1988 | * Elizabeth George A Great Deliverance |
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Caroline Graham The Killings at Badger’s Drift |
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Corinne Holt Sawyer J. Alfred Prufrock Murders |
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Susannah Stacey Goodbye, Nanny Gray |
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Dorothy Sucher Dead Men Don’t Give Seminars |
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1989 | * Jill Churchill Grime and Punishment |
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Frances Fyfield A Question of Guilt |
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Eleanor Boylan Working Murder |
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Melodie Johnson Howe The Mother Shadow |
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Edith Skom The Mark Twain Murders |
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1990 | * Katherine Hall Page The Body in the Belfry |
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Diane Mott Davidson Catering to Nobody |
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Pat Burden Screaming Bones |
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William F. Love The Chartreuse Clue |
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Janet L. Smith Sea of Troubles |
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1991 | * Mary Willis Walker Zero at the Bone |
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Mary Daheim Just Desserts |
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Mary Cahill Carpool |
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Rebecca Rothenberg The Bulrush Murders |
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Ann M. Williams Flowers for the Dead |
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1992 | * Barbara Neely Blanche on the Lam |
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Deborah Adams All the Great Pretenders |
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Susan Wittig Albert Thyme of Death |
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Carol Higgins Clark Decked |
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Miriam Grace Monfredo Seneca Falls Inheritance |
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1993 | * Nevada Barr Track of the Cat |
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Jan Burke Goodnight, Irene |
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Deborah Crombie A Share in Death |
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Sharan Newman Death Comes as Epiphany |
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Abigail Padgett Child of Silence |
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1994 | * Jeff Abbott Do unto Others |
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Janet Evanovich One for the Money |
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Earlene Fowler Fool’s Puzzle |
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Barbara Burnett Smith Writers of the Purple Sage |
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Polly Whitney Until Death |
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1995 | * Jeanne M. Dams The Body in the Transept |
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Virginia Lanier Death in Bloodhound Red |
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Jody Jaffe Horse of a Different Killer |
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Teri Holbrook A Far and Deadly Cry |
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Martha C. Lawrence Murder in Scorpio |
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1996 | * Anne George Murder on a Girls‘ Night Out |
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Nancy Bell Biggie and the Poisoned Politician |
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Dale Furutani Death in Little Tokyo |
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Terris McMahan Grimes Somebody Else’s Child |
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Lillian M. Roberts Riding for a Fall |
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1997 | * Sujata Massey The Salaryman’s Wife |
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Joanne Dobson Quieter Than Sleep |
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Phyllis Richman The Butter Did It |
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Penny Warner Dead Body Language |
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Barbara Jaye Wilson Death Brims Over |
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1998 | * Robin Hathaway The Doctor Digs a Grave |
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Jerrilyn Farmer Sympathy for the Devil |
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Jacqueline Fiedler Tiger’s Palette |
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Judy Fitzwater Dying to Get Published |
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Sharon Kahn Fax Me a Bagel |
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1999 | * Donna Andrews Murder, With Peacocks |
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April Henry Circles of Confusion |
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Kris Neri Revenge of the Gypsy Queen |
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Elena Santangelo By Blood Possessed |
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Marcia Talley Sing It to Her Bones |
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2000 | * Rosemary Stevens Death on a Silver Tray |
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Kate Grilley Death Dances to a Reggae Beat |
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Julie Wray Herman Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death |
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Irene Marcuse The Death of an Amiable Child |
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Denise Swanson Murder of a Small-Town Honey |
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2001 | * Sarah Strohmeyer Bubbles Unbound |
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Tim Myers Innkeeping With Murder |
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Charles O’Brien Mute Witness |
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Andy Straka A Witness Above |
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Anne White An Affinity for Murder |
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2002 | * Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter |
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Pip Granger Not All Tarts are Apple |
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Roberta Isleib Six Strokes Under |
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Claire M. Johnson Beat Until Stiff |
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Nancy Martin How to Murder a Millionaire |
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Lea Wait Shadows at the Fair |
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2003 | * Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs |
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Elaine Flinn Dealing in Murder |
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Erin Hart Haunted Ground |
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S.W. Hubbard Take the Bait |
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Maddy Hunter Alpine for You |
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Joyce Krieg Murder Off Mike |
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Sarah Stewart Taylor O‘ Artful Death |
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2004 | * Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men |
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Judy Clemens Till the Cows Come Home |
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Patricia Harwin Arson and Old Lace |
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Susan Kandel I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason |
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Pari Noskin Taichert The Clovis Incident |
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2005 | * Laura Durham Better Off Wed |
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Lisa M. Tillman Blood Relations |
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Laura Bradford Jury of One |
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Maggie Sefton Knit One, Kill Two |
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Shirley Damsgaard Witch Way to Murder |
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2006 | * Sandra Parshall The Heat of the Moon |
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Honora Finkelstein, Susan Smily The Chef Who Died Sautéing |
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Jane K. Cleland Consigned to Death |
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Hailey Lind Feint of Art: |
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Karen MacInerney Murder on the Rocks |
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2007 | * Hank Phillippi Ryan Prime Time |
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Charles Finch A Beautiful Blue Death |
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Beth Groundwater A Real Basket Case |
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Deanna Raybourn Silent in the Grave |
*: Gewinner