* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Best First Novel | Bent Road | Lori Roy | Penguin Group USA - Dutton | |
| 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 | |
| 2012 | Best Juvenile | Icefall | Matthew J. Kirby | Scholastic | |
| 2012 | Best Juvenile | Horton Halfpott | Tom Angleberger | Abrams - Amulet Books | |
| 2012 | Best Juvenile | It Happened on a Train | Mac Barnett | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | |
| 2012 | Best Juvenile | The Wizard of Dark Street | Shawn Thomas Odyssey | Egmont USA | |
| 2012 | Best Juvenile | Vanished | Sheela Chari | Disney Book Group - Disney Hyperion | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2012 | Best Play | The Game's Afoot | Ken Ludwig | Cleveland Playhouse | |
| 2012 | Best Play | Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club | Jeffrey Hatcher | Arizona Theatre Company | |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train | Peter Turnbull | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Lord John and the Plague of Zombies | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Group USA - Ace Books | Anthology: Down These Strange Streets |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Marley's Revolution | John C. Boland | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | The Adakian Eagle | Bradley Denton | Penguin Group USA - Ace Books | Anthology: Down These Strange Streets |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | The Case of Death and Honey | Neil Gaiman | Random House - Bantam | Anthology: A Study in Sherlock |
| 2012 | Best Short Story | Tomorrow's Dead | David Dean | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2012 | Best Young Adult | The Silence of Murder | Dandi Daley Mackall | Random House Childrens Books - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2012 | Best Young Adult | Kill You Last | Todd Strasser | Egmont USA | |
| 2012 | Best Young Adult | Shelter | Harlan Coben | Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2012 | Best Young Adult | The Girl is Murder | Kathryn Miller Haines | Macmillian Children's Publishing Group - Roaring Creek Press | |
| 2012 | Best Young Adult | The Name of the Star | Maureen Johnson | Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2012 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Learning to Swim | Sara J. Henry | Crown Publishing Group | |
| 2012 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Come and Find Me | Hallie Ephron | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2012 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Death on Tour | Janice Hamrick | ||
| 2012 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Murder Most Persuasive | Tracy Kiely | Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books | |
| 2012 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Now You See Me | S.J. Bolton | Minotaur Books | |
| 2012 | The Ellery Queen Award | Joe Meyers | Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group | ||
| 2012 | The Grand Master | Martha Grimes | |||
| 2012 | The Raven Award | M is For Mystery | Ed Kaufman | ||
| 2012 | The Raven Award | Meritorious Mysteries | Molly Weston | ||
| 2012 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | A Good Man of Business | David Ingram | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2012 | Best First Novel | The 500 | Matthew Quirk | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Reagan Arthur | |
| 2011 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and this Rendezvous with American History | Yunte Huang | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2011 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making | John Curran | HarperCollins | |
| 2011 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Sherlock Holmes for Dummies | David A. Crowder, Steven Doyle | Wiley Publishing | |
| 2011 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Wire: Truth Be Told | Rafael Alvarez | Grove Atlantic - Grove Press | |
| 2011 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Thrillers: 100 Must Reads | David Morrell, Hank Wagner | Oceanview Publishing | |
| 2011 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Neil Cross | BBC America | Series: Luther |
| 2011 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 4 | Neil Cross | BBC America | Series: Luther |
| 2011 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Full Measure | Vince Gilligan | AMC/Sony | Series: Breaking Bad |
| 2011 | Best Episode in a TV Series | No Mas | Vince Gilligan | AMC/Sony | Series: Breaking Bad |
| 2011 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Next Ones Gonna Go in Your Throat | Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, Daniel Zelman | FX Networks | Series: Damages |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry | University of Nebraska Press - Bison Original | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery | Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz | Simon & Schuster/Scribner | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin | Hampton Sides | Random House - Doubleday | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South | Alex Heard | HarperCollins | |
| 2011 | Best Fact Crime | The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science | Douglas Starr | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2011 | Best First Novel | Rogue Island | Bruce DeSilva | Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books | |
| 2011 | Best First Novel | Galveston | Nic Pizzolatto | Simon & Schuster/Scribner | |
| 2011 | Best First Novel | Snow Angels | James Thompson | Penguin Group - G.P. Putnams Sons | |
| 2011 | Best First Novel | The Poacher's Son | Paul Doiron | Minotaur Books | |
| 2011 | Best First Novel | The Serialist: A Novel | David Gordon | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2011 | Best Juvenile | The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy | Dori Hillestad Butler | Albert Whitman | |
| 2011 | Best Juvenile | Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol | Jim Krieg | Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill | |
| 2011 | Best Juvenile | The Haunting of Charles Dickens | Lewis Buzbee | Feiwel & Friends | |
| 2011 | Best Juvenile | The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman | Ben H. Winters | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2011 | Best Juvenile | Zora and Me | Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon | Candlewick Press | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 2011 | Best Play | The Fall of the House | Robert Ford | Alabama Shakespeare Festival | |
| 2011 | Best Play | The Psychic | Sam Bobrick | Falcon Theatre | |
| 2011 | Best Play | The Tangled Skirt | Steve Braunstein | New Jersey Repertory Company | |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | The Scent of Lilacs | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | A Good Safe Place | Judith Green | Level Best Books | Anthology: Thin Ice |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | Monsieur Alice is Absent | Stephen Ross | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine | |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | The Creative Writing Murders | Edmund White | Bloomsbury | Anthology: Dark End of the Street |
| 2011 | Best Short Story | The Plot | Jeffery Deaver | Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books | Anthology: First Thrills |
| 2011 | Best Young Adult | The Interrogation of Gabriel James | Charlie Price | Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers | |
| 2011 | Best Young Adult | 7 Souls | Barnabas Miller, Jordan Orlando | Random House Childrens Books - Delacorte Press | |
| 2011 | Best Young Adult | Dust City | Robert Paul Weston | Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill | |
| 2011 | Best Young Adult | Please Ignore Vera Dietz | A.S. King | Random House Childrens Books - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2011 | Best Young Adult | The River | Mary Jane Beaufrand | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2011 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Crossing Places | Elly Griffiths | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2011 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Blood Harvest | S.J. Bolton | Minotaur Books | |
| 2011 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Down River | Karen Harper | MIRA Books | |
| 2011 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Live to Tell | Wendy Corsi Staub | HarperCollins - Avon | |
| 2011 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Wild Penance | Sandi Ault | Penguin Group USA - Berkley Prime Crime | |
| 2011 | The Grand Master | Sara Paretsky | |||
| 2011 | The Raven Award | Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore | Augie Aleksy |