Gece yarısı, sessiz bir sokakta ayak sesleri yankılanıyor. Elinizde tuttuğunuz kitap sizi, çözülmemiş bir cinayetin izini sürmeye davet ediyor. Olay yeri şeritleri arasında yürürken, bir isim fısıldanıyor: Edgar Allan Poe. İşte onun adını taşıyan Edgar Ödülleri, polisiye edebiyatın gölgelerde kalan ustalarını gün yüzüne çıkarıyor.
1946 yılından bu yana Mystery Writers of America (Amerikan Polisiye Yazarları Derneği) tarafından dağıtılan bu ödül, sadece bir dedektif hikâyesini değil, polisiye türünün en çarpıcı anlatılarını da onurlandırıyor.
Edgar Allan Poe: Karanlığın İçinden Doğan Efsane
Gizem, gerilim ve gotik korkunun ustası olan Edgar Allan Poe, edebiyat dünyasına yalnızca “Kuzgun” gibi şiirler kazandırmadı, aynı zamanda polisiye türünün de temellerini attı.
1841’de kaleme aldığı Morgue Sokağı Cinayeti ile dedektif kurgusunun doğuşuna öncülük etti. Bugün polisiye roman denildiğinde akla gelen dedektif karakterlerinin çoğu, Poe’nun yarattığı C. Auguste Dupin’den ilham alıyor.
Bu yüzden onun adını taşıyan bir ödül, polisiye edebiyatın doğasına çok yakışıyor. Edgar Ödülleri, polisiye ve gerilim edebiyatının en iyilerini ödüllendirerek türün gelişmesine katkıda bulunuyor. Bugün ödülü kazanan yazarlar, edebi derinlikleri ve sürükleyicilikleriyle edebiyat tarihine iz bırakıyor.
Edgar Ödülleri: Tartışmalar ve Dönüşümler
Polisiye edebiyat, uzun yıllar boyunca edebiyat dünyasında ikinci planda görüldü. Edgar Ödülleri, bu algıyı değiştiren en önemli unsurlardan biri oldu. Ancak ödül, yıllar içinde bazı tartışmalara da sahne oldu:
- Çeşitlilik ve Temsil: Edgar kazananları uzun süre erkek yazarlarla sınırlı kaldı ve bu durum eleştiri aldı. Son yıllarda ise ödül, daha fazla kadın yazara ve farklı kültürlerden gelen eserlere açılmaya başladı.
- Geleneksel Polisiye mi, Yeni Dalgalar mı? Polisiye Türünün Evrimi: Geleneksel dedektif hikâyelerinin yanı sıra psikolojik gerilim, kara roman (noir) ve tarihi polisiye gibi alt türlerin ödül kazanması, Edgar Ödülleri’nin genişleyen vizyonunu gösteriyor.
- Unutulmaz Skandallar: Bazı yıllarda ödül kazanan eserler, jüri kararları nedeniyle büyük tartışmalara yol açtı. Polisiye türünün doğası gereği sürükleyici ve gizem dolu olması beklenirken, kazanan bazı kitapların fazla “edebi” ve deneysel bulunduğu eleştirileri yapıldı. Klasik polisiye okurları, ödülün gittikçe ana akım edebiyatın estetik kaygılarına yöneldiğini düşünüyor. Jüri ise polisiye edebiyatın sınırlarını zorlayan ve türü geliştiren eserleri ödüllendirmeye devam ettiğini öne sürüyor. Geleneksel polisiye mi yoksa yenilikçi anlatımlar mı? Bu tartışma her yıl Edgar Ödülleri’nin merakla takip edilmesine neden oluyor.
Edgar Ödülleri’ni Kazanmak Ne Anlama Geliyor?
Bir yazar için Edgar Ödülü kazanmak, polisiye edebiyatta zirveye ulaşmak demek. Kazanan kitaplar genellikle sıradan polisiye kurguların ötesine geçerek, toplumsal eleştiri, psikolojik derinlik ve güçlü anlatım teknikleriyle dikkat çekiyor.
Örneğin, 2020 yılında ödülü kazanan Lou Berney’nin November Road adlı eseri, polisiye unsurlarının ötesinde tarihi kurguya derinlik katan bir yapısıyla dikkat çekti.
2023 yılında ise Danya Kukafka’nın Notes on an Execution adlı romanı, suçluların psikolojisini farklı bir perspektiften ele alarak ödülü kazandı.
Son Yılların En Dikkat Çeken Edgar Kazananları
Eğer polisiye edebiyatı keşfetmek ya da türü daha derinlemesine incelemek istiyorsanız, işte son yıllarda Edgar Ödülü kazanmış ve mutlaka okunması gereken bazı kitaplar:
📖 The Last House on Needless Street – Catriona Ward (2022) Gotik korkuyla polisiye atmosferinin iç içe geçtiği bu roman, olay örgüsüyle okuru defalarca şaşırtmayı başarıyor.
📖 Notes on an Execution – Danya Kukafka (2023) Bir katilin zihninden adalet kavramına farklı bir bakış sunan bu roman, polisiye türüne psikolojik ve felsefi bir boyut katıyor.
📖 Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby (2022) Hem bir intikam hikâyesi hem de ırk, toplumsal kabullenme ve aile üzerine düşündüren güçlü bir roman.
📖 Before She Knew Him – Peter Swanson (2019) Gündelik hayatın içine sinsice sızan gerilimi ustaca işleyen bir psikolojik gerilim romanı.
Edgar Ödülleri Kazananlar Listesi
Belki de polisiye türünü edebiyatın bir parçası olarak görmüyordunuz. Ama iyi yazılmış bir polisiye, sadece bir gizemi çözmekle kalmaz; aynı zamanda insan psikolojisine, toplumsal yapıya ve ahlaki ikilemlere de ışık tutar. Eğer hâlâ bu türle barışmadıysanız, Edgar kazananlarından birini okuyarak yeni bir kapı aralayabilirsiniz.
