EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARDS BEST NOVEL:

2018: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Winner)
The Dime by Kathleen Kent
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

2017:  Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Winner)
The Ex by Alafair Burke
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin 

2016:  Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy  (Winner)
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter 
The Lady From Zagreb by Philip Kerr
Life or Death by Michael Robotham
Canary by Duane Swierczynski
Night Life by David C. Taylor

2015:  Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Winner)
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Wolf by Mo Hayder
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
Coptown by Karin Slaughter

2014:  Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Winner)
Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook
The Humans by Matt Haig
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Winner)
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy

2013: Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (Winner)
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
Sunset by Al Lamanda
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley

2012: Gone by Mo Hayder (Winner)
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt
Field Gray by Philip Kerr

2011:  The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Winner)
Caught by Harlan Coben
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

2010: The Last Child by John Hart (Winner)
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux
The Odds by Kathleen George
Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn

2009: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (Winner)
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
The Night Following by Morag Joss
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

2008:  Down River by John Hart (Winner)
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Priest by Ken Bruen
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman

2007:  The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Winner)
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard
The Liberation Movements by Olen Steinhauer

2006:  Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (Winner)
Drama City by George Pelecanos
Red Leaves by Thomas H. Cook
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

2005:  California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (Winner)
By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman
Evan’s Gate by Rhys Bowen
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney

2004:  Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin (Winner)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Guards by Ken Bruen

2003:  Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan (Winner)
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Jolie Blon’s Bounce by James Lee Burke
No Good Deed by Manda Scott
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews

2002:  Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker (Winner)
Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain
Reflecting the Sky by S.J. Rozan
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
The Judgement by D.W. Buffa

2001  The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale  (Winner)
A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott 
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Red Light by T. Jefferson Parker
The Whole Truth by Nancy Pickard 

2000:  Bones by Jan Burke  (Winner) 
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth 
Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf 

1999: Mr. White’s Confession by Robert Clark (Winner)
A Likeness in Stone by J. Wallis Martin
Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
The Last Days of Il Duce by Domenic Stansberry

1998: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (Winner)
A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
The Purification Ceremony by Mark T. Sullivan

1997: The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook (Winner)
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Mean Streak by Carolyn Wheat
Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry
With Child by Laurie R. King

1996: Come to Grief by Dick Francis (Winner)
The Bookman’s Wake by John Dunning
The Roaring Boy by Edward Marston
The Shadow Man by John Katzenbach
The Summons by Peter Lovesey

1995: The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker (Winner)
A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block
Lights Out by Peter Abrahams
Miami, It’s Murder by Edna Buchanan
Wednesday’s Child by Peter Robinson

1994: The Sculptress by Minette Walters (Winner)
Free Fall by Robert Crais
Smilla’s Sense Of Snow by Peter Hoeg
The Journeyman Tailor by Gerald Seymour
Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller

1993: Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron (Winner)
32 Cadillacs by Joe Gores
Backhand by Liza Cody
Pomona Queen by Kem Nunn
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

1992: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (Winner)
Don’t Say a Word by Andrew Klavan
I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
Palindrome by Stuart Woods
Prior Convictions by Lia Matera

1991: New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (Winner)
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
Deadfall In Berlin by R.D. Zimmerman
Fade the Heat by Jay Brandon
Whiskey River by Loren Estleman

1990: Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (Winner)
A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield
Death of a Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill
Goldilocks by Andrew Coburn
The Booster by Eugene Izzi

1989: A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Winner)
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
In the Lake of the Moon by David L. Lindsey
Joey’s Case by K.C. Constantine
Sacrificial Ground by Thomas H. Cook

1988: Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (Winner)
A Trouble of Fools by Linda Barnes
Nursery Crimes by B.M. Gill
Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond by Charlotte MacLeod

1987: A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (Winner)
A Taste Of Death by P.D. James
Come Morning by Joe Gores
The Blind Run by Brian Freemantle
The Straight Man by Roger L. Simon

1986: The Suspect by L.R. Wright (Winner)
A Shock to the System by Simon Brett
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell
City of Glass: The New York Trilogy, Part 1 by Paul Auster
The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell

1985: Briar Patch by Ross Thomas (Winner)
Chessplayer by William Pearson
Emily Dickinson is Dead by Jane Langton
The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert
The Twelfth Juror by B.M. Gill

1984: La Brava by Elmore Leonard (Winner)
Texas Station by Christopher Leach
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carre
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney

1983: Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (Winner)
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
Kahawa by Donald E. Westlake
Split Images by Elmore Leonard
The Captain by Seymour Shubin

1982: Peregrine by William Bayer (Winner)
Bogmail by Patrick McGinley
Death in a Cold Climate by Robert Barnard
Dupe by Liza Cody
The Amateur by Robert Littell
The Other Side of Silence by Ted Allbeury

