| 1997 | * Susan Wade
Walking Rain |
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| Teri Holbrook
The Grass Widow |
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| Harlan Coben
Fade Away |
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| 1998 | * Harlan Coben
Back Spin |
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| Rick Riordan
Big Red Tequila |
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| Sujata Massey
The Salaryman’s Wife |
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| Penny Warner
Dead Body Language |
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| 2000 | * Robin Burcell
Every Move She Makes |
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| Caroline Roe
An Antidote for Avarice |
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| Carolyn Haines
Them Bones |
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| Jerry Kennealy
The Hunted |
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| Sinclair Browning
The Last Song Dogs |
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| 2001 | * Eric Wright
The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn |
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| Kate Grilley
Death Dances to a Reggae Beat |
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| Glynn Marsh Alam
Dive Deep and Deadly |
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| Cathie John
Little Mexico |
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| Beth Saulnier
Distemper |
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| 2002 | * Deborah Woodworth
Killing Gifts |
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| Sinclair Browning
Rode Hard, Put Away Dead |
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| Deborah Morgan
Death is a Caberet |
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| Martin J. Smith
Straw Men |
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| Beth Saulnier
The Fourth Wall |
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| 2003 | * Danielle Girard
Cold Silence |
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| Jeff Abbott
Black Jack Point |
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| Robin Burcell
Fatal Truth |
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| D. Daniel Judson
The Bone Orchard |
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| Anna Salter
Prison Blues |
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| Brian M. Wiprud
Pipsqueak |
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| 2004 | * Jason Starr
Tough Luck |
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| Elaine Flinn
Dealing in Murder |
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| Christopher Hyde
Wisdom of the Bones |
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| Jay MacLarty
The Courier |
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| Judith Van Gieson
The Shadow of Venus |
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| Elaine Viets
Murder Between the Covers |
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| 2005 | * Elaine Flinn
Tagged for Murder |
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| Larry Beinhart
The Librarian |
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| Thomas H. Cook
Into the Web |
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| Domenic Stansberry | ||||
| Jason Starr | ||||
| M.G. Kincaid
Last Seen in Aberdeen |
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| 2006 | * Reed Farrel Coleman | |||
| Charlie Huston | ||||
| Maureen Jennings
Night’s Child |
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| Rochelle Krich
Now You See Me |
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| Mary Jane Maffini
The Dead Don’t Get Out Much |
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| John Ramsey Miller
Inside Out |
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| 2007 | * Sean Doolittle | |||
| Ken Bruen, Jason Starr | ||||
| Brian M. Wiprud
Crooked |
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| James Swain
Deadman’s Poker |
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| Max Allan Collins
The Last Quarry |
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| Jay MacLarty
Live Wire |
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| 2008 | Felicia Donovan
Black Widow Agency |
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| James C. Mitchell
Choke Point |
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| Jason Pinter
The Mark |
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| Megan Abbott | ||||
| Fred Vargas | ||||
| Kevin Wignall |
*: Gewinner
