* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Grave Danger | Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar, Quentin Tarantino, Anthony Zuiker | CBS | Series: CSI |
| 2006 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Redemption | Guy Burt | BBC America | Series: Wire in the Blood |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | Edward Dolnick | HarperCollins | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans | Jed Horne | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison | John Emsley | Oxford University Press | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa | Michael Finkel | HarperCollins | |
| 2006 | Best Fact Crime | Written in Blood | Diane Fanning | St. Martin's True Crime | |
| 2006 | Best First Novel | Officer Down | Theresa Schwegel | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2006 | Best First Novel | Die A Little | Megan Abbott | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2006 | Best First Novel | Hide Your Eyes | Alison Gaylin | Signet | |
| 2006 | Best First Novel | Immoral | Brian Freeman | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2006 | Best First Novel | Run the Risk | Scott Frost | G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | The Boys of San Joaquin | D. James Smith | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | Flush | Carl Hiaasen | Knopf Books for Young Readers | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | Shakespeare's Secret | Elise Broach | Henry Holt | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | The Missing Manatee | Cynthia DeFelice | Farrar, Straus, Giroux | |
| 2006 | Best Juvenile | Wright & Wong: The Case of the Nana-Napper | Laura J. Burns, Melinda Metz | Penguin Young Readers - Sleuth/Razorbill | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | Warner Bros. | Comment: based on the book by Robert Baer |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | A History of Violence | Josh Olson | Comment: based on the Graphic Novel by John Wagner & Vince Locke; New Line Productions | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | Crash | Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco | Comment: Lions Gate Films, Lions Gate Films | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | Match Point | Woody Allen | Comment: BBC | |
| 2006 | Best Motion Picture | The Ice Harvest | Robert Benton, Richard Russo | Comment: based on the Novel by Scott Phillips (Focus Features), based on the Novel by Scott Phillips (Focus Features) | |
| 2006 | Best Novel | Citizen Vince | Jess Walter | Regan Books | |
| 2006 | Best Novel | Drama City | George Pelecanos | Little, Brown | |
| 2006 | Best Novel | Red Leaves | Thomas H. Cook | Harcourt, Inc. | |
| 2006 | Best Novel | The Lincoln Lawyer | Michael Connelly | Little, Brown | |
| 2006 | Best Novel | Vanish | Tess Gerritsen | Ballantine | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Girl in the Glass | Jeffrey Ford | Dark Alley | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Homicide My Own | Anne Argula | Pleasure Boat Studio | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Kiss Her Goodbye | Allan Guthrie | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | Six Bad Things | Charlie Huston | Ballantine | |
| 2006 | Best Paperback Original | The James Deans | Reed Farrel Coleman | Penguin - Plume | |
| 2006 | Best Play | Matter of Intent | Gary Earl Ross | Comment: Theater Loft | |
| 2006 | Best Play | Mating Dance of the Werewolf | Mark Stein | Comment: Rubicon Theatre | |
| 2006 | Best Play | River's End | Cheryl Coons, Chuck Larkin | Comment: Marin Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company | |
| 2005 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories | Leslie S. Klinger | W.W. Norton & Co. | |
| 2005 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel | Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe | McFarland & Co. | |
| 2005 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Latin American Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide | Darrell B. Lockhart | Greenwood Press | |
| 2005 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Life of Graham Greene | Norman Sherry | Viking | Volume: Vol. 3: 1956-1991 |
| 2005 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Want | Rene Balcer, Elizabeth Benjamin | Wolf Films/NBC Universal | Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent |
| 2005 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Conscience | Rene Balcer, Gerry Conway | Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent | |
| 2005 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Consumed | Rene Balcer, Warren Leight | Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent | |
| 2005 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf | Hy Conrad | USA | Series: Monk |
| 2005 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Pas De Deux | Rene Balcer, Warren Leight | Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent | |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder | Leonard Levitt | Regan Books | Comment: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Are You There Alone? | Suzanne O'Malley | Simon & Schuster | Comment: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Ballad of the Whiskey Robber | Julian Rubinstein | Little, Brown | Comment: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Forensics for Dummies | D.P. Lyle, MD | Wiley Publishing - For Dummies | |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Green River, Running Red | Ann Rule | Free Press/Macmillan | Comment: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer |
| 2005 | Best Fact Crime | Ready for the People | Marissa N. Batt | Arcade Publishing | Comment: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor |
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Country of Origin | Don Lee | W.W. Norton & Company | |
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Bahamarama | Bob Morris | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Cloud Atlas | Liam Callanan | Delacorte Press | |
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Little Girl Lost | Richard Aleas | Five Star Publishing | |
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Relative Danger | Charles Benoit | Poisoned Pen Press | |
| 2005 | Best First Novel | Tonight I Said Goodbye | Michael Koryta | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Chasing Vermeer | Blue Balliett | Scholastic | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Abduction! | Peg Kehret | Penguin Young Readers - Dutton | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Assassin | Patricia Finney | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | Comment: The Lady Grace Mysteries |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | Looking for Bobowicz | Daniel Pinkwater | HarperCollins Children's Books | |
| 2005 | Best Juvenile | The Unseen | Zilpha Keatley Snyder | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | A Very Long Engagement | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | 2003 Productions | Comment: based on the Novel by Sebastien Japrisot; 2003 Productions |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | Collateral | Stuart Beattie | DreamWorks SKG | |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | I'm Not Scared | Francesca Marciano | Miramax | Comment: based on the Novel by Niccola Ammaniti |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | Maria Full of Grace | Joshua Marston | HBO | |
| 2005 | Best Motion Picture | The Bourne Supremacy | Tony Gilroy | Kennedy/Marshall Co., Universal Pictures, Hypnotic | Comment: based on the Novel by Robert Ludlam |
| 2005 | Best Novel | California Girl | T. Jefferson Parker | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2005 | Best Novel | By a Spiders Thread | Laura Lippman | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2005 | Best Novel | Evan's Gate | Rhys Bowen | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2005 | Best Novel | Out of the Deep I Cry | Julia Spencer-Fleming | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2005 | Best Novel | Remembering Sarah | Chris Mooney | Atria Books | |
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | The Confession | Domenic Stansberry | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | Dead Men Rise Up Never | Ron Faust | Dell | |
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | Into the Web | Thomas H. Cook | Bantam | |
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | The Librarian | Larry Beinhart | Nation Books | |
| 2005 | Best Paperback Original | Twelve-Step Fandango | Chris Haslam | Dark Alley | |
| 2005 | Best Play | Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It) | Neal Bell | Playwrights Horizons | |
| 2005 | Best Play | An Evening of Murder and the Like | Edward Musto | Barrow Group Studio Theatre | |
| 2005 | Best Play | Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life | Max Allan Collins | The Art House | |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Something About a Scar | Laurie Lynn Drummond | HarperCollins | Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Adventure of the Missing Detective | Gary Lovisi | St. Martin's Minotaur | Anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | Imitate the Sun | Luke Sholer | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: November 2004 |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | The Book Signing | Pete Hamill | Akashic Books | Anthology: Brooklyn Noir |
| 2005 | Best Short Story | The Widow of Slane | Terence Faherty | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Volume: March/April 2004 |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | State of Play | Paul Abbott | BBC America | |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Amnesia | Chris Lang | BBC America | |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Death in Holy Orders | Robert Jones | BBC Worldwide | Comment: based on the novel by P.D. James |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness | Peter Berry | Granada TV & WGBH Boston | |
| 2005 | Best TV Feature or MiniSeries | The Darkness of Light | Alan Whiting | Coastal Productions | Series: Wire in the Blood |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | In Darkness, Death | Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler | Philomel | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Jude | Kate Morgenroth | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Missing Abby | Lee Weatherly | David Fickling Books | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | Story Time | Edward Bloor | Harcourt Children's Books | |
| 2005 | Best Young Adult | The Book of Dead Days | Marcus Sedgwick | Wendy Lamb Books/Random House Childrens | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Grave Endings | Rochelle Krich | Ballantine | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Murder in a Mill Town | P.B. Ryan | Berkley Prime Crime | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Perfect Sax | Jerrilyn Farmer | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Scent of a Killer | Christiane Heggan | MIRA Books | |
| 2005 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Drowning Tree | Carol Goodman | Ballantine | |
| 2005 | Special Edgars | David Chase | Comment: writer/producer - The Sopranos, The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and many other breakthrough TV shows |