Aşağıda, ödülün ilk verildiği yıldan bugüne kadar kazananların tam listesini bulabilirsiniz. Türkçeye çevrilen eserler için çevirmen ve yayınevi bilgileri de eklendi. Polisiye türünü keşfetmek istiyorsanız, bu liste tam size göre!..
| YIL | KATEGORİ | YAZAR | ÖZGÜN ADI | TÜRKÇE ADI | ÇEVİRMEN | YAYINEVİ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Best First Novel | Julius Fast | Watchful at Night | |||
| 1947 | Best First Novel | Helen Eustis | The Horizontal Man | |||
| 1948 | Best Fact Crime | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against the Law | |||
| 1948 | Best First Novel | Fredric Brown | The Fabulous Clipjoint | |||
| 1949 | Best First Novel | Mildred Davis | The Room Upstairs | |||
| 1950 | Best Fact Crime | Joseph Henry Jackson | Bad Company | |||
| 1950 | Best First Novel | Alan Green | What A Body | |||
| 1951 | Best Fact Crime | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against Crime | |||
| 1951 | Best First Novel | Thomas Walsh | Nightmare in Manhattan | |||
| 1951 | Best Short Story | Lawrence G. Blochman | Diagnosis: Homicide | |||
| 1952 | Best Fact Crime | St. Clair McKelway | True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality | |||
| 1952 | Best First Novel | Mary McMullen | Strangle Hold | |||
| 1952 | Best Short Story | John Collier | Fancies and Goodnights | |||
| 1953 | Best Fact Crime | Erle Stanley Gardner | Court of Last Resort | |||
| 1953 | Best First Novel | William Campbell Gault | Don't Cry for Me | |||
| 1953 | Best Short Story | Philip MacDonald | Something to Hide | |||
| 1954 | Best Fact Crime | John Bartlow Martin | Why Did They Kill? | |||
| 1954 | Best First Novel | Ira Levin | A Kiss Before Dying | |||
| 1954 | Best Novel | Charlotte Jay | Beat Not the Bones | |||
| 1954 | Best Short Story | Roald Dahl | Someone Like You | |||
| 1955 | Best Fact Crime | Charles Boswell, Lewis Thompson | The Girl with the Scarlet Brand | |||
| 1955 | Best First Novel | Jean Potts | Go, Lovely Rose | |||
| 1955 | Best Novel | Raymond Chandler | The Long Goodbye | |||
| 1955 | Best Short Story | Stanley Ellin | The House Party | |||
| 1956 | Best Fact Crime | Manly Wade Wellman | Dead and Gone | |||
| 1956 | Best First Novel | Lane Kauffman | The Perfectionist | |||
| 1956 | Best Novel | Margaret Millar | Beast in View | |||
| 1956 | Best Short Story | Philip MacDonald | Dream No More | |||
| 1957 | Best Fact Crime | Charles Samuels, Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia | |||
| 1957 | Best First Novel | Donald McNutt Douglass | Rebecca's Pride | |||
| 1957 | Best Novel | Charlotte Armstrong | A Dram of Poison | |||
| 1957 | Best Short Story | Stanley Ellin | The Blessington Method | |||
| 1958 | Best Fact Crime | Harold R. Danforth, James D. Horan | The D.A.'s Man | |||
| 1958 | Best First Novel | William Rawle Weeks | Knock and Wait a While | |||
| 1958 | Best Novel | Ed Lacy | Room to Swing | |||
| 1958 | Best Short Story | Gerald Kersh | The Secret of the Bottle | |||
| 1959 | Best Fact Crime | Wenzell Brown | They Died in the Chair | |||
| 1959 | Best First Novel | Richard Martin Stern | The Bright Road to Fear | |||
| 1959 | Best Novel | Stanley Ellin | The Eighth Circle | |||
| 1959 | Best Short Story | William O'Farrell | Over There, Darkness | |||
| 1960 | Best Fact Crime | Thomas Gallager | Fire at Sea | |||
| 1960 | Best First Novel | Henry Slesar | The Grey Flannel Shroud | |||
| 1960 | Best Novel | Celia Fremlin | The Hours Before Dawn | |||
| 1960 | Best Short Story | Roald Dahl | The Landlady | |||
| 1961 | Best Fact Crime | Miriam Allen deFord | The Overbury Affair | |||
| 1961 | Best First Novel | John Holbrooke Vance | The Man in the Cage | |||
| 1961 | Best Juvenile | Phyllis A. Whitney | The Mystery of the Haunted Pool | |||
| 1961 | Best Novel | Julian Symons | The Progress of a Crime | |||
| 1961 | Best Short Story | John Durham | Tiger | |||
| 1962 | Best Fact Crime | Barrett Prettyman Jr. | Death and the Supreme Court | |||
| 1962 | Best First Novel | Suzanne Blanc | The Green Stone | |||
| 1962 | Best Juvenile | Edward Fenton | The Phantom of Walkaway Hill | |||
| 1962 | Best Novel | J.J. Marric | Gideon's Fire | |||
| 1962 | Best Short Story | Avram Davidson | Affair at Lahore Cantonment | |||
| 1963 | Best Fact Crime | Francis Russell | Tragedy in Dedham | |||
| 1963 | Best First Novel | Robert L. Fish | The Fugitive | |||
| 1963 | Best Juvenile | Scott Corbett | Cutlass Island | |||
| 1963 | Best Novel | Ellis Peters | Death and the Joyful Woman | |||
| 1963 | Best Short Story | David Ely | The Sailing Club | |||
| 1964 | Best Fact Crime | Gerold Frank | The Deed | |||
| 1964 | Best First Novel | Cornelius Hirschberg | Florentine Finish | |||
| 1964 | Best Juvenile | Phyllis A. Whitney | Mystery of the Hidden Hand | |||
| 1964 | Best Novel | Eric Ambler | The Light of Day | |||
| 1964 | Best Short Story | Leslie Ann Brownrigg | Man Gehorcht | |||
| 1965 | Best Fact Crime | Anthony Lewis | Gideon's Trumpet | |||
| 1965 | Best First Novel | Harry Kemelman | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late | |||
| 1965 | Best Juvenile | Marcella Thum | Mystery at Crane's Landing | |||
| 1965 | Best Novel | John le Carre | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | |||
| 1965 | Best Short Story | Lawrence Treat | H as in Homicide | |||
| 1966 | Best Fact Crime | Truman Capote | In Cold Blood | |||
| 1966 | Best First Novel | John Ball | In The Heat of the Night | |||
| 1966 | Best Juvenile | Leon Ware | The Mystery of 22 East | |||
| 1966 | Best Novel | Adam Hall | The Quiller Memorandum | |||
| 1966 | Best Short Story | Shirley Jackson | The Possibility of Evil | |||
| 1967 | Best Fact Crime | Gerold Frank | The Boston Strangler | |||
| 1967 | Best First Novel | Ross Thomas | The Cold War Swap | |||
| 1967 | Best Juvenile | Kin Platt | Sinbad and Me | |||
| 1967 | Best Novel | Nicolas Freeling | The King of the Rainy Country | |||
| 1967 | Best Short Story | Rhys Davies | The Chosen One | |||
| 1968 | Best Fact Crime | Victoria Lincoln | A Private Disgrace | |||
| 1968 | Best First Novel | Michael Collins | Act of Fear | |||
| 1968 | Best Juvenile | Gretchen Sprague | Signpost to Terror | |||
| 1968 | Best Novel | Donald E. Westlake | God Save the Mark | |||
| 1968 | Best Short Story | Edward D. Hoch | The Oblong Room | |||
| 1969 | Best Fact Crime | John Evangelist Walsh | Poe the Detective | |||
| 1969 | Best First Novel | Dorothy Uhnak | The Bait | |||
| 1969 | Best First Novel | E. Richard Johnson | Silver Street | |||
| 1969 | Best Juvenile | Virginia Hamilton | The House of Dies Drear | |||
| 1969 | Best Novel | Jeffery Hudson | A Case of Need | |||
| 1969 | Best Short Story | Warner Law | The Man Who Fooled the World | |||
| 1970 | Best Fact Crime | Herbert B. Ehrmann | The Case That Will Not Die | |||
