2008 John HART Down River
2007 Jason GOODWIN The Janissary Tree
2006  Jess WALTER Citizen Vince
2005 T. Jefferson PARKER California Girl
2004 Ian RANKIN Resurrection Men
2003 S.J. ROZAN Winter and Night
2002 T. Jefferson PARKER Silent Joe
2001 Joe R. LANSDALE Les marécages (The Bottoms)
2000 Jan BURKE Bones
1999 Robert CLARKE Mr. White's Confession
1998 James Lee BURKE La rose de Cimarron (Cimarron Rose)
1997 Thomas H. COOK The Chatham School Affair
1996 Dick FRANCIS L'amour du mal (Come to Grief)
1995 Mary Willis WALKER Cri rouge (The Red Scream)
1994 Minette WALTERS Cuisine sanglante (The Sculptress)
1993 Margaret MARON La fille du bootlegger (Bootlegger's Daughter)
1992 Lawrence BLOCK Une danse aux abattoirs (A Dance at the Slaughterhouse)
1991 Julie SMITH Carnaval sanglant (New Orleans Mourning)
1990 James Lee BURKE Black Cherry Blues (Black Cherry Blues)
1989 Stuart M KAMINSKY Le flic qui venait du froid (A Cold Red Sunrise)
1988 Aaron ELKINS Old Bones
1987 Barbara VINE (Ruth RENDELL) Véra va mourir (A Dark Adapted Eye)
1986 L. R. WRIGHT Le suspect (The Suspect)
1985 Ross THOMAS Onde de choc (Briarpatch)
1984 Elmore LEONARD La Brava (La Brava)
1983 Rick BOYER Billingsgate Shoal
1982 William BAYER L'assassin est au ciel (Peregrine)
1981 Dick FRANCIS A la cravache ! (Whip Hand)
1980 Arthur MALING Rheingold Route
1979 Ken FOLLET L'arme à l'œil (The Eye of the Needle)
1978 William H. HALLAHAN Catch Me: Kill Me
1977 Robert B. PARKER Promised Land
1976 Brian GARFIELD La grande traque (Hopscotch)
1975 Jon CLEARY Peter's Pence
1974 Tony HILLERMAN Là où dansent les morts (Dance Hall of the Dead)
1973 Warren KIRFER The Lingala Code
1972 Frederick FORSYHT Le jour du chacal (The Day of the Jackal)
1971 Maj SJÖWALL & Per WAHLÖÖ Le policier qui rit (The Laughing Policeman)
1970 Dick FRANCIS Forfaits (Forfeit)
1969 Jeffrey HUDSON A case of need
1968 Donald F. WESTLAKE Le pigeon récalcitrant (God save the mark)
1967 Nicolas FREELING Le roi d'un pays pluvieux (King of rainy country)
1966 Adam HALL The Berlin Memorandum (The Quiller Memorandum)
1965 John LE CARRE L'espion qui venait du froid (The spy who came in from the cold)
1964 Eric AMBLER La nuit d'Istambul (The light of day)
1963 Ellis PETERS Une mort joyeuse (Death and the joyful woman)
1962 J.-J. MARRIC La rousse a le feu sacré (Gideon's fire)
1961 Julian SYMONS Une bêtise de faite (Progress of a crime)
1960 Celia FREMLIN L'heure bleue (The hours before dawn)
1959 Stanley ELLIN Le huitième cercle de l'enfer (The eighth circle)
1958 Ed LACY A corps et à crimes (Room to swing)
1957 Charlotte ARMSTRONG Alerte au 333/Une dose de poison (A dram of poison)
1956 Margaret MILLAR Mortellement vôtre (Beast in view)
1955 Raymond CHANDLER Sur un air de navaja (The long goodbye)
1954 Charlotte JAY Beat not the bones