| 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