| 1970 | Best First Novel | Joe Gores | A Time for Predators | |||
| 1970 | Best Juvenile | Winfred Finlay | Danger at Black Dyke | |||
| 1970 | Best Novel | Dick Francis | Forfeit | |||
| 1970 | Best Paperback Original | Scott C.S. Stone | The Dragon's Eye | |||
| 1970 | Best Short Story | Joe Gores | Goodbye, Pops | |||
| 1971 | Best Fact Crime | Mildred Savage | A Great Fall | |||
| 1971 | Best First Novel | Lawrence Sanders | The Anderson Tapes | |||
| 1971 | Best Juvenile | John Rowe Townsend | The Intruder | |||
| 1971 | Best Novel | Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo | The Laughing Policeman | Gülen Polis | Aydın Arıt | İnkılap Kitabevi |
| 1971 | Best Paperback Original | Dan J. Marlowe | Flashpoint | |||
| 1971 | Best Short Story | Margaret Finn Brown | In The Forests of Riga the Beasts Are Very Wild Indeed | |||
| 1972 | Best Fact Crime | Sandor Frankel | Beyond A Reasonable Doubt | |||
| 1972 | Best First Novel | A.H.Z. Carr | Finding Maubee | |||
| 1972 | Best Juvenile | Joan Aiken | Nightfall | |||
| 1972 | Best Novel | Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal | |||
| 1972 | Best Paperback Original | Frank McAuliffe | For Murder I Charge More | |||
| 1972 | Best Short Story | Robert L. Fish | Moonlight Gardener | |||
| 1973 | Best Fact Crime | Lewis Chester, Stephen Fay, Magnus Linkletter | Hoax | |||
| 1973 | Best First Novel | R.H. Shimer | Squaw Point | |||
| 1973 | Best Juvenile | Robb White | Deathwatch | |||
| 1973 | Best Novel | Warren Kiefer | The Lingala Code | |||
| 1973 | Best Paperback Original | Richard Wormser | The Invader | |||
| 1973 | Best Short Story | Joyce Harrington | The Purple Shroud | |||
| 1974 | Best Fact Crime | Barbara Levy | Legacy of Death | |||
| 1974 | Best First Novel | Paul E. Erdman | The Billion Dollar Sure Thing | |||
| 1974 | Best Juvenile | Jay Bennett | The Long Black Coat | |||
| 1974 | Best Novel | Tony Hillerman | Dance Hall of the Dead | |||
| 1974 | Best Paperback Original | Will Perry | Death of an Informer | |||
| 1974 | Best Short Story | Harlan Ellison | The Whimper of Whipped Dogs | |||
| 1975 | Best Fact Crime | Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry | Helter Skelter | |||
| 1975 | Best First Novel | Gregory McDonald | Fletch | |||
| 1975 | Best Juvenile | Jay Bennett | The Dangling Witness | |||
| 1975 | Best Novel | Jon Cleary | Peter's Pence | |||
| 1975 | Best Paperback Original | Roy Winsor | The Corpse That Walked | |||
| 1975 | Best Short Story | Ruth Rendell | The Fallen Curtain | |||
| 1976 | Best Fact Crime | Tom Wicker | A Time To Die | |||
| 1976 | Best First Novel | Rex Burns | The Alvarez Journal | |||
| 1976 | Best Juvenile | Robert C. O'Brien | Z for Zachariah | |||
| 1976 | Best Novel | Brian Garfield | Hopscotch | |||
| 1976 | Best Paperback Original | John R. Feegel | Autopsy | |||
| 1976 | Best Short Story | Jesse Hill Ford | The Jail | |||
| 1977 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Marvin Lachman, Otto Penzler, Charles Shibuk, Chris Steinbrunner | Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection | |||
| 1977 | Best Fact Crime | Thomas Thompson | Blood and Money | |||
| 1977 | Best First Novel | James Patterson | The Thomas Berryman Number | |||
| 1977 | Best Juvenile | Richard Peck | Are You in the House Alone? | |||
| 1977 | Best Novel | Robert B. Parker | Promised Land | |||
| 1977 | Best Paperback Original | Gregory McDonald | Confess, Fletch | |||
| 1977 | Best Short Story | Etta Revesz | Like a Terrible Scream | |||
| 1978 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John McAleer | Rex Stout | |||
| 1978 | Best Fact Crime | Barbara Amiel, George Jonas | By Persons Unknown | |||
| 1978 | Best First Novel | Robert Ross | A French Finish | |||
| 1978 | Best Juvenile | Eloise Jarvis McGraw | A Really Weird Summer | |||
| 1978 | Best Novel | William H. Hallahan | Catch Me: Kill Me | |||
| 1978 | Best Paperback Original | Mike Jahn | The Quark Maneuver | |||
| 1978 | Best Short Story | Thomas Walsh | Chance After Chance | |||
| 1979 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Gwen Robins | The Mystery of Agatha Christie | |||
| 1979 | Best Fact Crime | Vincent Bugliosi, Ken Hurwitz | Till Death Do Us Part | |||
| 1979 | Best First Novel | William L. DeAndrea | Killed in the Ratings | |||
| 1979 | Best Juvenile | Dana Brookins | Alone in Wolf Hollow | |||
| 1979 | Best Novel | Ken Follett | The Eye of the Needle | |||
| 1979 | Best Paperback Original | Frank Bandy | Deceit and Deadly Lies | |||
| 1979 | Best Short Story | Barbara Owens | The Cloud Beneath The Eaves | |||
| 1980 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ralph E. Hone | Dorothy L. Sayers, A Literary Biography | |||
| 1980 | Best Fact Crime | Robert Lindsey | The Falcon and the Snowman | |||
| 1980 | Best First Novel | Richard North Patterson | The Lasko Tangent | |||
| 1980 | Best Juvenile | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore | |||
| 1980 | Best Novel | Arthur Maling | The Rheingold Route | |||
| 1980 | Best Paperback Original | William L. DeAndrea | The Hog Murders | |||
| 1980 | Best Short Story | Geoffrey Norman | Armed and Dangerous | |||
| 1981 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John Reilly | Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers | |||
| 1981 | Best Fact Crime | Fred Harwell | A True Deliverance | |||
| 1981 | Best First Novel | K. Nolte Smith | The Watcher | |||
| 1981 | Best Juvenile | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Seance | |||
| 1981 | Best Novel | Dick Francis | Whip Hand | |||
| 1981 | Best Paperback Original | Bill Granger | Public Murders | |||
| 1981 | Best Short Story | Clark Howard | Horn Man | |||
| 1982 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Jon L. Breen | What About Murder? | |||
| 1982 | Best Fact Crime | Robert W. Greene | The Sting Man | |||
| 1982 | Best First Novel | Stuart Woods | Chiefs | |||
| 1982 | Best Juvenile | Norma Fox Mazer | Taking Terri Mueller | |||
| 1982 | Best Novel | William Bayer | Peregrine | |||
| 1982 | Best Paperback Original | L.A. Morse | The Old Dick | |||
| 1982 | Best Short Story | Jack Ritchie | The Absence of Emily | |||
| 1983 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Roy Hoopes | Cain | |||
| 1983 | Best Fact Crime | Richard Hammer | The Vatican Connection | |||
| 1983 | Best First Novel | Thomas Perry | The Butcher'sBoy | |||
| 1983 | Best Juvenile | Robbie Branscum | The Murder of Hound Dog Bates | |||
| 1983 | Best Novel | Rick Boyer | Billingsgate Shoal | |||
| 1983 | Best Paperback Original | Teri White | Triangle | |||
| 1983 | Best Short Story | Frederick Forsyth | There Are No Snakes in Ireland | |||
| 1984 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Donald Spoto | The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock | |||
