The Macavity Awards, established in 1987, are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.[1] The award is given in four categories—best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. The Sue Feder Historical Mystery has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.

Best Mystery Novel

1980s

Best Mystery Novel winners and finalists, 1987-1989[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Result
1987 P. D. James A Taste for Death Winner
1988 Nancy Pickard Marriage is Murder Winner
1989 Tony Hillerman A Thief of Time Winner

1990s

Best Mystery Novel winners and finalists, 1990-1999[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
1990 Carolyn Hart A Little Class on Murder Winner
1991 Sharyn McCrumb If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O Winner
1992 Nancy Pickard I.O.U. Winner
1993 Margaret Maron Bootlegger’s Daughter Winner [5]
1994 Minette Walters The Sculptress Winner
1995 Sharyn McCrumb She Walks These Hills Winner
1996 Mary Willis Walker Under the Beetle’s Cellar Doubleday Winner
1997 Peter Lovesey Bloodhounds Mysterious Press Winner
1998 Deborah Crombie Dreaming of the Bones Scribner Winner
Jan Burke Hocus Simon & Schuster Finalist
Michael Connelly Trunk Music Little Brown & Co. Finalist
Arturo Perez-Reverte The Club Dumas Harcourt Brace Finalist
Donald Westlake The Ax Mysterious Press Finalist
1999 Michael Connelly Blood Work Little Brown & Co. Winner [6]
Nevada Barr Blind Descent G. P. Putnam's Sons Finalist
Laura Lippman Butchers Hill Avon Finalist [7]
Margaret Maron Home Fires Mysterious Press Finalist
Abigail Padgett Blue Mysterious Press Finalist

2000s

Best Mystery Novel winners and finalists, 2000-2009[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2000 Sujata Massey The Flower Master Knopf Winner
Rennie Airth River of Darkness Viking Press Finalist
Robert Crais L.A. Requiem Doubleday Finalist
Peter Robinson In a Dry Season Avon Finalist
2001 Val McDermid A Place of Execution Berkley Books Winner
Taffy Cannon Guns and Roses Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co. Finalist
Joe Lansdale The Bottoms Mysterious Press Finalist
Anne Perry Half Moon Street Ballantine Books Finalist
Nancy Pickard The Whole Truth Pocket Books Finalist
2002 Laurie R. King Folly Wiley Winner [8]
Harlan Coben Tell No One Delacorte Press Finalist
Linda Fairstein The Deadhouse Scribner Finalist
Dennis Lehane Mystic River William Morrow & Co. Finalist
T. Jefferson Parker Silent Joe Hyperion Finalist
2003 S.J. Rozan Winter and Night Intrigue Winner
Mary Kay Andrews Savannah Blues HarperCollins Finalist
James Lee Burke Jolie Blon’s Bounce Simon & Schuster Finalist
Jan Burke Nine Simon & Schuster Finalist
Michael Connelly City of Bones Little, Brown & Co. Finalist
2004 Peter Lovesey The House Sitter St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Winner
Giles Blunt The Delicate Storm Putnam Finalist
Rhys Bowen For the Love of Mike St. Martin’s Finalist
Ken Bruen The Guards St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Finalist
David Corbett Done for a Dime Ballantine Books Finalist
2005 Ken Bruen The Killing of the Tinkers Little, Brown & Co. Winner
Robin Burcell Cold Case Avon Finalist
Jeff Lindsay Darkly Dreaming Dexter Doubleday Finalist
Margaret Maron High Country Fall Mysterious Press Finalist
T. Jefferson Parker California Girl HarperCollins Finalist
Peter Robinson Playing with Fire William Morrow & Co. Finalist
2006 Michael Connelly The Lincoln Lawyer Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux Winner [9][10]
Lee Child One Shot Delacorte Press Finalist
Reed Farrel Coleman The James Deans Plume Finalist
Tess Gerritsen Vanish Ballantine Books Finalist
Paul Levine Solomon vs. Lord Bantam Books Finalist
Peter Robinson Strange Affair William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Don Winslow The Power of the Dog Knopf Finalist
2007 Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains Thorndike/ Random House UK Winner
Benjamin Black Christine Falls Henry Holt/Picador Finalist
Jason Goodwin The Janissary Tree Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Denise Mina The Dead Hour Bantam Books Finalist
Peter Robinson Piece of My Heart McClelland & Stewart Finalist
Julia Spencer-Fleming All Mortal Flesh Minotaur Books Finalist
2008 Laura Lippman What the Dead Know William Morrow Winner
Reed Farrel Coleman Soul Patch Midnight Ink Finalist
John Connolly The Unquiet Ballantine Books Finalist
David Corbett Blood of Paradise Simon & Schuster Finalist
Deborah Crombie Water Like a Stone William Morrow & Co. Finalist
2009 Deborah Crombie Where Memories Lie St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Winner
Sean Chercover Trigger City Minotaur Books Finalist
Declan Hughes The Dying Breed (UK) /

The Price of Blood (US)

John Murray/ William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Arnaldur Indridason The Draining Lake UK: The Price of Blood Finalist
Lisa Lutz Curse of the Spellmans Doubleday Finalist
Louise Penny The Cruelest Month Minotaur Books Finalist
Louise Ure The Fault Tree HarperCollins Finalist

