* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Best Novel | The Tainted Cup | Robert Jackson Bennett | Penguin Random House - Random House Worlds/Del Rey | |
| 2025 | Best Novel | Rough Trade | Katrina Carrasco | Farrar, Straus and Giroux - MCD | |
| 2025 | Best Novel | Things Don't Break on Their Own | Sarah Easter Collins | Penguin Random House - Crown | |
| 2025 | Best Novel | My Favorite Scar | Nicolás Ferraro | Soho Press - Soho Crime | |
| 2025 | Best Novel | The God of the Woods | Liz Moore | Penguin Random House - Riverhead Books | |
| 2025 | Best Novel | Listen for the Lie | Amy Tintera | Macmillan Publishers - Celadon Books | |
| 2025 | Best Novel | The In Crowd | Charlotte Vassell | Penguin Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | Flags on the Bayou | James Lee Burke | Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | All the Sinners Bleed | S.A. Cosby | Flatiron Books | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | The Madwomen of Paris | Jennifer Cody Epstein | Penguin Random House - Ballantine Books | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | Bright Young Women | Jessica Knoll | Simon & Schuster - Simon Element - Marysue Rucci Books | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | An Honest Man | Michael Koryta | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | The River We Remember | William Kent Krueger | Simon & Schuster - Atria Books | |
| 2024 | Best Novel | Crook Manifesto | Colson Whitehead | Penguin Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2023 | Best Novel | Devil House | John Darnielle | Farrar, Straus and Giroux - MCD | |
| 2023 | Best Novel | Like a Sister | Kellye Garrett | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books | |
| 2023 | Best Novel | Gangland | Chuck Hogan | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2023 | Best Novel | The Devil Takes You Home | Gabino Iglesias | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co.,/Mulholland Books | |
| 2023 | Best Novel | Notes on an Execution | Danya Kukafka | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2023 | Best Novel | The Maid | Nita Prose | Penguin Random House - Ballantine Books | |
| 2022 | Best Novel | The Venice Sketchbook | Rhys Bowen | Amazon Publishing - Lake Union | |
| 2022 | Best Novel | Razorblade Tears | S.A. Cosby | Macmillan Publishers - Flatiron Books | |
| 2022 | Best Novel | Five Decembers | James Kestrel | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2022 | Best Novel | How Lucky | Will Leitch | HarperCollins - Harper | |
| 2022 | Best Novel | No One Will Miss Her | Kat Rosenfield | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2021 | Best Novel | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Deepa Anappara | Penguin Random House - Random House | |
| 2021 | Best Novel | Before She Was Helen | Caroline B. Cooney | Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 2021 | Best Novel | Thursday Murder Club | Richard Osman | Penguin Random House - Pamela Dorman Books | |
| 2021 | Best Novel | These Women | Ivy Pochoda | HarperCollins Publishers - Ecco | |
| 2021 | Best Novel | The Missing American | Kwei Quartey | Soho Press - Soho Crime | |
| 2021 | Best Novel | The Distant Dead | Heather Young | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | Fake Like Me | Barbara Bourland | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | The Stranger Diaries | Elly Griffiths | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | The River | Peter Heller | Penguin Random House - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | Smoke and Ashes | Abir Mukherjee | Pegasus Books | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Michael Robotham | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2019 | Best Novel | The Liar's Girl | Catherine Ryan Howard | Blackstone Publishing | |
| 2019 | Best Novel | House Witness | Mike Lawson | Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2019 | Best Novel | A Gambler's Jury | Victor Methos | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2019 | Best Novel | Down the River Unto the Sea | Walter Mosley | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland | |
| 2019 | Best Novel | Only to Sleep | Lawrence Osborne | Penguin Random House - Hogarth | |
| 2019 | Best Novel | A Treacherous Curse | Deanna Raybourn | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2018 | Best Novel | The Dime | Kathleen Kent | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books | |
| 2018 | Best Novel | Prussian Blue | Philip Kerr | Penguin Random House - Marian Wood Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2018 | Best Novel | Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books | |
| 2018 | Best Novel | A Rising Man | Abir Mukherjee | Pegasus Books | |
| 2018 | Best Novel | The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley | Hannah Tinti | Penguin Random House - The Dial Press | |
