| 1996 | * Mary Willis Walker Under the Beetle’s Cellar |
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| Michael Connelly The Last Coyote |
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| Barbara D’Amato Hard Christmas |
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| Andrew Klavan True Crime |
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| Bill Pronzini Blue Lonesome |
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| 1997 | * Michael Connelly The Poet |
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| Nevada Barr Firestorm |
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| Margaret Lawrence Hearts and Bones |
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| Linda Grant Lethal Genes |
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| Alan Russell Multiple Wounds |
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| 1998 | * S.J. Rozan No Colder Place |
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| Anthony Bruno Devil’s Food |
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| Earl Emerson Deception Pass |
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| Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Club Dumas |
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| James Sallis Eye of the Cricket |
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| 1999 | * Michael Connelly Blood Work |
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| Nevada Barr Blind Descent |
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| Reginald Hill On Beulah Height |
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| Dennis Lehane Gone, Baby, Gone |
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| Aileen Schumacher Framework for Death |
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| 2000 | * Peter Robinson In a Dry Season |
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| Rennie Airth River of Darkness |
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| Jan Burke Bones |
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| Robert Crais L.A. Requiem |
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| Janet Evanovich High Five |
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| 2001 | * Val McDermid A Place of Execution |
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| Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms |
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| Nevada Barr Deep South |
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| Marcia Muller Listen to the Silence |
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| Elizabeth Peters He Shall Thunder in the Sky |
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| Charles Todd Legacy of the Dead |
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| 2002 | * Dennis Lehane Mystic River |
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| Rick Riordan The Devil Went Down to Austin |
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| Jan Burke Flight |
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| S.J. Rozan Reflecting the Sky |
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| Harlan Coben Tell no one |
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| 2003 | * Michael Connelly City of Bones |
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| Cara Black Murder in the Sentier |
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| Steve Hamilton North of Nowhere |
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| George P. Pelecanos Hell to Pay |
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| S.J. Rozan Winter and Night |
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| 2004 | * Laura Lippman Every Secret Thing |
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| Giles Blunt The Delicate Storm |
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| Dennis Lehane Shutter Island |
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| Steve Hamilton Blood is the Sky |
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| Peter Robinson Close to Home |
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| 2005 | * William Kent Krueger Blood Hollow |
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| Ken Bruen The Killing of the Tinkers |
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| John Katzenbach The Madman’s Tale |
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| Laura Lippman By a Spider’s Thread |
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| T. Jefferson Parker California Girl |
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| Julis Spencer-Fleming Out of the Deep I Cry |
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| 2006 | * William Kent Krueger Mercy Falls |
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| Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer |
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| Jan Burke Bloodlines |
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| Thomas H. Cook Red Leaves |
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| Laura Lippman By the Power of Three |
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| 2007 | * Laura Lippman No Good Deeds |
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| Julia Spencer-Fleming All Mortal Flesh |
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| Denise Mina The Dead Hour |
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| Jan Burke Kidnapped |
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| Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains |
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| 2008 | Lee Child Bad Luck and Trouble |
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| Laura Lippman What the Dead Know |
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| William Kent Krueger Thunder Bay |
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| James Lee Burke The Tin Roof Blowdown |
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| Robert Crais The Watchman |
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