Nominee
1995
Kolymsky Heights
Lionel Davidson · Best Novel
Nominee
Mallory's Oracle
Carol O'Connell · Best First Novel
Nominee
One for the Money
Janet Evanovich · Best Novel
Nominee
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson · Best First Novel
Nominee
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper
Philip Sugden · Best True Crime
Nominee
The Concrete Blonde
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Nominee
1994
A Grave Talent
Laurie R. King · Best First Novel
Nominee
The Black Ice
Michael Connelly · Best Novel
Nominee
1993
Everything She Ever Wanted
Ann Rule · Best True Crime
Nominee
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly · Best First Novel
Nominee
1991
G Is for Gumshoe
Sue Grafton
Winner
Postmortem
Patricia Cornwell · Best First Novel
Winner
A Ticket to the Boneyard
Lawrence Block · Best Novel
Nominee
1989
A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George · Best First Novel
Winner
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris · Best Novel
Winner
The Killings At Badger's Drift
Caroline Graham · Best First Novel
Nominee
1988
The Monkey's Raincoat
Robert Crais · Best Paperback Original
Winner
Bimbos of the Death Sun
Sharyn McCrumb · Best Paperback Original
Nominee
Trojan Gold
Elizabeth Peters · Best Novel
Nominee
1987
C is for Corpse
Sue Grafton · Best Novel
Winner
The Ritual Bath
Faye Kellerman · Best First Novel
Nominee
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
Lawrence Block · Best Novel
Nominee
1986
When the Bough Breaks
Jonathan Kellerman · Best First Novel
Winner