2010s

Best Mystery Novel winners and finalists, 2010-2019[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2010 Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman Tower Busted Flush Press Winner [11]
Megan Abbott Bury Me Deep Simon & Schuster Finalist
Deborah Crombie Necessary as Blood William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Jo Nesbø with Don Bartlett (trans.) Nemesis HarperCollins Finalist
Louise Penny The Brutal Telling Minotaur Books Finalist
S.J. Rozan The Shanghai Moon Minotaur Books Finalist
2011 Louise Penny Bury Your Dead Minotaur Books Winner [12][13]
James Lee Burke The Glass Rainbow Simon & Schuster Finalist
Tana French Faithful Place Viking Press Finalist
Timothy Hallinan The Queen of Patpong HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Deon Meyer Thirteen Hours Grove Atlantic Finalist
Nancy Pickard The Scent of Rain and Lightning Ballantine Finalist
2012 Sara Gran Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Winner [14][15]
Anne Holt with Marlaine Delargy (trans.) 1222 Scribner Finalist
Anthony Horowitz The House of Silk Mulholland Books Finalist
Michael Koryta The Ridge Little, Brown, & Co. Finalist
Louise Penny A Trick of the Light Minotaur Books Finalist
Marcus Sakey The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes Dutton Finalist
Duane Swierczynski Hell & Gone Mulholland Books Finalist
2013 Louise Penny The Beautiful Mystery Minotaur Winner [16]
Gillian Flynn Gone Girl Crown Finalist
Peter May The Black House Silver Oak Finalist
Hank Phillippi Ryan The Other Woman Forge Books Finalist
B.A. Shapiro The Art Forger Algonquin Books Finalist
Ariel S. Winter The Twenty Year Death Hard Case Crime Finalist
Ben H. Winters The Last Policeman Quirk Books Finalist
2014 William Kent Krueger Ordinary Grace Atria Books Winner [17][18]
Thomas H. Cook Sandrine’s Case Mysterious Press Finalist
Mick Herron Dead Lions Soho Crime Finalist
Alex Marwood The Wicked Girls Penguin Books Finalist
Louise Penny How the Light Gets In Minotaur Books Finalist
Ian Rankin Standing in Another Man’s Grave Reagan Arthur Books Finalist
2015 Alex Marwood The Killer Next Door Penguin Books Winner [19]
Sophie Littlefield The Missing Place Gallery Finalist [20]
Peter May The Lewis Man Quercus Finalist [20]
Catriona McPherson The Day She Died Midnight Ink Finalist [20]
Louise Penny The Long Way Home Minotaur Finalist [20]
Terry Shames The Last Death of Jack Harbin Seventh Street Books Finalist [20]
2016 Lou Berney The Long and Faraway Gone William Morrow & Co. Winner [21]
Sharon Bolton Little Black Lies Minotaur Finalist [22]
Tim Hallinan The Hot Countries Soho Press Finalist [22]
Catriona McPherson The Child Garden Midnight Ink Finalist [22]
Michael Robotham Life or Death Mulholland Books Finalist [22]
Don Winslow The Cartel Alfred A. Knopf Finalist [22]
2017 Louise Penny A Great Reckoning Minotaur Winner
Megan Abbott You Will Know Me Little, Brown, & Co. Finalist [23]
Matt Coyle Dark Fissures Oceanview Finalist [23]
Noah Hawley Before the Fall UK: Hodder & Stoughton

US: Grand Central Publishing

Finalist [23]
Mick Herron Real Tigers UK: John Murray

US: Soho Press

Finalist [23]
Laura Lippman Wilde Lake William Morrow & Co. Finalist [23]
2018 Anthony Horowitz Magpie Murders Harper Winner [24]
Karen Dionne The Marsh King’s Daughter G. P. Putnam's Sons Finalist [24]
Attica Locke Bluebird, Bluebird Mulholland Books Finalist [24]
Louise Penny Glass Houses Minotaur Finalist [24]
Thomas Perry The Old Man Mysterious Press Finalist [24]
Don Winslow The Force William Morrow & Co. Finalist [24]
2019 Lou Berney November Road William Morrow & Co. Winner [25]
Alison Gaylin If I Die Tonight William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Jane Harper The Lost Man Flat Iron Books Finalist
Jennifer Hillier Jar of Hearts Minotaur Books Finalist
Naomi Hirahara Hiroshima Boy Prospect Park Books Finalist
Lisa Unger Under My Skin Harlequin – Park Row Books Finalist

2020s

Best Mystery Novel winners and finalists, 2020–present[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2020 Adrian McKinty The Chain Mulholland Books Winner [26]
Steph Cha Your House Will Pay Ecco Press Finalist [26][27]
William Kent Krueger This Tender Land Atria Finalist [26][27]
Laura Lippman Lady in the Lake William Morrow & Co. Finalist [26][27]
Hank Philippi Ryan The Murder List Forge Books Finalist [26][27][28]
James Sallis Sarah Jane Soho Crime Finalist [26][27]
2021 S. A. Cosby Blacktop Wasteland Flatiron Books Winner [29]
Caroline B. Cooney Before She Was Helen Ecco Press Finalist
Matt Coyle Blind Vigil Oceanview Publishing Finalist
Louise Penny All the Devils Are Here Minotaur Books Finalist
Ivy Pochoda These Women Poisoned Pen Press Finalist
Michael Robotham When She Was Good Scribner Finalist
2022 S. A. Cosby Razorblade Tears Flatiron Books Winner [30][31]
Michael Connelly The Dark Hours Little, Brown, & Co. Finalist [30][31]
Val McDermid 1979 Atlantic Monthly Finalist [30][31]
Alan Parks Bobby March Will Live Forever World Noir Finalist [30][31]
Chris Whitaker We Begin at the End Henry Holt & Co. Finalist [30][31]
Colson Whitehead Harlem Shuffle Doubleday Finalist [30][31]

Best First Mystery (Novel)

1980s

Best First Mystery winners and finalists, 1987-1989[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1987 Faye Kellerman The Ritual Bath Winner
Marilyn Wallace A Case of Loyalties Winner
1988 Robert Crais The Monkey’s Raincoat Winner [32][6]
1989 Caroline Graham The Killings at Badger’s Drift Winner

1990s

Best First Mystery winners and finalists, 1990-1999[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publication Result Ref.
1990 Jill Churchill Grime and Punishment Winner [33]
1991 Patricia Cornwell Postmortem Winner [34]
1992 Sue Henry Murder on the Iditarod Trail Winner
Mary Willis Walker Zero at the Bone Winner
1993 Barbara Neely Blanche on the Lam Winner [35][36][37]
1994 Sharan Newman Death Comes as Epiphany Winner
1995 Jeff Abbott Do Unto Others Winner
1996 Dianne Day The Strange Files of Fremont Jones Doubleday Winner
1997 Dale Furutani Death in Little Tokyo St. Martin’s Winner
1998 Penny Warner Dead Body Language Bantam Books Winner
Lee Child Killing Floor G. P. Putnam's Sons Finalist
Aljean Harmetz Off the Face of the Earth Scribner Finalist
Laura Lippman Charm City Avon Finalist
Sujata Massey The Salaryman’s Wife HarperPaperbacks Finalist
1999 Jerrilyn Farmer Sympathy for the Devil Avon Winner
Jacqueline Fiedler Tiger’s Palette Pocket Books Finalist
Robin Hathaway The Doctor Digs a Grave St. Martin’s Finalist