| 1984 | Best Fact Crime | Shana Alexander | Very Much A Lady | |||
| 1984 | Best First Novel | Will Harriss | The Bay Psalm Book Murder | |||
| 1984 | Best Juvenile | Cynthia Voigt | The Callender Papers | |||
| 1984 | Best Novel | Elmore Leonard | La Brava | |||
| 1984 | Best Paperback Original | Margaret Tracy | Mrs. White | |||
| 1984 | Best Short Story | Ruth Rendell | The New Girlfriend | |||
| 1984 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Lilly Carlson | Locked Doors | |||
| 1985 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Jon L. Breen | Novel Verdicts: A Guide to Courtroom Fiction | |||
| 1985 | Best Fact Crime | Mike Weiss | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings | |||
| 1985 | Best First Novel | R.D. Rosen | Strike Three, You're Dead | |||
| 1985 | Best Juvenile | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Night Cry | |||
| 1985 | Best Novel | Ross Thomas | Briar Patch | |||
| 1985 | Best Paperback Original | Molly Cochran, Warren Murphy | Grandmaster | |||
| 1985 | Best Short Story | Lawrence Block | By Dawn's Early Light | |||
| 1985 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Bill Crenshaw | Poor Dumb Mouths | |||
| 1986 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Peter Lewis | John le Carre | |||
| 1986 | Best Fact Crime | Stephen M.L. Aronson, Natalie Robins | Savage Grace | |||
| 1986 | Best First Novel | Jonathan Kellerman | When the Bough Breaks | |||
| 1986 | Best Juvenile | Patricia Windsor | The Sandman's Eyes | |||
| 1986 | Best Novel | L.R. Wright | The Suspect | |||
| 1986 | Best Paperback Original | Warren Murphy | Pigs Get Fat | |||
| 1986 | Best Short Story | John Lutz | Ride the Lightning | |||
| 1986 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Doug Allyn | Final Rites | |||
| 1987 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Eric Ambler | Here Lies: An Autobiography | |||
| 1987 | Best Fact Crime | Carlton Stowers | Careless Whispers: The True Story of a Triple Murder and the Determined Lawman Who Wouldn't Give Up | |||
| 1987 | Best First Novel | Larry Beinhart | No One Rides for Free | |||
| 1987 | Best Juvenile | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Other Side of Dark | |||
| 1987 | Best Novel | Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye | |||
| 1987 | Best Paperback Original | Robert Campbell | The Junkyard Dog | |||
| 1987 | Best Short Story | Robert Sampson | Rain in Pinton County | |||
| 1987 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Mary Kittredge | Father to the Man | |||
| 1988 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Leroy Lad Panek | Introduction to the Detective Story | |||
| 1988 | Best Fact Crime | Richard Hammer | CBS Murders | |||
| 1988 | Best First Novel | Deidre S. Laiken | Death Among Strangers | |||
| 1988 | Best Juvenile | Susan Shreve | Lucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, Shrinks | |||
| 1988 | Best Novel | Aaron Elkins | Old Bones | |||
| 1988 | Best Paperback Original | Sharyn McCrumb | Bimbos of the Death Sun | |||
| 1988 | Best Short Story | Harlan Ellison | Soft Monkey | |||
| 1988 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Eric M Heideman | Roger, Mr. Whilkie! | |||
| 1989 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Francis M. Nevins, Jr. | Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die | |||
| 1989 | Best Fact Crime | Harry N. MacLean | In Broad Daylight | |||
| 1989 | Best First Novel | David Stout | Carolina Skeletons | |||
| 1989 | Best Juvenile | Willo Davis Roberts | Megan's Island | |||
| 1989 | Best Novel | Stuart M. Kaminsky | A Cold Red Sunrise | |||
| 1989 | Best Paperback Original | Timothy Findley | The Telling of Lies | |||
| 1989 | Best Short Story | Bill Crenshaw | Flicks | |||
| 1989 | Best Young Adult | Sonia Levitin | Incident at Loring Groves | |||
| 1989 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Linda O. Johnston | Different Drummers | |||
| 1990 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Norman Sherry | The Life of Graham Greene | |||
| 1990 | Best Fact Crime | Jack Olsen | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell | |||
| 1990 | Best First Novel | Susan Wolfe | The Last Billable Hour | |||
| 1990 | Best Novel | James Lee Burke | Black Cherry Blues | |||
| 1990 | Best Paperback Original | Keith Peterson | The Rain | |||
| 1990 | Best Short Story | Donald E. Westlake | Too Many Crooks | |||
| 1990 | Best Young Adult | Alane Ferguson | Show Me the Evidence | |||
| 1990 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Connie Holt | Hawks | |||
| 1991 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John Conquest | Trouble is Their Business: Private Eyes in Fiction, Film, and Television, 1927-1988 | |||
| 1991 | Best Fact Crime | Peter Maas | In a Child's Name | |||
| 1991 | Best First Novel | Patricia D. Cornwell | Postmortem | |||
| 1991 | Best Juvenile | Pam Conrad | Stonewords | |||
| 1991 | Best Novel | Julie Smith | New Orleans Mourning | |||
| 1991 | Best Paperback Original | David Handler | The Man Who Would Be F.Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| 1991 | Best Short Story | Lynne Barrett | Elvis Lives | |||
| 1991 | Best Young Adult | Chap Reaver | Mote | |||
| 1991 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Jerry F. Skarky | Willie's Story | |||
| 1992 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Kenneth Silverman | Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance | |||
| 1992 | Best Fact Crime | David Simon | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | |||
| 1992 | Best First Novel | Peter Blauner | Slow Motion Riot | |||
| 1992 | Best Juvenile | Betsy Byars | Wanted...Mud Blossom | |||
| 1992 | Best Novel | Lawrence Block | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse | Mezbahada Dans | Şen Süer Kaya | Oğlak Yayınları |
| 1992 | Best Paperback Original | Thomas Adcock | Dark Maze | |||
| 1992 | Best Short Story | Wendy Hornsby | Nine Sons | |||
| 1992 | Best Young Adult | Theodore Taylor | The Weirdo | |||
| 1993 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John Loughery | Alias S.S. Van Dine | |||
| 1993 | Best Fact Crime | Harry Farrell | Swift Justice | |||
| 1993 | Best First Novel | Michael Connelly | The Black Echo | |||
| 1993 | Best Juvenile | Eve Bunting | Coffin on a Case! | |||
| 1993 | Best Novel | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger's Daughter | |||
| 1993 | Best Paperback Original | Dana Stabenow | A Cold Day for Murder | |||
| 1993 | Best Short Story | Benjamin M. Schutz | Mary, Mary, Shut the Door | |||
| 1993 | Best Young Adult | Chap Reaver | A Little Bit Dead | |||
| 1993 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Stephen Saylor | A Will Is A Way | |||
