* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Best Paperback Original | Boomtown | A.F. Carter | Penzler Publishers - Mysterious Press | |
| 2024 | Best Paperback Original | Hide | Tracy Clark | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2024 | Best Paperback Original | The Taken Ones | Jess Lourey | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2024 | Best Paperback Original | Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2024 | Best Paperback Original | Lowdown Road | Scott Von Doviak | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2023 | Best Paperback Original | Quarry's Blood | Max Allan Collins | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2023 | Best Paperback Original | On a Quiet Street | Seraphina Nova Glass | Harlequin Trade Publishing - Graydon House | |
| 2023 | Best Paperback Original | Or Else | Joe Hart | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2023 | Best Paperback Original | Cleopatra's Dagger | Carole Lawrence | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2023 | Best Paperback Original | A Familiar Stranger | A.R. Torre | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | Kill All Your Darlings | David Bell | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | The Lighthouse of Witches | C.J. Cooke | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | The Album of Dr. Moreau | Daryl Gregory | Tom Doherty Associates - Tordotcom | |
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | Starr Sign | C.S. O'Cinneide | Dundurn Press | |
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | Bobby March Will Live Forever | Alan Parks | Europa Editions - World Noir | |
| 2022 | Best Paperback Original | The Shape of Darkness | Laura Purcell | Penguin Random House - Penguin Books | |
| 2021 | Best Paperback Original | When No One is Watching | Alyssa Cole | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2021 | Best Paperback Original | The Deep, Deep Snow | Brian Freeman | Blackstone Publishing | |
| 2021 | Best Paperback Original | Unspeakable Things | Jess Lourey | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2021 | Best Paperback Original | The Keeper | Jessica Moor | Penguin Random House - Penguin Books | |
| 2021 | Best Paperback Original | East of Hounslow | Khurrum Rahman | Penguin Random House - Penguin Books | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Dread of Winter | Susan Alice Bickford | Kensington Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Freedom Road | William Lashner | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Blood Relations | Jonathan Moore | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Mariner Books | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | February's Son | Alan Parks | Europa Editions - World Noir | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | The Hotel Neversink | Adam O'Fallon Price | Tin House Books | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | The Bird Boys | Lisa Sandlin | Cinco Puntos Press | |
| 2019 | Best Paperback Original | If I Die Tonight | Alison Gaylin | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2019 | Best Paperback Original | Hiroshima Boy | Naomi Hirahara | Prospect Park Books | |
| 2019 | Best Paperback Original | Under a Dark Sky | Lori Rader-Day | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2019 | Best Paperback Original | The Perfect Nanny | Leila Slimani | Penguin Random House - Penguin Books | |
| 2019 | Best Paperback Original | Under My Skin | Lisa Unger | Harlequin - Park Row Books | |
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | In Farleigh Field | Rhys Bowen | Amazon Publishing - Lake Union | |
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | Ragged Lake | Ron Corbett | ECW Press | |
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | Black Fall | Andrew Mayne | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper Paperback | |
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | The Unseeing | Anna Mazzola | Sourcebooks - Sourcebooks Landmark | |
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | Penance | Kanae Minato | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co.,/Mulholland Books | |
| 2018 | Best Paperback Original | The Rules of Backyard Cricket | Jock Serong | Text Publishing | |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | Shot in Detroit | Patricia Abbott | Polis Books | |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | Come Twilight | Tyler Dilts | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | The 7th Canon | Robert Dugoni | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | Rain Dogs | Adrian McKinty | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | A Brilliant Death | Robin Yocum | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2017 | Best Paperback Original | Heart of Stone | James W. Ziskin | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | Woman with a Blue Pencil | Gordon McAlpine | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | Gun Street Girl | Adrian McKinty | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | The Daughter | Jane Shemilt | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | The Long and Faraway Gone | Lou Berney | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter | Malcolm Mackay | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books | |