2000s

Best First Mystery winners and finalists, 2000-2009[2][3][4]
Year Year Title Publisher Result Ref.
2000 Paula L. Woods Inner City Blues Soho Press Winner
Donna Andrews Murder with Peacocks St. Martin’s Finalist
Cara Black Murder in the Marais Soho Press Finalist
Kris Neri Revenge of the Gypsy Queen Rainbow Books Finalist
2001 David Liss A Conspiracy of Paper St. Martin’s Winner
Kate Grilley Death Dances to a Reggae Beat Berkley Prime Crime Finalist
Marcia Simpson Crow in Stolen Colors Berkley Prime Crime Finalist
Julie Wray Herman Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death Silver Dagger Mysteries Finalist
2002 C. J. Box Open Season Henry Holt & Co. Winner [38][39]
Denise Hamilton The Jasmine Trade Scribner Finalist
M.K. Preston Perhaps She’ll Die Intrigue Finalist
Karin Slaughter Blindsighted William Morrow & Co. Finalist
2003 Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter Hodder & Stoughton/Viking Winner
Jonathon King The Blue Edge of Midnight Dutton Finalist
Eddie Muller The Distance Scribner Finalist
Radine Trees Nehring A Valley To Die For St. Kitts Press Finalist
2004 Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs Libraries Unlimited Winner [40][41]
James Hime Night of the Dance St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Finalist
Rebecca C. Pawel Death of a Nationalist Soho Press Finalist
Olen Steinhauer The Bridge of Sighs St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Finalist
2005 Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men Midnight Ink Winner
Sandra Balzo Uncommon Grounds Five Star Finalist
Naomi Hirahara Summer of the Big Bachi Delta Finalist
J A Konrath Whiskey Sour Hyperion Finalist
Dylan Schaffer Misdemeanor Man Bloomsbury Publishing Finalist
2006 Brian Freeman Immoral St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Winner [9]
Mike Harrison All Shook Up ECW Press Finalist
Randall Hicks Baby Game Wordslinger Press Finalist
2007 Nick Stone Mr. Clarinet Crum Creek Winner
Jane K. Cleland Consigned to Death Minotaur Books Finalist
Troy Cook 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers Capital Crime Press Finalist
John Hart King of Lies Minotaur Books Finalist
Cornelia Read A Field of Darkness Mysterious Finalist
2008 Tana French In the Woods W. W. Norton Winner [42][43][44]
Matt Beynon Rees The Collaborator of Bethlehem Minotaur Books Finalist
Joe Hill Heart-Shaped Box Penguin Finalist
Lisa Lutz The Spellman Files Hodder & Stoughton/Atria Finalist
Tim Maleeny Stealing the Dragon Oceanview Finalist
2009 Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo HarperCollins / Ecco Winner [45]
Zoë Ferraris Finding Nouf Bantam Books Finalist
G.M. Malliet Death of a Cozy Writer Metro Finalist
Charlie Newton Calumet City McFarland & Company Finalist
Scott Pratt An Innocent Client Ballantine Books Finalist
Michael Stanley A Carrion Death Random House Finalist
Dan Waddell The Blood Detective Soho Press Finalist

2010s

Best First Mystery winners and finalists, 2010-2019[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2010 Alan Bradley The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie Delacorte Publishing Winner [11]
Jamie Freveletti Running from the Devil William Morrow & Co. Finalist [46]
Sophie Littlefield A Bad Day for Sorry Minotaur Books Finalist
Stuart Neville The Ghosts of Belfast Soho Crime Finalist
Malla Nunn A Beautiful Place to Die Picador Finalist
2011 Bruce DeSilva Rogue Island Forge Books/Tom Doherty Associates Winner [12][47][48]
Hilary Davidson The Damage Done Forge Books Finalist
Paul Doiron The Poacher’s Son Minotaur Books Finalist
Sasscer Hill Full Mortality Wildside Press Finalist
Simon Lelic A Thousand Cuts Viking Press Finalist
2012 Leonard Rosen All Cry Chaos Permanent Press Winner [14][15][49]
Sara J. Henry Learning to Swim Crown Finalist
Darrell James Nazareth Child Midnight Ink Finalist
Alice LaPlante Turn of Mind Atlantic Monthly Finalist
Taylor Stevens The Informationist Crown Finalist
S. J. Watson Before I Go To Sleep Harper Finalist
2013 Daniel Friedman Don’t Ever Get Old Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books Winner [16]
Susan M. Boyer Low Country Boil Henery Press Finalist
Susan Elia MacNeal Mr. Churchill’s Secretary Random House – Bantam Books Finalist [50]
Chris Pavone The Expats Crown Finalist
2014 Terry Shames A Killing at Cotton Hill Seventh Street Books Winner [17][18]
Matt Coyle Yesterday’s Echo Oceanview Publishing Finalist [51]
Becky Masterman Rage Against the Dying Minotaur Books Finalist [51]
Jenny Milchman Cover of Snow Ballantine Books Finalist [51]
Derek Miller Norwegian by Night Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist [51]
2015 Julia Dahl Invisible City Minotaur Books Winner [19]
Kristi Belcamino Blessed Are the Dead Witness Impulse Finalist [20]
Tom Bouman Dry Bones in the Valley W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist [20]
Sarah Hilary Someone Else’s Skin Penguin Books Finalist [20]
Elizabeth Little Dear Daughter Viking Press Finalist [20]
Lori Rader-Day The Black Hour Seventh Street Books Finalist [20]
2016 Glen Erik Hamilton Past Crimes William Morrow & Co. Winner
Patricia Abbott Concrete Angel Polis Finalist [22]
Chris Holm The Killing Kind Mulholland Books Finalist [22]
David Joy Where All Light Tends to Go G. P. Putnam's Sons Finalist [22]
Ausma Zehanat Khan The Unquiet Dead Minotaur Books Finalist [22]
Art Taylor On the Road with Del and Louise Henery Finalist [22]
2017 Joe Ide IQ Mulholland Books Winner
Fiona Barton The Widow UK: Bantam Books

