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Macavity Awards

2024

Best Mystery
  *  All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby [review]
  °  Dark Ride by Lou Berney [review]
  °  Hide by Tracy Clark [review]
  °  Happiness Falls by Angie Kim [review]
  °  Murder Book by Thomas Perry [review]
  °  Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

Best First Mystery
  *  The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry [review]
  °  The Golden Gate by Amy Chua [review]
  °  Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy [review]
  °  Murder by Degrees by Ritu Mukerji [review]
  °  Dutch Threat by Josh Pachter
  °  Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon [review]

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Ticket to Ride” by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski
  Happiness is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles
  °  “Real Courage” by Barb Goffman
  Black Cat Mystery Magazine #14, October 2023
  °  “Green and California Bound” by Curtis Ippolito
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2023
  °  “Pigeon Tony’s Last Stand” by Lisa Scottoline
  Amazon Original Stories
  °  “One Night in 1965” by Stacy Woodson
  More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery
  *  The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey
  °  Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head [review]
  °  Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara [review]
  °  The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger [review]
  °  Our Lying Kin by Claudia Hagadus Long
  °  The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar
  °  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
  °  Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
  °  Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Morgan

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2023

Best Mystery Novel
  *  A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
  °  Back to the Garden by Laurie R. King
  °  Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone [review]
  °  A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
  °  Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn [review]
  °  Secret Identity by Alex Segura [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Maid by Nita Prose [review]
  °  Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
  °  Shutter by Ramona Emerson [review]
  °  Devil’s Chew Toy by Rob Osler [review]
  °  The Verifiers by Jane Pek [review]

Best Mystery 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
  °  Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Beauty and the Beyotch” by Barb Goffman
  °  “The Landscaper’s Wife” by Brendan DuBois
  °  “First You Dream, Then You Die” by Donna Moore
  °  “Schrödinger, Cat” by Anna Scotti
  °  “Stockholm” by Catherine Steadman
  °  “The Angel of Rome” by Jess Walter
  °  “My Two-Legs” by Melissa Yi

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery
  *  Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen [review]
  °  The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks [review]
  °  In Place of Fear by Catriona McPherson [review]
  °  Anywhere You Run by Wanda M. Morris [review]
  °  The Secret in the Wall by Ann Parker
  °  One-Shot Harry by Gary Phillips

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2022

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby [review]
  °  The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly [review]
  °  1979 by Val McDermid [review]
  °  Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
  °  We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker [review]
  °  Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala [review]
  °  Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews [review]
  °  Girl A by Abigail Dean [review]
  °  Deer Season by Erin Flanagan
  °  All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris [review]

Best Nonfiction/Critical
  *  How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America by MWA with editors Lee Child and Laurie R. King
  °  Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World by Mark Aldridge
  °  The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox
  °  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
  °  The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Sweeps Week” by Richard Helms
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
  °  “Lucky Thirteen” by Tracy Clark
  Midnight Hour
  °  “Curious Incidents” by Steve Hockensmith
    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021
  °  “The Road to Hana” by R.T. Lawton
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May/June 2021
  °  “The Locked Room Library” by Gigi Pandian
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
  °  “Julius Katz and the Two Cousins” by Dave Zeltserman
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
  °  The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
  °  The Hollywood Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
  °  The Bombay Prince by Sujata Massey
  °  Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia [review]
  °  Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day [review]

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2021

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby [review]
  °  Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
  °  Blind Vigil by Matt Coyle
  °  All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
  °  These Women by Ivy Pochoda [review]
  °  When She Was Good by Michael Robotham [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden [review]
  °  Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara [review]
  °  Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March [review]
  °  The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman [review]
  °  Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel [review]

Best Mystery Critical/Biographical
  *  H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime by Sheila Mitchell
  °  Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody
  °  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
  °  Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand by Craig Sisterson

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Elysian Fields” by Gabriel Valjan
  California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology
  °  “Dear Emily Etiquette” by Barb Goffman
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2020
  °  “The Boy Detective & The Summer of ‘74” by Art Taylor
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020
  °  “Dog Eat Dog” by Elaine Viets
  The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell
  °  “The Twenty-Five Year Engagement” by James W. Ziskin
  In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Turn to Stone by James W. Ziskin
  °  The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen [review]
  °  The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart [review]
  °  The Turning Tide by Catriona McPherson
  °  Mortal Music by Ann Parker
  °  The Mimosa Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu

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2020

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Chain by Adrian McKinty [review]
  °  Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha [review]
  °  This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
  °  Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
  °  The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan
  °  Sarah Jane by James Sallis [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski [review]
  °  The Ninja Daughter by Tori Eldridge [review]
  °  My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing [review]
  °  Miracle Creek by Angie Kim [review]
  °  Call Me Evie by J.P. Pomare [review]
  °  American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson [review]

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Better Days” by Art Taylor
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019
  °  “West Texas Barbecue” by Michael Chandos
  The Eyes of Texas
  °  “The Cardboard Box” by Terence Faherty
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February 2019
  °  “Alex's Choice” by Barb Goffman
  Crime Travel
  °  “Whiteout” by G.M. Malliet
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February 2019
  °  “Brother’s Keeper” by Dave Zeltserman
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical
  *  Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
  °  Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story by Laird R. Blackwell
  °  Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan
  °  Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan
  °  The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton
  °  Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott [review]
  °  Murder Knocks Twice by Susanna Calkins
  °  The Pearl Dagger by L.A. Chandlar
  °  A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder by Dianne Freeman
  °  The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey [review]
  °  Charity’s Burden by Edith Maxwell

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2019

Best Mystery Novel
  *  November Road by Lou Berney [review]
  °  If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin [review]
  °  The Lost Man by Jane Harper [review]
  °  Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier [review]
  °  Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara
  °  Under My Skin by Lisa Unger [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Dodging and Burning by John Copenhaver [review]
  °  My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite [review]
  °  Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens [review]
  °  Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman [review]
  °  The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
  °  The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction by Laird R. Blackwell
  °  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 by Margalit Fox
  °  Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger
  °  I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
  °  Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018
  °  “Race to Judgment” by Craig Faustus Buck
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November/December 2018
  °  “All God’s Sparrows” by Leslie Budewitz
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May/Jun 2018
  °  “Bug Appétit” by Barb Goffman
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November/December 2018
  °  “Three-Star Sushi” by Barry Lancet
  Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3
  °  “The Cambodian Curse” by Gigi Pandian
  The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey [review]
  °  A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman [review]
  °  City of Ink by Elsa Hart [review]
  °  Island of the Mad by Laurie R. King [review]
  °  A Dying Note by Ann Parker
  °  A Forgotten Place by Charles Todd

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2018

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz [review]
  °  The Marsh King’s Daughter by Karen Dionne [review]
  °  Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke [review]
  °  Glass Houses by Louise Penny
  °  The Old Man by Thomas Perry [review]
  °  The Force by Don Winslow

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal [review]
  °  Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett [review]
  °  The Dry by Jane Harper [review]
  °  She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper [review]
  °  The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka [review]
  °  Lost Luggage by Wendall Thomas [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards
  °  From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women who Created an Icon by Mattias Bostrom
  °  Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
  °  The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
  °  Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
  °  Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Windward” by Paul D. Marks
  Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea
  °  “As Ye Sow” by Craig Faustus Buck
  Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017
  °  “The #2 Pencil” by Matt Coyle
  Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea
  °  “Infinite Uticas” by Terence Faherty
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017
  °  “Whose Wine is it Anyway?” by Barb Goffman
  50 Shades of Cabernet
  °  “A Necessary Ingredient” by Art Taylor
   Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
  °  The Devouring by James R. Benn
  °  A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee [review]
  °  Dangerous To Know by Renee Patrick
  °  Racing the Devil by Charles Todd
  °  Cast the First Stone by James W. Ziskin [review]

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2017

Best Mystery Novel
  *  A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
  °  You Will Know Me by Megan Abbott [review]
  °  Dark Fissures by Matt Coyle [review]
  °  Before the Fall by Noah Hawley [review]
  °  Real Tigers by Mick Herron [review]
  °  Wilde Lake by Laura Lippman