| 2016 | Best Paperback Original | What She Knew | Gilly Macmillan | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | The Secret History of Las Vegas | Chris Abani | Penguin Random House - Penguin Books | |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | Stay With Me | Alison Gaylin | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | The Barkeep | William Lashner | Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer | |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | The Day She Died | Catriona McPherson | Llewellyn Worldwide - Midnight Ink | |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | The Gone Dead Train | Lisa Turner | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Paperback Original | World of Trouble | Ben H. Winters | Quirk Books | |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | The Wicked Girls | Alex Marwood | Penguin Group USA - Penguin Books | |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Almost Criminal | E.R. Brown | Dundurn Group | |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Brilliance | Marcus Sakey | Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer | |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Joe Victim | Paul Cleave | Simon & Schuster/Atria Books | |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | Joyland | Stephen King | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2014 | Best Paperback Original | The Guilty One | Lisa Ballantyne | HarperCollins - William Morrow Paperbacks | |
| 2013 | Best Paperback Original | The Last Policeman: A Novel | Ben H. Winters | Quirk Books | |
| 2013 | Best Paperback Original | Blessed are the Dead | Malla Nunn | Simon & Schuster - Aria Books/Emily Bestler Books | |
| 2013 | Best Paperback Original | Bloodland | Alan Glynn | Picador USA | |
| 2013 | Best Paperback Original | Complication | Isaac Adamson | Soft Skull Press | |
| 2013 | Best Paperback Original | Whiplash River | Lou Berney | HarperCollins - William Morrow Paperbacks | |
| 2012 | Best Paperback Original | The Company Man | Robert Jackson Bennett | Hachette Book Group - Orbit Books | |
| 2012 | Best Paperback Original | Death of the Mantis | Michael Stanley | Harper Paperbacks | |
| 2012 | Best Paperback Original | The Dog Sox | Russell Hill | Pleasure Boat Studio/Caravel Books | |
| 2012 | Best Paperback Original | The Faces of Angels | Lucretia Grindle | Felony & Mayhem | |
| 2012 | Best Paperback Original | Vienna Twilight | Frank Tallis | Random House Trade Paperbacks | |
| 2011 | Best Paperback Original | Long Time Coming | Robert Goddard | Random House - Bantam | |
| 2011 | Best Paperback Original | Expiration Date | Duane Swierczynski | Minotaur Books | |
| 2011 | Best Paperback Original | Ten Little Herrings | L.C. Tyler | Felony & Mayhem | |
| 2011 | Best Paperback Original | The News Where You Are | Catherine O'Flynn | Henry Holt and Company | |
| 2011 | Best Paperback Original | Vienna Secrets | Frank Tallis | Random House | |
| 2010 | Best Paperback Original | Body Blows | Marc Strange | Dundurn Press/Castle Street Mysteries | |
| 2010 | Best Paperback Original | Bury Me Deep | Megan Abbott | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2010 | Best Paperback Original | Havana Lunar | Robert Arellano | Akashic Books | |
| 2010 | Best Paperback Original | The Herring-Sellers Apprentice | L.C. Tyler | Felony & Mayhem | |
| 2010 | Best Paperback Original | The Lord God Bird | Russell Hill | Pleasure Boat Studio/Caravel Books | |
| 2009 | Best Paperback Original | China Lake | Meg Gardiner | NAL/Obsidian Mysteries | |
| 2009 | Best Paperback Original | Enemy Combatant | Ed Gaffney | Dell | |
| 2009 | Best Paperback Original | Money Shot | Christa Faust | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2009 | Best Paperback Original | The Cold Spot | Tom Piccirilli | Bantam | |
| 2009 | Best Paperback Original | The Prince of Bagram Prison | Alex Carr | Random House | |
| 2008 | Best Paperback Original | Queenpin | Megan Abbott | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2008 | Best Paperback Original | Blood of Paradise | David Corbett | Random House - Mortalis | |
| 2008 | Best Paperback Original | Cruel Poetry | Vicki Hendricks | Serpents Tail | |
| 2008 | Best Paperback Original | Robbie's Wife | Russell Hill | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2008 | Best Paperback Original | Who is Conrad Hirst? | Kevin Wignall | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2007 | Best Paperback Original | Snakeskin Shamisen | Naomi Hirahara | Bantam | |
| 2007 | Best Paperback Original | City of Tiny Lights | Patrick Neate | Penguin Putnam | |
| 2007 | Best Paperback Original | The Deep Blue Alibi | Paul Levine | Bantam | |
| 2007 | Best Paperback Original | The Goodbye Kiss | Massimo Carlotto | Europa Editions | Comment: translated by Lawrence Venuti |
| 2007 | Best Paperback Original | The Open Curtain | Brian Evenson | Coffee House Press | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Girl in the Glass | Jeffrey Ford | Dark Alley | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Homicide My Own | Anne Argula | Pleasure Boat Studio | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Kiss Her Goodbye | Allan Guthrie | Hard Case Crime |