* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1998 | Best Novel | The Purification Ceremony | Mark T. Sullivan | Avon | |
| 1998 | Best Paperback Original | Charm City | Laura Lippman | Avon | |
| 1998 | Best Paperback Original | Home Again, Home Again | Susan Rogers Cooper | Avon | |
| 1998 | Best Paperback Original | Sunset and Santiago | Gloria White | Dell | |
| 1998 | Best Paperback Original | Tarnished Icons | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Ivy Books | |
| 1998 | Best Paperback Original | The Prioress' Tale | Margaret Frazer | Berkley Prime Books | |
| 1998 | Best Play | The Red Death | David Barr | ||
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Keller on the Spot | Lawrence Block | Playboy | Volume: November |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Find Miriam | Stuart M. Kaminsky | New Mystery Magazine | Series: Summer |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | The Kneeling Soldier | Jeffery Deaver | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: March |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | The Man Who Beat the System | Stuart M. Kaminsky | Signet | Series: Funny Bones |
| 1998 | Best Short Story | Ways to Kill a Cat | Simon Brett | Pocket Books | Series: Malice Domestic 6 |
| 1997 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes | Michael Atkinson | University of Michigan Press | |
| 1997 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Agatha Christie: A to Z | Dawn B. Sova | Facts on File, Inc. | |
| 1997 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Detecting Women 2: A Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women | Willetta L. Heising | Purple Moon Press | |
| 1997 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Elusion Aforethought: The Life and Writing of Anthony Berkeley Cox | Malcolm J. Turnbull | Bowling Green Popular Press | |
| 1997 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Blues Detective: A Study of African-American Detective Fiction | Stephen F. Soitos | University of Massachusetts Press | |
| 1997 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Deadbeat | I.C. Rapoport, Ed Zuckerman | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1997 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Causa Mortis | Rene Balcer | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1997 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Every Picture Tells a Story | Paul Haggis | CBS | Series: EZ Streets |
| 1997 | Best Episode in a TV Series | ID | Ed Zuckerman | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1997 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Slave | Rene Balcer, Elaine Loeser | NBC | Series: Law & Order |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Power To Hurt | Darcy O'Brien | HarperCollins | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Fall Guys | Jim Fisher | Southern Illinois University Press | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | No Matter How Loud I Shout | Edward Humes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Outrage | Vincent Bugliosi | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 1997 | Best Fact Crime | Trespasses | Howard Swindle | Viking | |
| 1997 | Best First Novel | Simple Justice | John Morgan Wilson | Doubleday | |
| 1997 | Best First Novel | A Brother's Blood | Michael White | HarperCollins | |
| 1997 | Best First Novel | A Test of Wills | Charles Todd | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1997 | Best First Novel | Bonita Faye | Margaret Moseley | Three Forks Press | |
| 1997 | Best First Novel | The Queen's Man | Sharon Kay Penman | Henry Holt | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | The Clearing | Dorothy Reynolds Miller | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | Cousins in the Castle | Barbara Brooks Wallace | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | Gaps in Stone Walls | John Neufield | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | The Case of the Wiggling Wig | E.W. Hildick | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Juvenile | The Last Piper | Helen Cavanagh | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Sling Blade | Billy Bob Thorton | Miramax | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Fargo | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Gramercy | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Le Ceremonie | Claude Chabrol | ACO Production with MK2 Productions | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Lone Star | John Sayles | Castle Rock/Columbia | |
| 1997 | Best Motion Picture | Trainspotting | John Hodge | Miramax | |
| 1997 | Best Novel | The Chatham School Affair | Thomas H. Cook | Bantam | |
| 1997 | Best Novel | Hearts and Bones | Margaret Lawrence | Avon | |
| 1997 | Best Novel | Mean Streak | Carolyn Wheat | Berkley | |
| 1997 | Best Novel | Pentecost Alley | Anne Perry | Fawcett/Columbine | |
| 1997 | Best Novel | With Child | Laurie R. King | St. Martin's Press | |
| 1997 | Best Paperback Original | Fade Away | Harlan Coben | Dell | |
| 1997 | Best Paperback Original | Silent Words | Joan M. Drury | Spinsters Ink | |
| 1997 | Best Paperback Original | The Grass Widow | Teri Holbrook | Bantam | |
| 1997 | Best Paperback Original | Tribe | R.D. Zimmerman | Dell | |
| 1997 | Best Paperback Original | Walking Rain | Susan Wade | Bantam | |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Red Clay | Michael Malone | Delacorte Press | Anthology: Murder for Love |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Hoops | S.J. Rozan | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Series: January |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | Kiss The Sky | James Grady | Vintage | Anthology: Unusual Suspects |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | My Murder | David Corn | Vintage | Anthology: Unusual Suspects |
| 1997 | Best Short Story | The Dark Snow | Brendan DuBois | Playboy | Series: November |
| 1997 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Brotherly Love | Jimmy McGovern | A & E | Series: Cracker |
| 1997 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | An Autumn Shroud | Malcolm Bradbury | A & E | Series: Dalziel & Pascoe |
| 1997 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Best Boys | Paul Abbott | A & E | Series: Cracker |
| 1997 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Darkness Visible | Ashley Pharoah | A & E | Series: Silent Witness |
| 1997 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | True Romance | Paul Abbott | A & E | Series: Cracker |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Twisted Summer | Willo Davis Roberts | Atheneum | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Flyers | Daniel Hayes | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Hawk Moon | Rob MacGregor | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Mr. Was | Peter Hautman | Simon & Schuster | |
| 1997 | Best Young Adult | Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? | Mel Glenn | Lodestar | |
| 1997 | The Ellery Queen Award | Francois Guerif | |||
| 1997 | The Grand Master | Ruth Rendell | |||
| 1997 | The Raven Award | Marvin Lachman | |||
| 1997 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Prosecutor of DuPrey | David Vaughn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: Jan '96 |
| 1996 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson | Robert Polito | Knopf |