2025 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Paris Widow |
Kimberly Belle |
Harlequin Trade Publishing - Park Row Books |
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2025 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Vacancy in Room 10 |
Seraphina Nova Glass |
Harlequin Trade Publishing - Graydon House |
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2025 |
Best Paperback Original |
Shell Games |
Bonnie Kistler |
HarperCollins - Harper Paperback |
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2025 |
Best Paperback Original |
A Forgotten Kill |
Isabella Maldonado |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
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2025 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Road to Heaven |
Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson |
Dundurn Press Ltd. |
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2024 |
Best Paperback Original |
Boomtown |
A.F. Carter |
Penzler Publishers - Mysterious Press |
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2024 |
Best Paperback Original |
Hide |
Tracy Clark |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
|
2024 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Taken Ones |
Jess Lourey |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
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2024 |
Best Paperback Original |
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers |
Jesse Q. Sutanto |
Penguin Random House - Berkley |
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2024 |
Best Paperback Original |
Lowdown Road |
Scott Von Doviak |
Hard Case Crime |
|
2023 |
Best Paperback Original |
Quarry's Blood |
Max Allan Collins |
Hard Case Crime |
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2023 |
Best Paperback Original |
On a Quiet Street |
Seraphina Nova Glass |
Harlequin Trade Publishing - Graydon House |
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2023 |
Best Paperback Original |
Or Else |
Joe Hart |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
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2023 |
Best Paperback Original |
Cleopatra's Dagger |
Carole Lawrence |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
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2023 |
Best Paperback Original |
A Familiar Stranger |
A.R. Torre |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
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2022 |
Best Paperback Original |
Kill All Your Darlings |
David Bell |
Penguin Random House - Berkley |
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2022 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Lighthouse of Witches |
C.J. Cooke |
Penguin Random House - Berkley |
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2022 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Album of Dr. Moreau |
Daryl Gregory |
Tom Doherty Associates - Tordotcom |
|
2022 |
Best Paperback Original |
Starr Sign |
C.S. O'Cinneide |
Dundurn Press |
|
2022 |
Best Paperback Original |
Bobby March Will Live Forever |
Alan Parks |
Europa Editions - World Noir |
|
2022 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Shape of Darkness |
Laura Purcell |
Penguin Random House - Penguin Books |
|
2021 |
Best Paperback Original |
When No One is Watching |
Alyssa Cole |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
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2021 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Deep, Deep Snow |
Brian Freeman |
Blackstone Publishing |
|
2021 |
Best Paperback Original |
Unspeakable Things |
Jess Lourey |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
|
2021 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Keeper |
Jessica Moor |
Penguin Random House - Penguin Books |
|
2021 |
Best Paperback Original |
East of Hounslow |
Khurrum Rahman |
Penguin Random House - Penguin Books |
|
2020 |
Best Paperback Original |
Dread of Winter |
Susan Alice Bickford |
Kensington Publishing |
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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 |
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2020 |
Best Paperback Original |
February's Son |
Alan Parks |
Europa Editions - World Noir |
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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 |
|
2019 |
Best Paperback Original |
If I Die Tonight |
Alison Gaylin |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2019 |
Best Paperback Original |
Hiroshima Boy |
Naomi Hirahara |
Prospect Park Books |
|
2019 |
Best Paperback Original |
Under a Dark Sky |
Lori Rader-Day |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2019 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Perfect Nanny |
Leila Slimani |
Penguin Random House - Penguin Books |
|
2019 |
Best Paperback Original |
Under My Skin |
Lisa Unger |
Harlequin - Park Row Books |
|
2018 |
Best Paperback Original |
In Farleigh Field |
Rhys Bowen |
Amazon Publishing - Lake Union |
|
2018 |
Best Paperback Original |
Ragged Lake |
Ron Corbett |
ECW Press |
|
2018 |
Best Paperback Original |
Black Fall |
Andrew Mayne |
HarperCollins Publishers - Harper Paperback |
|
2018 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Unseeing |
Anna Mazzola |
Sourcebooks - Sourcebooks Landmark |
|
2018 |
Best Paperback Original |
Penance |
Kanae Minato |
Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co.,/Mulholland Books |
|
2018 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Rules of Backyard Cricket |
Jock Serong |
Text Publishing |
|
2017 |
Best Paperback Original |
Shot in Detroit |
Patricia Abbott |
Polis Books |
|
2017 |
Best Paperback Original |
Come Twilight |
Tyler Dilts |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
|
2017 |
Best Paperback Original |
The 7th Canon |