| 1994 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Burl Barer | The Saint: A Complete History | |||
| 1994 | Best Fact Crime | Bella Stumbo | Until the Twelfth of Never | |||
| 1994 | Best First Novel | Laurie R. King | A Grave Talent | |||
| 1994 | Best Juvenile | Barbara Brooks Wallace | The Twin in the Tavern | |||
| 1994 | Best Novel | Minette Walters | The Sculptress | Heykeltıraş | Özden Arıkan | Can Yayınları |
| 1994 | Best Paperback Original | Steven Womack | Dead Folk's Blues | |||
| 1994 | Best Short Story | Lawrence Block | Keller's Therapy | |||
| 1994 | Best Young Adult | Joan Lowery Nixon | The Name of the Game Was Murder | |||
| 1994 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | D.A. McGuire | Wicked Twist | |||
| 1995 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | William L. DeAndrea | Encyclopedia Mysteriosa | |||
| 1995 | Best Fact Crime | Joe Domanick | To Protect and Serve | |||
| 1995 | Best First Novel | George Dawes Green | The Caveman's Valentine | |||
| 1995 | Best Juvenile | Willo Davis Roberts | The Absolutely True Story..How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes | |||
| 1995 | Best Novel | Mary Willis Walker | The Red Scream | |||
| 1995 | Best Paperback Original | Lisa Scottoline | Final Appeal | |||
| 1995 | Best Short Story | Doug Allyn | The Dancing Bear | |||
| 1995 | Best Young Adult | Nancy Springer | Toughing It | |||
| 1995 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Batya Swift Yasgur | Me and Mr. Harry | |||
| 1996 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Robert Polito | Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson | |||
| 1996 | Best Fact Crime | Pete Earley | Circumstantial Evidence | |||
| 1996 | Best First Novel | David Housewright | Penance | |||
| 1996 | Best Juvenile | Nancy Springer | Looking for Jamie Bridger | |||
| 1996 | Best Novel | Dick Francis | Come to Grief | |||
| 1996 | Best Paperback Original | William Heffernan | Tarnished Blue | |||
| 1996 | Best Short Story | Jean B Cooper | The Judge's Boy | |||
| 1996 | Best Young Adult | Rob MacGregor | Prophecy Rock | |||
| 1996 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | James Sarafin | The Word for Breaking August Sky | |||
| 1997 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Michael Atkinson | The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes | |||
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Darcy O'Brien | Power To Hurt | |||
| 1997 | Best First Novel | John Morgan Wilson | Simple Justice | |||
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | Dorothy Reynolds Miller | The Clearing | |||
| 1997 | Best Novel | Thomas H. Cook | The Chatham School Affair | |||
| 1997 | Best Paperback Original | Harlan Coben | Fade Away | |||
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Michael Malone | Red Clay | |||
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Willo Davis Roberts | Twisted Summer | |||
| 1997 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | David Vaughn | Prosecutor of DuPrey | |||
| 1998 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay | G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone | |||
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan | The Death of Innocents | |||
| 1998 | Best First Novel | Joseph Kanon | Los Alamos | |||
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Sparrows in the Scullery | |||
| 1998 | Best Novel | James Lee Burke | Cimarron Rose | |||
| 1998 | Best Paperback Original | Laura Lippman | Charm City | |||
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Lawrence Block | Keller on the Spot | |||
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Will Hobbs | Ghost Canoe | |||
| 1998 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Rosaland Roland | If Thine Eye Offend Thee | |||
| 1999 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Maureen Corrigan, Robin W. Winks | Mystery and Suspense Writers | |||
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Carlton Stowers | To The Last Breath | |||
| 1999 | Best First Novel | Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise | |||
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Wendelin Van Draanen | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | |||
| 1999 | Best Novel | Robert Clark | Mr. White's Confession | |||
| 1999 | Best Paperback Original | Rick Riordan | The Widower's Two-Step | |||
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Tom Franklin | Poachers | |||
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | Nancy Werlin | The Killer's Cousin | |||
| 1999 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Bryn Bonner | Clarity | |||
| 2000 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Daniel Stashower | Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle | |||
| 2000 | Best Fact Crime | James B. Stewart | Blind Eye | |||
| 2000 | Best First Novel | Eliot Pattison | The Skull Mantra | |||
| 2000 | Best Juvenile | Elizabeth McDavid Jones | The Night Flyers | |||
| 2000 | Best Novel | Jan Burke | Bones | Kemikler | Meral Harzem | Limos Yayınları |
| 2000 | Best Paperback Original | Ruth Birmingham | Fulton County Blues | |||
| 2000 | Best Short Story | Anne Perry | Heroes | |||
| 2000 | Best Young Adult | Vivian Vande Velde | Never Trust a Dead Man | |||
| 2000 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Mike Reiss | Cro-Magnon, P.I. | |||
| 2001 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ethan Lewis, Robert Kuhn McGregor | Conundrums for the Long Week-End | |||
| 2001 | Best Fact Crime | Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill | Black Mass: The Irish Mob, The FBI, & A Devil's Deal | |||
| 2001 | Best First Novel | David Liss | Conspiracy of Paper | |||
| 2001 | Best Juvenile | Frances O'Roark Dowell | Dovey Coe | |||
| 2001 | Best Novel | Joe R. Lansdale | The Bottoms | |||
| 2001 | Best Paperback Original | Mark Graham | The Black Maria | |||
| 2001 | Best Short Story | Peter Robinson | Missing in Action | |||
| 2001 | Best Young Adult | Elaine Marie Alphin | Counterfeit Son | |||
| 2001 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Barbara D'Amato | Authorized Personnel Only | |||
| 2001 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | M.J. Jones | The Witch and the Relic Thief | |||
| 2002 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dawn B. Sova | Edgar Allan Poe: A to Z | |||
| 2002 | Best Fact Crime | Kent Walker | Son of a Grifter | |||
| 2002 | Best First Novel | David Ellis | Line of Vision | |||
| 2002 | Best Juvenile | Lillian Eige | Dangling | |||
| 2002 | Best Novel | T. Jefferson Parker | Silent Joe | |||
| 2002 | Best Paperback Original | Daniel Chavarria | Adios Muchachos | |||
| 2002 | Best Short Story | S.J. Rozan | Double-Crossing Delancy | |||
