Edgar Awards

The Edgar^®Awards

2024 Nominees

Grand Masters:

Best Mystery Novel
*	Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
°	All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby [review]
°	The Madwomen of Paris by Jennifer Cody Epstein [review]
°	Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll [review]
°	An Honest Man by Michael Koryta [review]
°	The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger [review]
°	Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry [review]
°	The Golden Gate by Amy Chua [review]
°	Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski [review]
°	The Last Russian Doll by Kristen Loesch [review]
°	Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto [review]
°	Boomtown by A.F. Carter
°	Hide by Tracy Clark [review]
°	The Taken Ones by Jess Lourey
°	Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

Best Fact Crime
*	Crooked: The Roaring 20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal by Nathan Masters
°	In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross
°	Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
°	Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt
°	I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter
°	The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy by Joe Sexton

Best Critical Biographical
*	Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy by Steven Powell
°	Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
°	Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins & James L. Traylor
°	A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
°	Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Morgan

Best Short Story
*	“Hallowed Ground” by Linda Castillo
°	“Thriller” by Heather Graham
°	“Miss Direction” by Rob Osler Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-October 2023
°	“The Rise” by Ian Rankin
°	“Pigeon Tony’s Last Stand” by Lisa Scottoline

Best Juvenile
*	The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas
°	Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity by Elizabeth C. Bunce
°	Epic Ellisons: Cosmos Camp by Lamar Giles
°	The Jules Verne Prophecy by Larry Schwarz & Iva-Marie Palmer
°	What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski

Best Young Adult
*	Girl Forgotten by April Henry
°	Star Splitter by Matthew J. Kirby
°	The Sharp Edge of Silence by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
°	My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon
°	Just Do This One Thing for Me by Laura Zimmerman

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Play the Fool by Lina Chern [review]
°	The Bones of the Story by Carol Goodman [review]
°	Of Manners and Murder by Anastasia Hastings [review]
°	The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard by Kate Robards
°	Murder in Postscript by Mary Winters [review]

Sue Grafton Memorial Award
*	An Evil Heart by Linda Castillo
°	Hard Rain by Samantha Jayne Allen [review]
°	Bad, Bad Seymour Brown by Susan Isaacs
°	Past Lying by Val McDermid
°	A Stolen Child by Sarah Stewart Taylor

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award
*	Glory Be by Danielle Arceneaux [review]
°	Misfortune Cookie by Vivien Chien
°	Hot Pot Murder by Jennifer J. Chow
°	Murder of an Amish Bridegroom by Patricia Johns
°	The Body in the Back Garden by Mark Waddell

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2023

Grand Masters:

Michael Connelly
Joanne Fluke

Best Mystery Novel
*	Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka [review]
°	Devil House by John Darnielle
°	Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett [review]
°	Gangland by Chuck Hogan
°	The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
°	The Maid by Nita Prose [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor [review]
°	Jackal by Erin E. Adams [review]
°	Shutter by Ramona Emerson [review]
°	More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez [review]
°	Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Or Else by Joe Hart
°	Quarry’s Blood by Max Allan Collins
°	On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass
°	Cleopatra’s Dagger by Carole Lawrence
°	A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre

Best Fact Crime
*	Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse
°	Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale
°	Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles
°	American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. by Shahan Mufti
°	American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

Best Critical Biographical
*	The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards
°	The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie edited by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal
°	The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations by David Geherin
°	The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman
°	Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

Best Short Story
*	“Red Flag” by Gregory Fallis Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“Backstory” by Charles John Harper Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“Locked-In” by William Burton McCormick Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“The Amnesty Box” by Tim McLoughlin Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
°	“First You Dream, Then You Die” by Donna Moore Black is the Night

Best Juvenile
*	Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn
°	The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef by Michael D. Beil
°	The Area 51 Files by Julie Buxbaum
°	Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman
°	Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon

Best Young Adult
*	The Red Palace by June Hur
°	Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne
°	Frightmares by Eva V. Gibson
°	The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman
°	Lock the Doors by Vincent Ralph

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	A Dreadful Splendor by B.R. Myers
°	Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower
°	The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill [review]
°	The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman
°	Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell

Sue Grafton Memorial Award
*	Hideout by Louisa Luna
°	Secret Lives by Mark de Castrique
°	An Unforgiving Place by Claire Kells
°	Behind the Lie by Emilya Naymark
°	Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood [review]

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award
*	Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry
°	The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry
°	Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette
°	Desert Getaway by Michael Craft
°	The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood [review]

2022

Grand Master:

Laurie R. King

Best Mystery Novel
*	Five Decembers by James Kestrel [review]
°	The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
°	Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby [review]
°	How Lucky by Will Leitch
°	No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Deer Season by Erin Flanagan
°	Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
°	Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza [review]
°	What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins [review]
°	The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
°	Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell [review]
°	The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke [review]
°	The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory
°	Starr Sign by C.S. O’Cinneide
°	The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

Best Fact Crime
*	Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
°	The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
°	Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away by Ann Hagedorn
°	Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan
°	The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T. Smith
°	When Evil Lived in Laurel: The “White Knights” and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer by Curtis Wilkie

Best Critical Biographical
*	The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
°	Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
°	The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by Richard Greene
°	Tony Hillerman: A Life by James McGrath Morris
°	The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science by John Tresch

Best Short Story
*	“The Road to Hana” by R.T. Lawton Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“Blindsided” by Michael Bracken & James A. Hearn Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“The Vermeer Conspiracy” by V.M. Burns Midnight Hour
°	“Lucky Thirteen” by Tracy Clark Midnight Hour
°	“The Locked Room Library” by Gigi Pandian Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“The Dark Oblivion” by Cornell Woolrich Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Best Juvenile
*	Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
°	Cold-Blooded Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce
°	Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden by Marthe Jocelyn
°	Kidnap on the California Comet: Adventures on Trains #2 by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman
°	Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Best Young Adult
*	Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
°	Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
°	When You Look Like Us by Pamela N. Harris
°	The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur
°	The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
°	The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet by Katherine Cowley
°	Ruby Red Herring by Tracy Gardner
°	The Sign of Death by Callie Hutton
°	Chapter and Curse by Elizabeth Penney

Sur Grafton Memorial Award
*	Runner by Tracy Clark [review]
°	Double Take by Elizabeth Breck
°	Shadow Hill by Thomas Kies [review]
°	Sleep Well, My Lady by Kwei Quartey [review]
°	Family Business by S.J. Rozan

2021

Grand Masters:

Jeffery Deaver
Charlaine Harris

Best Mystery Novel
*	Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara [review]
°	Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
°	The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman [review]
°	These Women by Ivy Pochoda [review]
°	The Missing American by Kwei Quartey [review]
°	The Distant Dead by Heather Young [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen [review]
°	Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March [review]
°	Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas [review]
°	Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden [review]
°	Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole [review]
°	The Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman
°	Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey [review]
°	Keeper by Jessica Moor [review]
°	East of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre
°	Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America by Mark A. Bradley
°	The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg
°	Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
°	Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by Ariel Sabar

Best Critical Biographical
*	Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane
°	Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club edited by Martin Edwards
°	Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Erin E. MacDonald
°	Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction by Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff
°	This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear

Best Short Story
*	“Dust, Ash, Flight” by Maaza Mengiste Addis Ababa Noir
°	“The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay” by Leslie Elman Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“Etta at the End of the World” by Joseph S. Walker Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“The Twenty-Five Year Engagement” by James W. Ziskin In League with Sherlock Holmes

Best Juvenile
*	Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce
°	Me and Banksy by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
°	From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
°	Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor
°	Nessie Quest by Melissa Savage
°	Coop Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders

Best Young Adult
*	The Companion by Katie Alender
°	The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
°	They Went Left by Monica Hesse
°	Silence of Bones by June Hur
°	The Cousins by Karen M. McManus

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart [review]
°	Death of an American Beauty by Mariah Fredericks
°	The Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day
°	The First To Lie by Hank Phillippi Ryan
°	Cold Wind by Paige Shelton

Sue Grafton Memorial Award
*	Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht [review]
°	The Burn by Kathleen Kent [review]
°	Riviera Gold by Laurie R. King
°	Dead Land by Sara Paretsky
°	The Sleeping Nymph by Ilaria Tuti
°	Turn to Stone by James W. Ziskin

