| Best First
Mystery Novel |
Best Novel |
Best Short
Story |
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2009 |
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| 2008
Tana French: In the Woods |
Laura Lippman:
What the Dead Know |
Rhys Bowen: "Please
Watch Your Step" |
| 2007 Nick
Stone Mr. Clarinet |
Nancy
Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains |
Tim Maleeny Til
Death Do Us Part |
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2006
Brian Freeman Immoral |
Michael Connelly The
Lincoln Lawyer |
Nancy Pickard There
Is No Crime on Easter Island |
| 2005
Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men |
Ken Bruen The
Killing of the Tinkers |
Terence Faherty
The Widow of Slane |
| 2004
Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs |
Peter Lovesey The House
Sitter |
Sandy Balzo The Grass Is
Always Greener |
| 2003 Julia
Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter |
S.J. Rozan Winter and
Night |
Janet Dawson Voice Mail |
| 2002 C.
J. Box Open Season |
Laurie R. King Folly |
Jan Burke The Abbey Ghosts |
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2001 David Liss: A
Conspiracy of Paper
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Val McDermid: A Place of
Execution
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Reginald Hill: A Candle for Christmas
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| 2000 Paula
L. Woods: Inner City Blues |
Sujata
Massey: The Flower Master |
Kate Grilley: Maubi and the
Jumbies |
| 1999 Jerrilyn
Farmer: Sympathy for the Devil |
Michael
Connelly: Blood Work |
Barbara
D'Amato:Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable |
| 1998 Penny
Warner:Dead Body Language |
Deborah
Crombie: Dreaming of the Bones |
Peter Robinson: Two
Ladies of Rose Cottage |
| 1997 Dale
Furutani: Death in Little Tokyo |
Peter Lovesey: Bloodhounds |
Carolyn Wheat: Cruel &
Unusual |
| 1996 Dianne
Day: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones |
Mary Willis Walker: Under
the Beetle's Cellar |
Colin
Dexter: Evans Tries an O-Level |
| 1995
Jeff Abbott: Do Unto Others |
Sharyn McCrumb: She
Walks These Hills |
Jan Burke:
Unharmed ; Deborah Adams: Cast Your Fate to the Wind |
| 1994 Sharan
Newman: Death Comes as Epiphany |
Minette
Walters: The Sculptress |
Susan Dunlap: Checkout |
| 1993 Barbara
Neely: Blanche on the Lam |
Margaret Maron: Bootlegger's
Daughter |
Carolyn
Hart: Henrie O's Holiday |
| 1992 Mary
Willis Walker: Zero at the Bone |
Nancy Pickard: I.O.U. |
Margaret Maron: Deborah's
Judgment |
1991 Patricia
Cornwell: Postmortem
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Sharyn McCrumb: If
Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O |
Joan Hess:
Too Much to Bare |
| 1990
Jill Churchill :Grime and Punishment |
Carolyn
Hart: A Little Class on Murder |
Nancy Pickard: Afraid All the
Time |
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1989 Caroline
Graham: The Killings at Badger's Drift |
Tony Hillerman: A Thief
of Time |
Doug Allyn: Deja Vu |
| 1988 Robert Crais: The
Monkey's Raincoat |
Nancy Pickard: Marriage is Murder |
Robert Barnard: The Woman in the Wardrobe |
| 1987 Faye
Kellerman: A Ritual Bath; Marilyn Wallace: A Case of
Loyalties |
P.D. James: A
Taste for Death |
Sue Grafton: The
Parker Shotgun |
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