US: NAL

Finalist [23]
Flynn Berry Under the Harrow Penguin Books Finalist [23]
Bill Beverly Dodgers No Exit Press Finalist [23]
Renee Patrick Design for Dying Forge Books Finalist [23]
2018 Sheena Kamal The Lost Ones William Morrow & Co. Winner [24]
Kellye Garrett Hollywood Homicide Midnight Ink Finalist [24]
Jane Harper The Dry Flatiron Books Finalist [24]
Jordan Harper She Rides Shotgun Ecco Press Finalist [24]
Kristen Lepionka The Last Place You Look Minotaur Books Finalist [24]
Wendall Thomas Lost Luggage Poisoned Pen Finalist [24]
2019 John Copenhaver Dodging and Burning Pegasus Books Winner [52]
Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer Doubleday Finalist
Delia Owens Where the Crawdads Sing G. P. Putnam's Sons Finalist
Catherine Steadman Something in the Water Ballantine Books Finalist
C.J. Tudor The Chalk Man Crown Finalist

2020s

Best First Mystery winners and finalists, 2020–present[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2020 Tara Laskowski One Night Gone Graydon House Books Winner [26]
Samantha Downing My Lovely Wife Penguin Books Finalist [26][27]
Tori Eldridge The Ninja Daughter Agora Books Finalist [26][27]
Angie Kim Miracle Creek Sarah Crichton Books Finalist [26][27]
J.P. Pomare Call Me Evie G.P. Putnam’s Sons Finalist [26][27][53]
Lauren Wilkinson American Spy Random House Finalist [26][27]
2021 David Heska Wanbli Weiden Winter Counts Ecco Press Winner [29]
Deepa Anappara Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Random House Finalist
Nev March Murder in Old Bombay Minotaur Books Finalist
Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club Pamela Dorman Books Finalist
Stephanie Wrobel Darling Rose Gold Berkley Books Finalist
2022 Mia P. Manansala Arsenic and Adobo Berkley Books Winner [30][31]
Alexandra Andrews Who is Maude Dixon? Little, Brown, & Co. Finalist [30][31]
Abigail Dean Girl A Viking Press Finalist [30][31]
Erin Flanagan Deer Season University of Nebraska Press Finalist [30][31]
Wanda M. Morris All Her Little Secrets William Morrow & Co. Finalist [30][31]

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical

This category has had multiple names since its inception and review the best mystery-related critical, biographical, and otherwise nonfiction titles.

1980s

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 1987-1989[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Result
1987 Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini 1001 Midnights Winner
1988 Bill Pronzini Son of Gun in Cheek Winner
1989 Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson Silk Stalkings Winner

1990s

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 1990-1999[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result
1990 H. R. F. Keating The Bedside Companion to Crime Winner
1991 Gillian Gill Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries Winner
1992 Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman Winner
1993 Ellen Nehr Doubleday Crime Club Compendium Doubleday Winner
1994 Ed Gorman (ed.) The Fine Art of Murder Winner
1995 Dean James and Jean Swanson By a Woman’s Hand Winner
1996 Willetta L. Heising Detecting Women Purple Moon Winner
1997 Willetta Heising Detecting Women 2 Purple Moon Press Winner
1998 Jan Grape, Dean James, and Ellen Nehr Deadly Women Carroll & Graf Winner
Ben Macintyre The Napoleon of Crime: Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief Farrar, Straus & Giroux Finalist
Natalie Kaufman and Carol Kay G is for Grafton Henry Holt & Co. Finalist
Ian Ousby Guilty Parties: A Mystery Lover’s Companion Thames & Hudson Finalist
1999 Jean Swanson and Dean James Killer Books Berkley Books Winner
Alzina Stone Dale Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide to Washington, DC Passport Books Finalist
Ed Gorman and Martin Greenberg Speaking of Murder Berkley Books Finalist
Eddie Muller Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir St. Martin’s Finalist
Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson Silk Stalkings II Scarecrow Finalist

2000s

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 2000-2009[2][3][4]
Year Author(s) Title Publisher Result Ref.
2000 Tom Nolan Ross Macdonald Penguin Rough Guides Winner
Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl (eds.) A Taste of Murder Dell Finalist
Daniel Stashower Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle Henry Holt & Co. Finalist
2001 Marvin Lachman The American Regional Mystery Minotaur Books Winner
Martin Booth The Doctor and the Detective: A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Finalist
Margaret Caldwell Thomas essays Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Finalist
Martha Hailey Dubose Women of Mystery: the Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 2000 Finalist
Jim Huang (ed.) 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century Crum Creek Press Finalist
2002 G. Miki Hayden Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional Howdunit Series, Writers Digest Books Winner
Max Allan Collins The War of the World Murders Collectors Press Finalist
Michael J. Hayde My Name’s Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb Cumberland House Finalist
Tony Hillerman Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir HarperCollins Finalist
Jeffrey Marks Who Was that Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery Delphi Books Finalist
2003 Jim Huang (ed.) They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels William Morrow & Co. Winner
Mike Ashley The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Crime Fiction Carroll & Graf Finalist
Jeff Marks Intent to Sell: Marketing the Genre Novel Deadly Alibi Press Finalist
Eddie Muller The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir The Overlook Press Finalist
2004 Gary Warren Niebuhr Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader’s Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction Putnam Winner
Colleen A Barnett Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Vol. 3 Poisoned Pen Press Finalist
Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers Poisoned Pen Press Finalist
Andrew Wilson Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith Bloomsbury Publishing Finalist
2005 D. P. Lyle, MD Forensics for Dummies William Morrow & Co. Winner [54]
Frankie Y. Bailey and Steven Chermak Famous American Crimes & Trials, Vol. 1 Praeger Publishers Finalist
Jim Doherty Just the Facts: True Tales of Cops & Criminals Deadly Serious Press Finalist
Leslie S. Klinger The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories W. W. Norton Finalist
Darrell B. Lockhart Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide Greenwood Press Finalist
2006 Melanie Rehak Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her Columbia University Press Winner [9]
Jonathan Goodman Tracks to Murder Kent State University Press Finalist
Stuart Kaminsky with Laurie Roberts (photo) Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed Hothouse Press Finalist
Leslie S. Klinger (ed.) New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist
Mary Roach Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist
2007 Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (eds.) Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers Five Star Winner
Chris Roerden Don’t Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Ending Up D.O.A. Bella Rosa Books Finalist
Daniel Stashower The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder Dutton Finalist
2008 Roger Sobin (ed.) The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians Harcourt Winner
Barry Forshaw Rough Guide to Crime Fiction McFarland & Co. Finalist
Jean Gould O'Connell Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy Michael Joseph/ Delacorte Finalist
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley (eds.) Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters Walker Finalist
Lee Lofland Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers HarperPress/Penguin Finalist
2009 Frankie Y. Bailey African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study Onyx Winner
Leonard Cassuto Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories Finalist [55]
Kathy Lynn Emerson How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries St. Martin’s Finalist
David Geherin Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction Bleak House Books Finalist
Harry Lee Poe Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist
Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective Poisoned Pen Press Finalist

