The Edgar Award Winners for Best Mystery NovelsComplete list of the Edgar Prize Authors. The Mystery Writers of America membership includes writers of books, short stories, plays, and screenplays writing in the mystery and crime genre. The Edgar Award is awarded to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre. Judges include publishers, editors, agents, librarians, booksellers, and aspiring writers and others devoted to crime writing. |
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| YEAR | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| 2012 | Mo Hayder | Gone |
| 2011 | Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist |
| 2010 | John Hart | The Last Child |
| 2009 | C.J. Box | Blue Heaven |
| 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 | The Bottoms |
| 2000 | Jan Burke | Bones |
| 1999 | Robert Clark | Mr. White's Confession |
| 1998 | James Lee Burke | Cimarron Rose |
| 1997 | Thomas H. Cook | The Chatham School Affair |
| 1996 | Dick Francis | Come to Grief |
| 1995 | Mary Willis Walker | The Red Scream |
| 1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress |
| 1993 | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger's Daughter |
| 1992 | Lawrence Block | A Dance at the Slaughterhouse |
| 1991 | Julie Smith | New Orleans Mourning |
| 1990 | James Lee Burke | Black Cherry Blues |
| 1989 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | A Cold Red Sunrise |
| 1988 | Aaron Elkins | Old Bones |
| 1987 | Barbara Vine | A Dark-Adapted Eye |
| 1986 | L.R. Wright | The Suspect |
| 1985 | Ross Thomas | Briarpatch |
| 1984 | Elmore Leonard | La Brava |
| 1983 | Rick Boyer | Billingsgate Shoal |
| 1982 | William Bayer | Peregrine |
| 1981 | Dick Francis | Whip Hand |
| 1980 | Arthur Maling | The Rheingold Route |
| 1979 | Ken Follett | The Eye of the Needle |
| 1978 | William H. Hallahan | Catch Me: Kill Me |
| 1977 | Robert B. Parker | Promised Land |
| 1976 | Brian Garfield | Hopscotch |
| 1975 | Jon Cleary | Peter's Pence |
| 1974 | Tony Hillerman | Dance Hall of the Dead |
| 1973 | Warren Kiefer | The Lingala Code |
| 1972 | Frederick Forsyth | The Day of the Jackal |
| 1971 | Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo | The Laughing Policeman |
| 1970 | Dick Francis | Forfeit |
| 1969 | Jeffery Hudson | A Case of Need |
| 1968 | Donald E. Westlake | God Save the Mark |
| 1967 | Nicolas Freeling | The King of the Rainy Country |
| 1966 | Adam Hall | The Quiller Memorandum |
| 1965 | John le Carre | The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
| 1964 | Eric Ambler | The Light of Day |
| 1963 | Ellis Peters | Death and the Joyful Woman |
| 1962 | J.J. Marric | Gideon's Fire |
| 1961 | Julian Symons | The Progress of a Crime |
| 1960 | Celia Fremlin | The Hours Before Dawn |
| 1959 | Stanley Ellin | The Eighth Circle |
| 1958 | Ed Lacy | Room to Swing |
| 1957 | Charlotte Armstrong | A Dram of Poison |
| 1956 | Margaret Millar | Beast in View |
| 1955 | Raymond Chandler | The Long Goodbye |
| 1954 | Charlotte Jay | Beat Not the Bones |