| 2002 | Best Young Adult | Tim Wynne-Jones | The Boy in the Burning House | |||
| 2002 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Judith Kelman | Summer of Storms | |||
| 2002 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Ted Hertel, Jr. | My Bonnie Lies | |||
| 2003 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Mike Ashley | Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction | |||
| 2003 | Best Fact Crime | Joseph Wambaugh | Fire Lover | |||
| 2003 | Best First Novel | Jonathon King | The Blue Edge of Midnight | |||
| 2003 | Best Juvenile | Helen Ericson | Harriet Spies Again | |||
| 2003 | Best Novel | S.J. Rozan | Winter and Night | |||
| 2003 | Best Paperback Original | T.J. MacGregor | Out of Sight | |||
| 2003 | Best Short Story | Raymond Steiber | Mexican Gatsby | |||
| 2003 | Best Young Adult | Daniel Parker | The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3 | |||
| 2003 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Rose Conners | Absolute Certainty | |||
| 2003 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Mike Doogan | War Can Be Murder | |||
| 2004 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Andrew Wilson | Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith | Patricia Highsmith / Güzel Gölge | Ebru Kılıç | Everest Yayınları |
| 2004 | Best Fact Crime | Erik Larson | The Devil in the White City | |||
| 2004 | Best First Novel | Rebecca Pawel | Death of a Nationalist | |||
| 2004 | Best Juvenile | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry | |||
| 2004 | Best Novel | Ian Rankin | Resurrection Men | |||
| 2004 | Best Paperback Original | Sylvia Maultash Warsh | Find Me Again | |||
| 2004 | Best Short Story | G. Miki Hayden | The Maids | |||
| 2004 | Best Young Adult | Graham McNamee | Acceleration | |||
| 2004 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | M.K. Preston | Song of the Bones | |||
| 2004 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Sandy Balzo | The Grass is Always Greener | |||
| 2005 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Leslie S. Klinger | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories | |||
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Leonard Levitt | Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder | |||
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Don Lee | Country of Origin | |||
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Blue Balliett | Chasing Vermeer | |||
| 2005 | Best Novel | T. Jefferson Parker | California Girl | |||
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | Domenic Stansberry | The Confession | |||
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Laurie Lynn Drummond | Something About a Scar | |||
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler | In Darkness, Death | |||
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Rochelle Krich | Grave Endings | |||
| 2005 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Thomas Morrissey | Can't Catch Me | |||
| 2006 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Melanie Rehak | Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her | |||
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Edward Dolnick | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | |||
| 2006 | Best First Novel | Theresa Schwegel | Officer Down | |||
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | D. James Smith | The Boys of San Joaquin | |||
| 2006 | Best Novel | Jess Walter | Citizen Vince | |||
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Jeffrey Ford | Girl in the Glass | |||
| 2006 | Best Short Story | James W. Hall | The Catch | |||
| 2006 | Best Young Adult | John Feinstein | Last Shot | |||
| 2006 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Karen Harper | Dark Angel | |||
| 2006 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Eddie Newton | Home | |||
| 2007 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | E.J. Wagner | The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear | |||
| 2007 | Best Fact Crime | James L. Swanson | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | |||
| 2007 | Best First Novel | Alex Berenson | The Faithful Spy | |||
| 2007 | Best Juvenile | Andrew Clements | Room One: A Mystery or Two | |||
| 2007 | Best Novel | Jason Goodwin | The Janissary Tree | Yeniçeri Ağacı | Fethi Aytuna | Pegasus Yayınları |
| 2007 | Best Paperback Original | Naomi Hirahara | Snakeskin Shamisen | |||
| 2007 | Best Short Story | Charles Ardai | The Home Front | |||
| 2007 | Best Young Adult | Robin Merrow MacCready | Buried | |||
| 2007 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Fiona Mountain | Bloodline | |||
| 2007 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | William Dylan Powell | Evening Gold | |||
| 2008 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Charles Foley, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower | Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters | |||
| 2008 | Best Fact Crime | Vincent Bugliosi | Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy | |||
| 2008 | Best First Novel | Tana French | In the Woods | |||
| 2008 | Best Juvenile | Katherine Marsh | The Night Tourist | |||
| 2008 | Best Novel | John Hart | Down River | Kızıl Nehir | Rabia Taş | Koridor Yayıncılık |
| 2008 | Best Paperback Original | Megan Abbott | Queenpin | |||
| 2008 | Best Short Story | Susan Straight | The Golden Gopher | |||
| 2008 | Best Young Adult | Tedd Arnold | Rat Life | |||
| 2008 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Sandi Ault | Wild Indigo | |||
| 2008 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Mark Ammons | The Catch | |||
| 2009 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Dr. Harry Lee Poe | Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories | |||
| 2009 | Best Fact Crime | Howard Blum | American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century | |||
| 2009 | Best First Novel | Francie Lin | The Foreigner | |||
| 2009 | Best Juvenile | Tony Abbott | The Postcard | |||
| 2009 | Best Novel | C.J. Box | Blue Heaven | Mavi Cennet | Ebru Sürmeli | Bilge Kültür Sanat |
| 2009 | Best Paperback Original | Meg Gardiner | China Lake | |||
| 2009 | Best Short Story | T. Jefferson Parker | Skinhead Central | |||
| 2009 | Best Young Adult | John Green | Paper Towns | |||
| 2009 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Bill Floyd | The Killer's Wife | |||
| 2009 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Joe Guglielmelli | Buckners Error | |||
| 2010 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Otto Penzler | The Lineup: The Worlds Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives | |||
| 2010 | Best Fact Crime | Dave Cullen | Columbine | |||
