* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Grand Master | Donna Andrews | |||
| 2026 | The Grand Master | Lee Child | |||
| 2026 | The Raven Award | Book Passage | Corte Madera, CA | ||
| 2026 | The Ellery Queen Award | John Scognamiglio | Kensington Books | ||
| 2026 | Best Novel | The Big Empty | Robert Crais | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2026 | Best Novel | Fagin the Thief | Allison Epstein | Penguin Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2026 | Best Novel | The Dream Hotel | Laila Lalami | Penguin Random House - Pantheon Books | |
| 2026 | Best Novel | Wild Dark Shore | Charlotte McConaghy | Macmillan Publishers - Flatiron Books | |
| 2026 | Best Novel | Hard Town | Adam Plantinga | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2026 | Best Novel | The Inheritance | Trisha Sakhlecha | Penguin Random House - Pamela Dorman Books | |
| 2026 | Best Novel | Presumed Guilty | Scott Turow | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2026 | Best First Novel | Killer Potential | Hannah Deitch | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2026 | Best First Novel | All the Other Mothers Hate Me | Sarah Harman | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2026 | Best First Novel | Dead Money | Jakob Kerr | Penguin Random House - Bantam Books | |
| 2026 | Best First Novel | Johnny Careless | Kevin Wade | Macmillan Publishers - Celadon Books | |
| 2026 | Best First Novel | History Lessons | Zoe B. Wallbrook | Soho Press - Soho Crime | |
| 2026 | Best Paperback Original | Listen | Sacha Bronwasser | Penguin Random House - Penguin Books | |
| 2026 | Best Paperback Original | The Sideways Life of Denny Voss | Holly Kennedy | Amazon Publishing - Lake Union | |
| 2026 | Best Paperback Original | Broke Road | Matthew Spencer | Sourcebooks - Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 2026 | Best Paperback Original | One Death at a Time | Abbi Waxman | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2026 | Best Fact Crime | They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals | Mariah Blake | Penguin Random House - Crown | |
| 2026 | Best Fact Crime | Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation | Michael Cannell | Macmillan Publishers - Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | Best Fact Crime | Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers | Caroline Fraser | Penguin Random House - Penguin Press | |
| 2026 | Best Fact Crime | Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home | Gregg Olsen | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2026 | Best Fact Crime | Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen | Hallie Rubenhold | Penguin Random House - Dutton | |
| 2026 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | V is for Venom: Agatha Christie's Chemicals of Death | Kathryn Harkup | Bloomsbury - Signal | |
| 2026 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness | Andrew Klavan | HarperCollins Christian Publishing - Zondervan | |
| 2026 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Edgar Allan Poe: A Life | Richard Kopley | University of Virginia Press | |
| 2026 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard | C.M. Kushins | HarperCollins Publishers - Mariner Books | |
| 2026 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train | Stephen Rebello | Hachette Book Group - Running Press | |
| 2026 | Best Short Story | "Reading at Night" - The Strand Magazine | Graham Greene | The Strand Magazine | |
| 2026 | Best Short Story | "The One That Got Away" - EQMM January-February 2025 | Charlaine Harris | Must Read Books Publishing | |
| 2026 | Best Short Story | "Orphan X: A Mysterious Profile" | Gregg Hurwitz | The Mysterious Bookshop | |
| 2026 | Best Short Story | "Lucky Heart" - Blood on the Bayou | Tim Maleeny | Down & Out Books | |
| 2026 | Best Short Story | "The Kill Clause" - Amazon Original Stories | Lisa Unger | Amazon Publishing | |
| 2026 | Best Short Story | "Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush" - AHMM September-October | Dave Zeltserman | Must Read Books Publishing | |
| 2026 | Best Juvenile | Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum | Alasdair Beckett-King | Candlewick Press | |
| 2026 | Best Juvenile | What Happened Then | Erin Soderberg Downing | Scholastic Books | |
| 2026 | Best Juvenile | A Study in Secrets | Debbi Michiko Florence | Simon & Schuster - Aladdin | |
| 2026 | Best Juvenile | Blood in the Water | Tiffany D. Jackson | Scholastic Press | |
| 2026 | Best Juvenile | The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls | Judith Rossell | Penguin Young Readers - Dial | |
| 2026 | Best Juvenile | Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave | Ally Russell | Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press | |
| 2026 | Best Young Adult | Under the Same Stars | Libba Bray | Macmillan Publishers - Farrar, Straus and Giroux BFYR | |
| 2026 | Best Young Adult | Catch Your Death | Ravena Guron | Sourcebooks - Sourcebooks Fire | |
| 2026 | Best Young Adult | This is Where We Die | Cindy R.X. He | Sourcebooks - Sourcebooks Fire | |
| 2026 | Best Young Adult | The Scammer | Tiffany D. Jackson | HarperCollins Children's Books - Quill Tree Books | |
| 2026 | Best Young | Codebreaker | Jay Martel | St. Martin's Publishing Group - Wednesday Books | |
| 2026 | Best Episode in a TV Seriers | "End of the Line" - Ballard | Michael Alaimo & Kendall Sherwood | Amazon/Fabel | |
| 2026 | Best Episode in a TV Series | "Pilot" - Paradise | Dan Fogelman | Hulu | |