2010s

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 2010-2019[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2010 P.D. James Talking About Detective Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Winner [11]
John Buntin L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City Random House: Harmony Books Finalist
Craig McDonald Rogue Males: Conversations & Confrontations About the Writing Life Bleak House Books Finalist
Otto Penzler (ed.) The Line Up: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives Little, Brown, & Co. Finalist
Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art Penguin Books Finalist
Elena Santangelo Dame Agatha’s Shorts: An Agatha Christie Short Story Companion Bella Rosa Books Finalist
2011 John Curran Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making HarperCollins Winner [12]
Deborah Blum The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York Penguin Books Finalist
Yunte Huang Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist
Maxim Jakubowski (ed.) Following the Detectives: Real Locations in Crime Fiction New Holland Finalist
David Morrell and Hank W. Wagner (eds.) Thrillers: 100 Must Reads Oceanview Publishing Finalist
2012 Charlaine Harris The Sookie Stackhouse Companion Ace Books Winner [14][15]
Leslie Budewitz Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure Linden Finalist
John Curran Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks HarperCollins Finalist
A.B. Emrys Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel McFarland & Company Finalist
T. J. English The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge William Morrow & Co. Finalist
2013 John Connolly and Declan Burke (eds.) Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels Simon & Schuster – Atria/Emily Bestler Winner [16]
Paul French Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China Penguin Books Finalist
Otto Penzler (ed.) In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero BenBella/Smart Pop Finalist
2014 Daniel Stashower The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War Minotaur Books Winner [17][18]
Roseanne Montillo The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece William Morrow & Co. Finalist [51]
Charles J. Rzepka Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard Johns Hopkins University Press Finalist [51]
2015 Hank Phillippi Ryan (ed.) Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer’s Journey Henery Press Winner [19]
Charles Brownson The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis McFarland & Company Finalist [20]
J.W. Ocker Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe Countryman Finalist [20]
Adam Plantinga 400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman Quill Driver Finalist [20]
2016 Martin Edwards The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story HarperCollins Winner
Kathryn Harkup A Is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie Bloomsbury Sigma Finalist [22]
Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (eds.) Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald Arcade Finalist [22]
Val McDermid Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime Grove Press Finalist [22]
Nathan Ward The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett Bloomsbury Publishing Finalist [22]
2017 Margaret Kinsman Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction McFarland & Company Winner [56]
Jane K. Cleland Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats Writer’s Digest Books Finalist [23]
Ruth Franklin Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life Liveright Publishing Finalist [23]
David J. Skal Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula Liveright Publishing Finalist [23]
Kate Summerscale The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer Penguin Books Finalist [23]
2018 Martin Edwards The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books Poisoned Pen Press/British Library Winner [24]
Mattias Bostrom From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon Mysterious Press Finalist [24]
Lawrence P. Jackson Chester B. Himes: A Biography W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist [24]
Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery Scribner Finalist [24]
Michael Sims Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes Bloomsbury Finalist [24]
Tori Telfer Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History Harper Perennial Finalist [24]
2019 Sarah Weinman The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World HarperCollins Winner [25]
Laird R. Blackwell The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction McFarland & Company Finalist
Margalit Fox Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World’s Most Famous Detective Writer Random House Finalist
Leslie S. Klinger Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s Pegasus Books Finalist
Michelle McNamara I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer HarperCollins Finalist
Laura Thompson Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life Pegasus Books Finalist

2020s

Best Mystery Nonfiction/Critical winners and finalists, 2020–present[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2020 John Billheimer Hitchcock and the Censors University Press of Kentucky Winner [26]
Laird R. Blackwell Frederic Dannay Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story, McFarland & Company Finalist [26][27]
Ursula Buchan Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan Bloomsbury Publishing Finalist [26][27]
Peter Houlahan Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery American History, Counterpoint Finalist [26][27]
Mo Moulton The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women Basic Books Finalist [26][27]
James Polchin Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall Counterpoint Finalist [26][27]
2021 Sheila Mitchell H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime Level Best Books Winner [29]
Leslie Brody Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy Seal Press Finalist
Martin Edwards (ed.) Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club HarperCollins Finalist
Erin E. MacDonald Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction McFarland & Company Finalist
Craig Sisterson Southern Cross Crime: The Pocket Essential Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia and New Zealand Oldcastle Books Finalist
2022 Lee Child with Laurie R. King How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America Scribner Winner [8]
Mark Aldridge Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World HarperCollins Finalist
Margalit Fox The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History Random House Finalist
Richard Greene The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist
James McGrath Morris Tony Hillerman: A Life University of Oklahoma Press Finalist
John Tresch The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science Farrar, Straus and Giroux Finalist
Edward White The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense W. W. Norton & Co. Finalist

Best Mystery Short Story

1980s

Best Mystery Short Story winners and finalists, 1987-1989[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publication Ref.
1987 Sue Grafton The Parker Shotgun Winner
1988 Robert Barnard The Woman in the Wardrobe Winner
1989 Doug Allyn Deja Vu Winner