1981: Whip Hand by Dick Francis (Winner)
Death Drop by B.M. Gill
Death of a Literary Widow by Robert Barnard
Man on Fire by A.J. Quinnell
The Spy’s Wife by Reginald Hill

1980: The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling (Winner)
A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow
Death of a Mystery Writer by Robert Barnard
Fire in the Barley by Frank Parrish
Make Death Love Me by Ruth Rendell

1979: The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (Winner)
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman
The Shallow Grave by Jack S. Scott
The Snake by John Godey

1978: Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan (Winner)
Laidlaw by William McIlvanney
Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith

1977: Promised Land by Robert B. Parker (Winner)
A Madness of the Heart by Richard Neely
The Cavanaugh Quest by Thomas Gifford
The Glory Boys by Gerald Seymour
The Main by Trevanian

1976: Hopscotch by Brian Garfield (Winner)
Harry’s Game by Gerald Seymour
Operation Alcestic by Maggie Rennert
The Gargoyle Conspiracy by Martin Albert
The Money Harvest by Ross Thomas

1975: Peter’s Pence by Jon Cleary (Winner)
Goodbye and Amen by Francis Clifford
The Lester Affair by Andrew Garve
The Man Who Loved Zoos by Malcolm Bosse
The Silver Bears by Paul E. Erdman

1974: Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman (Winner)
Amigo, Amigo by Francis Clifford
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James
Dear Laura by Jean Stubbs
The Rainbird Pattern by Victor Canning

1973: The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer (Winner)
Canto for a Gypsy by Martin Cruz
Five Pieces of Jade by John Ball
The Shooting Gallery by Hugh C. Rae
Tied Up in Tinsel by Ngaio Marsh

1972: The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (Winner)
Shroud for a Nightingale by P.D. James
Sir, You Bastard by G.F. Newman
The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
Who Killed Enoch Powell? By Arthur Wise

1971: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo (Winner)
Autumn of a Hunter by Pat Stadley
Beyond this Point Are Monsters by Margaret Millar
Many Deadly Returns by Patricia Moyes
The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
The Hound and the Fox and the Harper by Shaun Herron

1970: Forfeit by Dick Francis (Winner)
Blind Man with a Pistol by Chester Himes
Miro by Shaun Herron
The Old English Peep Show by Peter Dickinson
When in Greece by Emma Lathen
Where the Dark Streets Go by Dorothy Salisbury Davis

1969: A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson (Winner)
A Glass-Sided Ants’ Nest by Peter Dickinson
Blood Sport by Dick Francis
God Speed the Night by Dorothy Salisbury Davis & Jerome Ross
Picture Miss Seeton by Heron Carvic
The Valentine Estate by Stanley Ellin

1968: God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake (Winner)
A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures by George Baxt
Flying Finish by Dick Francis
Lemon in the Basket by Charlotte Armstrong
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
The Gift Shop by Charlotte Armstrong

1967: The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling (Winner)
Killer Dolphin by Ngaio Marsh
Odds Against by Dick Francis
The Busy Body by Donald E. Westlake

1966: The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall (Winner)
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton
The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald
The Pale Betrayer by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating

1965: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré (Winner)
The Fiend by Margaret Millar
The Night of the Generals by Hans Hellmut Kirst
This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart

1964: The Light of Day by Eric Ambler (Winner)
Grieve for the Past by Stanton Forbes
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
The Make-Believe Man by Elizabeth Fenwick
The Player on the Other Side by Ellery Queen

1963: Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters (Winner)
Knave of Hearts by Dell Shannon
Séance by Mark McShane
The Ballad of the Running Man by Shelley Smith
The Evil Wish by Jean Potts
The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald

1962: Gideon’s Fire by J.J. Marric (Winner)
Night of Wenceslas by Lionel Davidson
Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell
The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc
The Wycherly Woman by Ross Macdonald

1961: The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons (Winner)
The Devil’s Own by Peter Curtis
The Traces of Brillhart by Herbert Brean
Watcher in the Shadows by Geoffrey Household

1960: The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin (Winner)
The List of Adrian Messenger by Philip MacDonald

1959: The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
A Gentleman Called by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The Madhouse in Washington Square by David Alexander
The Woman in the Woods by Lee Blackstock

1958: Room to Swing by Ed Lacy (Winner)
The Bushman Who Came Back by Arthur Upfield
The Longest Second by Bill Ballinger
The Night of the Good Children by Marjorie Carleton

1957: A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong (Winner)
The Man Who Didn’t Fly by Margot Bennett

1956: Beast in View by Margaret Millar (Winner)
The Case of the Talking Bug by The Gordons
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

1955: The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

1954: Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay