| Holy City | Henry Wise | - 2025 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2025 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett | Ashley Lawson | - 2025 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2025 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The God of the Woods | Liz Moore | - 2025 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2025 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The In Crowd | Charlotte Vassell | | - 2025 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective | Steven Johnson | - 2025 Winner (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2025 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Mark Dawidziak | - 2024 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| All the Sinners Bleed | S.A. Cosby | - 2024 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2024 Winner (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Crook Manifesto | Colson Whitehead | - 2024 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe | Robert Morgan | - 2024 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Hide | Tracy Clark | - 2024 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Murder by Degrees | Ritu Mukerji | - 2024 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall | Zeke Faux | - 2024 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction | Max Allan Collins, James L. Traylor | - 2024 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Golden Gate | Amy Chua | - 2024 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2024 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The River We Remember | William Kent Krueger | - 2024 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2024 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman | Lucy Worsley | - 2023 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2023 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Shutter | Ramona Emerson | - 2023 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2023 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie | Mary Anna Evans, J.C. Bernthal | - 2023 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2023 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations | David Geherin | - 2023 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2023 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Maid | Nita Prose | - 2023 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2023 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World | Mark Aldridge | - 2022 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Bobby March Will Live Forever | Alan Parks | - 2022 Winner (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Deer Season | Erin Flanagan | - 2022 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Razorblade Tears | S.A. Cosby | - 2022 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2022 Winner (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History | Margalit Fox | - 2022 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science | John Tresch | - 2022 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense | Edward White | - 2022 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene | Richard Greene | - 2022 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Venice Sketchbook | Rhys Bowen | - 2022 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2022 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Tony Hillerman: A Life | James McGrath Morris | - 2022 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2022 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Before She Was Helen | Caroline B. Cooney | - 2021 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Darling Rose Gold | Stephanie Wrobel | - 2021 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Deepa Anappara | | - 2021 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club | Martin Edwards | - 2021 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | Erin E. MacDonald | - 2021 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Murder in Old Bombay | Nev March | - 2021 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne | Elsa Hart | - 2021 Winner (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2021 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| The Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman | - 2021 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| These Women | Ivy Pochoda | - 2021 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2021 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Turn to Stone | James Ziskin | - 2021 Nominee (Sue Grafton Memorial Award)
| - 2021 Winner (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Winter Counts | David Heska Wanbli Weiden | - 2021 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2021 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| American Spy | Lauren Wilkinson | - 2020 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan | Ursula Buchan | - 2020 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | James Polchin | - 2020 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Miracle Creek | Angie Kim | - 2020 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| My Lovely Wife | Samantha Downing | - 2020 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Peter Houlahan | - 2020 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| One Night Gone | Tara Laskowski | - 2020 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2020 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| The Murder List | Hank Philippi Ryan | - 2020 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women | Mo Moulton | - 2020 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2020 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey | - 2020 Nominee (Sue Grafton Memorial Award)
| - 2020 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| The Secrets We Kept | Lara Prescott | - 2020 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2020 Winner (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder | Dianne Freeman | - 2019 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2019 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life | Laura Thompson | - 2019 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s | Leslie S. Klinger | - 2019 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Hiroshima Boy | Naomi Hirahara | - 2019 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | Michelle McNamara | - 2019 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| If I Die Tonight | Alison Gaylin | - 2019 Winner (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Under My Skin | Lisa Unger | - 2019 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | - 2019 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2019 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| A Rising Man | Abir Mukherjee | - 2018 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2018 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes | Michael Sims | - 2018 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2018 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke | | - 2018 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Chester B. Himes: A Biography | Lawrence P. Jackson | - 2018 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2018 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon | Mattias Bostrom | - 2018 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2018 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| In Farleigh Field | Rhys Bowen | - 2018 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2018 Winner (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| She Rides Shotgun | Jordan Harper | - 2018 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2018 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery | Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James | - 2018 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2018 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Before the Fall | Noah Hawley | | - 2017 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Dodgers | Bill Beverly | - 2017 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2017 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Heart of Stone | James W. Ziskin | - 2017 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2017 Winner (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| IQ | Joe Ide | - 2017 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2017 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| Jane Steele | Lyndsay Faye | - 2017 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2017 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | Ruth Franklin | - 2017 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2017 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula | David J. Skal | - 2017 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2017 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer | Kate Summerscale | - 2017 Winner (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2017 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Under the Harrow | Flynn Berry | - 2017 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2017 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime | Val McDermid | - 2016 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2016 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Life or Death | Michael Robotham | - 2016 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2016 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Past Crimes | Glen Erik Hamilton | - 2016 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2016 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| The Child Garden | Catriona McPherson | - 2016 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2016 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Lady from Zagreb | Philip Kerr | - 2016 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2016 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett | Nathan Ward | - 2016 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2016 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Masque of a Murderer | Susanna Calkins | - 2016 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2016 Winner (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Where All Light Tends to Go | David Joy | - 2016 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2016 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Dry Bones in the Valley | Tom Bouman | - 2015 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2015 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Invisible City | Julia Dahl | - 2015 Nominee (Best First Novel)
