| CWA Award | 1992 | Black August | Timothy Williams | |
| CWA Award | 1991 | Gaudi Afternoon | Barbara Wilson | |
| CWA Award | 1990 | Vendetta | Michael Dibdin | |
| Debut Dagger | 2021 | Deception | Hannah Redding | |
| Debut Dagger | 2020 | Revolution Never Lies | Josephine Moulds | |
| Debut Dagger | 2019 | Shelley Burr | Wake | |
| Debut Dagger | 2018 | The Eternal Life of Ezra Ben Simeon | Bill Crotty | |
| Debut Dagger | 2017 | Strange Fire | Sherry Rankin | |
| Debut Dagger | 2016 | Wimmera | Mark Brandi | |
| Debut Dagger | 2015 | Last of the Soho Legends | Greg Keen | |
| Debut Dagger | 2014 | The Movement | Jody Sabral | |
| Debut Dagger | 2013 | Call Time | Finn Clarke | |
| Debut Dagger | 2012 | Beached | Sandy Gingras | |
| Debut Dagger | 2011 | Hidden Lies | Michele Rowe | |
| Debut Dagger | 2010 | A Place of Dying | Patrick Eden | |
| Debut Dagger | 2009 | The Pathologist | Catherine O'Keefe | |
| Debut Dagger | 2008 | Western Fringes | Amer Anwar | |
| Debut Dagger | 2007 | The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie | Alan Bradley | |
| Debut Dagger | 2006 | Imprint of the Raj | D V Wesselmann | |
| Debut Dagger | 2005 | The Woman Before Me | Ruth Dugdall | |
| Debut Dagger | 2004 | The Doll Makers | Ellen Grubb | |
| Debut Dagger | 2003 | The Cuckoo | Kirsty Evans | |
| Debut Dagger | 2002 | Sugarmilk Falls | Ilona van Mil | |
| Debut Dagger | 2001 | Clea’s Moon | Edward Wright | |
| Debut Dagger | 2000 | A Flowery Death | Simon Levack | |
| Debut Dagger | 1999 | Blood Junction | Caroline Carver | |
| Debut Dagger | 1998 | Stone Baby | Joolz Denby | |
| Diamond | 2021 | Martina Cole | | |
| Diamond | 2020 | Martin Edwards | | |
| Diamond | 2019 | Robert Goddard | | |
| Diamond | 2018 | Michael Connelly | | |
| Diamond | 2017 | Ann Cleeves | | |
| Diamond | 2016 | Peter James | | |
| Diamond | 2015 | Catherine Aird | | |
| Diamond | 2014 | Simon Brett | | |
| Diamond | 2013 | Lee Child | | |
| Diamond | 2012 | Frederick Forsyth | | |
| Diamond | 2011 | Lindsey Davis | | |
| Diamond | 2010 | Val McDermid | | |
| Diamond | 2009 | Andrew Taylor | | |
| Diamond | 2008 | Sue Grafton | | |
| Diamond | 2007 | John Harvey | | |
| Diamond | 2006 | Elmore Leonard | | |
| Diamond | 2005 | Ian Rankin | | |
| Diamond | 2004 | Lawrence Block | | |
| Diamond | 2003 | Robert Barnard | | |
| Diamond | 2002 | Sara Paretsky | | |
| Diamond | 2001 | Lionel Davidson | | |
| Diamond | 2000 | Peter Lovesey | | |
| Diamond | 1999 | Margaret Yorke | | |
| Diamond | 1998 | Ed McBain | | |
| Diamond | 1997 | Colin Dexter | | |
| Diamond | 1996 | H.R.F Keating | | |
| Diamond | 1995 | Reginald Hill | | |
| Diamond | 1994 | Michael Gilbert | | |
| Diamond | 1993 | Ellis Peters | | |
| Diamond | 1992 | Leslie Charteris | | |
| Diamond | 1991 | Ruth Rendell | | |
| Diamond | 1990 | Julian Symons | | |
| Diamond | 1989 | Dick Francis | | |
| Diamond | 1988 | John le Carré | | |
| Diamond | 1987 | P D James | | |
| Diamond | 1986 | Eric Ambler | | |
| Gold | 2021 | We Begin at the End | Chris Whitaker | |
| Gold | 2020 | Good Girl, Bad Girl | Michael Robotham | |
| Gold | 2019 | The Puppet Show | M W Craven | |
| Gold | 2018 | The Liar | Steve Cavanagh | |
| Gold | 2017 | The Dry | Jane Harper | |
| Gold | 2016 | Dodgers | Bill Beverly | |
| Gold | 2015 | Life or Death | Michael Robotham | |
| Gold | 2014 | This Dark Road to Mercy | Wiley Cash | |
| Gold | 2013 | Dead Lions | Mick Herron | |
| Gold | 2012 | The Rage | Gene Kerrigan | |
| Gold | 2011 | Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter | Tom Franklin | |
| Gold | 2010 | Blacklands | Belinda Bauer | |
| Gold | 2009 | A Whispered Name | William Brodrick | |
| Gold | 2008 | Blood From Stone | Frances Fyfield | |