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  IQ by Joe Ide [review]
  °  The Widow by Fiona Barton [review]
  °  Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry [review]
  °  Dodgers by Bill Beverly [review]
  °  Design for Dying by Renee Patrick [review]

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Parallel Play” by Art Taylor
  Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning
  °  “Autumn at the Automat” by Lawrence Block
  In Sunlight or In Shadow
  °  “Blank Shot” by Craig Faustus Buck
  Black Coffee
  °  “Survivor’s Guilt” by Greg Herren
  Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016
  °  “Ghosts of Bunker Hill” by Paul D. Mark
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2016
  °  “The Crawl Space” by Joyce Carol Oates
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-Ocober 2016

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin [review]
  °  A Death Along the River Fleet by Susanna Calkins
  °  Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye [review]
  °  Delivering the Truth by Edith Maxwell [review]
  °  The Reek of Red Herrings by Catriona McPherson
  °  What Gold Buys by Ann Parker

Best Nonfiction
  *  Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Margaret Kinsman
  °  Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats by Jane K. Cleland
  °  Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
  °  Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal
  °  The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale

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2016

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney [review]
  °  Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
  °  The Hot Countries by Timothy Hallinan
  °  The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson [review]
  °  Life or Death by Michael Robotham [review]
  °  The Cartel by Don Winslow

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton [review]
  °  Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott [review]
  °  The Killing Kind by Chris Holm [review]
  °  Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy [review]
  °  The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan [review]
  °  On the Road with Del & Louise by Art Taylor

Best Critical/Biographical
  *  The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards
  °  A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup
  °  Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors
  °  Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
  °  The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “The Little Men” by Megan Abbott
  A Bibliomystery by MysteriousPress.com
  °  “On Borrowed Time” by Mat Coward
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2015
  °  “Sob Sister” by Loren D. Estleman
  Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen
  °  “A Year Without Santa Claus” by Barb Goffman
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015
  °  “Quack and Dwight” by Travis Richardson
  Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds
  °  “A Joy Forever” by B.K. Steven
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 2015

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins [review]
  °  A Gilded Grave by Shelley Freydont [review]
  °  Tom & Lucky and George & Cokey Flo by C. Joseph Greaves [review]
  °  The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr [review]
  °  The Secret Life of Anna Blanc by Jennifer Kincheloe [review]
  °  Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King [review]

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2015

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood [review]
  °  The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield
  °  The Lewis Man by Peter May
  °  The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson [review]
  °  The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
  °  The Last Death of Jack Harbin by Terry Shames

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Invisible City by Julia Dahl [review]
  °  Blessed Are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino
  °  Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman [review]
  °  Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
  °  Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little [review]
  °  The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan
  °  The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson
  °  Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J. W. Ocker
  °  400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Honeymoon Sweet” by Craig Faustus Buck
  Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014
  °  “The Shadow Knows” by Barb Goffman
  Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays
  °  “Howling at the Moon” by Paul D. Marks
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2014
  °  “The Proxy” by Travis Richardson
  Thuglit #13, September/October 2014
  °  “The Odds Are Against Us” by Art Taylor
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2014

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson
  °  Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen [review]
  °  Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn
  °  An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris [review]
  °  Present Darkness by Malla Nunn [review]
  °  Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd

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2014

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger [review]
  °  Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook [review]
  °  Dead Lions by Mick Herron [review]
  °  The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood [review]
  °  How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny [review]
  °  Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  A Killing at Cotton Hill by Terry Shames [review]
  °  Yesterday’s Echo by Matt Coyle [review]
  °  Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman [review]
  °  Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman [review]
  °  Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
  °  The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo
  °  Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard by Charles J. Rzepka

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “The Care and Feeding of Houseplants” by Art Taylor
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013
  °  “The Terminal” by Reed Farrel Coleman
  Kwik Krimes
  °  “The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository” by John Connolly
  Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books
  °  “The Dragon’s Tail” by Martin Limón
  Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories
  °  “The Hindi Houdini” by Gigi Pandian
  Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology
  °  “Incident on the 405” by Travis Richardson
  Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
  °  A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate by Susanna Calkins [review]
  °  Saving Lincoln by Robert Kresge
  °  Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses by Catriona McPherson
  °  Ratlines by Stuart Neville [review]

