Preisträger – Barry Awards

		Bestes Buch		Bestes Taschenbuch		Bestes erstes Buch
1997		Peter Lovesey Bloodhounds		Susan Wade Walking Rain		Charles Todd A Test of Wills
1998		Michael Connelly Trunk Music		Harlan Coben Back Spin		Lee Child Killing Floor
1999		Reginald Hill On Beulah Height Dennis Lehane Gone, Baby, Gone		/		William Kent Krueger Iron Lake
2000		Peter Robinson In a Dry Season		Robin Burcell Every Move She Makes		Donna Andrews Murder, With Peacocks
2001		Nevada Barr Deep South		Eric Wright The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn		David Liss A Conspiracy of Paper
2002		Dennis Lehane Mystic River		Deborah Woodworth Killing Gifts		C.J. Box Open Season
2003		Michael Connelly City of Bones		Danielle Girard Cold Silence		Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter
2004		Laura Lippman Every Secret Thing		Jason Starr Tough Luck		P.J. Tracy Monkeewrench
2005		Lee Child The Enemy		Elaine Flinn Tagged for Murder		Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Shadow of the Wind
2006		Thomas H. Cook Red Leaves		Reed Farrel Coleman The James Deans		Stuart MacBride Cold Granite
2007		George P. Pelecanos The Night Gardener		Sean Doolittle The Cleanup		Louise Penny Still Life
2008