2020

Grand Master:

Barbara Neely

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths [review]
°	Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland [review]
°	The River by Peter Heller [review]
°	Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee [review]
°	Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Miracle Creek by Angie Kim [review]
°	My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing [review]
°	The Good Detective by John McMahon [review]
°	The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott [review]
°	Three-Fifths by John Vercher [review]
°	American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	The Hotel Neversink by Adam O’Fallon Price
°	Dread of Winter by Susan Alice Bickford
°	Freedom Road by William Lashner
°	Blood Relations by Jonathan Moore [review]
°	February’s Son by Alan Parks [review]
°	The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton
°	The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott
°	American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
°	Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan
°	Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin

Best Critical Biographical
*	Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
°	Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan
°	The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
°	Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview by Anne McKendry
°	The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton

Best Short Story
*	“One of These Nights” by Livia Llewellyn Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
°	“Turistas” by Hector Acosta Pa’Que Tu Lo Sepas
°	“The Passenger” by Kirsten Tranter Sydney Noir
°	“Home at Last” by Sam Wiebe Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan
°	“Brother’s Keeper” by Dave Zeltserman Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Best Juvenile
*	Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught
°	The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster by Cary Fagan
°	Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu
°	The Whispers by Greg Howard
°	All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker

Best Young Adult
*	Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer [review]
°	Killing November by Adriana Mather
°	Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
°	The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons
°	Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman [review]
°	One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski [review]
°	Strangers at the Gate by Catriona McPherson
°	Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley
°	The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Sue Grafton Memorial Award
*	Borrowed Time by Tracy Clark
°	Shamed by Linda Castillo
°	The Missing Ones by Edwin Hill [review]
°	One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski [review]
°	The Alchemist’s Illusion by Gigi Pandian [review]
°	Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon

2019

Grand Master:

Martin Cruz Smith

Best Mystery Novel
*	Down the River unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
°	The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard [review]
°	House Witness by Mike Lawson
°	A Gambler’s Jury by Victor Methos
°	Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Lawrence Osborne
°	A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin [review]
°	A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper [review]
°	The Captives by Debra Jo Immergut [review]
°	The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs [review]
°	Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin [review]
°	Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara
°	Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day [review]
°	The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani [review]
°	Under My Skin by Lisa Unger [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
°	Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal by Jonathan Green
°	The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure by Carl Hoffman
°	The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
°	I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
°	The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry

Best Critical Biographical
*	Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger
°	The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction by Laird R. Blackwell
°	Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
°	Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father? by Yasuhiro Takeuchi
°	Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson

Best Short Story
*	“English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“Rabid – A Mike Bowditch Short Story” by Paul Doiron
°	“Paranoid Enough for Two” by John Lutz
°	“Ancient and Modern” by Val McDermid Bloody Scotland
°	“The Sleep Tight Motel” by Lisa Unger The Sleep Tight Motel (Dark Corners Collection)

Best Juvenile
*	Otherwood by Pete Hautman
°	Denis Ever After by Tony Abbott
°	Zap! by Martha Freeman
°	Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective by A.B. Greenfield
°	Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
°	Charlie & Frog by Karen Kane
°	Zora & Me: The Cursed Ground by T.R. Simon

Best Young Adult
*	Sadie by Courtney Summers
°	Contagion by Erin Bowman
°	Blink by Sasha Dawn
°	After the Fire by Will Hill
°	A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey [review]
°	A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks [review]
°	A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman [review]
°	Bone on Bone by Julia Keller
°	A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier [review]

Sue Grafton Memorial Award
*	Shell Game by Sara Paretsky
°	Perish by Lisa Black
°	City of Secrets by Victoria Thompson
°	A Forgotten Place by Charles Todd
°	To Die but Once by Jacqueline Winspear

2018

Grand Masters:

Jane Langton
William Link
Peter Lovesey

Best Mystery Novel
*	Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke [review]
°	The Dime by Kathleen Kent [review]
°	Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
°	A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee [review]
°	The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper [review]
°	Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy [review]
°	Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li
°	Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love [review]
°	Idaho by Emily Ruskovich

Best Paperback Original
*	The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola [review]
°	In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
°	Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett
°	Black Fall by Andrew Mayne
°	Penance by Kanae Minato
°	The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
°	The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
°	American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
°	The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
°	Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca

Best Critical Biographical
*	Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
°	From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women who Created an Icon by Mattias Bostrom
°	Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay
°	Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall by Curtis Evans
°	Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims

Best Short Story
*	“Spring Break” by John Crowley New Haven Noir
°	“Hard to Get” by Jeffery Deaver Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“Ace in the Hole” by Eric Heidle Montana Noir
°	“A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House” by Kenji Jasper Atlanta Noir
°	“Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home” by S.J. Rozan Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

Best Juvenile
*	Vanished! by James Ponti
°	Audacity Jones Steals the Show by Kirby Larson
°	The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands
°	First Class Murder by Robin Stevens
°	NewsPrints by Ru Xu

Best Young Adult
*	Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
°	The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom
°	Grit by Gillian French
°	The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
°	The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman [review]
°	The Vineyard Victims by Ellen Crosby
°	You’ll Never Know, Dear by Hallie Ephron [review]
°	Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann
°	The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

2017

Grand Masters:

Max Allan Collins
Ellen Hart

Best Mystery Novel
*	Before the Fall by Noah Hawley [review]
°	The Ex by Alafair Burke [review]
°	Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman [review]
°	Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye [review]
°	What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry [review]
°	Dodgers by Bill Beverly [review]
°	IQ by Joe Ide [review]
°	The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie [review]
°	Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright [review]
°	The Lost Girls by Heather Young [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty [review]
°	Shot in Detroit by Patricia Abbott [review]
°	Come Twilight by Tyler Dilts
°	The 7th Canon by Robert Dugoni
°	A Brilliant Death by Robin Yocum
°	Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
°	Morgue: A Life in Death by Dr. Vincent DiMaio & Ron Franscell
°	The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer
°	Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder That Shocked Victorian England by Paul Thomas Murphy
°	While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders

Best Critical Biographical
*	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
°	Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd
°	Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967 by Mitzi M. Brunsdale
°	Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal

Best Short Story
*	“Autumn at the Automat” by Lawrence Block In Sunlight or in Shadow
°	“Oxford Girl” by Megan Abbott Mississippi Noir
°	“A Paler Shade of Death” by Laura Benedict St. Louis Noir
°	“The Music Room” by Stephen King In Sunlight or in Shadow
°	“The Crawl Space” by Joyce Carol Oates Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Best Juvenile
*	OCDaniel by Wesley King
°	Summerlost by Ally Condie
°	The Bad Kid by Sarah Lariviere
°	Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand
°	Framed! by James Pont
°	Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught

Best Young Adult
*	Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
°	Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger
°	The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry [review]
°	My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
°	Thieving Weasels by Billy Taylor

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd [review]
°	The Other Sister by Dianne Dixon
°	Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson [review]
°	Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan
°	Blue Moon by Wendy Corsi Staub

2016

Grand Master:

Walter Mosley

Best Mystery Novel
*	Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy [review]
°	The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter [review]
°	The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr [review]
°	Life or Death by Michael Robotham [review]
°	Canary by Duane Swierczynski [review]
°	Night Life by David C. Taylor [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
°	Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton [review]
°	Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy [review]
°	Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll [review]
°	Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney [review]
°	The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
°	What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan [review]
°	Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine [review]
°	Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty [review]
°	The Daughter by Jane Shemilt [review]

Best Short Story
*	“Obits” by Stephen King The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
°	“The Little Men” by Megan Abbott Mysterious Bookshop
°	“On Borrowed Time” by Mat Coward Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday” by Peter Farrelly Providence Noir
°	“Family Treasures” by Shirley Jackson Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
°	“Every Seven Years” by Denise Mina Mysterious Bookshop

Best Fact Crime
*	Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil
°	Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian
°	Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T.J. English
°	Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
°	American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple

Best Critical Biographical
*	The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
°	The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth
°	Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan
°	Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica by Matthew Parker
°	The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward

Best Juvenile
*	Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught
°	Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi
°	If You Find This by Matthew Baker
°	Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver & H.C. Chester
°	The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands

Best Young Adult
*	A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
°	Endangered by Lamar Giles
°	The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
°	The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
°	Ask the Dark by Henry Turner

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day [review]
°	A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody [review]
°	The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins [review]
°	Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron [review]
°	The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson [review]

2015

Grand Masters:

Lois Duncan
James Ellroy

Best Mystery Novel
*	Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
°	This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash [review]
°	Wolf by Mo Hayder
°	The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
°	Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
°	Cop Town by Karin Slaughter [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman [review]
°	Invisible City by Julia Dahl [review]
°	The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens [review]
°	Bad Country by CB McKenzie [review]
°	Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh [review]
°	Murder at the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani [review]
°	Stay With Me by Alison Gaylin [review]
°	The Barkeep by William Lashner
°	The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson [review]
°	The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner
°	World of Trouble by Ben H. Winters [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William Mann
°	Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America by Kevin Cook
°	The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art by Carl Hoffman
°	The Other Side: A Memoir by Lacy M. Johnson
°	The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation by Harold Schechter

Best Critical/Biographical
*	Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker
°	The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson
°	James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Jim Mancall
°	Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir by Robert Miklitsch
°	Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film by Francis M. Nevins

Best Short Story
*	“What Do You Do?” by Gillian Flynn Rogues
°	“The Snow Angel” by Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“200 Feet” by John Floyd The Strand
°	“Red Eye” by Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly Faceoff
°	“Teddy” by Brian Tobin Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Best Juvenile
*	Greenglass House by Kate Milford
°	Absolutely Truly by Heather Vogel Frederick
°	Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
°	Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove by “Science Bob” Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith
°	Saving Kabul Corner by N.H. Senzai
°	Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile by Marcia Wells

Best Young Adult
*	The Art of Secrets by James Klise
°	The Doubt Factory by Paolo Bacigalupi
°	Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano
°	Fake ID by Lamar Giles
°	The Prince of Venice Beach by Blake Nelson

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
°	A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton
°	Invisible City by Julia Dahl [review]
°	Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller
°	The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day [review]

2014

Grand Masters:

Robert Crais
Carolyn Hart

Best Mystery Novel
*	Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger [review]
°	Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook [review]
°	The Humans by Matt Haig
°	How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny [review]
°	Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
°	Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews [review]
°	The Resurrectionist by Matthew Guinn [review]
°	Ghostman by Roger Hobbs [review]
°	Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman [review]
°	Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood [review]
°	The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne [review]
°	Almost Criminal by E.R. Brown [review]
°	Joe Victim by Paul Cleave
°	Joyland by Stephen King
°	Brilliance by Marcus Sakey [review]

Best Fact Crime
*	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
°	Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins
°	Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal by Michael D'Antonio
°	The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber
°	The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry

Best Critical/Biographical
*	America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik Dussere
°	Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories by Bill Alder
°	Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing by Justin Gifford
°	Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett
°	Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction by Melissa Schaub

Best Short Story
*	“The Caxton Private Lending Library and Book Depository” by John Connolly Bibliomysteries
°	“The Terminal” by Reed Farrel Coleman Kwik Krimes
°	“So Long, Chief” by Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane The Strand
°	“There are Roads in the Water” by Tina Corey Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“Where That Morning Sun Does Down” by Tim L. Williams Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman [review]
°	There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron [review]
°	Fear of Beauty by Susan Froetschel [review]
°	The Money Kill by Katia Lief
°	The Sixth Station by Linda Stasi

2013

Grand Masters:

Ken Follett
Margaret Maron

Best Mystery Novel
*	Live by Night by Dennis Lehane [review]
°	The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
°	The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye [review]
°	Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn [review]
°	Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
°	Sunset by Al Lamanda [review]
°	All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Expats by Chris Pavone [review]
°	The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay [review]
°	Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman [review]
°	Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal [review]
°	The 500 by Matthew Quirk [review]
°	Black Fridays by Michael Sears [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters [review]
°	Complication by Isaac Adamson [review]
°	Whiplash River by Lou Berney [review]
°	Bloodland by Alan Glynn [review]
°	Blessed Are the Dead by Malla Nunn [review]

Best Short Story
*	“The Unremarkable Heart” by Karin Slaughter Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
°	“Iphigenia in Aulis” by Mike Carey An Apple for the Creature
°	“Hot Sugar Blues” by Steve Liskow Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
°	“The Void it Often Brings With It” by Tom Piccirilli Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“Still Life No. 41” by Teresa Solana Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Best Critical Biographical
*	The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien
°	Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed by John Paul Athanasourelis
°	Books To Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke
°	In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan [review]
°	Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton [review]
°	A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell [review]
°	The Reckoning by Jane Casey [review]
°	Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub

2012

Grand Master:

Martha Grimes

Best Mystery Novel
*	Gone by Mo Hayder
°	The Ranger by Ace Atkins
°	The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino [review]
°	1222 by Anne Holt [review]
°	Field Gray by Philip Kerr [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Bent Road by Lori Roy [review]
°	Red on Red by Edward Conlon [review]
°	Last to Fold by David Duffy
°	All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen [review]
°	Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
°	The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle [review]
°	The Dog Sox by Russell Hill
°	The Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley [review]
°	Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis [review]

Best Short Story
*	“The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“Marley’s Revolution” by John C. Boland Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“Tomorrow’s Dead” by David Dean Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“The Adakian Eagle” by Bradley Denton Down These Strange Streets
°	“Lord John and the Plague of Zombies” by Diana Gabaldon Down These Strange Streets
°	“The Case of Death and Honey” by Neil Gaiman A Study in Sherlock

Best Critical/Biographical
*	On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
°	The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg
°	Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran
°	Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates
°	Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry [review]
°	Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton [review]
°	Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron [review]
°	Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick [review]
°	Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely [review]

2011

Grand Master:

Sara Paretsky

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton [review]
°	Caught by Harlan Coben [review]
°	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin [review]
°	Faithful Place by Tana French [review]
°	The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan [review]
°	I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva [review]
°	The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron [review]
°	The Serialist by David Gordon [review]
°	Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
°	Snow Angels by James Thompson [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard [review]
°	The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn
°	Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski [review]
°	Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis [review]
°	Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler

Best Short Story
*	“The Scent of Lilacs” by Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
°	“The Plot” by Jeffery Deaver First Thrills
°	“A Good Safe Place” by Judith Green Thin Ice
°	“Monsieur Alice is Absent” by Stephen Ross Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“The Creative Writing Murders” by Edmund White Dark End of the Street

Best Critical/Biographical
*	Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
°	The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez
°	Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran
°	Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Stephen Doyle & David A. Crowder
°	Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths [review]
°	Wild Penance by Sandi Ault [review]
°	Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton [review]
°	Down River by Karen Harper
°	Live To Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub [review]

2010

Grand Master:

Dorothy Gilman

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Last Child by John Hart [review]
°	The Missing by Tim Gautreaux [review]
°	The Odds by Kathleen George
°	The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston [review]
°	Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
°	A Beautiful Place To Die by Malla Nunn [review]

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff [review]
°	The Girl She Used To Be by David Cristofano [review]
°	Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley [review]
°	The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf [review]
°	A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield [review]
°	Black Water Rising by Attica Locke [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Body Blows by Marc Strange
°	Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
°	Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano
°	The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill [review]
°	The Herring Seller’s Apprentice by L.C. Tyler [review]

Best Short Story
*	“Amapola” by Luis Alberto Urrea Phoenix Noir
°	“Last Fair Deal Gone Down” by Ace Atkins Crossroad Blues
°	“Femme Sole” by Dana Cameron Boston Noir
°	“Digby, Attorney at Law” by Jim Fusilli Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“Animal Rescue” by Dennis Lehane Boston Noir

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Awakening by S.J. Bolton [review]
°	Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof by Blaize Clement
°	Never Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron [review]
°	Lethal Vintage by Nadia Gordon
°	Dial H for Hitchcock by Susan Kandel

2009

Grand Masters:

James Lee Burke
Sue Grafton

Best Mystery Novel
*	Blue Heaven by C.J. Box [review]
°	Missing by Karin Alvtegen [review]
°	Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
°	The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes [review]
°	The Night Following by Morag Joss [review]
°	Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Foreigner by Francie Lin
°	The Kind One by Tom Epperson [review]
°	Sweetsmoke by David Fuller [review]
°	Calumet City by Charlie Newton [review]
°	A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	China Lake by Meg Gardiner
°	The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr [review]
°	Money Shot by Christa Faust [review]
°	Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney
°	The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli

Best Short Story
*	“Skinhead Central” by T. Jefferson Parker The Blue Religion
°	“A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover Hardcore Hardboiled
°	“Skin and Bones” by David Edgerley Gates Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
°	“Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman Hardly Knew Her
°	“La Vie en Rose” by Dominique Mainard Paris Noir

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd
°	Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton
°	Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [review]
°	A Song for You by Betsy Thornton
°	The Fault Tree by Louise Ure

2008

Grand Master:

Bill Pronzini

Best Mystery Novel
*	Down River by John Hart
°	Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
°	Priest by Ken Bruen
°	The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
°	Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	In the Woods by Tana French [review]
°	Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell [review]
°	Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard
°	Head Games by Craig McDonald [review]
°	Pyres by Derek Nikitas

Best Paperback Original
*	Queenpin by Megan Abbott [review]
°	Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
°	Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks
°	Robbie’s Wife by Russell Hill
°	Who Is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall [review]

Best Short Story
*	“The Golden Gopher” by Susan Straight Los Angeles Noir
°	“The Catch” by Mark Ammons Still Waters
°	“Blue Note” by Stuart M. Kaminsky Chicago Blues
°	“Hardly Knew Her” by Laura Lippman Dead Man’s Hand
°	“Uncle” by Daniel Woodrell A Hell of a Woman

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault
°	In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews
°	Inferno by Karen Harper
°	The First Stone by Judith Kelman

2007

Grand Master:

Stephen King

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
°	The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
°	Gentleman and Players by Joanne Harris
°	The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
°	The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
°	Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson
°	Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
°	King of Lies by John Hart
°	Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
°	A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read

Best Paperback Original
*	Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara
°	The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto
°	The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
°	The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine
°	City of Tiny Lights by Patrick Neate

Best Short Story
*	“The Home Front” by Charles Ardai Death Do Us Part
°	“Rain” by Thomas H. Cook Manhattan Noir
°	“Cranked” by Bill Crider Damn Near Dead
°	“Building” by S.J. Rozan Manhattan Noir

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Bloodline by Fiona Mountain

2006

Grand Master:

Stuart Kaminsky

Best Mystery Novel
*	Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
°	The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
°	Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook
°	Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
°	Drama City by George Pelecanos

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel
°	Die a Little by Megan Abbott
°	Immoral by Brian Freeman
°	Run the Risk by Scott Frost
°	Hide Your Eyes by Alison Gaylin

Best Paperback Original
*	Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford [review]
°	Homicide My Own by Anne Argula
°	The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman
°	Kiss Her Goodbye by Allan Guthrie
°	Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston

Best Short Story
*	“The Catch” by James W. Hall Greatest Hits
°	“Born Bad” by Jeffery Deaver Dangerous Women
°	“Her Lord and Master” by Andrew Klavan Dangerous Women
°	“Misdirection” by Barbara Seranella Greatest Hits
°	“Welcome to Monroe” by Daniel Walker A Kudzu Christmas

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Dark Angel by Karen Harper
°	Breaking Faith by Jo Bannister
°	Shadow Valley by Gwen Hunter

2005

Grand Master:

Marcia Muller

Best Mystery Novel
*	California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
°	Evan’s Gate by Rhys Bowen
°	By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman
°	Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney
°	Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Country of Origin by Don Lee
°	Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas
°	Relative Danger by Charles Benoit
°	The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
°	Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta
°	Bahamarama by Bob Morris

Best Paperback Original
*	The Confession by Domenic Stansberry
°	The Librarian by Larry Beinhart
°	Into the Web by Thomas H. Cook
°	Dead Men Rise Up Never by Ron Faust
°	Twelve-Step Fandango by Chris Haslam

Best Short Story
*	“Something About a Scar” by Laurie Lynn Drummond Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
°	“The Widow of Slane” by Terence Faherty Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004
°	“The Book Signing” by Pete Hamill Brooklyn Noir
°	“Adventure of the Missing Detective” by Gary Lovisi Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
°	“Imitate the Sun” by Luke Sholer Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2004

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Grave Endings by Rochelle Krich
°	Perfect Sax by Jerrilyn Farmer
°	The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman
°	Scent of a Killer by Christiane Heggan
°	Murder in a Mill Town by P.B. Ryan

2004

Grand Master:

Joseph Wambaugh

Best Mystery Novel
*	Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
°	The Guards by Ken Bruen [review]
°	Out by Natsuo Kirino
°	Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel
°	12 Bliss Street by Martha Conway
°	Offer of Proof by Robert Heilbrun
°	The Night of the Dance by James Hime
°	The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer

Best Paperback Original
*	Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh
°	Cut and Run by Jeff Abbott
°	The Last Witness by Joel Goldman
°	Wisdom of the Bones by Christopher Hyde
°	Southland by Nina Revoyr

Best Short Story
*	“The Maids” by G. Miki Hayden Blood On Their Hands
°	“Bet on Red” by Jeff Abbott High Stakes
°	“Black Heart & Cabin Girl” by Shelley Costa Blood On Their Hands
°	“Aces and Eights” by David Edgerley Gates Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 2003
°	“Cowboy Grace” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The Silver Gryphon

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Song of the Bones by M.K. Preston
°	Ricochet by Nancy Baker Jacobs
°	A Bloodhound To Die For by Virginia Lanier
°	The Samurai’s Daughter by Sujata Massey
°	The Body in the Lighthouse by Katherine Hall Page

2003

Grand Master:

Ira Levin

Best Mystery Novel
*	Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
°	Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
°	Jolie Blon’s Bounce by James Lee Burke
°	City of Bones by Michael Connelly
°	No Good Deed by Manda Scott

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King
°	Southern Latitudes by Stephen J. Clark
°	High Wire by Kam Majd
°	Buck Fever by Ben Rehder
°	Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt [review]

Best Paperback Original
*	Out of Sight by T.J. MacGregor
°	Black Jack Point by Jeff Abbott
°	The Night Watcher by John Lutz
°	Trauma by Graham Masterton
°	Prison Blues by Anna Salter

Best Short Story
*	“Mexican Gatsby” by Raymond Steiber Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2002
°	“The Murder Ballads” by Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2002
°	“To Live and Die in Midland, Texas” by Clark Howard Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2002
°	“Rumpole and the Primrose Path” by John Mortimer The Strand Magazine, #8
°	“Angel of Wrath” by Joyce Carol Oates Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2002

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Absolute Certainty by Rose Connors
°	The Stone Forest by Karen Harper
°	The Truth Hurts by Nancy Pickard
°	The Bad Witness by Laura Van Wormer

2002

Grand Master:

Robert B. Parker

Best Mystery Novel
*	Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
°	The Judgment by D.W. Buffa
°	Tell No One by Harlan Coben
°	Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain
°	Reflecting the Sky by S.J. Rozan

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Line of Vision by David Ellis
°	Open Season by C.J. Box [review]
°	Red Hook by Gabriel Cohen
°	Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler
°	The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton

Best Paperback Original
*	Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria
°	Hell’s Kitchen by Jeffery Deaver (writing as William Jefferies)
°	The Mother Tongue by Teri Holbrook
°	Dead of Winter by P.J. Parrish
°	Straw Men by Martin J. Smith

Best Short Story
*	“Double-Crossing Delancy” by S.J. Rozan Mystery Street
°	“The Abbey Ghosts” by Jan Burke Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January 2001
°	“The Horrible Senseless Murders of Two Elderly Women” by Michael Collins Fedora: Private Eyes & Tough Guys
°	“If the Glove Fits” by Michael Lewin Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September/October 2001
°	“Virgo in Sapphires” by Margaret Maron Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2001