| Gold | 2007 | The Broken Shore | Peter Temple | |
| Gold | 2006 | Raven Black | Ann Cleeves | |
| Gold | 2005 | Silence of the Grave | Arnaldur Indri_ason | |
| Gold | 2004 | Blacklist | Sara Paretsky | |
| Gold | 2003 | Fox Evil | Minette Walters | |
| Gold | 2002 | The Athenian Murders | Jose Carlos Samoza | |
| Gold | 2001 | Sidetracked | Henning Mankell | |
| Gold | 2000 | Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathan Lethem | |
| Gold | 1999 | A Small Death in Lisbon | Robert Wilson | |
| Gold | 1998 | Sunset Limited | James Lee Burke | |
| Gold | 1997 | Black and Blue | Ian Rankin | |
| Gold | 1996 | Popcorn | Ben Elton | |
| Gold | 1995 | The Mermaids Singing | Val McDermid | |
| Gold | 1994 | The Schold’s Bridle | Minette Walters | |
| Gold | 1993 | Cruel and Unusual | Patricia Cornwell | |
| Gold | 1992 | The Way Through the Woods | Colin Dexter | |
| Gold | 1991 | King Solomon’s Carpet | Barbara Vine | |
| Gold | 1990 | Bones and Silence | Reginald Hill | |
| Gold | 1989 | The Wench is Dead | Colin Dexter | |
| Gold | 1988 | Ratking | Michael Dibdin | |
| Gold | 1987 | A Fatal Inversion | Barbara Vine | |
| Gold | 1986 | Live Flesh | Ruth Rendell | |
| Gold | 1985 | Monkey Puzzle | Paula Gosling | |
| Gold | 1984 | The Twelfth Juror | B.M. Gill | |
| Gold | 1983 | Accidental Crimes | John Hutton | |
| Gold | 1982 | The False Inspector Dew | Peter Lovesey | |
| Gold | 1981 | Gorky Park | Martin Cruz Smith | |
| Gold | 1980 | The Murder of the Maharajah | H.R.F Keating | |
| Gold | 1979 | Whip Hand | Dick Francis | |
| Gold | 1978 | The Chelsea Murders | Lionel Davidson | |
| Gold | 1977 | The Honourable Schoolboy | John le Carr | |
| Gold | 1976 | A Demon in my View | Ruth Rendell | |
| Gold | 1975 | The seven per cent solution | Nicholas Meyer | |
| Gold | 1974 | Other Paths to Glory | Anthony Price | |
| Gold | 1973 | The Defection of A.J Lewinter | Robert Littell | |
| Gold | 1972 | The Levanter | Eric Ambler | |
| Gold | 1971 | The Steam Pig | James McClure | |
| Gold | 1970 | Young Man I Think You’re Dying | Joan Fleming | |
| Gold | 1969 | A Pride of Heroes | Peter Dickinson | |
| Gold | 1968 | Skin Deep (The Glass-sided Ants’ Nest) | Peter Dickinson | |
| Gold | 1967 | Murder Against the Grain | Emma Lathen | |
| Gold | 1966 | A Long Way to Shiloh | Lionel Davidson | |
| Gold | 1965 | The Far Side of the Dollar | Ross Macdonald | |
| Gold | 1964 | The Perfect Murder | H.R.F Keating | |
| Gold | 1963 | The Spy Who Came In From The Cold | John le Carr | |
| Gold | 1962 | When I Grow Rich | Joan Fleming | |
| Gold | 1961 | The Spoilt Kill | Mary Kelly | |
| Gold | 1960 | The Night of Wenceslas | Lionel Davidson | |
| Crossed Herrings | 1959 | Passage of Arms | Eric Ambler | |
| Crossed Herrings | 1958 | Someone from the Past | Margot Bennett | |
| Crossed Herrings | 1957 | The Colour of Murder | Julian Symons | |
| Crossed Herrings | 1956 | The Second Man | Edward Grierson | |
| Crossed Herrings | 1955 | The Little Walls | Winston Graham | |
| Non-fiction | 2021 | Written in Bone | Sue Black | |
| Non-fiction | 2020 | Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee | Casey Cep | |
| Non-fiction | 2019 | The Spy and the Traitor | Ben Macintyre | |
| Non-fiction | 2018 | Blood on the Page | Thomas Harding | |
| Non-fiction | 2017 | Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba | Stephen Purvis | |
| Non-fiction | 2016 | You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] | Andrew Hankinson | |
| Non-fiction | 2015 | In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile | Dan Davies | |
| Non-fiction | 2014 | The Siege | Adrian Levy & Cathy Scott-Clark | |
| Non-fiction | 2013 | Midnight in Peking | Paul French | |