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2013

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny [review]
  °  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn [review]
  °  The Blackhouse by Peter May [review]
  °  The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan [review]
  °  The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro [review]
  °  The Twenty Year Death by Ariel S. Winter [review]
  °  The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman [review]
  °  Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer [review]
  °  Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal [review]
  °  The Expats by Chris Pavone [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  Books To Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke
  °  Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
  °  In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “The Lord Is My Shamus” by Barb Goffman
  Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder
  °  “The Unremarkable Heart” by Karin Slaughter
  Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance
  °  “Thea’s First Husband” by B.K. Stevens
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012
  °  “When Duty Calls” by Art Taylor
  Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder
  °  “Blind Justice” by Jim Fusilli
  Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance
  °  “The Sequel” by Jeffrey Deaver
  The Strand Magazine, November-February 2012-2013

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  An Unmarked Grave by Charles Todd
  °  A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell [review]
  °  Princess Elizabeth’s Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal
  °  The Confession by Charles Todd
  °  Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear [review]

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2012

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran [review]
  °  1222 by Anne Holt [review]
  °  The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz [review]
  °  The Ridge by Michael Koryta [review]
  °  A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny [review]
  °  The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey [review]
  °  Hell & Gone by Duane Swierczynski

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen [review]
  °  Learning To Swim by Sara J. Henry [review]
  °  Nazareth Child by Darrell James [review]
  °  Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante [review]
  °  The Informationist by Taylor Stevens [review]
  °  Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  * The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris
  °  Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz
  °  Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran
  °  Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A.B. Emrys
  °  The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English

Best Mystery Short Story
  *  “Disarming” by Dana Cameron
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2011
  °  “Facts Exhibiting Wantonness” by Trina Corey
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2011
  °  “Palace by the Lake” by Daryl Wood Gerber
  Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
  °  “Truth and Consequences” by Barb Goffman
  Mystery Times Ten
  °  “Heat of Passion” by Kathleen Ryan
  A Twist of Noir, February 2011
  °  “The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson [review]
  °  Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen
  °  Narrows Gate by Jim Fusilli
  °  Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker [review]
  °  Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson
  °  A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear [review]

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2011

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny [review]
  °  The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke
  °  Faithful Place by Tana French [review]
  °  The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan [review]
  °  Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer [review]
  °  The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva [review]
  °  The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson [review]
  °  The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron [review]
  °  Full Mortality by Sasscer Hill
  °  A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic [review]

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
  *  Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran
  °  The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum
  °  Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction edited by Maxim Jakubowski
  °  Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
  °  Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner

Best Short Story
  *  “Swing Shift” by Dana Cameron
  Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side
  °  “The Scent of Lilacs” by Doug Allyn
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  °  “Devil’s Pocket” by Keith Gilman
  Philadelphia Noir
  °  “The Gods for Vengeance Cry” by Richard Helms
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  °  “Bookworm” by G.M. Malliet
  Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley [review]
  °  A Marked Man by Barbara Hamilton
  °  The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
  °  The Red Door by Charles Todd
  °  The Fifth Servant by Kenneth Wishnia [review]

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2010

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Tower by Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman
  °  Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott
  °  Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie
  °  Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
  °  The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny [review]
  °  The Shanghai Moon by S.J. Rozan [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley [review]
  °  Running from the Devil by Jamie Freveletti [review]
  °  A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield [review]
  °  The Ghosts of Belfast (The Twelve) by Stuart Neville [review]
  °  A Beautiful Place To Die by Malla Nunn [review]

Best Mystery Nonfiction
  *  Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James
  °  L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City by John Buntin
  °  Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life by Craig McDonald
  °  The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler
  °  Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo
  °  Dame Agatha’s Shorts by Elena Santangelo

Best Short Story
  *  “On the House” by Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers
  °  “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, May 2009
  °  “Your Turn” by Carolyn Hart
  Two of the Deadliest
  °  “The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away” by Marcus Sakey
  Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down
  °  “Amapola” by Luis Alberto Urrea
  Phoenix Noir