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman
°	Murphy’s Law by Rhys Bowen
°	Perhaps She’ll Die by M.K. Preston
°	Murder of a Sweet Old Lady by Denise Swanson

2001

Grand Master:

Edward D. Hoch

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
°	A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
°	A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
°	Red Light by T. Jefferson Parker
°	The Whole Truth by Nancy Pickard

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
°	The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
°	Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
°	Crow in Stolen Colors by Marcia Simpson [review]
°	Raveling by Peter Moore Smith

Best Paperback Original
*	The Black Maria by Mark Graham
°	Murder on St. Mark’s Place by Victoria Thompson
°	Killing Kin by Chassie West
°	The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn by Eric Wright
°	Pursuit and Persuasion by Sally Wright

Best Short Story
*	“Missing in Action” by Peter Robinson Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2000
°	“Delta Double-Deal” by Noreen Ayres The Night Awakens
°	“Twelve Little Buggers” by Mat Coward Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2000
°	“A Candle for Christmas” by Reginald Hill Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2000
°	“Spinning” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2000

Mary Higgins Clark Award
*	Authorized Personnel Only by Barbara D’Amato
°	Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
°	The Debt Collector by Lynn S. Hightower
°	False Witness by Lelia Kelly
°	Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult

2000

Grand Master:

Mary Higgins Clark

Best Mystery Novel
*	Bones by Jan Burke
°	River of Darkness by Rennie Airth [review]
°	L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
°	Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf
°	In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison [review]
°	Certifiably Insane by Arthur W. Bahr
°	Big Trouble by Dave Barry
°	God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
°	Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods

Best Paperback Original
*	Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham
°	Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar
°	The Resurrectionist by Mark Graham
°	Outcast by José Latour
°	In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman

Best Short Story
*	“Heroes” by Anne Perry Murder and Obsession
°	“Triangle” by Jeffery Deaver Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 1999
°	“Crack” by James W. Hall Murder and Obsession
°	“Snow” by Stuart M. Kaminsky First Cases
°	“Paleta Man” by Laurie R. King Irreconcilable Differences

1999

Grand Master:

P.D. James

Best Mystery Novel
*	Mr. White’s Confession by Robert Clark
°	Blood Work by Michael Connelly
°	Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard
°	The Last Days of Il Duce by Domenic Stansberry
°	A Likeness in Stone by Julia Wallis Martin

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton [review]
°	Reckless Homicide by Ira Genberg
°	Numbered Account by Christopher Reich
°	Nice by Jen Sacks
°	A Criminal Appeal by D.R. Schanker

Best Paperback Original
*	The Widower’s Two-Step by Rick Riordan
°	Atlanta Graves by Ruth Birmingham
°	Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman
°	Zen Attitude by Sujata Massey
°	Murder Manual by Steven Womack

Best Short Story
*	“Poachers” by Tom Franklin Texas Review, Fall-Winter 1998
°	“Looking for David” by Lawrence Block Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 1998
°	“The Halfway Woman” by Clark Howard Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 1998
°	“For Jeff” by Perry Michael Smith Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 1998
°	“Sacrifice” by L.L. Thrasher Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall 1998

1998

Grand Master:

Elizabeth Peters

Best Mystery Novel
*	Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
°	Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
°	A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini
°	Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
°	The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
°	A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
°	Bird Dog by Philip Reed
°	Flower Net by Lisa See
°	23 Shades of Black by K.J.A. Wishnia

Best Paperback Original
*	Charm City by Laura Lippman
°	Home Again, Home Again by Susan Rogers Cooper
°	The Prioress’ Tale by Margaret Frazer
°	Tarnished Icons by Stuart M. Kaminsky
°	Sunset and Santiago by Gloria White

Best Short Story
*	“Keller on the Spot” by Lawrence Block Playboy, November 1997
°	“Ways to Kill a Cat” by Simon Brett Malice Domestic 6
°	“The Kneeling Soldier” by Jeffery Deaver Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 1997
°	“Find Miriam” by Stuart M. Kaminsky New Mystery, Summer 1997
°	“The Man Who Beat the System” by Stuart M. Kaminsky Funny Bones

1997

Grand Master:

Ruth Rendell

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
°	With Child by Laurie R. King
°	Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
°	Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry
°	Mean Streak by Carolyn Wheat

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson
°	Bonita Faye by Margaret Moseley
°	The Queen’s Man by Sharon Kay Penman
°	A Test of Wills by Charles Todd [review]
°	A Brother’s Blood by Michael C. White

Best Paperback Original
*	Fade Away by Harlan Coben
°	Silent Words by Joan M. Drury
°	The Grass Widow by Teri Holbrook
°	Walking Rain by Susan Wade
°	Tribe by R.D. Zimmerman

Best Short Story
*	“Red Clay” by Michael Malone Murder for Love
°	“The Dark Snow” by Brendan DuBois Playboy, November 1996
°	“My Murder” by David Corn Unusual Suspects
°	“Kiss The Sky” by James Grady Unusual Suspects
°	“Hoops” by S.J. Rozan Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 1996

1996

Grand Master:

Dick Francis

Best Mystery Novel
*	Come to Grief by Dick Francis
°	Bookman’s Wake by John Dunning
°	The Shadow Man by John Katzenbach
°	The Summons by Peter Lovesey
°	The Roaring Boy by Edward Marston

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Penance by David Housewright
°	Tight Shot by Kevin Allman
°	Murder in Scorpio by Martha C. Lawrence
°	The Harry Chronicles by Allan Pedrazas
°	Fixed in His Folly by David J. Walker

Best Paperback Original
*	Tarnished Blue by William Heffernan
°	Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
°	High Desert Malice by Kirk Mitchell
°	Charged With Guilt by Gloria White
°	Hard Frost by R.D. Wingfield

Best Short Story
*	“The Judge’s Boy” by Jean B Cooper Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 1995
°	“Rule of Law” by K.K. Beck Malice Domestic 4
°	“Death in a Small Town” by Larry Beinhart New Mystery, Spring 1995
°	“When Your Breath Freezes” by Kathleen Dougherty Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September 1995
°	“A Plain and Honest Death” by Bill Pomidor Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September 1995

1995

Grand Master:

Mickey Spillane

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker [review]
°	Lights Out by Peter Abrahams
°	A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block
°	Miami, It’s Murder by Edna Buchanan
°	Wednesday’s Child by Peter Robinson

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Caveman’s Valentine by George Dawes Green
°	One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
°	Mallory’s Oracle by Carol O’Connell ) [review]
°	Suspicion of Innocence by Barbara Parker
°	Big Town by Doug J. Swanson

Best Paperback Original
*	Final Appeal by Lisa Scottoline
°	The Broken-Hearted Detective by Milton Bass
°	Viper Quarry by Dean Feldmeyer
°	Power of Attorney by Walter Sorrells
°	Sunrise by Chassie West

Best Short Story
*	“The Dancing Bear” by Doug Allyn Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 1994
°	“The Gentleman in the Lake” by Robert Barnard Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1994
°	“The Tennis Court” by Brenda Melton Burnham Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1994
°	“The Necessary Brother” by Brendan DuBois Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 1994
°	“An Eye for a Tooth” by Justin Scott Justice in Manhattan

1994

Grand Master:

Lawrence Block

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Sculptress by Minette Walters
°	Free Fall by Robert Crais
°	Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
°	Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller
°	The Journeyman Tailor by Gerald Seymour

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King
°	The List of Seven by Mark Frost
°	Criminal Seduction by Darian North
°	The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz by Manuel Ramos
°	Zaddik by David Rosenbaum

Best Paperback Original
*	Dead Folk’s Blues by Steven Womack
°	The Servant’s Tale by Margaret Frazer
°	Tony’s Justice by Eugene Izzi
°	Beyond Saru by Thomas A. Roberts
°	Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline

Best Short Story
*	“Keller’s Therapy” by Lawrence Block Playboy, May 1993
°	“The Ghost Show” by Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 1993
°	“Mefisto in Onyx” by Harlan Ellison Omni, October 1993
°	“McIntyre’s Donald” by Joseph Hansen Bohannon’s Country
°	“Enduring as Dust” by Bruce Holland Rogers Danger in DC

