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