| Non-fiction | 2012 | The Eleventh Day | Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan | |
| Non-fiction | 2011 | The Killer of Little Shepherds | Douglas Starr | |
| Non-fiction | 2010 | Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families’ Pursuit of Justice | Ruth Dudley Edwards | |
| Non-fiction | 2008 | Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale | Kester Aspden | |
| Non-fiction | 2006 | The Dagenham Murder | Linda Rhodes, Lee Shelden and Kathryn Abnett | |
| Non-fiction | 2005 | On The Run | Gregg and Gina Hill | |
| Non-fiction | 2004 | Cosa Nostra | John Dickie | |
| Non-fiction | 2004 | The Italian Boy | Sarah Wise | |
| Non-fiction | 2003 | Pointing from the Grave | Samantha Weinberg | |
| Non-fiction | 2002 | Dead Man’s Wages | Lillian Pizzichini | |
| Non-fiction | 2001 | The Infiltrators | Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard (with Tony Thompson) | |
| Non-fiction | 2000 | Mr Blue | Edward Bunker | |
| Non-fiction | 1999 | The Case of Stephen Lawrence | Brian Cathcart | |
| Non-fiction | 1998 | Cries Unheard | Gitta Sereny | |
| Non-fiction | 1997 | The Jigsaw Man | Paul Britton | |
| Non-fiction | 1996 | The Gunpowder Plot | Antonia Fraser | |
| Non-fiction | 1995 | Dead Not Buried | Martin Beales | |
| Non-fiction | 1994 | Criminal Shadows | David Canter | |
| Non-fiction | 1993 | Murder in the Heart | Alexandra Artley | |
| Non-fiction | 1992 | The Reckoning | Charles Nicholl | |
| Non-fiction | 1991 | Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair | John Bossy | |
| Non-fiction | 1990 | The Passing of Starr Faithful | Jonathan Goodman | |
| Non-fiction | 1989 | A Gathering of Saints | Robert Lindsay | |
| Non-fiction | 1988 | The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln | Bernard Wasserstein | |
| Non-fiction | 1987 | Perfect Murder | Benard Taylor with Stephen Knight | |
| Non-fiction | 1986 | Evil Angels | John Bryson | |
| Non-fiction | 1985 | Killing for Company | Brian Masters | |
| Non-fiction | 1984 | In God’s Name | David Yallop | |
| Non-fiction | 1983 | Double Dealer | Peter Watson | |
| Non-fiction | 1982 | Earth to Earth | John Cornwell | |
| Non-fiction | 1981 | Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without A Number | Jacobo Timerman | |
| Non-fiction | 1980 | Conspiracy | Anthony Summers & Robbyn Swan | |
| Non-fiction | 1979 | Rachman | Shirley Green | |
| Non-fiction | 1979 | Fraud | Jon Connell/Douglas Sutherland | |
| Non-fiction | 1978 | The Mystery of the Princes | Audrey Williamson | |
| Non-fiction | 1978 | The Capture of the Black Panther | Harry Hawkes | |
| Historical | 2021 | Midnight at Malabar House | Vaseem Khan | |
| Historical | 2020 | Death in the East | Abir Mukherjee | |
| Historical | 2019 | Destroying Angel | S G MacLean | |
| Historical | 2018 | Nucleus | Rory Clements | |
| Historical | 2017 | A Rising Man | Abir Mukherjee | |
| Historical | 2016 | Stasi Child | David Young | |
| Historical | 2015 | The Seeker | S.G. MacLean | |
| Historical | 2014 | Devil in the Marshalsea | Antonia Hodgson | |
| Historical | 2013 | The Scent of Death | Andrew Taylor | |
| Historical | 2012 | Icelight | Aly Monroe | |
| Historical | 2011 | The Somme Stations | Andrew Martin | |
| Historical | 2010 | Revenger | Rory Clements | |
| Historical | 2009 | If The Dead Rise Not | Philip Kerr | |
| Historical | 2008 | Stratton’s War | Laura Wilson | |
| Historical | 2007 | Mistress of the Art of Death | Ariana Franklin | |
| Historical | 2006 | Red Sky Lament | Edward Wright | |
| Historical | 2005 | Dark Fire | CJ Sansom | |
| Historical | 2004 | The Damascened Blade | Barbara Cleverly | |
| Historical | 2003 | The American Boy | Andrew Taylor | |
| Historical | 2002 | Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | |
| Historical | 2001 | The Office of the Dead | Andrew Taylor | |
| Historical | 2000 | Absent Friends | Gillian Linscott | |
| Historical | 1999 | Two for the Lions | Lindsey Davis | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2021 | When She Was Good | Michael Robotham | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2020 | November Road | Lou Berney | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2019 | To The Lions | Holly Watt | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2018 | Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2017 | Spook Street | Mick Herron | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2016 | The Cartel | Don Winslow | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2015 | Cop Town | Karin Slaughter | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2014 | An Officer and A Spy | Robert Harris | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2013 | Ghostman | Roger Hobbs | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2012 | A Foreign Country | Charles Cumming | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2011 | The Lock Artists | Steve Hamilton | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2010 | A Loyal Spy | Simon Conway | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2009 | The Last Child | John Hart | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2008 | Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2007 | Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2006 | Mr Clarinet | Nick Stone | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2005 | Brandeburg | Henry Porter | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2004 | Gardens of Beasts | Jeffery Deaver | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2003 | The Small Boat of Great Sorrows | Dan Fesperman | |
| Steel - Ian Fleming | 2002 | The Sirius Crossing | John Creed | |
| International | 2021 | The Disaster Tourist | Yun Ko-eun | Lizzie Buehler |
| International | 2020 | The Godmother | Hannelore Cayre | Stephanie Smee |
| International | 2019 | A Long Night in Paris | Dov Alfon | Daniella Zamir |
| International | 2018 | After the Fire | Henning Mankell | Marlaine Delargy |
| International | 2017 | The Dying Detective | Leif G W Persson | Neil Smith |
| International | 2016 | The Great Swindle | Pierre Lemaître | Frank Wynne |
| International | 2015 | Camille | Pierre Lemaitre | Frank Wynne |
| International | 2014 | The Siege | Arturo Perez-Reverte | Frank Wynne |
| International | 2013 | Ghost Riders of Ordebec | Fred Vargas | |
| International | 2013 | Alex | Pierre Lemaitre | |
| International | 2012 | The Potter’s Field | Andrea Camilleri | |
| International | 2011 | Three Seconds | Anders Roslund & B | |
| International | 2010 | The Darkest Room | Johan Theorin | |
| International | 2009 | The Chalk Circle Man | Fred Vargas | |
| International | 2008 | Lorraine Connection | Dominique Manotti | |
| International | 2007 | Wash this Blood Clean from my Hand | Fred Vargas | |
| International | 2006 | The Three Evangelists | Fred Vargas | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2021 | The Creak on the Stairs | Eva Björg Ægisdóttir | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2020 | The Man on the Street | Trevor Wood | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2019 | Scrublands | Chris Hammer | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2018 | Lola | Melissa Scrivner Love | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2017 | Tall Oaks | Chris Whitaker | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2016 | Dodgers | Bill Beverly | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2015 | Fourth of July Creek | Smith Henderson | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2014 | The Axeman’s Jazz | Ray Celestin | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2013 | Norwegian By Night | Derek B Miller | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2012 | A Land More Kind than Home | Wiley Cash | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2011 | Before I Go To Sleep | S.J Watson | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2010 | Acts of Violence | Ryan David Jahn | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2009 | Echoes from the Dead | Johan Theorin | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2008 | The Bethlehem Murders | Matt Rees | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2007 | Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2006 | Still Life | Louise Penny | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2005 | Running Hot | Dreda Say Mitchell | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2004 | Amagansett | Mark Mills | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2003 | Mission Flats | William Landay | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2002 | The Cutting Room | Louise Welsh | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2001 | The Earthquake Bird | Susanna Jones | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 2000 | God is a Bullet | Boston Teran | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1999 | Lie in the Dark | Dan Fesperman | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1998 | Garnet Hill | Denise Mina | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1997 | Body Politic | Paul Johnston | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1995 | A Grave Talent | Laurie R King | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1995 | One for the Money | Janet Evanovich | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1994 | Big Town | Doug J Swanson | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1992 | The Ice House | Minette Walters | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1991 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1990 | Postmortem | Patricia Cornwell | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1989 | A Real Shot in the Arm | Annette Roome | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1988 | Death’s Bright Angel | Janet Neel | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1987 | Dark Apostle | Denis Kilcommons | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1986 | Tinplates | Neville Steed | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1985 | The Latimer Mercy | Robert Richardson | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1984 | A Very Private Enterprise | Elizbeth Ironside | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1983 | The Night the Gods Smiled | Eric Wright | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1983 | The Ariadne Clue | Carol Clemeau | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1982 | Caroline Miniscule | Andrew Taylor | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1981 | The Ludi Victor | James Leigh | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1980 | Dupe | Liza Cody | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1979 | A Running Duck | Paula Gosling | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1978 | Saturday of Glory | David Serafin | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1977 | The Judas Pair | Jonathan Gash | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1976 | Death of a Thin Skinned Animal | Patrick Alexander | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1975 | Acid Drop | Sara George | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1974 | The Big Fix | Roger L Simon | |