| 2017 | Best Novel | The Ex | Alafair Burke | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2017 | Best Novel | Where It Hurts | Reed Farrel Coleman | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2017 | Best Novel | Jane Steele | Lyndsay Faye | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2017 | Best Novel | What Remains of Me | Alison Gaylin | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2017 | Best Novel | Before the Fall | Noah Hawley | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | The Strangler Vine | M.J. Carter | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | The Lady from Zagreb | Philip Kerr | Penguin Random House - A Marian Wood Book | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Life or Death | Michael Robotham | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori Roy | Penguin Random House - Dutton | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Canary | Duane Swierczynski | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Night Life | David C. Taylor | Forge Books | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | This Dark Road to Mercy | Wiley Cash | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Wolf | Mo Hayder | Grove/Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | The Final Silence | Stuart Neville | Soho Press | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Saints of the Shadow Bible | Ian Rankin | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Cop Town | Karin Slaughter | Penguin Random House - Delacorte Books | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | Simon & Schuster/Atria Books | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | How the Light Gets In | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | Sandrine's Case | Thomas H. Cook | Grove Atlantic - The Mysterious Press | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | Standing in Another Man's Grave | Ian Rankin | Hachette Book Group/Reagan Arthur Books | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | The Humans | Matt Haig | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | Until She Comes Home | Lori Roy | Penguin Group USA - Dutton | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | Live by Night | Dennis Lehane | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | All I Did Was Shoot My Man | Walter Mosley | Penguin Group USA - Riverhead Books | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | Gone Girl: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Crown Publishers | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | Potboiler | Jesse Kellerman | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | Sunset | Al Lamanda | Five Star Publishing | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | The Gods of Gotham | Lyndsay Faye | Penguin Group USA - Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2013 | Best Novel | The Lost Ones | Ace Atkins | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons | |
| 2012 | Best Novel | Gone | Mo Hayder | Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2012 | Best Novel | 1222 | Anne Holt | Simon & Schuster/Scribner | |
| 2012 | Best Novel | Field Gray | Philip Kerr | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons - Marion Wood Books | |
| 2012 | Best Novel | The Devotion of Suspect X | Keigo Higashino | Minotaur Books | |
| 2012 | Best Novel | The Ranger | Ace Atkins | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons | |
| 2011 | Best Novel | The Lock Artist | Steve Hamilton | Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books | |
| 2011 | Best Novel | Caught | Harlan Coben | Penguin Group USA - Dutton | |
| 2011 | Best Novel | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Tom Franklin | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2011 | Best Novel | Faithful Place | Tana French | Penguin Group - Viking | |
| 2011 | Best Novel | I'd Know You Anywhere | Laura Lippman | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2011 | Best Novel | The Queen of Patpong | Timothy Hallinan | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2010 | Best Novel | Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death | Charlie Huston | Ballantine | |
| 2010 | Best Novel | Nemesis | Jo Nesbo | HarperCollins | |
| 2010 | Best Novel | The Missing | Tim Gautreaux | Random House/Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2010 | Best Novel | The Odds | Kathleen George | Minotaur Books | |
| 2010 | Best Novel | The Last Child | John Hart | Minotaur Books | |
| 2010 | Best Novel | A Beautiful Place to Die | Malla Nunn | Simon & Schuster/Atria Books | |
| 2009 | Best Novel | Blue Heaven | C.J. Box | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2009 | Best Novel | Curse of the Spellmans | Lisa Lutz | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2009 | Best Novel | Missing | Karin Alvtegen | Felony & Mayhem | |
| 2009 | Best Novel | Sins of the Assassin | Robert Ferrigno | Simon & Schuster/Scribner | |
| 2009 | Best Novel | The Night Following | Morag Joss | Random House/Delacorte Press | |
| 2009 | Best Novel | The Price of Blood | Declan Hughes | HarperCollins - William Morrow |