- 2015 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2015 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe | J.W. Ocker | - 2015 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2015 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Black Hour | Lori Rader-Day | - 2015 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2015 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Day She Died | Catriona McPherson | - 2015 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2015 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis | Charles Brownson | - 2015 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2015 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Cover of Snow | Jenny Milchman | - 2014 Winner (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2014 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| How the Light Gets In | Louise Penny | - 2014 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2014 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Rage Against the Dying | Becky Masterman | - 2014 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2014 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Sandrine's Case | Thomas H. Cook | - 2014 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2014 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Standing in Another Man's Grave | Ian Rankin | - 2014 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2014 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Wicked Girls | Alex Marwood | - 2014 Winner (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2014 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| A City of Broken Glass | Rebecca Cantrell | - 2013 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2013 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Don't Ever Get Old | Daniel Friedman | - 2013 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2013 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn | - 2013 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of and American Hero | Otto Penzler | - 2013 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China | Paul French | - 2013 Winner (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Mr. Churchill's Secretary | Susan Elia MacNeal | - 2013 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Expats | Chris Pavone | - 2013 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Last Policeman: A Novel | Ben H. Winters | - 2013 Winner (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Other Woman | Hank Phillippi Ryan | - 2013 Winner (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2013 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| 1222 | Anne Holt | - 2012 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2012 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making | John Curran | - 2012 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2012 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| All Cry Chaos | Leonard Rosen | - 2012 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2012 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| Learning to Swim | Sara J. Henry | - 2012 Winner (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2012 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Savage City: Race, Murder and a Generation on the Edge | T.J. English | - 2012 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2012 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making | John Curran | - 2011 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2011 Winner (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and this Rendezvous with American History | Yunte Huang | - 2011 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2011 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Faithful Place | Tana French | - 2011 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2011 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Poacher's Son | Paul Doiron | - 2011 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2011 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Queen of Patpong | Timothy Hallinan | - 2011 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2011 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Thrillers: 100 Must Reads | David Morrell, Hank Wagner | - 2011 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2011 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| A Bad Day for Sorry | Sophie Littlefield | - 2010 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2010 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| A Beautiful Place to Die | Malla Nunn | - 2010 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2010 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Bury Me Deep | Megan Abbott | - 2010 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2010 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| In the Shadow of Gotham | Stefanie Pintoff | - 2010 Winner (Best First Novel)
| - 2010 Nominee (Sue Feder Historical Mystery)
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| Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art | Laney Salisbury, Aly Sujo | - 2010 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2010 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Talking About Detective Fiction | P.D. James | - 2010 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2010 Winner (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study | Frankie Y. Bailey | - 2009 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2009 Winner (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Calumet City | Charlie Newton | - 2009 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| Curse of the Spellmans | Lisa Lutz | - 2009 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories | Dr. Harry Lee Poe | - 2009 Winner (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories | Leonard Cassuto | - 2009 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction | David Geherin | - 2009 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Fault Tree | Louise Ure | - 2009 Nominee (Mary Higgins Clark Award)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher | Kate Summerscale | - 2009 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2009 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Blood of Paradise | David Corbett | - 2008 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2008 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Christine Falls | Benjamin Black | - 2008 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2007 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Soul Patch | Reed Farrel Coleman | - 2008 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2008 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| A Field of Darkness | Cornelia Read | - 2007 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2007 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| King of Lies | John Hart | - 2007 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2007 Nominee (Best First Mystery)
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| The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder | Daniel Stashower | - 2007 Nominee (Best Fact Crime)
| - 2007 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| The Dead Hour | Denise Mina | - 2007 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2007 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Janissary Tree | Jason Goodwin | | - 2007 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Virgin of Small Plains | Nancy Pickard | - 2007 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2007 Winner (Best Mystery Novel)
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| Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed | Stuart M. Kaminsky | - 2006 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2006 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Immoral | Brian Freeman | - 2006 Nominee (Best First Novel)
| - 2006 Winner (Best First Mystery)
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| The James Deans | Reed Farrel Coleman | - 2006 Nominee (Best Paperback Original)
| - 2006 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The Lincoln Lawyer | Michael Connelly | - 2006 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2006 Winner (Best Mystery Novel)
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| The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels | Leslie S. Klinger | - 2006 Nominee (Best Critical/Biographical)
| - 2006 Nominee (Best Nonfiction/Critical)
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| Vanish | Tess Gerritsen | - 2006 Nominee (Best Novel)
| - 2006 Nominee (Best Mystery Novel)
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