* Bold records denote winners
| Award Year | Award Category | Title | Author's Name | Publisher/Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock | Christina Lane | Chicago Review Press | |
| 2021 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Ian Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction | Erin E. MacDonald | McFarland | |
| 2021 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Guilt Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction | Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff | Syracuse University Press | |
| 2021 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing | Jacqueline Winspear | Soho Press | |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay | Leslie Elman | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue: January-February 2020 |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | Dust, Ash, Flight | Maaza Mengiste | Akashic Books | Addis Ababa Noir |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | Etta at the End of the World | Joseph S. Walker | Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine | Issue: May-June 2020 |
| 2021 | Best Short Story | The Twenty-Five Year Engagement | James W. Ziskin | Pegasus Books - Pegasus Crime | In League with Sherlock Holmes |
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | Premeditated Myrtle | Elizabeth C. Bunce | Workman Publishing - Algonquin Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | Me and Banksy | Tanya Lloyd Kyi | Penguin Random House - Puffin Canada | |
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | From the Desk of Zoe Washington | Janae Marks | HarperCollins Children's Books - Katherine Tegen Books | |
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | Ikenga | Nnedi Okorafor | Penguin Young Readers - Viking Books for Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | Nessie Quest | Melissa Savage | Random House Children's Books - Crown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Juvenile | Coop Knows the Scoop | Taryn Souders | Sourcebooks Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Young Adult | The Companion | Katie Alender | Penguin Young Readers - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Young Adult | The Inheritance Games | Jennifer Lynn Barnes | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Young Adult | The Went Left | Monica Hesse | Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers | |
| 2021 | Best Young Adult | Silence of Bones | June Hur | Macmillan Children's Books - Feiwel & Friends | |
| 2021 | Best Young Adult | The Cousins | Karen M. McManus | Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press | |
| 2021 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 - The Stranger | Danny Brocklehurst | Netflix | Series: Harlan Coben's The Stranger |
| 2021 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 - Open Water | Sarah-Kate Lynch | Acorn TV | Series: The Sounds |
| 2021 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 - Photochemistry | John Morton | Acorn TV | Series: Dead Still |
| 2021 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Luke Neal | Sundance Now | Series: Des |
| 2021 | Best Episode in a TV Series | What I Know | Rebecca Sonnenshine | Amazon | Series: The Boys; based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson |
| 2021 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | The Bite | Colette Bancroft | Akashic Books | Tampa Bay Noir |
| 2021 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Death of an American Beauty | Mariah Fredericks | Minotaur Books | |
| 2021 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne | Elsa Hart | Minotaur Books | |
| 2021 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Lucky One | Lori Rader-Day | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2021 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The First to Lie | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Forge Books | |
| 2021 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Cold Wind | Paige Shelton | Minotaur Books | |
| 2021 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | The Burn | Kathleen Kent | Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books | |
| 2021 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Riviera Gold | Laurie R. King | Penguin Random House - Ballantine Books | |
| 2021 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery | Rosalie Knecht | Tin House Books | |
| 2021 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Dead Land | Sara Paretsky | HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow | |
| 2021 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | The Sleeping Nymph | Ilaria Tuti | Soho Press - Soho Crime | |
| 2021 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Turn to Stone | James W. Ziskin | Start Publishing - Seventh Street Books | |
| 2021 | The Ellery Queen Award | Reagan Arthur | |||
| 2020 | Best Short Story | One of These Nights | Livia Llewellyn | Akashic Books | Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | The Passenger | Kirsten Tranter | Akashic Books | Sydney Noir |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Home at Last | Sam Wiebe | Down & Out Books | Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Brother's Keeper | Dave Zeltserman | Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine | Issue - May-June 2019 |
| 2020 | Best Juvenile | The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster | Cary Fagan | Penguin Random House Canada - Tundra Books | |
| 2020 | Best Juvenile | Eventown | Corey Ann Haydu | HarperCollins Children's Books - Katherine Tegen Books | |
| 2020 | Best Juvenile | The Whispers | Greg Howard | Penguin Young Readers - G.P. Putnam's Sons BFYR | |
| 2020 | Best Juvenile | All the Greys on Greene Street | Laura Tucker | Penguin Young Readers - Viking BFYR | |
