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Winner · Best Novel
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2011
Rogue Island
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Long Time Coming
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
Winner · Best Fact Crime
The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy
Winner · Best Juvenile
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
Winner · Best Young Adult
2010
The Last Child
Winner · Best Novel
In the Shadow of Gotham
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Body Blows
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Columbine
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Closed for the Season
Winner · Best Juvenile
Reality Check
Winner · Best Young Adult
2009
Blue Heaven
Winner · Best Novel
The Foreigner
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
China Lake
Winner · Best Paperback Original
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century
Winner · Best Fact Crime
The Postcard
Winner · Best Juvenile
Paper Towns
Winner · Best Young Adult
2008
Down River
Winner · Best Novel
In the Woods
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Queenpin
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Winner · Best Fact Crime
The Night Tourist
Winner · Best Juvenile
Rat Life
Winner · Best Young Adult
Wild Indigo
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Shadows on Society Hill
Finalist · Best Juvenile
The Name of This Book is Secret
Finalist · Best Juvenile
Blood Brothers
Finalist · Best Young Adult
Fragments
Finalist · Best Young Adult
Touching Snow
Finalist · Best Young Adult
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational
Finalist · Best Critical/Biographical Work
- See all 10 honored in 2008
2007
The Janissary Tree
Winner · Best Novel
The Faithful Spy
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Snakeskin Shamisen
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Room One: A Mystery or Two
Winner · Best Juvenile
Buried
Winner · Best Young Adult
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Bloodline
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Pale Blue Eye
Finalist · Best Novel
Holmes on the Range
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
King of Lies
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Sharp Objects
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Goodbye Kiss
Finalist · Best Paperback Original
The Open Curtain
Finalist · Best Paperback Original
- See all 21 honored in 2007
2006
Citizen Vince
Winner · Best Novel
Officer Down
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Girl in the Glass
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
Winner · Best Fact Crime
The Boys of San Joaquin
Winner · Best Juvenile
Last Shot
Winner · Best Young Adult
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Dark Angel
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Drama City
Finalist · Best Novel
Red Leaves
Finalist · Best Novel
The Lincoln Lawyer
Finalist · Best Novel
Vanish
Finalist · Best Novel
Die A Little
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Hide Your Eyes
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 25 honored in 2006
2005
California Girl
Winner · Best Novel
Country of Origin
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Confession
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Chasing Vermeer
Winner · Best Juvenile
In Darkness, Death
Winner · Best Young Adult
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Grave Endings
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
By a Spiders Thread
Finalist · Best Novel
Evan's Gate
Finalist · Best Novel
Out of the Deep I Cry
Finalist · Best Novel
Remembering Sarah
Finalist · Best Novel
Bahamarama
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Cloud Atlas
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 29 honored in 2005
2004
Resurrection Men
Winner · Best Novel
Death of a Nationalist
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Find Me Again
Winner · Best Paperback Original
The Devil in the White City
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry
Winner · Best Juvenile
Acceleration
Winner · Best Young Adult
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Song of the Bones
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Out
Finalist · Best Novel
The Guards
Finalist · Best Novel
12 Bliss Street
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Offer of Proof
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Bridge of Sighs
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Southland
Finalist · Best Paperback Original
- See all 24 honored in 2004
2003
Winter and Night
Winner · Best Novel
The Blue Edge of Midnight
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Out of Sight
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Fire Lover
Winner · Best Fact Crime
Harriet Spies Again
Winner · Best Juvenile
The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3
Winner · Best Young Adult
Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Absolute Certainty
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
City of Bones
Finalist · Best Novel
Jolie Blon's Bounce
Finalist · Best Novel
No Good Deed
Finalist · Best Novel
Savannah Blues
Finalist · Best Novel
Buck Fever
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
High Wire
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 29 honored in 2003
2002
Silent Joe
Winner · Best Novel
Line of Vision
Winner · Best First Novel by an American Author
Adios Muchachos
Winner · Best Paperback Original
Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Summer of Storms
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
Reflecting the Sky
Finalist · Best Novel
Tell No One
Finalist · Best Novel
The Judgment
Finalist · Best Novel
Open Season
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Red Hook
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
The Jasmine Trade
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 26 honored in 2002
2001
Conundrums for the Long Week-End
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Authorized Personnel Only
Winner · Mary Higgins Clark Award
A Dangerous Road
Finalist · Best Novel
A Place of Execution
Finalist · Best Novel
Red Light
Finalist · Best Novel
The Whole Truth
Finalist · Best Novel
Crow in Stolen Colors
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Death of a Red Heroine
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 30 honored in 2001
2000
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
In a Dry Season
Finalist · Best Novel
L.A. Requiem
Finalist · Best Novel
River of Darkness
Finalist · Best Novel
Strawberry Sunday
Finalist · Best Novel
Big Trouble
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Certifiably Insane
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 28 honored in 2000
1999
Mystery and Suspense Writers
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
A Likeness in Stone
Finalist · Best Novel
Beyond Recall
Finalist · Best Novel
Blood Work
Finalist · Best Novel
The Last Days of Il Duce
Finalist · Best Novel
A Criminal Appeal
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
Nice
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 28 honored in 1999
1998
G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
A Wasteland of Strangers
Finalist · Best Novel
Black and Blue
Finalist · Best Novel
Dreaming of the Bones
Finalist · Best Novel
The Purification Ceremony
Finalist · Best Novel
23 Shades of Black
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
A Crime in the Neighborhood
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 28 honored in 1998
1997
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes
Winner · Best Critical/Biographical Work
Hearts and Bones
Finalist · Best Novel
Mean Streak
Finalist · Best Novel
Pentecost Alley
Finalist · Best Novel
With Child
Finalist · Best Novel
A Brother's Blood
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
A Test of Wills
Finalist · Best First Novel by an American Author
- See all 28 honored in 1997