1998 | * Deborah Crombie Dreaming of the Bones |
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Jan Burke Hocus |
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Michael Connelly Trunk Music |
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Club Dumas |
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Donald E. Westlake The Ax |
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1999 | * Michael Connelly Blood Work |
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Nevada Barr Blind Descent |
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Laura Lippman Butchers Hill |
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Margaret Maron Home Fires |
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Abigail Padgett Blue |
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2000 | * Sujata Massey The Flower Master |
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Peter Robinson In a Dry Season |
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Rennie Airth River of Darkness |
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Robert Crais L.A. Requiem |
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2001 | * Val McDermid A Place of Execution |
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Taffy Cannon Guns and Roses |
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Joe R. Lansdale The Bottoms |
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Nancy Pickard The Whole Truth |
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Anne Perry Half Moon Street |
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2002 | * Laurie R. King Folly |
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Dennis Lehane Mystic River |
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Linda Fairstein The Deadhouse |
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T. Jefferson Parker Silent Joe |
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Harlan Coben Tell no one |
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2003 | * S.J. Rozan Winter and Night |
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Jan Burke Nine |
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Mary Kay Andrews Savannah Blues |
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Michael Connelly City of Bones |
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James Lee Burke Jolie Blon’s Bounce |
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2004 | * Peter Lovesey The House Sitter |
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Giles Blunt The Delicate Storm |
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Rhys Bowen For the Love of Mike |
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Ken Bruen The Guards |
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David Corbett Done for a Dime |
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2005 | * Ken Bruen The Killing of the Tinkers |
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Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter |
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Robin Burcell Cold Case |
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Margaret Maron High Country Fall |
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T. Jefferson Parker California Girl |
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Peter Robinson Playing with Fire |
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2006 | * Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer |
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Lee Child One Shot |
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Reed Farrel Coleman The James Deans |
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Tess Gerritsen Vanish |
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Peter Robinson Strange Affair |
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Paul Levine Solomon vs. Lord |
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Don Winslow The Power of the Dog |
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2007 | * Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains |
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Julia Spencer-Fleming All Mortal Flesh |
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Benjamin Black Christine Falls |
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Denise Mina In the Dead Hour |
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Jason Goodwin The Janissary Tree |
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Peter Robinson Piece of my Heart |
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2008 | Laura Lippman What the Dead Know |
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David Corbett Blood of Paradise |
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Deborah Crombie Water like a Stone |
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Reed Farrel Coleman Soul Patch |
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John Connolly The Unquiet |
*: Gewinner