2023 |
Best First Novel |
Jackal |
Erin E. Adams |
Penguin Random House - Bantam |
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2023
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Best First Novel
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Don't Know Tough
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Eli Cranor
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Soho Press - Soho Crime
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2023 |
Best First Novel |
Shutter |
Ramona Emerson |
Soho Press - Soho Crime |
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2023 |
Best First Novel |
More Than You'll Ever Know |
Katie Gutierrez |
HarperCollins - William Morrow |
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2023 |
Best First Novel |
Portrait of a Thief |
Grace D. Li |
Penguin Random House - Tiny Reparations Books |
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2022
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Best First Novel
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Deer Season
|
Erin Flanagan
|
University of Nebraska Press
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2022 |
Best First Novel |
Never Saw Me Coming |
Vera Kurian |
Harlequin Trade Publishing - Park Row |
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2022 |
Best First Novel |
Suburban Dicks |
Fabian Nicieza |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2022 |
Best First Novel |
What Comes After |
JoAnne Tompkins |
Penguin Random House - Riverhead Books |
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2022 |
Best First Novel |
The Damage |
Caitlin Wahrer |
Penguin Random House - Viking Books/Pamela Dorman Books |
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2021 |
Best First Novel |
Murder in Old Bombay |
Nev March |
Minotaur Books |
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2021
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Best First Novel
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Please See Us
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Caitlin Mullen
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Simon & Schuster - Gallery Books
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2021 |
Best First Novel |
Catherine House |
Elisabeth Thomas |
HarperCollins Publishers - Willliam Morrow |
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2021 |
Best First Novel |
Winter Counts |
David Heska Wanbli Weiden |
HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco |
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2021 |
Best First Novel |
Darling Rose Gold |
Stephanie Wrobel |
Penguin Random House - Berkley |
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2020 |
Best First Novel |
My Lovely Wife |
Samantha Downing |
Penguin Random House - Berkley |
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2020
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Best First Novel
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Miracle Creek
|
Angie Kim
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Farrar Straus and Giroux - Sarah Crichton Books
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2020 |
Best First Novel |
The Good Detective |
John McMahon |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2020 |
Best First Novel |
The Secrets We Kept |
Lara Prescott |
Penguin Random House - Alfred A. Knopf |
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2020 |
Best First Novel |
Three-Fifths |
John Vercher |
Polis Books - Agora Books |
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2020 |
Best First Novel |
American Spy |
Lauren Wilkinson |
Penguin Random House - Random House |
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2019 |
Best First Novel |
A Knife in the Fog |
Bradley Harper |
Seventh Street Books |
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2019 |
Best First Novel |
The Captives |
Debra Jo Immergut |
HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco |
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2019
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Best First Novel
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Bearskin
|
James A. McLaughlin
|
HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco
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2019 |
Best First Novel |
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy |
Nova Jacobs |
Simon & Schuster - Touchstone |
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2019 |
Best First Novel |
Where the Crawdads Sing |
Delia Owens |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2018
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Best First Novel
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She Rides Shotgun
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Jordan Harper
|
HarperCollins - Ecco
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2018 |
Best First Novel |
Dark Chapter |
Winnie M. Li |
Polis Books |
|
2018 |
Best First Novel |
Lola |
Melissa Schrivner Love |
Penguin Random House - Crown |
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2018 |
Best First Novel |
Idaho |
Emily Ruskovich |
Random House |
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2018 |
Best First Novel |
Tornado Weather |
Deborah E. Kennedy |
Flatiron Books |
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2017
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Best First Novel
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Under the Harrow
|
Flynn Berry
|
Penguin Random House - Penguin Books
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2017 |
Best First Novel |
Dodgers |
Bill Beverly |
Crown Publishing Group |
|
2017 |
Best First Novel |
IQ |
Joe Ide |
Little, Brown & Company - Mulholland Books |
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2017 |
Best First Novel |
The Drifter |
Nicholas Petrie |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2017 |
Best First Novel |
Dancing with the Tiger |
Lili Wright |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2017 |
Best First Novel |
The Lost Girls |
Heather Young |
HarperCollins Publishers - Willilam Morrow |
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2016 |
Best First Novel |
Past Crimes |
Glen Erik Hamilton |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2016 |
Best First Novel |
Where All Light Tends to Go |
David Joy |
Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons |
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2016 |
Best First Novel |
Luckiest Girl Alive |
Jessica Knoll |
Simon & Schuster |
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2016
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Best First Novel