1990s

Best Mystery Short Story winners and finalists, 1990-1999[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publication Ref. Ref.
1990 Nancy Pickard Afraid All the Time Winner
1991 Joan Hess Too Much to Bare Winner [57]
1992 Margaret Maron Deborah’s Judgement Winner [5]
1993 Carolyn Hart Henrie O's Holiday Winner
1994 Susan Dunlap Checkout Winner
1995 Deborah Adams Cast Your Fate to the Wind Winner
Jan Burke Unharmed Winner
1996 Colin Dexter Evans Tries an O-Level Morse’s Greatest Mystery (Crown) Winner
1997 Carolyn Wheat Cruel & Unusual Guilty As Charged (Pocket Books) Winner
1998 Peter Robinson Two Ladies of Rose Cottage Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books) Winner
William Bankier Real Bullets This Time Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1997 Finalist
Stuart Kaminsky Find Miriam New Mystery Magazine, Summer 1997 Finalist
Edward Marston and Peter Lovesey The Corbett Correspondence Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books) Finalist
Polly Whitney Etiquette Lesson Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine Finalist
1999 Barbara D’Amato Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 98 Winner
Laurien Berenson Sleeping Dogs Lie by Canine Crimes (Ballantine Books) Finalist
Harlan Coben A Simple Philosophy Malice Domestic 7 (Avon) Finalist
Dean James The Village Vampire & the Oboe of Death Malice Domestic 7 (Avon) Finalist

2000s

Mystery Short Story winners and finalists, 20 0-2009[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publications Result Ref.
2000 Kate Grilley Maubi and the Jumbies The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007 Winner
Laurie King Paleta Man Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins) Finalist
Anne Perry Heroes Murder & Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler (Delacorte Press) Finalist
Carolyn Wheat Show Me the Bones Diagnosis Dead, edited by Jonathan Kellerman (Pocket Books) Finalist
2001 Reginald Hill A Candle for Christmas Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep-Oct 2007 Winner
Jan Burke The Man in the Civil Suit Malice Domestic 9 (Avon) Finalist
Joyce Christmas The Chosen Unholy Orders (Intrigue Press) Finalist
2002 Jan Burke The Abbey Ghosts Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003 Winner
Katherine Hall Page The Would-Be Widower Malice Domestic 10, edited by Nevada Barr (Avon) Finalist
Ted Hertel My Bonnie Lies The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, edited by Michael Hemmingson (Carroll & Graf) Finalist
Rochelle Krich Bitter Waters Criminal Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence W. Raphael (Jewish Lights) Finalist
2003 Janet Dawson Voice Mail Harper / Headline Winner
Diana Deverell Boot Scoot Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2002 Finalist
Brendan DuBois An Empire’s Reach Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November 2002 Finalist
Toni L.P. Kelner Bible Belt Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2002 Finalist
Marcia Talley Too Many Cooks Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime) Finalist
Carolyn Wheat The Adventure of the Rara Avis Murder, My Dear Watson, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower (Carroll & Graf) Finalist
2004 Sandy Balzo The Grass Is Always Greener Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb 2007 Winner
Robert Barnard Rogues Gallery Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003 Finalist
Diana Deverell Texas Two-Step Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 2003 Finalist
Beth Foxwell No Man’s Land Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime) Finalist [58]
G. Miki Hayden War Crimes A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime) Finalist
Ronnie Klaskin Child Support A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime) Finalist
Elaine Viets Red Meat Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime) Finalist
2005 Terence Faherty The Widow of Slane Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2005 Winner
Sandra Balzo Viscery Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2004 Finalist
Alana White The Lady’s Not for Dying Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Winter 2004 Finalist
2006 Nancy Pickard There Is No Crime on Easter Island Scam and Eggs, Five Star Winner
Robert Barnard Everybody’s Girl Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2005 Finalist
David Corbett It Can Happen San Francisco Noir, Akashic Books Finalist
Steve Hockensmith The Big Road Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2005 Finalist
2007 Tim Maleeny Til Death Do Us Part MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben (Little, Brown & Co.) Winner [9]
Robert Barnard Provenance Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jul 2006 Finalist
Roberta Isleib Disturbance in the Field Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw (Level Best Books) Finalist
2008 Rhys Bowen Please Watch Your Step Hardly Knew Her (William Morrow & Co.) Winner
Donna Andrews A Rat’s Tale Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2007 Finalist
Jon L. Breen The Missing Elevator Puzzle Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin) Finalist
Beverle Graves Myers Brimstone P.I. Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin) Finalist
Gillian Roberts The Old Wife’s Tale Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004 Finalist
2009 Dana Cameron The Night Things Changed Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mar-Apr 2007 Winner
Sean Chercover A Sleep Not Unlike Death Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep/Oct 2008 Finalist
Toni L.P. Kelner Keeping Watch Over His Flock Murderous Intent, Fall 1999 Finalist
Laura Lippman Scratch a Woman Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 2001 Finalist
Tom Piccirilli Between the Dark and the Daylight Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2007 Finalist