| 2010 | Best First Novel | Stefanie Pintoff | In the Shadow of Gotham | |||
| 2010 | Best Juvenile | Mary Downing Hahn | Closed for the Season | |||
| 2010 | Best Novel | John Hart | The Last Child | |||
| 2010 | Best Paperback Original | Marc Strange | Body Blows | |||
| 2010 | Best Short Story | Luis Alberto Urrea | Amapola | |||
| 2010 | Best Young Adult | Peter Abrahams | Reality Check | |||
| 2010 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | S.J. Bolton | Awakening | |||
| 2010 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Dan Warthman | A Dreadful Day | |||
| 2011 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Yunte Huang | Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and this Rendezvous with American History | |||
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | |||
| 2011 | Best First Novel | Bruce DeSilva | Rogue Island | |||
| 2011 | Best Juvenile | Dori Hillestad Butler | The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy | |||
| 2011 | Best Novel | Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist | Travma | Ender Nail | Koridor Yayıncılık |
| 2011 | Best Paperback Original | Robert Goddard | Long Time Coming | |||
| 2011 | Best Short Story | Doug Allyn | The Scent of Lilacs | |||
| 2011 | Best Young Adult | Charlie Price | The Interrogation of Gabriel James | |||
| 2011 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Elly Griffiths | The Crossing Places | |||
| 2011 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Evan Lewis | Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man | |||
| 2012 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Michael Dirda | On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling | |||
| 2012 | Best Fact Crime | Candice Millard | Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President | |||
| 2012 | Best First Novel | Lori Roy | Bent Road | |||
| 2012 | Best Juvenile | Matthew J. Kirby | Icefall | |||
| 2012 | Best Novel | Mo Hayder | Gone | |||
| 2012 | Best Paperback Original | Robert Jackson Bennett | The Company Man | |||
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Peter Turnbull | The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train | |||
| 2012 | Best Young Adult | Dandi Daley Mackall | The Silence of Murder | |||
| 2012 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Sara J. Henry | Learning to Swim | |||
| 2012 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | David Ingram | A Good Man of Business | |||
| 2013 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | James O'Brien | The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics | |||
| 2013 | Best Fact Crime | Paul French | Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China | |||
| 2013 | Best First Novel | Chris Pavone | The Expats | |||
| 2013 | Best Juvenile | Jack D. Ferraiolo | The Quick Fix | |||
| 2013 | Best Novel | Dennis Lehane | Live by Night | Kanunsuz | Ömer Mülazım | Pegasus Yayınları |
| 2013 | Best Paperback Original | Ben H. Winters | The Last Policeman: A Novel | |||
| 2013 | Best Short Story | Karin Slaughter | The Unremarkable Heart | |||
| 2013 | Best Young Adult | Elizabeth Wein | Code Name Verity | |||
| 2013 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Hank Phillippi Ryan | The Other Woman | |||
| 2013 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Patricia Smith | When They Are Done With Us | |||
| 2014 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Erik Dussere | America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture | |||
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | Daniel Stashower | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | |||
| 2014 | Best First Novel | Jason Matthews | Red Sparrow | |||
| 2014 | Best Juvenile | Amy Timberlake | One Came Home | |||
| 2014 | Best Novel | William Kent Krueger | Ordinary Grace | Merhametin Kıyısında | Şebnem Tansu | Epsilon Yayınevi |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Alex Marwood | The Wicked Girls | |||
| 2014 | Best Short Story | John Connolly | The Caxton Private Lending Library and Book Depository | |||
| 2014 | Best Young Adult | Annabel Pitcher | Ketchup Clouds | |||
| 2014 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Jenny Milchman | Cover of Snow | |||
| 2014 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Jeff Soloway | The Wentworth Letter | |||
| 2015 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | J.W. Ocker | Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe | |||
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | William Mann | Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood | |||
| 2015 | Best First Novel | Tom Bouman | Dry Bones in the Valley | |||
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Kate Milford | Greenglass House | |||
| 2015 | Best Novel | Stephen King | Mr. Mercedes | Bay Mercedes | Zeynep Heyzen Ateş | Altın Kitaplar |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | Chris Abani | The Secret History of Las Vegas | |||
| 2015 | Best Short Story | Gillian Flynn | What Do You Do? | |||
| 2015 | Best Young Adult | James Klise | The Art of Secrets | |||
| 2015 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Jane Casey | The Stranger You Know | |||
| 2015 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Zoe Z. Dean | Getaway Girl | |||
| 2016 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Martin Edwards | The Golden Age of Murder | |||
| 2016 | Best Fact Crime | Allen Kurzweil | Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully | |||
| 2016 | Best First Novel | Viet Thanh Nguyen | The Sympathizer | Sempatizan | Duygu Akın | Kafka Kitap |
| 2016 | Best Juvenile | Susan Vaught | Footer Davis Probably is Crazy | |||
| 2016 | Best Novel | Lori Roy | Let Me Die in His Footsteps | |||
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | Lou Berney | The Long and Faraway Gone | |||
| 2016 | Best Short Story | Stephen King | Obits | |||
| 2016 | Best Young Adult | Mindy McGinnis | A Madness So Discreet | |||
| 2016 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Lori Rader-Day | Little Pretty Things | |||
| 2016 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Russell W. Johnson | Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick | |||
| 2017 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ruth Franklin | Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life | |||
| 2017 | Best Fact Crime | Kate Summerscale | The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer | |||
| 2017 | Best First Novel | Flynn Berry | Under the Harrow | |||
| 2017 | Best Juvenile | Wesley King | OCDaniel | |||
| 2017 | Best Novel | Noah Hawley | Before the Fall | Düşüşe 18 Kala | Nil Karaca | Pegasus Yayınları |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | Adrian McKinty | Rain Dogs | |||