| 2020 | Best Juvenile | Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse | Susan Vaught | Simon & Schuster Children's Books - Paula Wiseman Books | |
| 2020 | Best Young Adult | Catfishing on CatNet | Naomi Kritzer | Tom Doherty Associates - Tor Teen | |
| 2020 | Best Young Adult | Killing November | Adriana Mather | Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf BFYR | |
| 2020 | Best Young Adult | Patron Saints of Nothing | Randy Ribay | Penguin Young Readers - Kokila | |
| 2020 | Best Young Adult | The Deceivers | Kristen Simmons | Tom Doherty Associates - Tor Teen | |
| 2020 | Best Young Adult | Wild and Crooked | Leah Thomas | Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Season 5, Episode 3 | Jed Mercurio | Acorn TV | Series: Line of Duty |
| 2020 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Season 5, Episode 4 | Jed Mercurio | Acorn TV | Series: Line of Duty |
| 2020 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Sarah Phelps | STARZ | Series: Dublin Murders |
| 2020 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Ed Whitmore | Acorn TV | Series: Manhunt |
| 2020 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Kathrine Valen Zeiner | Sundance Now | Series: Wisting |
| 2020 | Best Episode in a TV Series | Episode 1 | Trygve Allister Diesen | Sundance Now | Series: Wisting |
| 2020 | The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award | There's a Riot Goin' On | Derrick Harriell | Akashic Books | Milwaukee Noir |
| 2020 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Night Visitors | Carol Goodman | HarperCollins - William Morrow | |
| 2020 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | One Night Gone | Tara Laskowski | Harlequin - Graydon House | |
| 2020 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Strangers at the Gate | Catriona McPherson | Minotaur Books | |
| 2020 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | Where the Missing Go | Emma Rowley | Kensington Publishing | |
| 2020 | Mary Higgins Clark Award | The Murder List | Hank Phillippi Ryan | Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books | |
| 2020 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Shamed | Linda Castillo | Minotaur Books | |
| 2020 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Borrowed Time | Tracy Clark | Kensington Publishing | |
| 2020 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | The Missing Ones | Edwin Hill | Kensington Publishing | |
| 2020 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | The Satapur Moonstone | Sujata Massey | Soho Crime | |
| 2020 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | The Alchemist's Illusion | Gigi Pandian | Midnight Ink | |
| 2020 | G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memoriam Award | Girl Gone Missing | Marcie R. Rendon | Cincos Puntos Press | |
| 2020 | The Grand Master | Barbara Neely | |||
| 2020 | The Raven Award | Left Coast Crime | |||
| 2020 | The Ellery Queen Award | Kelley Ragland | |||
| 2020 | Best Novel | Fake Like Me | Barbara Bourland | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | The Stranger Diaries | Elly Griffiths | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | The River | Peter Heller | Penguin Random House - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | Smoke and Ashes | Abir Mukherjee | Pegasus Books | |
| 2020 | Best Novel | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Michael Robotham | Simon & Schuster - Scribner | |
| 2020 | Best First Novel | My Lovely Wife | Samantha Downing | Penguin Random House - Berkley | |
| 2020 | Best First Novel | Miracle Creek | Angie Kim | Farrar Straus and Giroux - Sarah Crichton Books | |
| 2020 | Best First Novel | The Good Detective | John McMahon | Penguin Random House - G.P. Putnam's Sons | |
| 2020 | Best First Novel | The Secrets We Kept | Lara Prescott | Penguin Random House - Alfred A. Knopf | |
| 2020 | Best First Novel | Three-Fifths | John Vercher | Polis Books - Agora Books | |
| 2020 | Best First Novel | American Spy | Lauren Wilkinson | Penguin Random House - Random House | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Dread of Winter | Susan Alice Bickford | Kensington Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Freedom Road | William Lashner | Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | Blood Relations | Jonathan Moore | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Mariner Books | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | February's Son | Alan Parks | Europa Editions - World Noir | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | The Hotel Neversink | Adam O'Fallon Price | Tin House Books | |
| 2020 | Best Paperback Original | The Bird Boys | Lisa Sandlin | Cinco Puntos Press | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America | Karen Abbott | Penguin Random House - Crown | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity | Axton Betz-Hamilton | Hachette Book Group - Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Maureen Callahan | Penguin Random House - Viking | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Peter Houlahan | Counterpoint Press | |
| 2020 | Best Fact Crime | Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | James Polchin | Counterpoint Press | |
| 2020 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Hitchcock and the Censors | John Billheimer | University Press of Kentucky | |
| 2020 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan | Ursula Buchan | Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| 2020 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club | John Curran | Collins Crime Club | |
| 2020 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview | Anne McKendry | McFarland | |
| 2020 | Best Critical/Biographical Work | The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women | Mo Moulton | Hachette Book Group - Basic Books | |
| 2020 | Best Short Story | Turistas | Hector Acosta | Down & Out Books | Paque Tu Lo Sepas |