| John Creasey (New Blood) | 1973 | Don’t Point That Thing at Me | Kyril Bonfiglioli | |
| Last Laugh | 1995 | Laurence Shames | | |
| Last Laugh | 1994 | Simon Shaw | | |
| Last Laugh | 1993 | Michael Pearce | | |
| Last Laugh | 1992 | Carl Hiaasen | | |
| Last Laugh | 1991 | Mike Riply | | |
| Last Laugh | 1990 | Simon Shaw | | |
| Last Laugh | 1989 | Mike Ripley | | |
| Last Laugh | 1988 | Nancy Livingstone | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2021 | Peter May | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2020 | Christopher Brookmyre | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2019 | Kate Ellis | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2018 | Martin Edwards | Martin Edwards | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2017 | Mari Hannah | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2016 | Elly Griffiths | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2015 | Christopher Fowler | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2014 | S J Bolton | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2013 | Belinda Bauer | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2012 | Steve Mosby | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2011 | Mo Hayder | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2010 | Ariana Franklin | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2009 | Colin Cotterill | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2008 | Craig Russell | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2007 | Stuart MacBride | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2006 | Jim Kelly | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2005 | Jake Arnott | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2004 | Alexander McCall Smith | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2003 | Stephen Booth | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 2002 | Peter Robinson | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 1996 | Marian Babson | | |
| Dagger in the Library | 1995 | Lindsey Davis | | |
| Publishers' Dagger | 2021 | Head of Zeus | | |
| Publishers' Dagger | 2020 | Orenda Books | | |
| Publishers' Dagger | 2019 | No Exit Press | | |
| Rumpole Award | 1992 | Hatred And Contempt | Peter Rawlinson | |
| Rumpole Award | 1990 | Trial By Fire | Frances Fyfield | |
| Short Story | 2021 | Monsters | Clare Mackintosh | |
| Short Story | 2020 | #Me Too | Lauren Henderson | |
| Short Story | 2019 | The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing | Danuta Reah | |
| Short Story | 2018 | Nemo Me Impune Lacessit | Denise Mina | |
| Short Story | 2017 | The Trials of Margaret in Motives for Murder | L C Tyler | |
| Short Story | 2016 | On the Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) By Frans Mier | John Connolly | |
| Short Story | 2015 | Apocrypha | Richard Lange | |
| Short Story | 2014 | Fedora by John Harvey in Deadly Pleasures | John Harvey | |
| Short Story | 2013 | Come Away With Me | Stella Duffy | |
| Short Story | 2012 | The Message | Margaret Murphy | |
| Short Story | 2012 | Laptop | Cath Staincliffe | |
| Short Story | 2011 | Homework | Phil Lovesey | |
| Short Story | 2010 | Can You Help Me Out | Robert Ferrigno | |
| Short Story | 2009 | One Serving of Bad Luck | Sean Chercover | |
| Short Story | 2008 | The Bookbinder’s Apprentice | Martin Edwards | |
| Short Story | 2007 | Needle Match | Peter Lovesey | |
| Short Story | 2006 | Sins of Scarlett | Robert Barnard | |
| Short Story | 2005 | No Flies on Frank | Danuta Reah | |
| Short Story | 2004 | The Weekender | Jeffery Deaver | |
| Short Story | 2003 | Closer to the Flame | Jerry Sykes | |
| Short Story | 2002 | Martha Grace | Stella Duffy | |
| Short Story | 2001 | Prussian Snowdrops | Marion Arnott | |
