* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers | Janice Brown | The Kent State University Press | |
| 1999 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Bad Girl | Rene Balcer, Richard Sweren | NBC | Series: Law & Order, Law & Order |
| 1999 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Carrier | David Black | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1999 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Fallen Idol | Gwyneth Hughes | BBC/A & E co-production | Series: Silent Witness |
| 1999 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Fools Russian | Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, Allen Edwards, William M. Finkelstein, David Milch, Matt Olmstead, Scott A. Williams | Series: Brooklyn South, | |
| 1999 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Skel in a Cell | Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, William M. Finkelstein, David Milch, Doug Palau, Nicholas Wootton | Series: Brooklyn South, | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | To The Last Breath | Carlton Stowers | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Death Sentence | Jerry Bledsoe | Dutton | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Greentown | Timothy Dumas | Arcade Publishing | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | One of Ours | Richard A. Serrano | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1999 | Best Fact Crime | Tough Jews | Rich Cohen | Simon & Schuster | |
| 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 | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief | Wendelin Van Draanen | Knopf | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Alice Rose & Sam | Kathryn Lasky | Hyperion | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | Holes | Louis Sachar | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | The Kidnappers | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1999 | Best Juvenile | The Wreckers | Iain Lawrence | Delacorte Press | |
| 1999 | Best Motion Picture | Out of Sight | Scott Frank | Universal | |
| 1999 | Best Motion Picture | A Simple Plan | Scott B. Smith | Paramount | |
| 1999 | Best Motion Picture | The Spanish Prisoner | David Mamet | Sony Pictures Classics | |
| 1999 | Best Novel | Mr. White's Confession | Robert Clark | Picador USA | |
| 1999 | Best Novel | A Likeness in Stone | J. Wallis Martin | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1999 | Best Novel | Beyond Recall | Robert Goddard | Henry Holt and Company | |
| 1999 | Best Novel | Blood Work | Michael Connelly | Little, Brown | |
| 1999 | Best Novel | The Last Days of Il Duce | Domenic Stansberry | The Permanent Press | |
| 1999 | Best Paperback Original | The Widower's Two-Step | Rick Riordan | Bantam | |
| 1999 | Best Paperback Original | Atlanta Graves | Ruth Birmingham | Berkley Prime Books | |
| 1999 | Best Paperback Original | Butchers Hill | Laura Lippman | Avon | |
| 1999 | Best Paperback Original | Murder Manual | Steven Womack | Ballantine | |
| 1999 | Best Paperback Original | Zen Attitude | Sujata Massey | Harper Paperbacks | |
| 1999 | Best Play | Voices in the Dark | John Pielmeier | Comment: Produced by the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey | |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Poachers | Tom Franklin | The Texas Review | Series: Fall/Winter '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | For Jeff | Perry Michael Smith | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Feb '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Looking for David | Lawrence Block | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Feb '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | Sacrifice | L.L. Thrasher | Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine | Series: Summer/Fall '98 |
| 1999 | Best Short Story | The Halfway Woman | Clark Howard | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: Feb '98 |
| 1999 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Law & Order: Exiled | Charles Kipps | NBC | |
| 1999 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Dalziel & Pascoe: Child's Play | Michael Chaplin | A & E | Comment: based on the novel by Reginald Hill |
| 1999 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Midsomer Murders: Death of a Hollow Man | Caroline Graham | A & E | |
| 1999 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Rear Window | Larry Gross, Eric Overmyer | ABC | Comment: based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, |
| 1999 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Cater Street Hangman | Trevor R. Bowen | A & E | Comment: from a novel by Anne Perry |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | The Killer's Cousin | Nancy Werlin | Delacorte Press | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | Finn | Katharine Jay Bacon | Simon & Schuster | Series: Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | For Mike | Shelley Sykes | Delacorte Press | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | Paperquake | Kathryn Reiss | Harcourt, Brace & Co. | |
| 1999 | Best Young Adult | The Maze | Will Hobbs | Morrow Junior Books | |