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  A Trace of Smoke by Rebecca Cantrell [review]
  °  In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff [review]
  °  A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd [review]
  °  Serpent in the Thorns by Jeri Westerson [review]
  °  Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear [review]

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2009

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie
  °  Trigger City by Sean Chercover
  °  The Price of Blood (The Dying Breed) by Declan Hughes [review]
  °  The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason [review]
  °  Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
  °  The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
  °  The Fault Tree by Louise Ure

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [review]
  °  Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris [review]
  °  Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet [review]
  °  Calumet City by Charlie Newton [review]
  °  An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt
  °  A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley [review]
  °  The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell [review]

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen [review]
  °  Stealing Trinity by Ward Larsen [review]
  °  The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss
  °  Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
  °  Nox Dormienda: A Long Night for Sleeping by Kelli Stanley [review]
  °  Veil of Lies by Jeri Westerson [review]

Best Short Story
  *  “The Night Things Changed” by Dana Cameron
  Wolfsbane & Mistletoe
  °  “A Sleep Not Unlike Death” by Sean Chercover
  Hardcore Hardboiled
  °  “Keeping Watch Over His Flock” by Toni L.P. Kelner
  Wolfsbane & Mistletoe
  °  “Scratch a Woman” by Laura Lippman
  Hardly Knew Her
  °  “Between the Dark and the Daylight” by Tom Piccirilli
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2008

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2008

Best Mystery Novel
  *  What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
  °  Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
  °  The Unquiet by John Connolly
  °  Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
  °  Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  In the Woods by Tana French [review]
  °  Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
  °  The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz [review]
  °  Stealing the Dragon by Tim Maleeny
  °  The Collaborator of Bethlehem by Matt Beynon Rees

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin [review]
  °  Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
  °  The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
  °  Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne
  °  The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates

Best Short Story
  *  “Please Watch Your Step” by Rhys Bowen
  The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007
  °  “A Rat’s Tale” by Donna Andrews
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2007
  °  “The Missing Elevator Puzzle” by Jon L. Breen
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, February 2007
  °  “Brimstone P.I.” by Beverle Graves Myers
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May 2007
  °  “The Old Wife’s Tale” by Gillian Roberts
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2007

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2007

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
  °  Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
  °  The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
  °  The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
  °  Piece of My Heart by Peter Robinson
  °  All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone
  °  Consigned to Death by Jane K. Cleland
  °  47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers by Troy Cook
  °  King of Lies by John Hart
  °  Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
  °  A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen
  °  The Lightning Rule by Brett Ellen Block [review]
  °  The Bee’s Kiss by Barbara Cleverly
  °  Dark Assassin by Anne Perry
  °  Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

Best Short Story
  *  “Till Death Do Us Part” by Tim Maleeny
  Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder
  °  Provenance” by Robert Barnard
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2006
  °  “Disturbance in the Field” by Roberta Isleib
  Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers

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2006

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
  °  One Shot by Lee Child
  °  The James Deans by Reed Farrel Coleman
  °  Vanish by Tess Gerritsen
  °  Solomon vs. Lord by Paul Levine
  °  Strange Affair by Peter Robinson
  °  The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Immoral by Brian Freeman
  °  All Shook Up by Mike Harrison
  °  Baby Game by Randall Hicks

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award
  *  Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
  °  In Like Flynn by Rhys Bowen
  °  Spectres in the Smoke by Tony Broadbent
  °  The War of the World Murders by Max Allan Collins
  °  Night’s Child by Maureen Jennings

Best Short Story
  *  “There Is no Crime on Easter Island” by Nancy Pickard
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2005
  °  “Everybody’s Girl” by Robert Barnard
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2005
  °  “It Can Happen” by David Corbett
  San Francisco Noir
  °  “The Big Road” by Steve Hockensmith
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May 2005

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2005

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen
  °  Cold Case by Robin Burcell
  °  Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
  °  High Country Fall by Margaret Maron
  °  California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
  °  Playing with Fire by Peter Robinson

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak
  °  Uncommon Grounds by Sandra Balzo
  °  Summer of the Big Bachi by Naomi Hirahara
  °  Whiskey Sour by J.A. Konrath
  °  Misdemeanor Man by Dylan Schaffer

Best Short Story
  *  “The Widow of Slane” by Terance Faherty
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004
  °  “Viscery” by Sandra Balzo
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 2004
  °  “The Lady’s Not for Dying” by Alana White
  Futures, Winter 2004

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2004

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey
  °  The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
  °  For the Love of Mike by Rhys Bowen
  °  The Guards by Ken Bruen [review]
  °  Done for a Dime by David Corbett

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
  °  The Night of the Dance by James Hime
  °  Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca C. Pawel
  °  The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer

Best Short Story
  *  “The Grass is Always Greener” by Sandy Balzo
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2003
  °  “Rogues’ Gallery” by Robert Barnard
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March 2003
  °  “Texas Two-Step” by Diana Deverell
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, February 2003
  °  “No Man’s Land” by Beth Foxwell
  Blood on Their Hands
  °  “War Crimes” by G. Miki Hayden
  A Hot & Sultry Night for Crime
  °  “Child Support” by Ronnie Klaskin
  A Hot & Sultry Night for Crime
  °  “Red Meat” by Elaine Viets
  Blood on Their Hands

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2003

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan
  °  Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
  °  The Jolie Blon’s Bounce by James Lee Burke
  °  Nine by Jan Burke
  °  City of Bones by Michael Connelly

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
  °  The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathon King
  °  The Distance by Eddie Muller
  °  A Valley To Die For by Radine Trees Nehring

Best Short Story
  *  “Voice Mail” by Janet Dawson
  Scam & Eggs
  °  “Boot Scoot” by Diana Deverell
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, October 2002
  °  “An Empire’s Reach” by Brendan DuBois
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November 2002
  °  “Bible Belt” by Toni L.P. Kelner
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, June 2002
  °  “Too Many Cooks” by Marcia Talley
  Much Ado About Murder
  °  “The Adventures of the Rara Avis” by Carolyn Wheat
  Murder, My Dear Watson

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2002

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Folly by Laurie R. King
  °  Tell No One by Harlan Coben
  °  The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein
  °  Mystic River by Dennis Lehane [review]
  °  Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Open Season by C.J. Box [review]
  °  The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton
  °  Perhaps She’ll Die by M.K. Preston
  °  Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter

Best Short Story
  *  “The Abbey Ghosts” by Jan Burke
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January 2001
  °  “My Bonnie Lies…” by Ted Hertel, Jr.
  Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers
  °  “Bitter Waters” by Rochelle Krich
  Criminal Kabbalah
  °  “The Would-Be Widower” by Katherine Hall Page
  Malice Domestic 10

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2001

Best Mystery Novel
  *  A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
  °  Guns and Roses by Taffy Cannon
  °  The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
  °  Half Moon Street by Anne Perry
  °  The Whole Truth by Nancy Pickard

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
  °  Death Dances to a Reggae Beat by Kate Grilley
  °  Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death by Julie Wray Herman
  °  Crow in Stolen Colors by Marcia Simpson [review]

Best Short Story
  *  “A Candle for Christmas” by Reginald Hill
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2000
  °  “The Man in the Civil Suit” by Jan Burke
  Malice Domestic 9
  °  “The Chosen” by Joyce Christmas
  Unholy Orders

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2000

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Flower Master by Sujata Massey
  °  River of Darkness by Rennie Airth [review]
  °  L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
  °  In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods
  °  Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews
  °  Murder in the Marais by Cara Black [review]
  °  Revenge of the Gypsy Queen by Kris Neri

Best Short Story
  *  “Maubi and the Jumbies” by Kate Grilley
  Murderous Intent, Fall 1999
  °  “Paleta Man” by Laurie R. King
  Irreconcilable Differences
  °  “Heroes” by Anne Perry
  Murder and Obsession
  °  “Show Me the Bones” by Carolyn Wheat
  Diagnosis Dead

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1999

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Blood Work by Michael Connelly
  °  Blind Descent by Nevada Barr
  °  Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman
  °  Home Fires by Margaret Maron
  °  Blue by Abigail Padgett

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer
  °  Tiger’s Palette by Jacqueline Fieldler
  °  The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway

Best Short Story
  *  “Of Course You Know that Chocolate is a Vegetable” by Barbara D’Amato
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 1998
  °  “Sleeping Dogs Lie” by Laurien Berenson
  Canine Crimes
  °  “A Simple Philosophy” by Harlen Coben
  Malice Domestic 7
  °  “The Village Vampire and the Oboe of Death” by Dean James
  Malice Domestic 7

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1998

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
  °  Hocus by Jan Burke
  °  Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
  °  The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  °  The Ax by Donald E. Westlake

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Dead Body Language by Penny Warner
  °  Killing Floor by Lee Child
  °  Off the Face of the Earth by Aljean Harmetz
  °  Charm City by Laura Lippman
  °  The Salaryman’s Wife by Sujata Massey

Best Short Story
  *  “The Two Ladies of Rose Cottage” by Peter Robinson
  Malice Domestic 6
  °  “Real Bullets This Time” by William Bankier
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1997
  °  “Find Miriam” by Stuart M. Kaminsky
  New Mystery, Summer 1997
  °  “The Corbett Correspondence” by Edward Marston & Peter Lovesey
  Malice Domestic 6
  °  “Etiquette Lesson” by Paula Whitney
  Murderous Intent, Fall 1997

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1997

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey
  °  The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
  °  Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
  °  The Grass Widow by Teri Holbrook
  °  Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani
  °  Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein [review]
  °  Murder on a Girls’ Night Out by Anne George [review]
  °  A Brother’s Blood by Michael C. White

Best Short Story
  *  “Cruel and Unusual” by Carolyn Wheat
  Guilty as Charged
  °  “Takeout” by Joyce Christmas
  Malice Domestic 5
  °  “The Bun Also Rises” by Jill Churchill
  Malice Domestic 5
  °  “Red Clay” by Michael Malone
  Murder for Love
  °  “The Music Lesson” by Rosemarie Santini
  New Mystery, Number 9, 1996

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1996

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Under the Beetle’s Cellar by Mary Willis Walker
  °  Hard Christmas by Barbara D’Amato
  °  The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
  °  Bookman’s Wake by John Dunning
  °  A Wild and Lonely Place by Marcia Muller

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day [review]
  °  The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams
  °  A Far and Deadly Cry by Teri Holbrook
  °  Horse of a Different Killer by Jody Jaffe
  °  Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier

Best Short Story
  *  “Evans Tries an O-Level” by Colin Dexter
  Morse’s Greatest Mystery
  °  “Rule of Law” by K.K. Beck
  Malice Domestic 4
  °  “Cupid’s Arrow” by Dorothy Cannell
  Crimes of the Heart

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1995

Best Mystery Novel
  *  She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
  °  The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
  °  Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
  °  Scandal in Fair Haven by Carolyn G. Hart
  °  The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker [review]

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
  °  One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
  °  Murder in the Place of Anubis by Lynda S. Robinson
  °  North of Montana by April Smith

Best Short Story (tie)
  *  “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” by Deborah Adams
  Malice Domestic 3
  *  “Unharmed” by Jan Burke
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1994

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1994

Best Mystery Novel
  *  The Sculptress by Minette Walters
  °  Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
  °  Dead Man’s Island by Carolyn G. Hart
  °  Old Enemies by Janet LaPierre
  °  To Live and Die in Dixie by Kathy Hogan Trocheck

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman
  °  Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
  °  A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie [review]
  °  A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King
  °  Child of Silence by Abigail Padgett

Best Short Story
  *  “Checkout” by Susan Dunlap
  Malice Domestic 2
  °  “Kim’s Game” by M.D. Lake
  Malice Domestic 2

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1993

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron
  °  Booked To Die by John Dunning
  °  The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter by Sharyn McCrumb
  °  White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
  °  Aunt Dimity’s Death by Nancy Atherton
  °  Every Crooked Nanny by Kathy Hogan Trocheck

Best Short Story
  *  “Henrie O’s Holiday” by Carolyn G. Hart
  Malice Domestic 1
  °  “The Last to Know” by Joan Hess
  Malice Domestic 1
  °  “The Hand of Carlos” by Charles McCarry
  The Armchair Detective, Fall 1992

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1992

Best Mystery Novel
  *  I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
  °  The Christie Caper by Carolyn G. Hart
  °  A Red Death by Walter Mosley

Best First Mystery Novel (tie)
  *  Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry
  *  Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker
  °  The Bulrush Murders by Rebecca Rothenberg
  °  Roman Blood by Steven Saylor
  °  Flowers for the Dead by Ann Williams

Best Short Story
  *  “Deborah’s Judgment” by Margaret Maron
  A Woman’s Eye
  °  “Dance of the Dead” by Joe Gores
  The Armchair Detective, Spring 1991
  °  “Life, for Short” by Carolyn Wheat
  Sisters in Crime 4

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1991

Best Mystery Novel
  *  If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb
  °  Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George
  °  Deadly Valentine by Carolyn G. Hart
  °  Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky
  °  The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
  °  Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
  °  Kindred Crimes by Janet Dawson
  °  The Chartreuse Clue by William F. Love

Best Short Story
  *  “Too Much to Bare” by Joan Hess
  Sisters in Crime 2

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1990

Best Mystery Novel
  *  A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn G. Hart
  °  Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
  °  Bone by George C. Chesbro
  °  The Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  Grime & Punishment by Jill Churchill
  °  The Cheerio Killings by Doug Allyn
  °  The Mark Twain Murders by Edith Skom
  °  A Collector of Photographs by Deborah Valentine
  °  The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe

Best Short Story
  *  “Afraid all the Time” by Nancy Pickard
  Sisters in Crime
  °  “Fire Burning Bright” by Brendan DuBois
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Winter 1989
  °  “One Eye Open” by Jeremiah Healy
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1989
  °  “Too Many Crooks” by Donald E. Westlake
  Playboy, August 1989

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1989

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
  °  Murder Unrenovated by P.M. Carlson
  °  A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
  °  E Is for Evidence by Sue Grafton
  °  The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
  °  Blood Shot by Sara Paretsky

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Killings at Badger’s Drift by Caroline Graham
  °  Murder Once Done by Mary Lou Bennett

Best Short Story
  *  “Déjà Vu” by Doug Allyn
  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 1988
  °  “Fatherly Love” by Carl Martin
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 1988

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1988

Best Mystery Novel
  *  Marriage is Murder by Nancy Pickard
  °  Primary Target by Max Allan Collins
  °  A Project Named Desire by John W. & Joyce H. Corrington
  °  Venetian Mask by Mickey Friedman
  °  The Right Jack by Margaret Maron
  °  Bitter Medicine by Sara Paretsky
  °  A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine
  °  The Tenth Interview by John Wainwright

Best First Mystery Novel
  *  The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais
  °  Death on the Rocks by Michael Allegretto
  °  Death on Demand by Carolyn G. Hart [review]
  °  Fetish (A Personal Possession) by Jeanne Hart
  °  Unquiet Grave by Janet LaPierre
  °  Where Lawyers Fear To Tread by Lia Matera
  °  Neon Flamingo by Matt & Bonnie Taylor
  °  The Unorthodox Murder of Rabbi Wahl by Joseph Telushkin
  °  Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

Best Short Story
  *  “The Woman in the Wardrobe” by Robert Barnard
  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, December 1987

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1987

Best Mystery Novel
  *  A Taste for Death by P.D. James
  °  When the Sacred Ginmill Closes by Lawrence Block
  °  The Million-Dollar Wound by Max Allan Collins
  °  Come Morning by Joe Gores
  °  Beyond Blame by Stephen Greenleaf
  °  Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
  °  The Perfect Spy by John le Carré
  °  Deadfall by Bill Pronzini
  °  Lady Killer by Masako Togawa
  °  Night Games by Collin Wilcox

Best First Mystery Novel (tie)
  *  The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
  *  A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace
  °  Too Late To Die by Bill Crider
  °  Floater by Joseph Koenig
  °  Dead Air by Mike Lupica
  °  From a High Place by Edward Mathis
  °  Kiss Me Once by Thomas Maxwell (Thomas Gifford)

Best Short Story
  *  “The Parker Shotgun” by Sue Grafton
  Mean Streets

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