Robert Dugoni |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas & Mercer |
|
2017 |
Best Paperback Original |
Rain Dogs |
Adrian McKinty |
Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books |
|
2017 |
Best Paperback Original |
A Brilliant Death |
Robin Yocum |
Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books |
|
2017 |
Best Paperback Original |
Heart of Stone |
James W. Ziskin |
Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books |
|
2016 |
Best Paperback Original |
Woman with a Blue Pencil |
Gordon McAlpine |
Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books |
|
2016 |
Best Paperback Original |
Gun Street Girl |
Adrian McKinty |
Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books |
|
2016 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Daughter |
Jane Shemilt |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2016 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Long and Faraway Gone |
Lou Berney |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2016 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter |
Malcolm Mackay |
Hachette Book Group - Mulholland Books |
|
2016 |
Best Paperback Original |
What She Knew |
Gilly Macmillan |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2015 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Secret History of Las Vegas |
Chris Abani |
Penguin Random House - Penguin Books |
|
2015 |
Best Paperback Original |
Stay With Me |
Alison Gaylin |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2015 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Barkeep |
William Lashner |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer |
|
2015 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Day She Died |
Catriona McPherson |
Llewellyn Worldwide - Midnight Ink |
|
2015 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Gone Dead Train |
Lisa Turner |
HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow |
|
2015 |
Best Paperback Original |
World of Trouble |
Ben H. Winters |
Quirk Books |
|
2014 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Wicked Girls |
Alex Marwood |
Penguin Group USA - Penguin Books |
|
2014 |
Best Paperback Original |
Almost Criminal |
E.R. Brown |
Dundurn Group |
|
2014 |
Best Paperback Original |
Brilliance |
Marcus Sakey |
Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer |
|
2014 |
Best Paperback Original |
Joe Victim |
Paul Cleave |
Simon & Schuster/Atria Books |
|
2014 |
Best Paperback Original |
Joyland |
Stephen King |
Hard Case Crime |
|
2014 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Guilty One |
Lisa Ballantyne |
HarperCollins - William Morrow Paperbacks |
|
2013 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Last Policeman: A Novel |
Ben H. Winters |
Quirk Books |
|
2013 |
Best Paperback Original |
Blessed are the Dead |
Malla Nunn |
Simon & Schuster - Aria Books/Emily Bestler Books |
|
2013 |
Best Paperback Original |
Bloodland |
Alan Glynn |
Picador USA |
|
2013 |
Best Paperback Original |
Complication |
Isaac Adamson |
Soft Skull Press |
|
2013 |
Best Paperback Original |
Whiplash River |
Lou Berney |
HarperCollins - William Morrow Paperbacks |
|
2012 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Company Man |
Robert Jackson Bennett |
Hachette Book Group - Orbit Books |
|
2012 |
Best Paperback Original |
Death of the Mantis |
Michael Stanley |
Harper Paperbacks |
|
2012 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Dog Sox |
Russell Hill |
Pleasure Boat Studio/Caravel Books |
|
2012 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Faces of Angels |
Lucretia Grindle |
Felony & Mayhem |
|
2012 |
Best Paperback Original |
Vienna Twilight |
Frank Tallis |
Random House Trade Paperbacks |
|
2011 |
Best Paperback Original |
Long Time Coming |
Robert Goddard |
Random House - Bantam |
|
2011 |
Best Paperback Original |
Expiration Date |
Duane Swierczynski |
Minotaur Books |
|
2011 |
Best Paperback Original |
Ten Little Herrings |
L.C. Tyler |
Felony & Mayhem |
|
2011 |
Best Paperback Original |
The News Where You Are |
Catherine O'Flynn |
Henry Holt and Company |
|
2011 |
Best Paperback Original |
Vienna Secrets |
Frank Tallis |
Random House |
|
2010 |
Best Paperback Original |
Body Blows |
Marc Strange |
Dundurn Press/Castle Street Mysteries |
|
2010 |
Best Paperback Original |
Bury Me Deep |
Megan Abbott |
Simon & Schuster |
|
2010 |
Best Paperback Original |
Havana Lunar |
Robert Arellano |
Akashic Books |
|
2010 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Herring-Sellers Apprentice |
L.C. Tyler |
Felony & Mayhem |
|
2010 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Lord God Bird |
Russell Hill |
Pleasure Boat Studio/Caravel Books |
|
2009 |
Best Paperback Original |
China Lake |
Meg Gardiner |
NAL/Obsidian Mysteries |
|
2009 |
Best Paperback Original |
Enemy Combatant |
Ed Gaffney |
Dell |
|
2009 |
Best Paperback Original |
Money Shot |
Christa Faust |
Hard Case Crime |
|
2009 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Cold Spot |
Tom Piccirilli |
Bantam |
|
2009 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Prince of Bagram Prison |
Alex Carr |
Random House |
|
2008 |
Best Paperback Original |
Queenpin |
Megan Abbott |
Simon & Schuster |
|
2008 |
Best Paperback Original |
Blood of Paradise |
David Corbett |
Random House - Mortalis |
|
2008 |
Best Paperback Original |
Cruel Poetry |
Vicki Hendricks |
Serpents Tail |
|
2008 |
Best Paperback Original |
Robbie's Wife |
Russell Hill |
Hard Case Crime |
|
2008 |
Best Paperback Original |
Who is Conrad Hirst? |
Kevin Wignall |
Simon & Schuster |
|
2007 |
Best Paperback Original |
Snakeskin Shamisen |
Naomi Hirahara |
Bantam |
|
2007 |
Best Paperback Original |
City of Tiny Lights |
Patrick Neate |
Penguin Putnam |
|
2007 |
Best Paperback Original |
The Deep Blue Alibi |
Paul Levine |
Bantam |
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