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The Sympathizer
|
Viet Thanh Nguyen
|
Grove Atlantic - Grove Press
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2016 |
Best First Novel |
Unbecoming |
Rebecca Scherm |
Penguin Random House - Viking |
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2015
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Best First Novel
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Dry Bones in the Valley
|
Tom Bouman
|
W.W. Norton
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2015 |
Best First Novel |
Invisible City |
Julia Dahl |
Minotaur Books |
|
2015 |
Best First Novel |
The Life We Bury |
Allen Eskens |
Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books |
|
2015 |
Best First Novel |
Bad Country |
C.B. McKenzie |
Minotaur Books - A Thomas Dunne Book |
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2015 |
Best First Novel |
Shovel Ready |
Adam Sternbergh |
Crown Publishers |
|
2015 |
Best First Novel |
Murder at the Brightwell |
Ashley Weaver |
Minotaur Books - A Thomas Dunne Book |
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2014
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Best First Novel
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Red Sparrow
|
Jason Matthews
|
Simon & Schuster/Scribner
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2014 |
Best First Novel |
Ghostman |
Roger Hobbs |
Alfred A. Knopf |
|
2014 |
Best First Novel |
Rage Against the Dying |
Becky Masterman |
Minotaur Books |
|
2014 |
Best First Novel |
Reconstructing Amelia |
Kimberly McCreight |
HarperCollins Publishers - Harper |
|
2014 |
Best First Novel |
The Resurrectionist |
Matthew Guinn |
W.W. Norton & Co. |
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2013
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Best First Novel
|
The Expats
|
Chris Pavone
|
Crown Publishers
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2013 |
Best First Novel |
Black Fridays |
Michael Sears |
Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons |
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2013 |
Best First Novel |
Don't Ever Get Old |
Daniel Friedman |
Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books |
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2013 |
Best First Novel |
Mr. Churchill's Secretary |
Susan Elia MacNeal |
Random House - Bantam |
|
2013 |
Best First Novel |
The Map of Lost Memories |
Kim Fay |
Random House Publishing - Ballantine |
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2012
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Best First Novel
|
Bent Road
|
Lori Roy
|
Penguin Group USA - Dutton
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2012 |
Best First Novel |
All Cry Chaos |
Leonard Rosen |
The Permanent Press |
|
2012 |
Best First Novel |
Last to Fold |
David Duffy |
Thomas Dunne Books |
|
2012 |
Best First Novel |
Purgatory Chasm |
Steve Ulfelder |
Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books |
|
2012 |
Best First Novel |
Red on Red |
Edward Conlon |
Random House Publishing - Spiegel & Grau |
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2012 |
Best First Novel |
The 500 |
Matthew Quirk |
Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Reagan Arthur |
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2011
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Best First Novel
|
Rogue Island
|
Bruce DeSilva
|
Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books
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|
2011 |
Best First Novel |
Galveston |
Nic Pizzolatto |
Simon & Schuster/Scribner |
|
2011 |
Best First Novel |
Snow Angels |
James Thompson |
Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons |
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2011 |
Best First Novel |
The Poacher's Son |
Paul Doiron |
Minotaur Books |
|
2011 |
Best First Novel |
The Serialist: A Novel |
David Gordon |
Simon & Schuster |
|
2010
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Best First Novel
|
In the Shadow of Gotham
|
Stefanie Pintoff
|
Minotaur Books
|
|
2010 |
Best First Novel |
A Bad Day for Sorry |
Sophie Littlefield |
Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books |
|
2010 |
Best First Novel |
Black Water Rising |
Attica Locke |
HarperCollins |
|
2010 |
Best First Novel |
Starvation Lake |
Bryan Gruley |
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone |
|
2010 |
Best First Novel |
The Girl She Used to Be |
David Cristofano |
Grand Central Publishing |
|
2010 |
Best First Novel |
The Weight of Silence |
Heather Gudenkauf |
MIRA Books |
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2009
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Best First Novel
|
The Foreigner
|
Francie Lin
|
Picador USA
|
|
2009 |
Best First Novel |
A Cure for Night |
Justin Peacock |
Doubleday |
|
2009 |
Best First Novel |
Calumet City |
Charlie Newton |
Simon & Schuster/Touchstone |
|
2009 |
Best First Novel |
Sweetsmoke |
David Fuller |
Hyperion |
|
2009 |
Best First Novel |
The Kind One |
Tom Epperson |
Five Star Publishing |
|
2008
|
Best First Novel
|
In the Woods
|
Tana French
|
Penguin Group - Viking
|
|
2008 |
Best First Novel |
Head Games |
Craig McDonald |
Bleak House Books |
|
2008 |
Best First Novel |
Missing Witness |
Gordon Campbell |
HarperCollins - William Morrow |
|
2008 |
Best First Novel |
Pyres |
Derek Nikitas |
St. Martin's Minotaur |
|
2008 |
Best First Novel |
Snitch Jacket |
Christopher Goffard |
The Rookery Press |
|
2007
|
Best First Novel
|
The Faithful Spy
|
Alex Berenson
|
Random House
|
|
2007 |
Best First Novel |
A Field of Darkness |
Cornelia Read |
Warner Books |
|
2007 |
Best First Novel |
Holmes on the Range |
Steve Hockensmith |
St. Martin's Minotaur |
|
2007 |
Best First Novel |
King of Lies |
John Hart |
St. Martin's Minotaur |
|
2007 |
Best First Novel |
Sharp Objects |
Gillian Flynn |
Crown |
|
2006
|
Best First Novel
|
Officer Down
|
Theresa Schwegel
|
St. Martin's Minotaur
|
|
2006 |
Best First Novel |
Die A Little |
Megan Abbott |
Simon & Schuster |
|
2006 |
Best First Novel |
Hide Your Eyes |
Alison Gaylin |
Signet |
|
2006 |
Best First Novel |
Immoral |
Brian Freeman |
St. Martin's Minotaur |
|
2006 |
Best First Novel |
Run the Risk |
Scott Frost |
G.P. Putnam's Sons |
|
2005
|
Best First Novel
|
Country of Origin
|
Don Lee
|
W.W. Norton & Company
|
|
2005 |
Best First Novel |
Bahamarama |
Bob Morris |
St. Martin's Minotaur |
|
2005 |
Best First Novel |
Cloud Atlas |
Liam Callanan |
Delacorte Press |
|
2005 |
Best First Novel |
Little Girl Lost |
Richard Aleas |
Five Star Publishing |
|
2005 |
Best First Novel |
Relative Danger |
Charles Benoit |
Poisoned Pen Press |
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