Year
|
Author
|
Title
|
Publication
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
1987
|
Sue Grafton
|
The Parker Shotgun
|
Mean Streets
|
Winner
|
|
1988
|
Robert Barnard
|
The Woman in the Wardrobe
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1987
|
Winner
|
|
1989
|
Doug Allyn
|
Deja Vu
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 1988
|
Winner
|
|
Carl Martin
|
Fatherly Love
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1988
|
Finalist
|
|
1990
|
Nancy Pickard
|
Afraid All the Time
|
Sisters in Crime
|
Winner
|
|
Brendan DuBois
|
Fire Burning Bright
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Winter 1989
|
Finalist
|
|
Jeremiah Healy
|
One Eye Open
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1989
|
Finalist
|
|
Donald E. Westlake
|
Too Many Crooks
|
Playboy, August 1989
|
Finalist
|
|
1991
|
Joan Hess
|
Too Much to Bare
|
Sisters in Crime 2
|
Winner
|
[57]
|
1992
|
Margaret Maron
|
Deborah's Judgement
|
A Woman’s Eye
|
Winner
|
[5]
|
Joe Gores
|
Dance of the Dead
|
The Armchair Detective, Spring 1991
|
Finalist
|
|
Carolyn Wheat
|
Life, for Short
|
Sisters in Crime 4
|
Finalist
|
|
1993
|
Carolyn Hart
|
Henrie O's Holiday
|
Malice Domestic 1
|
Winner
|
|
Joan Hess
|
The Last to Know
|
Malice Domestic 1
|
Finalist
|
|
Charles McCarry
|
The Hand of Carlos
|
The Armchair Detective, Fall 1992
|
Finalist
|
|
1994
|
Susan Dunlap
|
Checkout
|
Malice Domestic 2
|
Winner
|
|
M. D. Lake
|
Kim’s Game
|
Malice Domestic 2
|
Finalist
|
|
1995
|
Deborah Adams
|
Cast Your Fate to the Wind
|
Malice Domestic 3
|
Winner
|
|
Jan Burke
|
Unharmed
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mid-December 1994
|
Winner
|
|
1996
|
Colin Dexter
|
Evans Tries an O-Level
|
Morse's Greatest Mystery (Crown)
|
Winner
|
|
K. K. Beck
|
Rule of Law
|
Malice Domestic 4
|
Finalist
|
|
Dorothy Cannell
|
Cupid’s Arrow
|
Crimes of the Heart
|
Finalist
|
|
1997
|
Carolyn Wheat
|
Cruel & Unusual
|
Guilty As Charged (Pocket Books)
|
Winner
|
|
Joyce Christmas
|
Takeout
|
Malice Domestic 5
|
Finalist
|
|
Jill Churchill
|
The Bun Also Rises
|
Malice Domestic 5
|
Finalist
|
|
Michael Malone
|
Red Clay
|
Murder for Love
|
Finalist
|
|
Rosemarie Santini
|
The Music Lesson
|
New Mystery, Number 9, 1996
|
Finalist
|
|
1998
|
Peter Robinson
|
Two Ladies of Rose Cottage
|
Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)
|
Winner
|
|
William Bankier
|
Real Bullets This Time
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1997
|
Finalist
|
|
Stuart Kaminsky
|
Find Miriam
|
New Mystery Magazine, Summer 1997
|
Finalist
|
|
Edward Marston and Peter Lovesey
|
The Corbett Correspondence
|
Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)
|
Finalist
|
|
Polly Whitney
|
Etiquette Lesson
|
Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine
|
Finalist
|
|
1999
|
Barbara D'Amato
|
Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 98
|
Winner
|
|
Laurien Berenson
|
Sleeping Dogs Lie
|
Canine Crimes (Ballantine Books)
|
Finalist
|
|
Harlan Coben
|
A Simple Philosophy
|
Malice Domestic 7 (Avon)
|
Finalist
|
|
Dean James
|
The Village Vampire & the Oboe of Death
|
Malice Domestic 7 (Avon)
|
Finalist
|
|
2000
|
Kate Grilley
|
Maubi and the Jumbies
|
The Strand Magazine, Spring 2007
|
Winner
|
|
Laurie King
|
Paleta Man
|
Irreconcilable Differences, edited by Lia Matera (HarperCollins)
|
Finalist
|
|
Anne Perry
|
Heroes
|
Murder & Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler (Delacorte Press)
|
Finalist
|
|
Carolyn Wheat
|
Show Me the Bones
|
Diagnosis Dead, edited by Jonathan Kellerman (Pocket Books)
|
Finalist
|
|
2001
|
Reginald Hill
|
A Candle for Christmas
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep-Oct 2007