| 2026 | Best Episode in a TV Series | "Pilot" - The Lowdown | Sterlin Harjo | FX on Hulu | |
| 2026 | Best Episode in a TV Series | "These Girls" - Long Bright River | Nikki Toscano & Liz Moore | Peacock | |
| 2026 | Best Episode in a TV Series | "Ye'iitsoh (Big Monster) - Dark Winds | John Wirth & Steven Paul Judd | AMC | |
| 2026 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | "A Textbook Example" - Sacramento Noir | Luis Avalos | Akashic Books | |
| 2026 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | "How It Happened" - EQMM July-August 2025 | Billie Kay Fern | Must Read Books Publishing | |
| 2026 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | "Baggage" - EQMM January-February 2025 | Rick Marcou | Must Read Books Publishing | |
| 2026 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | "Bloodsurf" - Hollywood Kills | Tiffany D. Plunkett | Level Best Books - Level Short | |
| 2026 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | "Grand Theft Auto in the Heart of Screenland" - Hollywood Kills | Robert Rotstein | Level Best Books - Level Short | |
| 2026 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Five Found Dead | Sulari Gentill | Sourcebooks - Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 2026 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato | Sandra Jackson-Opoku | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | No Comfort for the Dead | R.P. O'Donnell | Crooked Lane Books | |
| 2026 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | All This Could Be Yours | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Last Dance Before Dawn | Katharine Schellman | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Cold as Hell | Kelley Armstrong | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Rage: A Novel | Linda Castillo | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Fallen Star | Lee Goldberg | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2026 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | The Red Letter | Daniel G. Miller | Sourcebooks - Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 2026 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Gone in the Night | Joanna Schaffhausen | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library | Amanda Chapman | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2026 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run | Gwen Florio | Severn House | |
| 2026 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective | Jo Nichols | Minotaur Books | |
| 2026 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | Murder Two Doors Down | Chuck Storla | Crooked Lane Books | |
| 2026 | The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award | Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) | Jesse Q. Sutanto | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 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 | |
| 2025 | Best First Novel | Twice the Trouble | Ash Clifton | Crooked Lane Books | |
| 2025 | Best First Novel | Cold to the Touch | Kerri Hakoda | Crooked Lane Books | |
| 2025 | Best First Novel | The Mechanics of Memory | Audrey Lee | CamCat Books | |
| 2025 | Best First Novel | A Jewel in the Crown | David Lewis | Kensington Books - A John Scognamiglio Book | |
| 2025 | Best First Novel | The President's Lawyer | Lawrence Robbins | Simon & Schuster - Atria Books | |
| 2025 | Best First Novel | Holy City | Henry Wise | Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2025 | Best Paperback Original | The Paris Widow | Kimberly Belle | Harlequin Trade Publishing - Park Row Books | |
| 2025 | Best Paperback Original | The Vacancy in Room 10 | Seraphina Nova Glass | Harlequin Trade Publishing - Graydon House | |
| 2025 | Best Paperback Original | Shell Games | Bonnie Kistler | HarperCollins - Harper Paperback | |
| 2025 | Best Paperback Original | A Forgotten Kill | Isabella Maldonado | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2025 | Best Paperback Original | The Road to Heaven | Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson | Dundurn Press Ltd. | |
| 2025 | Best Fact Crime | Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers | Frank Figliuzzi | HarperCollins - Mariner Books | |
| 2025 | Best Fact Crime | The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective | Steven Johnson | Penguin Random House - Crown | |
| 2025 | Best Fact Crime | A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton | Deb Miller Landau | Pegasus Books - Pegasus Crime | |
| 2025 | Best Fact Crime | The Amish Wife: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy that Let a Killer Go Free | Gregg Olsen | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2025 | Best Fact Crime | Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery | Earl Swift | HarperCollins - Mariner Books | |
| 2025 | Best Fact Crime | The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age | Michael Wolraich | Union Square & Co. | |
| 2025 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | Nathan Ashman | McFarland Publishing | |
| 2025 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | American Film Noir: From the Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl | M. Keith Booker | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | |
| 2025 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Organized Crime on Page and Screen: Portrayals in Hit Novels, Films, Television Show | David Geherin | McFarland Publishing | |
| 2025 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett | Ashley Lawson | The Ohio State University Press |