| 2017 | Best Short Story | Lawrence Block | Autumn at the Automat | |||
| 2017 | Best Young Adult | Monica Hesse | Girl in the Blue Coat | |||
| 2017 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Charles Todd | The Shattered Tree | |||
| 2017 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | E. Gabriel Flores | The Truth of the Moment | |||
| 2018 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Lawrence P. Jackson | Chester B. Himes: A Biography | |||
| 2018 | Best Fact Crime | David Grann | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | |||
| 2018 | Best First Novel | Jordan Harper | She Rides Shotgun | |||
| 2018 | Best Juvenile | James Ponti | Vanished! | |||
| 2018 | Best Novel | Attica Locke | Bluebird, Bluebird | |||
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | Anna Mazzola | The Unseeing | |||
| 2018 | Best Short Story | John Crowley | Spring Break | |||
| 2018 | Best Young Adult | Jason Reynolds | Long Way Down | |||
| 2018 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Carol Goodman | The Widow's House | |||
| 2018 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Lisa D. Gray | The Queen of Secrets | |||
| 2019 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Leslie S. Klinger | Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s | |||
| 2019 | Best Fact Crime | Robert W. Fieseler | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | |||
| 2019 | Best First Novel | James A. McLaughlin | Bearskin | |||
| 2019 | Best Juvenile | Pete Hautman | Otherwood | |||
| 2019 | Best Novel | Walter Mosley | Down the River Unto the Sea | |||
| 2019 | Best Paperback Original | Alison Gaylin | If I Die Tonight | |||
| 2019 | Best Short Story | Art Taylor | English 398: Fiction Workshop | |||
| 2019 | Best Young Adult | Courtney Summers | Sadie | |||
| 2019 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Sujata Massey | The Widows of Malabar | |||
| 2019 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Nancy Novick | How Does He Die This Time? | |||
| 2020 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | John Billheimer | Hitchcock and the Censors | |||
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | Axton Betz-Hamilton | The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity | |||
| 2020 | Best First Novel | Angie Kim | Miracle Creek | |||
| 2020 | Best Juvenile | Susan Vaught | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | |||
| 2020 | Best Novel | Elly Griffiths | The Stranger Diaries | |||
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Adam O'Fallon Price | The Hotel Neversink | |||
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Livia Llewellyn | One of These Nights | |||
| 2020 | Best Young Adult | Naomi Kritzer | Catfishing on CatNet | |||
| 2020 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Carol Goodman | The Night Visitors | |||
| 2020 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Derrick Harriell | There's a Riot Goin' On | |||
| 2021 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Christina Lane | Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock | |||
| 2021 | Best Fact Crime | Eric Eyre | Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic | |||
| 2021 | Best First Novel | Caitlin Mullen | Please See Us | |||
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | Elizabeth C. Bunce | Premeditated Myrtle | |||
| 2021 | Best Novel | Deepa Anappara | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | |||
| 2021 | Best Paperback Original | Alyssa Cole | When No One is Watching | |||
| 2021 | Best Short Story | Maaza Mengiste | Dust, Ash, Flight | |||
| 2021 | Best Young Adult | Katie Alender | The Companion | |||
| 2021 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Elsa Hart | The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne | |||
| 2021 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Colette Bancroft | The Bite | |||
| 2022 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Edward White | The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense | |||
| 2022 | Best Fact Crime | Elon Green | Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York | |||
| 2022 | Best First Novel | Erin Flanagan | Deer Season | |||
| 2022 | Best Juvenile | Christina Diaz Gonzalez | Concealed | |||
| 2022 | Best Novel | James Kestrel | Five Decembers | |||
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | Alan Parks | Bobby March Will Live Forever | |||
| 2022 | Best Short Story | R.T. Lawton | The Road to Hana | |||
| 2022 | Best Young Adult | Angeline Boulley | Firekeeper's Daughter | |||
| 2022 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Naomi Hirahara | Clark and Division | |||
| 2022 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Rob Osler | Analogue | |||
| 2023 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Martin Edwards | The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators | |||
| 2023 | Best Fact Crime | Erika Krouse | Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation | |||
| 2023 | Best First Novel | Eli Cranor | Don't Know Tough | |||
| 2023 | Best Juvenile | Marthe Jocelyn | Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse | |||
| 2023 | Best Novel | Danya Kukafka | Notes on an Execution | |||
| 2023 | Best Paperback Original | Joe Hart | Or Else | |||
| 2023 | Best Short Story | Gregory Fallis | Red Flag | |||
| 2023 | Best Young Adult | June Hur | The Red Palace | |||
| 2023 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | B.R. Myers | A Dreadful Splendor | |||
| 2023 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | Tamara Berry | Buried in a Good Book | |||
| 2023 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Mark Harrison | Dogs in the Canyon | |||
| 2024 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Steven Powell | Love Me Fierce In Danger - The Life of James Ellroy | |||
| 2024 | Best Fact Crime | Nathan Masters | Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal | |||
| 2024 | Best First Novel | I.S. Berry | The Peacock and the Sparrrow | |||
| 2024 | Best Juvenile | Adrianna Cuevas | The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto | |||
| 2024 | Best Novel | James Lee Burke | Flags on the Bayou | |||
| 2024 | Best Paperback Original | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | |||
| 2024 | Best Short Story | Linda Castillo | Hallowed Ground | |||
| 2024 | Best Young Adult | April Henry | Girl Forgotten | |||
| 2024 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Lina Chern | Play the Fool | |||
| 2024 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | Danielle Arceneaux | Glory Be | |||
| 2024 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Kate Hohl | The Body in Cell Two |
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