Category List – Best First Novel

* Bold records denote winners

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Award YearAward CategoryTitleAuthor's NamePublisher/ProducerNotes
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
2005 Best First Novel Tonight I Said Goodbye Michael Koryta St. Martin's Minotaur
2004 Best First Novel Death of a Nationalist Rebecca Pawel Soho Press
2004 Best First Novel 12 Bliss Street Martha Conway St. Martin's Minotaur
2004 Best First Novel Night of the Dance James Hime St. Martin's Minotaur
2004 Best First Novel Offer of Proof Robert Heilbrun HarperCollins - William Morrow
2004 Best First Novel The Bridge of Sighs Olen Steinhauer St. Martin's Minotaur
2003 Best First Novel The Blue Edge of Midnight Jonathon King Dutton
2003 Best First Novel Buck Fever Ben Rehder St. Martin's Minotaur
2003 Best First Novel High Wire Kam Majd Dell
2003 Best First Novel Open and Shut David Rosenfelt Mysterious Press
2003 Best First Novel Southern Latitudes Stephen J. Clark Penguin Putnam
2002 Best First Novel Line of Vision David Ellis G.P. Putnam's Sons
2002 Best First Novel Gun Monkeys Victor Gischler Uglytown
2002 Best First Novel Open Season C.J. Box G.P. Putnam's Sons
2002 Best First Novel Red Hook Gabriel Cohen Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
2002 Best First Novel The Jasmine Trade Denise Hamilton Scribners
2001 Best First Novel Conspiracy of Paper David Liss Random House
2001 Best First Novel Crow in Stolen Colors Marcia Simpson Poisoned Pen Press/Berkley Prime Crime
2001 Best First Novel Death of a Red Heroine Qiu Xiaolong Soho Press
2001 Best First Novel Raveling Peter Moore Smith Little, Brown
2001 Best First Novel The Ice Harvest Scott Phillips Ballantine
2000 Best First Novel The Skull Mantra Eliot Pattison St. Martin's Press
2000 Best First Novel Big Trouble Dave Barry Putnam
2000 Best First Novel Certifiably Insane Arthur W. Bahr Simon & Schuster
2000 Best First Novel God Is A Bullet Boston Teran Knopf
2000 Best First Novel Inner City Blues Paula L. Woods W.W. Norton & Co.
1999 Best First Novel A Cold Day in Paradise Steve Hamilton St. Martin's Press
1999 Best First Novel A Criminal Appeal D.R. Schanker St. Martin's Press
1999 Best First Novel Nice Jen Sacks St. Martin's Press
1999 Best First Novel Numbered Account Christopher Reich Dell
1999 Best First Novel Reckless Homicide Ira Genberg St. Martin's Press
1998 Best First Novel Los Alamos Joseph Kanon Broadway Books
1998 Best First Novel 23 Shades of Black K.j.a. Wishnia The Imaginary Press
1998 Best First Novel A Crime in the Neighborhood Suzanne Berne Algonquin Books
1998 Best First Novel Bird Dog Philip Reed Pocket Books
1998 Best First Novel Flower Net Lisa See HarperCollins
1997 Best First Novel Simple Justice John Morgan Wilson Doubleday
1997 Best First Novel A Brother's Blood Michael White HarperCollins
1997 Best First Novel A Test of Wills Charles Todd St. Martin's Press
1997 Best First Novel Bonita Faye Margaret Moseley Three Forks Press
1997 Best First Novel The Queen's Man Sharon Kay Penman Henry Holt
1996 Best First Novel Penance David Housewright Foul Play/Countryman Press Anthology: Foul Play
1996 Best First Novel Fixed in His Folly David J. Walker St. Martin's Press
1996 Best First Novel Murder in Scorpio Martha C. Lawrence St. Martin's Press
1996 Best First Novel The Harry Chronicles Allan Pedrazas St. Martin's Press
1996 Best First Novel Tight Shot Kevin Allman St. Martin's Press
1995 Best First Novel The Caveman's Valentine George Dawes Green Warner Books
1995 Best First Novel Big Town Doug J. Swanson HarperCollins
1995 Best First Novel Mallory's Oracle Carol O'Connell Putnam
1995 Best First Novel One For the Money Janet Evanovich Scribners
1995 Best First Novel Suspicion of Innocence Barbara Parker Dutton
1994 Best First Novel A Grave Talent Laurie R. King St. Martin's Press
1994 Best First Novel Criminal Seduction Darian North Dutton
1994 Best First Novel The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz Manuel Ramos St. Martin's Press
1994 Best First Novel The List of 7 Mark Frost Wm. Morrow
1994 Best First Novel Zaddik David Rosenbaum Mysterious Press
1993 Best First Novel The Black Echo Michael Connelly Little, Brown
1993 Best First Novel Ladystinger Craig Smith Crown
1993 Best First Novel Trail of Murder Christine Andreae St. Martin's Press
1993 Best First Novel Trick of the Eye Jane Stanton Hitchcock Dutton
1992 Best First Novel Slow Motion Riot Peter Blauner Wm. Morrow
1992 Best First Novel A Cool Breeze in the Underground Don Winslow St. Martin's Press
1992 Best First Novel Deadline Marcy Heidish St. Martin's Press
1992 Best First Novel Deadstick Terence Faherty St. Martin's Press
1992 Best First Novel Zero at the Bone Mary Willis Walker St. Martin's Press
1991 Best First Novel Postmortem Patricia D. Cornwell Scribners
1991 Best First Novel Come Nightfall Gary Amo Pinnacle
1991 Best First Novel Devil in a Blue Dress Walter Mosley W.W. Norton & Co.
1991 Best First Novel Nobody Lives Forever Edna Buchanan Random House
1991 Best First Novel Passion Play W. Edward Blain Putnam
1990 Best First Novel The Last Billable Hour Susan Wolfe St. Martin's Press
1990 Best First Novel Blood Under the Bridge Bruce Zimmerman Harper & Row
1990 Best First Novel Hide and Seek Barry Berg St. Martin's Press
1990 Best First Novel The Mother Shadow Melodie Johnson Howe Viking
1990 Best First Novel The Story of Annie D. Susan Taylor Chehak Houghton Mifflin
1989 Best First Novel Carolina Skeletons David Stout Mysterious Press
1989 Best First Novel A Great Deliverance Elizabeth George Bantam
1989 Best First Novel Julian Solo Shelley Reuben Dodd, Mead
1989 Best First Novel Murder Once Done Mary Lou Bennett Perseverance Press
1989 Best First Novel The Murder of Frau Schutz J. Madison Davis Walker
1988 Best First Novel Death Among Strangers Deidre S. Laiken Macmillan
1988 Best First Novel Detective Parnell Hall Donald I. Fine
1988 Best First Novel Heat Lightning John Lantigua Putnam
1988 Best First Novel Lover Man Dallas Murphy Scribners
1988 Best First Novel The Spoiler Domenic Stansberry Atlantic Monthly Press
1987 Best First Novel No One Rides for Free Larry Beinhart Wm. Morrow
1987 Best First Novel Dead Air Mike Lupica Villard
1987 Best First Novel Floater Joseph Koenig Mysterious Press
1987 Best First Novel Lost Gary Devon Knopf