* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Best Novel | The Lady from Zagreb | Philip Kerr | Penguin Random House - A Marian Wood Book | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Life or Death | Michael Robotham | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori Roy | Penguin Random House - Dutton | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Canary | Duane Swierczynski | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books | |
| 2016 | Best Novel | Night Life | David C. Taylor | Forge Books | |
| 2016 | Best First Novel | Past Crimes | Glen Erik Hamilton | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2016 | Best First Novel | Where All Light Tends to Go | David Joy | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2016 | Best First Novel | Luckiest Girl Alive | Jessica Knoll | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2016 | Best First Novel | The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Grove Atlantic - Grove Press | |
| 2016 | Best First Novel | Unbecoming | Rebecca Scherm | Penguin Random House - Viking | |
| 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 Novel | This Dark Road to Mercy | Wiley Cash | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Wolf | Mo Hayder | Grove/Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | The Final Silence | Stuart Neville | Soho Press | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Saints of the Shadow Bible | Ian Rankin | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown | |
| 2015 | Best Novel | Cop Town | Karin Slaughter | Penguin Random House - Delacorte Books | |
| 2015 | Best First Novel | Dry Bones in the Valley | Tom Bouman | W.W. Norton | |
| 2015 | Best First Novel | Invisible City | Julia Dahl | Minotaur Books | |
| 2015 | Best First Novel | The Life We Bury | Allen Eskens | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2015 | Best First Novel | Bad Country | C.B. McKenzie | Minotaur Books - A Thomas Dunne Book | |
| 2015 | Best First Novel | Shovel Ready | Adam Sternbergh | Crown Publishers | |
| 2015 | Best First Novel | Murder at the Brightwell | Ashley Weaver | Minotaur Books - A Thomas Dunne Book | |
| 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 | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America | Kevin Cook | W.W. Norton | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | Carl Hoffman | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | The Other Side: A Memoir | Lacy M. Johnson | Tin House Books | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood | William Mann | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2015 | Best Fact Crime | The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder That Shook the Nation | Harold Schechter | Amazon Publishing - New Harvest | |
| 2015 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis | Charles Brownson | McFarland & Company | |
| 2015 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | Jim Mancall | McFarland & Company | |
| 2015 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir | Robert MIklitsch | University of Illinois Press | |
| 2015 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film | Francis M. Nevins | Perfect Crime Books | |
| 2015 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe | J.W. Ocker | W.W. Norton - Countryman Press | |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | 200 Feet | John Floyd | Strand Magazine | |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | What Do You Do? | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House - Bantam Books | Volume: Rogues |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | Red Eye | Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly | Simon & Schuster | Volume: Faceoff |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | Teddy | Brian Tobin | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: May 2014 |
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Absolutely Truly | Heather Vogel Frederick | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Space Case | Stuart Gibbs | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Greenglass House | Kate Milford | Clarion Books - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove | "Science Bob" Pflugfelder & Steve Hockensmith | Quirk Books | |
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Saving Kabul Corner | N.H. Senzai | Simon & Schuster - Paula Wiseman Books | |
| 2015 | Best Juvenile | Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile | Marcia Wells | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Young Adult | The Doubt Factory | Paolo Bacigalupi | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Young Adult | Nearly Gone | Elle Cosimano | Penguin Young Readers Group - Kathy Dawson Books | |
| 2015 | Best Young Adult | Fake ID | Lamar Giles | HarperCollins Children's Books - Amistad | |
| 2015 | Best Young Adult | The Art of Secrets | James Klise | Algonquin Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Young Adult | The Prince of Venice Beach | Blake Nelson | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2015 | Best Episode in a TV Series | The Empty Hearse | Mark Gatiss | Hartswood Films/Masterpiece | Series: Sherlock |
| 2015 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Unfinished Business | Siobhan Byrne O'Connor | CBS | Series: Blue Bloods |
| 2015 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Sally Wainwright | Netflix | Series: Happy Valley |
| 2015 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Dream Baby Dream | Sean Whitesell | Netflix | Series: The Killing |
| 2015 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 6 | Toby Whithouse | BBC America | Series: The Game |
| 2015 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | Getaway Girl | Zoe Z. Dean | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: November 2014 |
| 2015 | The Grand Master | Lois Duncan | |||
| 2015 | The Grand Master | James Ellroy | |||
| 2015 | The Raven Award | Crimespree Magazine | Ruth & Jon Jordan | ||
| 2015 | The Raven Award | Magna Cum Murder | Kathryn Kennison | ||
| 2015 | The Ellery Queen Award | Charles Ardai | Hard Case Crime | ||
| 2015 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | A Dark and Twisted Tide | Sharon Bolton | Minotaur Books | |
| 2015 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Stranger You Know | Jane Casey | Minotaur Books | |
| 2015 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Invisible City | Julia Dahl | Minotaur Books | |
| 2015 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Summer of the Dead | Julia Keller | Minotaur Books | |
| 2015 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Black Hour | Lori Rader-Day | Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2015 | Best Short Story | The Snow Angel | Doug Allyn | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: January 2014 |
| 2014 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture | Erik Dussere | Oxford University Press | |
| 2014 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ian Fleming | Andrew Lycett | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2014 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories | Bill Alder | McFarland & Co. | |
| 2014 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction | Melissa Schaub | Palgrave Macmillan | |
| 2014 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing | Justin Gifford | Temple University Press | |
| 2014 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Allan Cubitt | Netflix | Series: The Fall |
| 2014 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 3 | Neil Cross | BBC Worldwide | Series: Luther |
| 2014 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Legitimate Rape | Peter Blauner, Kevin Fox | NBC/Universal Television | Series: Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: SVU |
| 2014 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Pilot | Kevin Williamson | Fox/Warner Bros. Television | Series: The Following |
| 2014 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Variations Under Domestication | Will Pascoe | BBC Worldwide | Series: Orphan Black |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | Daniel Stashower | Minotaur Books | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | Duel with the Devil: The True Story of how Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery | Paul Collins | Crown Publishers | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal | Michael D'Antonio | Thomas Dunne Books | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder | Charles Graeber | Grand Central Publishing/Twelve | |
| 2014 | Best Fact Crime | The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines | Cate Lineberry | Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2014 | Best First Novel | Red Sparrow | Jason Matthews | Simon & Schuster/Scribner | |
| 2014 | Best First Novel | Ghostman | Roger Hobbs | Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2014 | Best First Novel | Rage Against the Dying | Becky Masterman | Minotaur Books | |
| 2014 | Best First Novel | Reconstructing Amelia | Kimberly McCreight | HarperCollins Publishers - Harper | |
| 2014 | Best First Novel | The Resurrectionist | Matthew Guinn | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2014 | Best Juvenile | One Came Home | Amy Timberlake | Random House Childrens Books - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2014 | Best Juvenile | Lockwood and Co.: The Screaming Staircase | Jonathan Stroud | Disney Publishing Worldwide/Disney Hyperion | |
| 2014 | Best Juvenile | Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking | Erin Dionne | Penguin Young Readers Group - Dial Books for Young Readers | |
| 2014 | Best Juvenile | P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man | Caroline Lawrence | Penguin Young Readers Group - Putnam Juvenile | |
| 2014 | Best Juvenile | Strike Three, You're Dead | Josh Berk | Random House Childrens Books - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | Simon & Schuster/Atria Books | |
| 2014 | Best Novel | How the Light Gets In | Louise Penny | Minotaur Books |