|
Winner
|
|
Jan Burke
|
The Man in the Civil Suit
|
Malice Domestic 9 (Avon)
|
Finalist
|
|
Joyce Christmas
|
The Chosen
|
Unholy Orders (Intrigue Press)
|
Finalist
|
|
2002
|
Jan Burke
|
The Abbey Ghosts
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003
|
Winner
|
|
Katherine Hall Page
|
The Would-Be Widower
|
Malice Domestic 10, edited by Nevada Barr (Avon)
|
Finalist
|
|
Ted Hertel
|
My Bonnie Lies
|
The Mammoth Book of Legal Thrillers, edited by Michael Hemmingson (Carroll & Graf)
|
Finalist
|
|
Rochelle Krich
|
Bitter Waters
|
Criminal Kabbalah, edited by Lawrence W. Raphael (Jewish Lights)
|
Finalist
|
|
2003
|
Janet Dawson
|
Voice Mail
|
Harper / Headline
|
Winner
|
|
Diana Deverell
|
Boot Scoot
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, October 2002
|
Finalist
|
|
Brendan DuBois
|
An Empire's Reach
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November 2002
|
Finalist
|
|
Toni L.P. Kelner
|
Bible Belt
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2002
|
Finalist
|
|
Marcia Talley
|
Too Many Cooks
|
Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime)
|
Finalist
|
|
Carolyn Wheat
|
The Adventure of the Rara Avis
|
Murder, My Dear Watson, edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower (Carroll & Graf)
|
Finalist
|
|
2004
|
Sandy Balzo
|
The Grass Is Always Greener
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Feb 2007
|
Winner
|
|
Robert Barnard
|
Rogues Gallery
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 2003
|
Finalist
|
|
Diana Deverell
|
Texas Two-Step
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, February 2003
|
Finalist
|
|
Beth Foxwell
|
No Man's Land
|
Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime)
|
Finalist
|
[58]
|
G. Miki Hayden
|
War Crimes
|
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime)
|
Finalist
|
|
Ronnie Klaskin
|
Child Support
|
A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by Jeffery Deaver (Berkley Prime Crime)
|
Finalist
|
|
Elaine Viets
|
Red Meat
|
Blood On Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block (Berkley Prime Crime)
|
Finalist
|
|
2005
|
Terence Faherty
|
The Widow of Slane
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2005
|
Winner
|
|
Sandra Balzo
|
Viscery
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2004
|
Finalist
|
|
Alana White
|
The Lady's Not for Dying
|
Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Winter 2004
|
Finalist
|
|
2006
|
Nancy Pickard
|
There Is No Crime on Easter Island
|
Scam and Eggs, Five Star
|
Winner
|
|
Robert Barnard
|
Everybody's Girl
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2005
|
Finalist
|
|
David Corbett
|
It Can Happen
|
San Francisco Noir, Akashic Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Steve Hockensmith
|
The Big Road
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2005
|
Finalist
|
|
2007
|
Tim Maleeny
|
Til Death Do Us Part
|
MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories About Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben (Little, Brown & Co.)
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
Robert Barnard
|
Provenance
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jul 2006
|
Finalist
|
|
Roberta Isleib
|
Disturbance in the Field
|
Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw (Level Best Books)
|
Finalist
|
|
2008
|
Rhys Bowen
|
Please Watch Your Step
|
Hardly Knew Her (William Morrow & Co.)
|
Winner
|
|
Donna Andrews
|
A Rat's Tale
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2007
|
Finalist
|
|
Jon L. Breen
|
The Missing Elevator Puzzle
|
Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin)
|
Finalist
|
|
Beverle Graves Myers
|
Brimstone P.I.