| 1999 | The Ellery Queen Award | Sara Ann Freed | |||
| 1999 | The Grand Master | P.D. James | |||
| 1999 | The Raven Award | Steven Bochco | |||
| 1999 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Clarity | Bryn Bonner | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: May '98 |
| 1998 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Blood, Sweat, and Tears | John Milne | A & E | Series: Silent Witness |
| 1998 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Dead Headsby | Alan Plater | A & E | Series: Dalziel & Pascoe |
| 1998 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Into the Blue | Simon Burke | PBS | Series: Mystery! |
| 1998 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Sculptress | Tim Anderson | PBS | Series: Mystery! |
| 1998 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | White Ghost | Paul Abbott | A & E | Series: Cracker |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Ghost Canoe | Will Hobbs | Morrow Junior Books | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Deal with a Ghost | Marilyn Sanger | Henry Holt | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Tangerine | Edward Bloor | Harcourt, Brace & Co. | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Thin Ice | Marsha Qualey | Delacorte Press | |
| 1998 | Best Young Adult | Yesterday's Child | Sonia Levitin | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1998 | The Ellery Queen Award | Hiroshi Hayakawa | Comment: President of Hayakawa Publishing | ||
| 1998 | The Grand Master | Barbara Mertz | Comment: aka Elizabeth Peters & Barbara Michaels | ||
| 1998 | The Raven Award | Sylvia K. Burack | Comment: Editor, The Writer Magazine | ||
| 1998 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | If Thine Eye Offend Thee | Rosaland Roland | Crown Valley Press | Anthology: Murder X 13 |
| 1998 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone | Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Carol McGinnis Kay | Henry Holt | |
| 1998 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | AZ Murder Goes...Classic | Susan Malling, Barbara Peters | The Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 1998 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Crime Fiction and Film in the Sunshine State: Florida Noir | Steve Glassman, Maurice O'Sullivan | Popular Press | |
| 1998 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Deadly Women: The Woman Mystery Readers' Indispensable Companion | Jan Grape, Dean James, Ellen Nehr | Carroll & Graf | |
| 1998 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Reader and the Detective Story | George M. Dove | Popular Press | |
| 1998 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Double Down | Richard Sweren, Simon Wincelberg, Ed Zuckerman | NBC | Series: Law & Order, |
| 1998 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Blood | Rene Balcer, Craig Tepper | NBC | Series: Law & Order, |
| 1998 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Burned | Siobhan Byrne | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1998 | Best Episode in a TV Series | First Degree | Stephen Gaghan, David E. Kelley, Michael R. Perry | ABC | Series: The Practice |
| 1998 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Thrill | Rene Balcer | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | The Death of Innocents | Richard Firstman, Jamie Talan | Bantam | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, A Mother's Sacrifice | Ann Rule | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime & Punishment | John C. Tucker | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | Our Guys:The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb | Bernard Lefkowitz | Univeristy of California Press | |
| 1998 | Best Fact Crime | The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief | Ben MacIntyre | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 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 | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Sparrows in the Scullery | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Atheneum | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Christie & Company Down East | Katherine Hall Page | Avon | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Secrets at Hidden Valley | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Turn the Cup Around | Barbara Mariconda | Delacorte Press | |
| 1998 | Best Juvenile | Wolf Stalker | Alane Ferguson, Gloria Skurzynski | National Geographic Society | |
| 1998 | Best Motion Picture | L.A. Confidential | Curtis Hanson, Brian Helgeland | Warner Bros. | |
| 1998 | Best Motion Picture | Conspiracy Theory | Brian Helgeland | Warner Bros. | |
| 1998 | Best Motion Picture | Donnie Brasco | Paul Attanasio | Columbia Pictures | |
| 1998 | Best Novel | Cimarron Rose | James Lee Burke | Hyperion | |
| 1998 | Best Novel | A Wasteland of Strangers | Bill Pronzini | Walker | |
| 1998 | Best Novel | Black and Blue | Ian Rankin | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1998 | Best Novel | Dreaming of the Bones | Deborah Crombie | Scribners |