2010s

Mystery Short Story winners and finalists, 2010-2019[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publication Result Ref.
2010 Hank Phillippi Ryan On the House Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers, Level Best Books Winner [11]
Ace Atkins Last Fair Deal Gone Down Crossroad Blues, Busted Flush Press Finalist
Dana Cameron Femme Sole Boston Noir, Akashic Books Finalist
Jim Fusilli Digby, Attorney at Law Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2009 Finalist
Carolyn Hart Your Turn Two of the Deadliest, Harper Finalist
Marcus Sakey The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can’t Put Down, Mira Finalist
Luis Alberto Urrea Amapola Phoenix Noir, Akashic Books Finalist
2011 Dana Cameron Swing Shift Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side, Berkley Books Winner [12]
Doug Allyn The Scent of Lilacs Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Finalist
Keith Gilman Devil’s Pocket Philadelphia Noir, Akashic Books Finalist
Richard Helms The Gods for Vengeance Cry Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine Finalist
G.M. Malliet Bookworm Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’, Wildside Press Finalist
2012 Dana Cameron Disarming Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011 Winner [14][15]
Trina Corey Facts Exhibiting Wantonness Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2011 Finalist
Daryl Wood Gerber Palace by the Lake Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, Wildside Press Finalist
Barb Goffman Truth and Consequences Mystery Times Ten, Buddhapuss Ink Finalist
Kathleen Ryan Heat of Passion A Twist of Noir, Feb. 14, 2011 Finalist
Peter Turnbull The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011 Finalist
2013 Barb Goffman The Lord Is My Shamus Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press Winner [16]
Jeffrey Deaver The Sequel The Strand Magazine, November 2012-February 2013 Finalist
Jim Fusilli Blind Justice Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books Finalist
Karin Slaughter The Unremarkable Heart Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books Finalist
B.K. Stevens Thea’s First Husband Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012 Finalist
Art Taylor When Duty Calls Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder, Wildside Press Finalist
2014 Art Taylor The Care and Feeding of Houseplants Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013 Winner [17][18]
Reed Farrel Coleman The Terminal Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler, Thomas & Mercer Finalist [51]
John Connolly The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler, Bookspan Finalist [51]
Martin Limon The Dragon’s Tail Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books Finalist [51]
Gigi Pandian The Hindi Houdini Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long, Wildside Press Finalist [51]
Travis Richardson Incident on the 405 The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey, Macmillan Finalist [51]
2015 Craig Faustus Buck Honeymoon Sweet Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron, Down & Out Winner [19]
Barb Goffman The Shadow Knows Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley, Wildside Press Finalist [20]
Paul D. Marks Howling at the Moon Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014 Finalist [20]
Travis Richardson The Proxy Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014 Finalist [20]
Art Taylor The Odds Are Against Us Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014 Finalist [20]
2016 Megan Abbott The Little Men MysteriousPress.com/Open Road Winner
Mat Coward On Borrowed Time Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2015 Finalist [22]
Loren D. Estleman Sob Sister Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus Finalist [22]
Barb Goffman A Year Without Santa Claus Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015 Finalist [22]
Travis Richardson Quack and Dwight Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press Finalist [22]
B.K. Stevens A Joy Forever Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March 2015 Finalist [22]
2017 Art Taylor Parallel Play Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press Winner [59]
Lawrence Block Autumn at the Automat In Sunlight or in Shadow, Pegasus Books Finalist [23]
Craig Faustus Buck Blank Shot Black Coffee, Darkhouse Books Finalist [23]
Greg Herren Survivor’s Guilt Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016, Down & Out Books Finalist [23]
Paul D. Marks Ghosts of Bunker Hill Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2016 Finalist [23]
Joyce Carol Oates The Crawl Space Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2016 Finalist [23]
2018 Paul D. Marks Windward Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books Winner [60][24]
Craig Faustus Buck As Ye Sow Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017, Down and Out Books Finalist [24]
Matt Coyle The #2 Pencil Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books Finalist [24]
Terence Faherty Infinite Uticas Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017 Finalist [24]
Barb Goffman Whose Wine is it Anyway? 50 Shades of Cabernet, Koehler Books Finalist [24]
Art Taylor A Necessary Ingredient Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books Finalist [24]
2019 Art Taylor English 398: Fiction Workshop Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018 Winner
Craig Faustus Buck Race to Judgment Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018 Finalist
Leslie Budewitz All God’s Sparrows Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May/Jun 2018 Finalist
Barb Goffman Bug Appétit Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018 Finalist
Barry Lancet Three-Star Sushi Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3 Finalist
Gigi Pandian The Cambodian Curse The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories Finalist

2020s

Mystery Short Story winners and finalists, 2020–present[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2020 Art Taylor Better Days Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019 Winner [26]
Michael Chandos West Texas Barbecue The Eyes of Texas, edited by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books) Finalist [26][27]
Terence Faherty The Cardboard Box Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019 Finalist [26][27]
Barb Goffman Alex’s Choice Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman(Wildside Press) Finalist [26][27]
G.M. Malliet Whiteout Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019 Finalist [26][27][61]
Dave Zeltserman Brother’s Keeper Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019 Finalist [26][27]
2021 Gabriel Valjan Elysian Fields California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor (Wildside Press) Winner [29]
Barb Goffman Dear Emily Etiquette Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2020 Finalist
Art Taylor The Boy Detective & The Summer of ‘74 Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , Jan/Feb 2020 Finalist
Elaine Viets Dog Eat Dog The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter (Untreed Reads Publishing) Finalist
James W. Ziskin The Twenty-Five Year Engagement In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King (Pegasus Crime) Finalist
2022 Richard Helms Sweeps Week Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 Winner [31]
Tracy Clark Lucky Thirteen Midnight Hour (Crooked Lane Books) Finalist [31]
Steve Hockensmith Curious Incidents Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021 Finalist [31]
R.T. Lawton The Road to Hana Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2021 Finalist [31]
G.M. Malliet The White Star Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 Finalist [31][62]
Gigi Pandian The Locked Room Library Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 Finalist [31]
Dave Zeltserman Julius Katz and the Two Cousins Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021 Finalist [31]

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery

The Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award was established in 2006 to honor Sue Feder, "a reviewer, scholar and dedicated mystery fan, who had founded the [now defunct] Historical Mystery Appreciation Society."[4]

2000s

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery winners and finalists, 2006-2009[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Ref. Ref.
2006 Jacqueline Winspear Pardonable Lies Scribner Winner [9]
Rhys Bowen In Like Flynn St. Martin’s/Minotaur Books Finalist
Tony Broadbent Spectres in the Smoke St. Martin’s Finalist
Max Allan Collins The War of the World Murders Finalist
Maureen Jennings Night’s Child McClelland & Stewart Finalist
2007 Rhys Bowen Oh Danny Boy G. P. Putnam’s Winner
Brett Ellen Block The Lightning Rule William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Barbara Cleverly The Bee’s Kiss Constable & Robinson Finalist
Anne Perry Dark Assassin Ballantine Books Finalist
Jacqueline Winspear Messenger of Truth Henry Holt Finalist
2008 Ariana Franklin Mistress of the Art of Death UK: Michael Joseph Ltd/Penguin Books

US: HarperCollins

Winner
Rhys Bowen Her Royal Spyness Perseverance Press Finalist
Jason Goodwin The Snake Stone Simon & Schuster Finalist
Clare Langley-Hawthorne Consequences of Sin Simon & Schuster Finalist
Joyce Carol Oates The Gravedigger’s Daughter Soho Press Finalist
2009 Rhys Bowen A Royal Pain McFarland & Co. Winner
Ward Larsen Stealing Trinity Crossover Press Finalist
David Liss The Whiskey Rebels Crum Creek Press Finalist
Karen Maitland Company of Liars Viking Press/Penguin Finalist
Kelli Stanley Nox Dormienda Minotaur Books Finalist
Jeri Westerson Veil of Lies William Morrow & Co. Finalist