|
Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Harris & Kelner (Penguin)
|
Finalist
|
|
Gillian Roberts
|
The Old Wife's Tale
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2004
|
Finalist
|
|
2009
|
Dana Cameron
|
The Night Things Changed
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Mar/Apr 2007
|
Winner
|
|
Sean Chercover
|
A Sleep Not Unlike Death
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sep/Oct 2008
|
Finalist
|
|
Toni L.P. Kelner
|
Keeping Watch Over His Flock
|
Murderous Intent, Fall 1999
|
Finalist
|
|
Laura Lippman
|
Scratch a Woman
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 2001
|
Finalist
|
|
Tom Piccirilli
|
Between the Dark and the Daylight
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2007
|
Finalist
|
|
2010
|
Hank Phillippi Ryan
|
On the House
|
Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers, Level Best Books
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
Ace Atkins
|
Last Fair Deal Gone Down
|
Crossroad Blues, Busted Flush Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Dana Cameron
|
Femme Sole
|
Boston Noir, Akashic Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Jim Fusilli
|
Digby, Attorney at Law
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May 2009
|
Finalist
|
|
Carolyn Hart
|
Your Turn
|
Two of the Deadliest, Harper
|
Finalist
|
|
Marcus Sakey
|
The Desert Here and the Desert Far Away
|
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down, Mira
|
Finalist
|
|
Luis Alberto Urrea
|
Amapola
|
Phoenix Noir, Akashic Books
|
Finalist
|
|
2011
|
Dana Cameron
|
Swing Shift
|
Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side, Berkley Books
|
Winner
|
[12]
|
Doug Allyn
|
The Scent of Lilacs
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
|
Finalist
|
|
Keith Gilman
|
Devil's Pocket
|
Philadelphia Noir, Akashic Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Richard Helms
|
The Gods for Vengeance Cry
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
|
Finalist
|
|
G.M. Malliet
|
Bookworm
|
Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin', Wildside Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2012
|
Dana Cameron
|
Disarming
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011
|
Winner
|
[14][15]
|
Trina Corey
|
Facts Exhibiting Wantonness
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2011
|
Finalist
|
|
Daryl Wood Gerber
|
Palace by the Lake
|
Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology, Wildside Press
|
Finalist
|
|
Barb Goffman
|
Truth and Consequences
|
Mystery Times Ten, Buddhapuss Ink
|
Finalist
|
|
Kathleen Ryan
|
Heat of Passion
|
A Twist of Noir, Feb. 14, 2011
|
Finalist
|
|
Peter Turnbull
|
The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011
|
Finalist
|
|
2013
|
Barb Goffman
|
The Lord Is My Shamus
|
Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press
|
Winner
|
[16]
|
Jeffrey Deaver
|
The Sequel
|
The Strand Magazine, November 2012-February 2013
|
Finalist
|
|
Jim Fusilli
|
Blind Justice
|
Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books
|
Finalist
|
|
Karin Slaughter
|
The Unremarkable Heart
|
Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance, Little, Brown, & Co. – Mulholland Books
|
Finalist
|
|
B.K. Stevens
|
Thea's First Husband
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2012
|
Finalist
|
|
Art Taylor
|
When Duty Calls
|
Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, Wildside Press
|
Finalist
|
|
2014
|
Art Taylor
|
The Care and Feeding of Houseplants
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013
|
Winner
|
[17][18]
|
Reed Farrel Coleman
|
The Terminal
|
Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler, Thomas & Mercer
|
Finalist
|
[51]
|
John Connolly
|
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository
|
Bibliomysteries: Short Tales About Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler, Bookspan
|
Finalist
|
[51]
|
Martin Limon
|
The Dragon's Tail
|
Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books
|
Finalist
|
[51]
|
Gigi Pandian
|
The Hindi Houdini
|
Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long, Wildside Press
|
Finalist
|
[51]
|
Travis Richardson
|
Incident on the 405
|
The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey, Macmillan
|
Finalist
|
[51]
|
2015
|
Craig Faustus Buck
|
Honeymoon Sweet
|
Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron, Down & Out
|
Winner
|
[19]
|
Barb Goffman
|
The Shadow Knows
|
Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley, Wildside Press
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Paul D. Marks
|
Howling at the Moon
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Travis Richardson
|
The Proxy
|
Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
Art Taylor
|
The Odds Are Against Us
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014
|
Finalist
|
[20]
|
2016
|
Megan Abbott
|
The Little Men
|
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