| Short Story | 2000 | Helena and the Babies | Denise Mina | |
| Short Story | 1999 | Taking Care of Frank | Antony Mann | |
| Short Story | 1998 | Roots | Jerry Sykes | |
| Short Story | 1997 | On the Psychiatrist’s Couch | Reginald Hill | |
| Short Story | 1996 | Herbert in Motion | Ian Rankin | |
| Short Story | 1995 | Funny Story | Larry Beinhart | |
| Short Story | 1994 | Ian Rankin | | |
| Short Story | 1993 | Julian Rathbone | | |
| Short Story | 1991 | Mary Arrigan | | |
| Short Story | 1990 | Colin Gray | | |
| Short Story | 1989 | John Davenport | | |
| Short Story | 1988 | Betty Rowlands | | |
| Short Story | 1987 | Celia Dale | | |
| Short Story | 1986 | Peter Lovesey | | |
| Short Story | 1985 | Madeleine Brent | | |
| Short Story | 1984 | Reginald Hill | | |
| Short Story | 1983 | Stanley Cohen | | |
| Short Story | 1982 | Madeleine Duke | | |
| Silver | 2005 | Deadly Webb | Barbara Nadel | |
| Silver | 2004 | Flesh and Blood | John Harvey | |
| Silver | 2003 | Half-Broken Things | Morag Joss | |
| Silver | 2002 | The Final Country | James Crumley | |
| Silver | 2001 | Forty Words for Sorrow | Giles Blunt | |
| Silver | 2000 | Friends in High Places | Donna Leon | |
| Silver | 1999 | Vienna Blood | Adrian Mathews | |
| Silver | 1998 | Manchester Slingback | Nicholaas Blincoe | |
| Silver | 1997 | Three to get Deadly | Janet Evanovich | |
| Silver | 1996 | Bloodhounds | Peter Lovesey | |
| Silver | 1995 | The Summons | Peter Lovesey | |
| Silver | 1994 | Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow | Peter Hoeg | |
| Silver | 1993 | Fatlands | Sarah Dunant | |
| Silver | 1992 | Bucket Nut | Liza Cody | |
| Silver | 1991 | Deep Sleep | Frances Fyfield | |
| Silver | 1990 | The Late Candidate | Mike Phillips | |
| Silver | 1989 | The Shadow Run | Desmond Lowden | |
| Silver | 1988 | Toxic Shock | Sara Paretsky | |
| Silver | 1987 | Presumend Innocent | Scott Turow | |
| Silver | 1986 | A Taste for Death | PD James | |
| Silver | 1985 | Last Seen Alive | Dorothy Simpson | |
| Silver | 1984 | The Tree of Hands | Ruth Rendell | |
| Silver | 1983 | The Papers of Tony Veitch | William McIlvanney | |
| Silver | 1982 | Ritual Murder | ST Haymon | |
| Silver | 1981 | The Dead of Jericho | Colin Dexter | |
| Silver | 1980 | Monk’s Hood | Ellis Peters | |
| Silver | 1979 | Service of all the Dead | Colin Dexter | |
| Silver | 1979 | Waxwork | Peter Lovesey | |
| Silver | 1978 | Laidlaw | William McIlvanney | |
| Silver | 1977 | Rogue Eagle | James McClure | |
| Silver | 1976 | The Black Tower | PD James | |
| Silver | 1975 | The Grosvenor Square Goodbye | Francis Clifford | |
| Silver | 1974 | A Coffin for Pandora | Gwendoline Butler | |
| Silver | 1973 | The Rainbird Pattern | Victor Canning | |
| Silver | 1972 | Shroud for a Nightingale | PD James | |
| Silver | 1971 | The Labyrinth Makers | Anthony Price | |
| Silver | 1970 | Another Way of Dying | Francis Clifford | |
| BCA People's Choice | 2004 | Reginald Hill | | |
| Police Review | 1987 | Snowman | Roger Busby | |
| Police Review | 1986 | Bill Knox | | |
| Police Review | 1985 | Peter N Walker writing as Andrew Arncliffe | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2020 | Robert Richardson | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2019 | Maxim Jakubowski | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2018 | David Stuart Davies | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2018 | Ali Karim | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2018 | Ayo Onatade | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2018 | Mike Stotter | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2017 | Barry Forshaw | | |
| The Red Herring Award | 2012 | Bernard Knight | | |
