The In Crowd — Charlotte Vassell (2025) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Holy City — Henry Wise (2025) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
The Paris Widow — Kimberly Belle (2025) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective — Steven Johnson (2025) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction — Nathan Ashman (2025) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key — Margaret Peterson Haddix (2025) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
49 Miles Alone — Natalie D. Richards (2025) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
The Mystery Writer — Sulari Gentill (2025) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
The Comfort of Ghosts — Jacqueline Winspear (2025) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
The Murders in Great Diddling — Katarina Bivald (2025) · The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award · winner · Source
Love Me Fierce In Danger - The Life of James Ellroy — Steven Powell (2024) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto — Adrianna Cuevas (2024) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
Girl Forgotten — April Henry (2024) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
Play the Fool — Lina Chern (2024) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
An Evil Heart — Linda Castillo (2024) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
Glory Be — Danielle Arceneaux (2024) · The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award · winner · Source
Flags on the Bayou — James Lee Burke (2024) · Best Novel · winner · Source
The Peacock and the Sparrow — I.S. Berry (2024) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers — Jesse Q. Sutanto (2024) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal — Nathan Masters (2024) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
Notes on an Execution — Danya Kukafka (2023) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Don't Know Tough — Eli Cranor (2023) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
Or Else — Joe Hart (2023) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation — Erika Krouse (2023) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators — Martin Edwards (2023) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse — Marthe Jocelyn (2023) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
The Red Palace — June Hur (2023) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
A Dreadful Splendor — B.R. Myers (2023) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Hideout — Louisa Luna (2023) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
Buried in a Good Book — Tamara Berry (2023) · The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award · winner · Source
Five Decembers — James Kestrel (2022) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Deer Season — Erin Flanagan (2022) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
Bobby March Will Live Forever — Alan Parks (2022) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York — Elon Green (2022) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense — Edward White (2022) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Concealed — Christina Diaz Gonzalez (2022) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
Firekeeper's Daughter — Angeline Boulley (2022) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
Clark and Division — Naomi Hirahara (2022) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Runner — Tracy Clark (2022) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara (2021) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Please See Us — Caitlin Mullen (2021) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
When No One is Watching — Alyssa Cole (2021) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic — Eric Eyre (2021) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock — Christina Lane (2021) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Premeditated Myrtle — Elizabeth C. Bunce (2021) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
The Companion — Katie Alender (2021) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne — Elsa Hart (2021) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery — Rosalie Knecht (2021) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse — Susan Vaught (2020) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
Catfishing on CatNet — Naomi Kritzer (2020) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
The Night Visitors — Carol Goodman (2020) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Borrowed Time — Tracy Clark (2020) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
The Stranger Diaries — Elly Griffiths (2020) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Miracle Creek — Angie Kim (2020) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
The Hotel Neversink — Adam O'Fallon Price (2020) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity — Axton Betz-Hamilton (2020) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
Hitchcock and the Censors — John Billheimer (2020) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Shell Game — Sara Paretsky (2019) · G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award · winner · Source
Down the River Unto the Sea — Walter Mosley (2019) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Bearskin — James A. McLaughlin (2019) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
If I Die Tonight — Alison Gaylin (2019) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation — Robert W. Fieseler (2019) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s — Leslie S. Klinger (2019) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Otherwood — Pete Hautman (2019) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
Sadie — Courtney Summers (2019) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
The Widows of Malabar Hill — Sujata Massey (2019) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Bluebird, Bluebird — Attica Locke (2018) · Best Novel · winner · Source
She Rides Shotgun — Jordan Harper (2018) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
The Unseeing — Anna Mazzola (2018) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI — David Grann (2018) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
Chester B. Himes: A Biography — Lawrence P. Jackson (2018) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Vanished! — James Ponti (2018) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
Long Way Down — Jason Reynolds (2018) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
The Widow's House — Carol Goodman (2018) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Before the Fall — Noah Hawley (2017) · Best Novel · winner · Source
Under the Harrow — Flynn Berry (2017) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
Rain Dogs — Adrian McKinty (2017) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer — Kate Summerscale (2017) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life — Ruth Franklin (2017) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
OCDaniel — Wesley King (2017) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
Girl in the Blue Coat — Monica Hesse (2017) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
The Shattered Tree — Charles Todd (2017) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully — Allen Kurzweil (2016) · Best Fact Crime · winner · Source
The Golden Age of Murder — Martin Edwards (2016) · Best Critical/Biographical Work · winner · Source
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy — Susan Vaught (2016) · Best Juvenile · winner · Source
A Madness So Discreet — Mindy McGinnis (2016) · Best Young Adult · winner · Source
Little Pretty Things — Lori Rader-Day (2016) · Mary Higgins Clark Award · winner · Source
Let Me Die in His Footsteps — Lori Roy (2016) · Best Novel · winner · Source
The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2016) · Best First Novel · winner · Source
The Long and Faraway Gone — Lou Berney (2016) · Best Paperback Original · winner · Source