1993

Grand Master:

Donald E. Westlake

Best Mystery Novel
*	Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron
°	Backhand by Liza Cody
°	32 Cadillacs by Joe Gores
°	White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
°	Pomona Queen by Kem Nunn

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Black Echo by Michael Connelly [review]
°	Trail of Murder by Christine Andreae
°	Trick of the Eye by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
°	Ladystinger by Craig Smith

Best Paperback Original
*	A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow
°	The Good Friday Murder by Lee Harris
°	Principal Defense by Gini Hartzmark
°	Shallow Graves by William Jefferies
°	Night Cruise by Billie Sue Mosiman

Best Short Story
*	“Mary, Mary, Shut the Door” by Benjamin M. Schutz Deadly Allies
°	“Candles in the Rain” by Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 1992
°	“Howler” by Jo Bannister Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, October 1992
°	“Louise” by Max Allan Collins Deadly Allies
°	“One Hit Wonder” by Gabrielle Kraft Sisters in Crime 5

1992

Grand Master:

Elmore Leonard

Best Mystery Novel
*	A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
°	Don’t Say A Word by Andrew Klavan
°	Prior Convictions by Lia Matera
°	I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
°	Palindrome by Stuart Woods

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner
°	Deadstick by Terence Faherty
°	Deadline by Marcy Heidish
°	Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker
°	A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow

Best Paperback Original
*	Dark Maze by Thomas Adcock
°	Murder in the Dog Days by P.M. Carlson
°	Cracking Up by Ed Naha
°	Midtown North by Christopher Newman
°	Fine Distinctions by Deborah Valentine

Best Short Story
*	“Nine Sons” by Wendy Hornsby Sisters in Crime 4
°	“Sleeper” by Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 1991
°	“A Blow for Freedom” by Lawrence Block Playboy, October 1991
°	“Spasmo” by Liza Cody A Classic English Crime
°	“Dreaming in Black and White” by Susan Schwartz Psycho-Paths

1991

Grand Master:

Tony Hillerman

Best Mystery Novel
*	New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
°	Fade the Heat by Jay Brandon
°	Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman
°	Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
°	Deadfall in Berlin by R.D. Zimmerman

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Postmortem by Patricia D. Cornwell
°	Come Nightfall by Gary Amo
°	Passion Play by W. Edward Blain
°	Nobody Lives Forever by Edna Buchanan
°	Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

Best Paperback Original
*	The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Handler
°	Comeback by L.L Enger
°	Not a Creature Was Stirring by Jane Haddam
°	Dead in the Scrub by B.J. Oliphant
°	SPQR I: The King’s Gambit by John Maddox Roberts

Best Short Story
*	“Elvis Lives” by Lynne Barrett Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Spetember 1990
°	“Answers to Soldiers” by Lawrence Block Playboy, 1990
°	“Prisoners” by Ed Gorman New Crimes
°	“A Poison That Leaves No Trace” by Sue Grafton Sisters in Crime 2
°	“Challenge the Widow-Maker” by Clark Howard Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, August 1990

1990

Grand Master:

Helen McCloy

Best Mystery Novel
*	Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
°	Goldilocks by Andrew Coburn
°	A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield
°	The Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill
°	Booster by Eugene Izzi

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe
°	Hide and Seek by Barry Berg
°	The Story of Annie D. by Susan Taylor Chehak
°	The Mother Shadow by Melodie Johnson Howe [review]
°	Blood Under the Bridge by Bruce Zimmerman

Best Paperback Original
*	The Rain by Keith Peterson
°	Manhattan Is My Beat by Jeffery Deaver
°	King of the Hustlers by Eugene Izzi
°	Hot Wire by Randy Russell
°	A Collector of Photographs by Deborah Valentine

Best Short Story
*	“Too Many Crooks” by Donald E. Westlake Playboy, 1989
°	“Ted Bundy’s Father” by Ruth Graviros Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 1989
°	“The Girl and the Gator” by Robert Halsted Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 1989
°	“Afraid All the Time” by Nancy Pickard Sisters in Crime
°	“For Loyal Service” by Stephen Wasylyk Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, August 1989

1989

Grand Master:

Hillary Waugh

Best Mystery Novel
*	A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
°	Joey’s Case by K.C. Constantine
°	Sacrificial Ground by Thomas H. Cook
°	Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
°	In the Lake of the Moon by David L. Lindsey

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Carolina Skeletons by David Stout
°	Murder Once Done by Mary Lou Bennett
°	The Murder of Frau Schutz by J. Madison Davis
°	A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
°	Julian Solo by Shelly Reuben

Best Paperback Original
*	The Telling of Lies by Timothy Findley [review]
°	Judgment by Fire by Fredrick D. Huebner
°	A Radical Departure by Lia Matera
°	The Trapdoor by Keith Peterson
°	Preacher by Ted Thackrey, Jr.

1988

Grand Master:

Phyllis A. Whitney

Best Mystery Novel
*	Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
°	A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes [review]
°	Nursery Crimes by B.M. Gill
°	Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
°	The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond by Charlotte MacLeod

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Death Among Strangers by Deidre S. Laiken
°	Detective by Parnell Hall
°	Heat Lightning by John Lantigua
°	Lover Man by Dallas Murphy
°	The Spoiler by Domenic Stansberry

Best Paperback Original
*	Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb
°	The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais
°	Deadly Intrusion by Walter Dillon
°	The Long Way to Die by James N. Frey
°	Bullshot by Gabrielle Kraft

1987

Grand Master:

Michael Gilbert

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
°	The Blind Run by Brian Freemantle
°	Come Morning by Joe Gores
°	A Taste for Death by P.D. James
°	The Straight Man by Roger L. Simon

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart
°	Lost by Gary Devon
°	Riceburner by Richard Hyer
°	Floater by Joseph Koenig
°	Dead Air by Mike Lupica

Best Paperback Original
*	The Junkyard Dog by Robert Campbell
°	The Cat Who Saw Red by Lilian Jackson Braun
°	Hazzard by R.D. Brown
°	Ronin by Nick Christian
°	Shattered Moon by Kate Green

1986

Grand Master:

Ed McBain

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Suspect by L.R. Wright
°	City of Glass by Paul Auster
°	A Shock to the System by Simon Brett
°	The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
°	An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
°	The Glory Hole Murders by Tony Fennelly
°	Sleeping Dog by Dick Lochte
°	The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man by Daniel Stashower

Best Paperback Original
*	Pigs Get Fat by Warren Murphy
°	Poverty Bay by Earl Emerson
°	Broken Idols by Sean Flannery
°	Blue Heron by Philip Ross
°	Black Gravity by Conall Ryan

1985

Grand Master:

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Best Mystery Novel
*	Briarpatch by Ross Thomas
°	The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert
°	The Twelfth Juror by B.M. Gill
°	Emily Dickinson Is Dead by Jane Langton
°	Chessplayer by William Pearson

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Strike Three, You’re Dead by R.D. Rosen
°	A Creative Kind of Killer by Jack Early
°	Foul Shot by Doug Hornig
°	Sweet, Savage Death by Orania Papazoglou
°	Someone Else’s Grave by Alison Smith

Best Paperback Original
*	Grandmaster by Molly Cochran & Warren Murphy
°	The Keys to Billy Tillio by Eric Blau
°	The Seventh Sacrament by Roland Cutler
°	Words Can Kill by Kenn Davis
°	Black Knight in Red Square by Stuart M. Kaminsky

1984

Grand Master:

John le Carré

Best Mystery Novel
*	LaBrava by Elmore Leonard
°	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
°	Texas Station by Christopher Leach
°	The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
°	The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss
°	The Gold Solution by Herbert Resnicow
°	Red Diamond, Private Eye by Mark Schorr
°	Caroline Minuscule by Andrew Taylor
°	Dead Man’s Thoughts by Carolyn Wheat

Best Paperback Original
*	Mrs. White by Margaret Tracy
°	False Prophets by Sean Flannery
°	The Kill Factor by Richard Harper
°	Trace by Warren Murphy
°	Hunter by Eric Sauter

1983

Grand Master:

Margaret Millar

Best Mystery Novel
*	Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
°	Eight Million Ways To Die by Lawrence Block
°	Split Images by Elmore Leonard
°	The Captain by Seymour Shubin
°	Kahawa by Donald E. Westlake

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Butcher’s Boy by Thomas Perry [review]
°	By Frequent Anguish by S.F.X. Dean
°	Unholy Communion by Richard Hughes
°	In the Heat of the Summer by John Katzenbach
°	Two If By Sea by Ernest Savage

Best Paperback Original
*	Triangle by Teri White
°	Vital Signs by Ralph Burrows
°	Clandestine by James Ellroy
°	The Missing and the Dead by Jack Lynch

1982

Grand Master:

Julian Symons

Best Mystery Novel
*	Peregrine by William Bayer
°	The Other Side of Silence by Ted Allbeury
°	Death in a Cold Climate by Robert Barnard
°	Dupe by Liza Cody
°	The Amateur by Robert Littell
°	Bogmail by Patrick McGinley

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Chiefs by Stuart Woods
°	Giant Killer by Tom Hyman
°	Not a Through Street by Ernest Larsen
°	The Black Glove by Geoffrey Miller
°	Murder at the Red October by Anthony Olcott

Best Paperback Original
*	The Old Dick by L.A. Morse
°	Deadline by John Dunning
°	The Unforgiven by Patricia MacDonald
°	Pin by Andrew Neiderman
°	Dead Heat by Ray Obstfeld

1981

Grand Master:

Stanley Ellin

Best Mystery Novel
*	Whip Hand by Dick Francis
°	Death of a Literary Widow by Robert Barnard
°	Death Drop by B.M. Gill
°	The Spy’s Wife by Reginald Hill
°	Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Watcher by Kay Nolte Smith
°	Winds of the Old Days by Betsy Aswad
°	The Rembrandt Panel by Oliver Banks
°	Double Negative by David Carkeet
°	The Other Ann Fletcher by Susanne Jaffe

Best Paperback Original
*	Public Murders by Bill Granger
°	Blood Innocents by Thomas H. Cook
°	Looking for Ginger North by John Dunning
°	Tough Luck, L.A. by Murray Sinclair

1980

Grand Master:

W.R. Burnett

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
°	Death of a Mystery Writer by Robert Barnard
°	A Fire in the Barley by Frank Parrish
°	Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell
°	A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson
°	Night Trains by Peter Heath Fine
°	Follow the Leader by John Logue

Best Paperback Original
*	The HOG Murders by William L. DeAndrea
°	The Kremlin Conspiracy by Sean Flannery
°	Vortex by David Heller
°	The Queen Is Dead by Glenn Kezer
°	The Infernal Device by Michael Kurland

1979

Grand Master:

Aaron Marc Stein

Best Mystery Novel
*	Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
°	The Snake by John Godey
°	Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
°	A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
°	The Shallow Grave by Jack S. Scott

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Killed in the Ratings by William DeAndrea
°	The Scourge by Thomas L. Dunne
°	Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
°	Blood Secrets by Craig Jones
°	The Memory of Eva Ryker by Donald A. Stanwood

Best Paperback Original
*	Deceit and Deadly Lies by Franklin Bandy
°	Stud Game by David Anthony
°	The Switch by Elmore Leonard
°	Heartstone by Philip Margolin
°	Charnel House by Graham Masterton

1978

Grand Master:	Daphne du Maurier
Grand Master:	Dorothy B. Hughes
Grand Master:	Ngaio Marsh

Best Mystery Novel
*	Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan
°	Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
°	Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	A French Finish by Robert Ross
°	Dewey Decimated by Charles A. Goodrum
°	The Fan by Bob Randall

Best Paperback Original
*	The Quark Maneuver by Mike Jahn
°	Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block
°	The Terrorizers by Donald Hamilton
°	They’ve Killed Anna by Marc Olden

1977

Best Mystery Novel
*	Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
°	The Cavanaugh Quest by Thomas Gifford
°	A Madness of the Heart by Richard Neely
°	The Glory Boys by Gerald Seymour
°	The Main by Trevanian

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson
°	Your Day in the Barrel by Alan Furst
°	Straight by Steve Knickmeyer
°	The Big Payoff by Janice Law
°	Final Proof by Marie R. Reno

Best Paperback Original
*	Confess Fletch by Gregory McDonald
°	The Captive City by Daniel da Cruz
°	The Dark Side by Kenn Davis & John Stanley
°	The Retaliators by Donald Hamilton
°	Freeze Frame by R.R. (Robert) Irvine

1976

Grand Master:

Graham Greene

Best Mystery Novel
*	Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
°	The Gargoyle Conspiracy by Marvin Albert
°	Operation Alcestis by Maggie Rennert
°	Harry’s Game by Gerald Seymour
°	The Money Harvest by Ross Thomas

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Alvarez Journal by Rex Burns
°	Waltz Across Texas by Max Crawford
°	Harmattan by Thomas Klop
°	Paperback Thriller by Lynn Meyer (David Slavitt)
°	The Devalino Caper by A.J. Russell

Best Paperback Original
*	Autopsy by John R. Feegel
°	The Set-Up by Milt Machlin & Robin Moore
°	Charlie’s Back in Town by Jacqueline Park
°	The Midas Coffin by Simon Quinn (Martin Cruz Smith)
°	The Assassinator by David Vowell

1975

Grand Master:

Eric Ambler

Best Mystery Novel
*	Peter’s Pence by Jon Cleary
°	The Man Who Loved Zoos by Malcolm Bosse
°	Goodbye and Amen (The Grosvenor Square Goodbye) by Francis Clifford
°	The Silver Bears by Paul E. Erdman
°	The Lester Affair by Andrew Garve

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Fletch by Gregory McDonald
°	The Kreutzman Formula by Dominic Koski & Virgil Scott
°	Saturday Games by Brown Meggs
°	Target Practice by Nicholas Meyer
°	The Jones Man by Vern E. Smith

Best Paperback Original
*	The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor
°	Who Killed Mr. Garland’s Mistress? by Richard Forrest
°	Jump Cut by R.R. (Robert) Irvine
°	The Gravy Train Hit by Curtis Stevens (Richard Curtis & Paul Stevens)
°	Flats Fixed-Among Other Things by Don Tracy

1974

Grand Master:

Ross Macdonald

Best Mystery Novel
*	Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
°	The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning
°	Amigo, Amigo by Francis Clifford
°	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
°	Dear Laura by Jean Stubbs

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul E. Erdman
°	Kicked to Death by a Camel by Clarence Jackson (Richard Bulliet)
°	Someone’s Death by Charles Larson
°	Many Happy Returns by Justin Scott
°	Man on a String by Michael Wolfe

Best Paperback Original
*	Death of an Informer by Will Perry (W.J. Weatherby)
°	The Mediterranean Caper by Clive Cussler
°	Deadlocked! by Leo P. Kelley
°	Starling Street by Dinah Palmtag
°	The Big Fix by Roger L. Simon

1973

Grand Master:	Alfred Hitchcock
Grand Master:	Judson Philips

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
°	Five Pieces of Jade by John Ball
°	Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh
°	The Shooting Gallery by Hugh C. Rae
°	Canto for a Gypsy by Martin Cruz Smith

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Squaw Point by R.H. Shimer
°	A Person Shouldn’t Die Like That by Arthur Goldstein
°	The Dead of Winter by William H. Hallahan
°	Box 100 by Frank Leonard
°	The Heart of the Dog by Thomas A. Roberts

Best Paperback Original
*	The Invader by Richard Wormser
°	Not Dead Yet by Daniel Banko
°	The Smith Conspiracy by Richard Neely
°	Power Kill by Charles Runyon

1972

Grand Master:

John D. MacDonald

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
°	The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
°	Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
°	Sir, You Bastard by G.F. Newman
°	Who Killed Enoch Powell? by Arthur Wise

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Finding Maubee by A.H.Z. Carr
°	To Spite Her Face by Hildegarde Dolson
°	Ask the Right Question by Michael Lewin
°	The Stalker by Bill Pronzini
°	Gypsy in Amber by Martin Cruz Smith

