| Bestes Buch | Bestes erstes Buch | |||||
| 1988 | Carolyn G. Hart Something Wicked |
Elizabeth George A Great Deliverance |
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| 1989 | Elizabeth Peters Naked Once More |
Jill Churchill Grime and Punishment |
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| 1990 | Nancy Pickard Bum Steer |
Katherine Hall Page The Body in the Belfry |
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| 1991 | Nancy Pickard I.O.U. |
Mary Willis Walker Zero at the Bone |
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| 1992 | Margaret Maron The Bootlegger’s Daughter |
Barbara Neely Blanche on th Lam |
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| 1993 | Carolyn G. Hart Dead Men’s Island |
Nevada Barr Track of the Cat |
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| 1994 | Sharyn McCrumb She Walks these Hills |
Jeff Abbott Do Unto Others |
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| 1995 | Sharyn McCrumb If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him… |
Jeanne M. Dams The Body in the Transept |
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| 1996 | Margaret Maron Up Jumps the Devil |
Anne George Murder on a Girls‘ Night Out |
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| 1997 | Kate Ross The Devil in Music |
Sujata Massey The Salaryman’s Wife |
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| 1998 | Laura Lippman Butchers Hill |
Robin Hathaway The Doctor Digs a Grave |
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| 1999 | Earlene Fowler Mariner’s Compass |
Donna Andrews Murder, with Peacocks |
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| 2000 | Margaret Maron Storm Track |
Rosemary Stevens Death on a Silver Tray |
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| 2001 | Rhys Bowen Murphy’s Law |
Sarah Strohmeyer Bubbles Unbound |
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| 2002 | Donna Andrews You’ve Got Murder |
Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter |
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| 2003 | Carolyn G. Hart Letter from Home |
Jacqueline Winspear Masie Dobbs |
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| 2004 | Jacqueline Winspear Birds of a Feather |
Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men |
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| 2005 | Katherine Hall Page The Body in the Snowdrift |
Laura Durham Better off Wed |
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| 2006 | Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains |
Sandra Parshall The Heat of the Moon |
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| 2007 | Louise Penny A Fatal Grace |
Prime Time Hank Phillippi Ryan |
Anders als bei den meisten anderen Preisen, bezieht sich die Jahreszahl, genauso wie beim Hammett, auf das Jahr in dem die Bücher erschienen sind
