| Year |
Best
Novel |
Best
First Novel |
| 2002 |
Reflecting
the Sky, by S. J. Rozan |
Chasing
the Devil's Tail, by David Fulmer |
| 2001 |
Havana
Heat by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
Street
Level by Bob Truluck |
| 2000 |
California
Fire and Life by Don Winslow |
Every
Dead Thing by John Connolly |
| 1999 |
Booby
Trap by Bill Pronzini |
A
Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton |
| 1998 |
Come Back
Dead by Terrance Faherty
|
Big
Red Tequilla by Rick Riordan |
| 1997 |
Sunset
Exhomess by Robert Crais |
This
Dog for Hire by Carol Lea Benjamin |
| 1996 |
Concourse
by S. J. Rozan |
The
Innocents by Richard Barre |
| 1995 |
"K"
is for Killer by Sue
Grafton |
A
Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane |
| 1994 |
The
Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block |
Satan's
Lambs by Lynn Hightower |
| 1993 |
The
Man Who was Taller than God by Harold Adams |
The
Woman Who Married a Bear by John Straley |
| 1992 |
Stolen
Away by Max Allan Collins |
Suffer
Little Children by Thomas D. Davis |
| 1991 |
"G"
is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
|
Devil
in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley |
| 1990 |
Extenuating
Circumstances by Jonathan Valin |
Katwalk
by Karen Kijewski |
| 1989 |
Kiss
by John Lutz |
Fear
of the Dark by Gar Anthony Haywood |
| 1988 |
A
Tax in Blood by Benjamin Schutz |
Death
on the Rocks by Michael Allegretto |
| 1987 |
Staked Goat by Jeremiah Healy |
Jersey Tomatoes by J. W. Rider |
| 1986 |
"B"
is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
|
Hardcover
by Wayne Warga |
| 1985 |
Sugartown
by Loren Estleman |
A
Creative Kind of Killer by Jack
Early |
| 1984 |
True
Detective by Max Allan Collins |
|
| 1983 |
Eight
Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block |
|
| 1982 |
Hoodwink
by Bill Pronzini |
|