2010s

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Historical Mystery winners and finalists, 2010-2019[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2010 Rebecca Cantrell A Trace of Smoke Forge Books Winner [11]
Stefanie Pintoff In the Shadow of Gotham Minotaur Books Finalist
Charles Todd A Duty to the Dead William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Jeri Westerson Serpent in the Thorns Minotaur Books Finalist
Jacqueline Winspear Among the Mad Henry Holt & Co. Finalist
2011 Kelli Stanley City of Dragons Minotaur Books Winner [12]
Barbara Hamilton A Marked Man Berkley Books Finalist
David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Random House Finalist
Charles Todd The Red Door HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. Finalist
Kenneth Wishnia The Fifth Servant HarperCollins/William Morrow & Co. Finalist
2012 Catriona McPherson Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains Thomas Dunne Books/Minotaur Winner [14][15]
Rhys Bowen Naughty in Nice Berkley Books Finalist
Jim Fusilli Narrows Gate AmazonEncore Finalist
Ann Parker Mercury’s Rise Poisoned Pen Press Finalist
Jeri Westerson Troubled Bones Minotaur Books Finalist
Jacqueline Winspear A Lesson in Secrets Harper Finalist
2013 Charles Todd An Unmarked Grave HarperCollins Winner [16]
Rebecca Cantrell A City of Broken Glass Forge Books Finalist
Susan Elia MacNeal Princess Elizabeth’s Spy Random House – Bantam Books Finalist [50]
Charles Todd The Confession HarperCollins Finalist
Jacqueline Winspear Elegy For Eddie HarperCollins Finalist
2014 David Morrell Murder as a Fine Art Little, Brown, & Co. Winner [17][18]
Susanna Calkins A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate Minotaur Books Finalist [51]
Robert Kresge Saving Lincoln ABQ Press Finalist [51]
Catriona McPherson Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses Minotaur Books Finalist [51]
Stuart Neville Ratlines Soho Crime Finalist [51]
2015 Catriona McPherson A Deadly Measure of Brimstone Minotaur Books Winner [19]
Rhys Bowen Queen of Hearts Berkley Prime Crime Finalist [20]
Alan Finn Things Half in Shadow Gallery Finalist [20]
Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy Alfred A. Knopf Finalist [20]
Malla Nunn Present Darkness Atria Finalist [20]
Charles Todd Hunting Shadows William Morrow & Co. Finalist [20]
2016 Susanna Calkins The Masque of a Murderer Minotaur Books Winner
Shelley Freydont A Gilded Grave Berkley Prime Crime Finalist [22]
C. Joseph Greaves Tom & Lucky (and George & Cokey Flo) Bloomsbury Finalist [22]
Philip Kerr The Lady from Zagreb Marian Wood/G. P. Putnam's Sons Finalist [22]
Jennifer Kincheloe Secret Life of Anna Blanc Seventh Street Books Finalist [22]
Laurie R. King Dreaming Spies Bantam Books Finalist [22]
2017 James W. Ziskin Heart of Stone Seventh Street Books Winner
Susanna Calkins A Death Along the River Fleet Minotaur Books Finalist [23]
Lyndsay Faye Jane Steele UK: Headline Review

US: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Finalist [23]
Edith Maxwell Delivering The Truth Midnight Ink Finalist [23]
Catriona McPherson The Reek of Red Herrings US: Minotaur

UK: Houghton Stodder

Finalist [23]
Ann Parker What Gold Buys Poisoned Pen Press Finalist [23]
2018 Rhys Bowen In Farleigh Field Lake Union Publishing Winner [24]
James R. Benn The Devouring Soho Crime Finalist [24]
Abir Mukherjee A Rising Man Pegasus Finalist [24]
Renee Patrick Dangerous to Know Forge Books Finalist [24]
Charles Todd Racing the Devil William Morrow & Co. Finalist [24]
James W. Ziskin Cast the First Stone Seventh Street Books Finalist [24]
2019 Sujata Massey The Widows of Malabar Hill Soho Crime Winner
Dianne Freeman A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder Kensington Books Finalist
Elsa Hart City of Ink Minotaur Books Finalist
Laurie R. King Island of the Mad Bantam Books Finalist
Ann Parker A Dying Note Poisoned Pen Finalist
Charles Todd A Forgotten Place William Morrow & Co. Finalist

2020s

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Historical Mystery winners and finalists, 2020-present[2][3][4]
Year Author Title Publisher Result Ref.
2020 Lara Prescott The Secrets We Kept Vintage Winner [26]
Susanna Calkins Murder Knocks Twice Minotaur Books Finalist [26][27]
L.A. Chandlar The Pearl Dagger Kensington Books Finalist [26][27]
Dianne Freeman A Lady’s Guide to Gossip and Murder Kensington Books Finalist [26][27]
Sujata Massey The Satapur Moonstone Soho Crime Finalist [26][27]
Edith Maxwell Charity’s Burden Midnight Ink Finalist [26][27]
2021 James Ziskin Turn to Stone Seventh Street Books Winner [29]
Rhys Bowen The Last Mrs. Summers Berkeley Books Finalist
Elsa Hart The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne Minotaur Books Finalist
Catriona McPherson The Turning Tide Quercus Finalist
Ann Parker Mortal Music Poisoned Pen Press Finalist
Ovidia Yu The Mimosa Tree Mystery Constable Press Finalist
2022 Naomi Hirahara Clark and Division Soho Crime Winner [31]
Rhys Bowen The Venice Sketchbook Lake Union Finalist [31]
Susan Elia MacNeal The Hollywood Spy Bantam Books Finalist [31][50]
Sujata Massey The Bombay Prince Soho Crime Finalist [31]
Silvia Moreno-Garcia Velvet was the Night Del Rey Books Finalist [31]
Lori Rader-Day Death at Greenway William Morrow & Co. Finalist [31]

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