Meilleur roman
2007 Louise PENNY A fatal grace
2006 Nancy PICKARD The virgin of soft plains
2005 Katherine HALL PAGE The body in the snowdrift
2004 Jacqueline WINSPEAR Birds of a Feather
2003 Carolyn HART Letter from Home
2002 Donna ANDREWS You've got murder
2001 Rhys BOWEN Murphy's law
2000 Margaret MARON Storm track
1999 Earlene FOWLER Mariner's compass
1998 Laura LIPPMAN La colline des bouchers (Butchers Hill)
1997 Kate ROSS La disparition d'Orphée (The devil in music)
1996 Margaret MARON En terrain mine (Up jumps the devil)
1995 Sharyn McCRUMB If I'd killed him when I met him
1994 Sharyn McCRUMB Le fantôme des collines (She walks these hills)
1993 Carolyn HART Dead man's island
1992 Margaret MARON La fille du bootlegger (Bootlegger's daughter)
1991 Nancy PICKARD I.O.U.
1990 Nancy PICKARD Bum steer
1989 Elizabeth PETERS Naked once more
1988 Carolyn G. HART Something wicked

Meilleur premier roman
2007 Hank Phillippi RYAN Primetime
2006 Sandra PARSHALL The heat of the moon
2005 Laura DURHAM Better off wed
2004 Harley Jane KOZAK Dating Dead Men
2003 Jacqueline WINSPEAR Maisie Dobbs
2002 Julia SPENCER-FLEMING In the bleak midwinter
2001 Sarah STROHMEYER Bubbles Unbound
2000 Rosemary STEVENS Death on a Silver Tray
1999 Donna ANDREWS Murder with Peacocks
1998 Robin HATHAWAY The Doctor Digs a Grave
1997 Sujata MASSEY The Salaryman's Wife
1996 Anne GEORGE Murder on a Girl's Night out
1995 Jeanne M. DAMS The Body in the Transept
1994 Jeff ABBOTT Do unto others
1993 Nevada BARR L'empreinte du fauve (Track of the cat)
1992 Barbara NEELY Blanche tire sa révérence (Blanche on the lam)
1991 Mary Willis WALKER Glacée jusqu'au zoo (Zero at the bone)
1990 Katherine HALL PAGE The body in the Belfry
1989 Jill CHURCHILL Grime and Punishment
1988 Elizabeth GEORGE Enquête dans le brouillard (A great deliverance)