2020

 

2019

Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley

2018

  • Blood for Wine by Warren C. Easley (Poisoned Pen Press)
  • The Lioness is the Hunter by Loren D. Estelman (Forge)
  • Gone to Dustby by Matt Goldman (Forge)
  • August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones (Soho)
  • The Dime by Kathleen Kent (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown)

2017

  • Death at Breakfast -- Beth Gutcheon (Harper Collins)
  • Home -- Harlen Coben (Penguin Random House)
  • Surrender, New York -- Caleb Carr (Penguin Random House)
  • With Six You Get Wally -- Al Lamanda (A John Becker Mystery, Five Star Publishing)

2016

  • Past Crimes, Glen Erik Hamilton, Morrow (Harper Collins)
  • Crazy Mountain Kiss, Keith McCafferty, Viking
  • Night Life, David Taylor, Tor Forge
  • This Side of Midnight, Al Lamanda, Five Star Publishing
  • Hard Latitudes, Baron R. Birtcher, Permanent Press

2015

  • Peter Pan Must Die, John Verdon, Crown Publishing Group
  • Herbie's Game, Timothy Hallinan, Soho Press
  • The Detective & The Pipe Girl, Michael Craven, HarperCollins
  • First Light, Al Lamanda, Five Star
  • The Detective, James Patrick Hunt, Cengage Gale

2014

  • Ask Not, Max Allan Collins, Tor & Forge Books
  • Three Can Keep a Secret, Archer Mayor, St. Martins Press
  • Murder as a Fine Art, David Morrell, Little, Brown & Company
  • A Study in Revenge, Kieran Sheilds, Crown Publishing Group
  • A Question of Honor, Charles Todd, William Morrow/Harper Collins

2013

  • Antiques Disposal, Barbara Allan
  • Burning Midnight, Loren D. Estleman
  • Dead Anyway, Chris Knopf
  • Truth of All Things, Kieran Shields

2012

  • Guilt by Association, Marcia Clark
  • The Silent Girl, Tess Gerritsen
  • The House of Silk, Anthony Horowitz
  • Spiral, Paul McEuen
  • Though Not Dead,Dana Stabenow
  • Black Orchid Blues, Persia Walker

2011

  • Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny --  St. Martin's Minotaur
  • Ice Cold, Tess Gerritsen -- Ballantine Books
  • The Book of Spies, Gayle Lynds -- St. Martin's Press
  • The Midnight Show Murders, Al Roker & Dick Lochte -- Delacorte 
  • Think of a Number, John Verdon -- Crown

2010

All from Minotaur Books, an imprint of the St. Martin's Publishing Group


2009


2008


2007

  • All Mortal FleshJulia Spencer-Fleming, St. Martin's Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books
  • Kidnapped — Jan Burke, Simon & Schuster
  • A Stolen Season — Steve Hamilton, St. Martin's Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books

(Sorry, we did not keep a record of finalists until 2007.)