Best Paperback Original
*	For Murder I Charge More by Frank McAuliffe
°	The White Wolverine Contract by Philip Atlee
°	Space for Hire by William F. Nolan
°	Nor Spell, Nor Charm by Alicen White
°	And the Deep Blue Sea by Charles Williams

1971

Grand Master:

Mignon G. Eberhart

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
°	The Hound and the Fox and the Harper by Shaun Herron
°	Beyond This Point Are Monsters by Margaret Millar
°	Many Deadly Returns by Patricia Moyes
°	Autumn of a Hunter by Pat Stadley
°	The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders
°	Incident at 125th Street by J.E. Brown
°	Taking Gary Feldman by Stanley Cohen
°	The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
°	The Naked Face by Sidney Sheldon

Best Paperback Original
*	Flashpoint by Dan J. Marlowe
°	The Drowning by Jack Ehrlich
°	O.D. at Sweet Claude’s by Matt Gattzden
°	After Things Fell Apart by Ron Goulart
°	Grave Descend by John Lange (Michael Crichton)
°	Mafioso by Peter McCurtin

1970

Grand Master:

James M. Cain

Best Mystery Novel
*	Forfeit by Dick Francis
°	Where the Dark Streets Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
°	The Old English Peep Show (A Pride of Heroes) by Peter Dickinson
°	Miro by Shaun Herron
°	Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
°	When in Greece by Emma Lathen

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	A Time of Predators by Joe Gores
°	You’ll Like My Mother by Naomi Hintze
°	Quicksand by Myrick Land

Best Paperback Original
*	The Dragon’s Eye by Scott C.S. Stone
°	Assault on Ming by Alan Caillou
°	The Governess by Elsie Cromwell (Elsie Lee)
°	A Plague of Spies by Michael Kurland
°	The Sour Lemon Score by Richard Stark

1969

Grand Master:

John Creasey

Best Mystery Novel
*	A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson
°	Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
°	God Speed the Night by Dorothy Salisbury Davis & Jerome Ross
°	The Glass-Sided Ant’s Nest by Peter Dickinson
°	The Valentine Estate by Stanley Ellin
°	Blood Sport by Dick Francis

Best First Novel by an American Author (Tie)
*	Silver Street by E. Richard Johnson
*	The Bait by Dorothy Uhnak
°	The Dinosaur by Lawrence Kamarck

1968

Best Mystery Novel
*	God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
°	Lemon in the Basket by Charlotte Armstrong
°	The Gift Shop by Charlotte Armstrong
°	A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures by George Baxt
°	Flying Finish by Dick Francis
°	Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Act of Fear by Michael Collins
°	Hell Gate by James Dawson
°	Mortissimo by P.E.H. Dunston
°	The Tigers Are Hungry by Charles Early
°	The Killing Season by John Redgate

1967

Grand Master:

Baynard Kendrick

Best Mystery Novel
*	The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
°	Odds Against by Dick Francis
°	Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
°	The Busy Body by Donald E. Westlake

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Cold War Swap by Ross Thomas
°	Fancy’s Knell by Babs Deal
°	A Kind of Treason by Robert Elegant
°	The Pedestal by George Lanning

1966

Grand Master:

Georges Simenon

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall [review]
°	The Pale Betrayer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
°	Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
°	The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating
°	The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald
°	Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
°	The Expendable Spy by Jack D. Hunter
°	The French Doll by Vincent McConnor
°	Before the Ball Was Over by Alexandra Roudybush

1965

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
°	The Night of the Generals by Hans Hellmut Kirst
°	The Fiend by Margaret Millar
°	This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman
°	In the Last Analysis by Amanda Cross
°	The Grave-Maker’s House by Rubin Weber

1964

Grand Master:

George Harmon Coxe

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
°	The Make-Believe Man by Elizabeth Fenwick
°	Grieve for the Past by Stanton Forbes
°	The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
°	The Player on the Other Side by Ellery Queen

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg
°	The Fifth Woman by M. Fagyas
°	The Prowler by Frances Rickett
°	The Neon Haystack by James Michael Ullman

1963

Grand Master:

John Dickson Carr

Best Mystery Novel
*	Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
°	The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald
°	Seance (Séance on a Wet Afternoon) by Mark McShane
°	The Evil Wish by Jean Potts
°	Knave of Hearts by Dell Shannon (Elizabeth Linington)
°	The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish
°	Counterweight by Daniel Broun
°	The Chase (Pursuit; Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry) by Richard Unekis

1962

Grand Master:

Erle Stanley Gardner

Best Mystery Novel
*	Gideon’s Fire by J.J. Marric
°	Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell (Elizabeth Linington)
°	The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc
°	Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
°	The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc
°	Felony Tank by Malcolm Braly
°	Close His Eyes by Olivia Dwight
°	The Cipher by Alex Gordon (Gordon Cotler)
°	Night of the Kill by Brèni James
°	Shock Treatment by Winfred Van Atta

1961

Grand Master:

Ellery Queen

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
°	The Traces of Brillhart by Herbert Brean
°	The Devil’s Own by Peter Curtis (Norah Lofts)
°	Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Man in the Cage by John Holbrooke (Jack) Vance
°	The Marriage Cage by William Johnston
°	The Killing at Big Tree by David McCarthy
°	Case Pending by Dell Shannon (Elizabeth Linington)
°	The Mercenaries by Donald E. Westlake

1960

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
°	List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar
°	A Dream of Falling (Dream of Death) by Mary O. Rank

1959

Grand Master:

Rex Stout

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
°	The Madhouse in Washington Square by David Alexander
°	The Woman in the Woods by Lee Blackstock
°	A Gentleman Called by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Bright Road to Fear by Richard Martin Stern
°	The Man Who Disappeared by Edgar Bohle
°	Death of a Spinster by Frances Duncombe
°	Now Will You Try for Murder? by Harry Olesker

1958

Grand Master:

Vincent Starrett

Best Mystery Novel
*	Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
°	The Longest Second by Bill Ballinger
°	The Night of the Good Children by Marjorie Carleton
°	The Bushman Who Came Back (Bony Buys a Woman) by Arthur Upfield

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks
°	Bay of the Damned by Warren Carrier
°	Root of Evil by James Cross

1957

Best Mystery Novel
*	A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
°	The Man Who Didn’t Fly by Margot Bennett

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Rebecca’s Pride by Donald McNutt Douglass

1956

Best Mystery Novel
*	Beast in View by Margaret Millar
°	The Case of the Talking Bug by The Gordons
°	The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Perfectionist (Kill the Beloved) by Lane Kauffmann
°	In His Blood by Harold R. Daniels
°	Much Ado About Murder by Fred Levon

1955

Grand Master:

Agatha Christie

Best Mystery Novel
*	The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Go, Lovely Rose by Jean Potts

1954

Best Mystery Novel
*	Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin

1953

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Don’t Cry for Me by William Campbell Gault
°	The Inward Eye (Lady Marked for Murder) by Peggy Bacon

1952

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Stranglehold by Mary McMullen
°	Carry My Coffin Slowly by Lee Herrington
°	The Christmas Card Murders by David William Meredith (Earl Schenck Miers)
°	Cure It with Honey (I’ll Get Mine) by Thurston Scott
°	The Eleventh Hour by Robert B. Sinclair

1951

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Nightmare in Manhattan by Thomas Walsh
°	Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
°	Happy Holiday! by Thaddeus O’Finn
°	The House Without a Door by Thomas Sterling

1950

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	What a Body by Alan Green
°	The End Is Known by Geoffrey Holiday Hall
°	Walk the Dark Streets by William Krasner
°	The Shadow and the Blot by G.G. Lobell & N.D. Lobell
°	The Innocent by Evelyn Piper
°	The Dark Light by Bart Spicer

1949

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Room Upstairs by Mildred Davis
°	Wilders Walk Away by Herbert Brean
°	Shoot the Works by Richard Ellington

1948

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Fabulous Clipjoint by Fredric Brown

1947

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	The Horizontal Man by Helen Eustis

1946

Best First Novel by an American Author
*	Watchful at Night (Down Through the Night) by Julius Fast

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