|
Winner
|
|
Mat Coward
|
On Borrowed Time
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2015
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Loren D. Estleman
|
Sob Sister
|
Detroit Is Our Beat: Tales of the Four Horsemen, Tyrus
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Barb Goffman
|
A Year Without Santa Claus
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2015
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
Travis Richardson
|
Quack and Dwight
|
Jewish Noir, edited by Kenneth Wishnia, PM Press
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
B.K. Stevens
|
A Joy Forever
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2015
|
Finalist
|
[22]
|
2017
|
Art Taylor
|
Parallel Play
|
Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press
|
Winner
|
[59]
|
Lawrence Block
|
Autumn at the Automat
|
In Sunlight or in Shadow, Pegasus Books
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Craig Faustus Buck
|
Blank Shot
|
Black Coffee, Darkhouse Books
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Greg Herren
|
Survivor's Guilt
|
Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016, Down & Out Books
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Paul D. Marks
|
Ghosts of Bunker Hill
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2016
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
Joyce Carol Oates
|
The Crawl Space
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2016
|
Finalist
|
[23]
|
2018
|
Paul D. Marks
|
Windward
|
Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books
|
Winner
|
[60][24]
|
Craig Faustus Buck
|
As Ye Sow
|
Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017, Down and Out Books
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Matt Coyle
|
The #2 Pencil
|
Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Terence Faherty
|
Infinite Uticas
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Barb Goffman
|
Whose Wine Is it Anyway?
|
50 Shades of Cabernet, Koehler Books
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
Art Taylor
|
A Necessary Ingredient
|
Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books
|
Finalist
|
[24]
|
2019
|
Art Taylor
|
English 398: Fiction Workshop
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jul/Aug 2018
|
Winner
|
|
Craig Faustus Buck
|
Race to Judgment
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018
|
Finalist
|
|
Leslie Budewitz
|
All God's Sparrows
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/Jun 2018
|
Finalist
|
|
Barb Goffman
|
Bug Appétit
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov/Dec 2018
|
Finalist
|
|
Barry Lancet
|
Three-Star Sushi
|
Down & Out: The Magazine, Vol.1, No. 3
|
Finalist
|
|
Gigi Pandian
|
The Cambodian Curse
|
The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories
|
Finalist
|
|
2020
|
Art Taylor
|
Better Days
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019
|
Winner
|
[26]
|
Michael Chandos
|
West Texas Barbecue
|
The Eyes of Texas, edited by Michael Bracken (Down & Out Books)
|
Finalist
|
[26][27]
|
Terence Faherty
|
The Cardboard Box
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019
|
Finalist
|
[26][27]
|
Barb Goffman
|
Alex's Choice
|
Crime Travel, edited by Barb Goffman(Wildside Press)
|
Finalist
|
[26][27]
|
G.M. Malliet
|
Whiteout
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2019
|
Finalist
|
[26][27][61]
|
Dave Zeltserman
|
Brother's Keeper
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2019
|
Finalist
|
[26][27]
|
2021
|
Gabriel Valjan
|
Elysian Fields
|
California Schemin': The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor (Wildside Press)
|
Winner
|
[29]
|
Barb Goffman
|
Dear Emily Etiquette
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept/Oct 2020
|
Finalist
|
|
Art Taylor
|
The Boy Detective & The Summer of ‘74
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan/Feb 2020
|
Finalist
|
|
Elaine Viets
|
Dog Eat Dog
|
The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, edited by Josh Pachter (Untreed Reads Publishing)
|
Finalist
|
|
James W. Ziskin
|
The Twenty-Five Year Engagement
|
In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King (Pegasus Crime)
|
Finalist
|
|
2022
|
Richard Helms
|
Sweeps Week
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
|
Winner
|
[31]
|
Tracy Clark
|
Lucky Thirteen
|
Midnight Hour (Crooked Lane Books)
|
Finalist
|
[31]
|
Steve Hockensmith
|
Curious Incidents
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021
|
Finalist
|
[31]
|
R.T. Lawton
|
The Road to Hana
|
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2021
|
Finalist
|
[31]
|
G.M. Malliet
|
The White Star
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
|
Finalist
|
[31][62]
|
Gigi Pandian
|
The Locked Room Library
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
|
Finalist
|
[31]
|
Dave Zeltserman
|
Julius Katz and the Two Cousins
|
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021
|
Finalist
|
[31]
|