2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Bearskin
James A. McLaughlin
2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
She Rides Shotgun
Jordan Harper
2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Under the Harrow
Flynn Berry
2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Dry Bones in the Valley
Tom Bouman
2014 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Red Sparrow
Jason Matthews
2013 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Expats
Chris Pavone
2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Bent Road
Lori Roy
2011 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Rogue Island
Bruce DeSilva
2010 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
In the Shadow of Gotham
Stefanie Pintoff
2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Foreigner
Francie Lin
2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
In the Woods
Tana French
2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Faithful Spy
Alex Berenson
2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Officer Down
Theresa Schwegel
2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Country of Origin
Don Lee
2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Death of a Nationalist
Rebecca Pawel
2003 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Blue Edge of Midnight
Jonathon King
2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Line of Vision
David Ellis
2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
A Conspiracy of Paper
David Liss
2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Skull Mantra
Eliot Pattison
1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
A Cold Day in Paradise
Steve Hamilton
1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Los Alamos
Joseph Kanon
1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Simple Justice
John Morgan Wilson
1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Penance
David Housewright
1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Caveman’s Valentine
George Dawes Green
1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
A Grave Talent
Laurie R. King
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Black Echo
Michael Connelly
1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Slow Motion Riot
Peter Blauner
1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Postmortem
Patricia Cornwell
1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Last Billable Hour
Susan Wolfe
1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Carolina Skeletons
David Stout
1988 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Death Among Strangers
Deidre S. Laiken
1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
No One Rides for Free
Larry Beinhart
1986 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
When the Bough Breaks / Shrunken Heads
Jonathan Kellerman
1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Strike Three, You’re Dead
Richard Rosen and R.D. Rosen
1984 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Bay Psalm Book Murder
Will Harriss
1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Butcher’s Boy
Thomas Perry
1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Chiefs
Stuart Woods
1981 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Watcher
Kay Nolte Smith
1980 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Lasko Tangent
Richard North Patterson
1979 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Killed in the Ratings
William L. Deandrea
1978 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
A French Finish
Robert Ross
1977 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Thomas Berryman Number
James Patterson
1976 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Alvarez Journal
Rex Burns
1975 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Fletch
Gregory McDonald
1974 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
Paul E. Erdman
1973 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Squaw Point
R.H. Shimer
1972 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Finding Maubee
Albert H.Z. Carr
1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Anderson Tapes
Lawrence Sanders
1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
A Time for Predators
Joe Gores
1969 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Silver Street
E. Richard Johnson
1968 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Act of Fear
Michael Collins
1967 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Cold War Swap
Ross Thomas
1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
In the Heat of the Night
John Dudley Ball
1965 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Harry Kemelman
1964 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Florentine Finish
Cornelius Hirschberg
1963 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Fugitive
Robert L. Fish
1962 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Green Stone
Suzanne Blanc
1961 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Man in the Cage
John Holbrooke Vance
1960 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Grey Flannel Shroud
Henry Slesar
1959 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Bright Road to Fear
Richard Martin Stern
1958 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Knock and Wait a While
William Rawle Weeks
1957 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Rebecca’s Pride
Donald McNutt Douglas
1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Perfectionist
Lane Kauffman
1955 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Go, Lovely Rose
Jean Potts
1954 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
A Kiss Before Dying
Ira Levin
1953 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Don’t Cry for Me
William Campbell Gault
1952 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Strangle Hold
Mary McMullen
1951 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
Nightmare in Manhattan
Thomas Walsh
1950 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
What a Body
Alan Green
1949 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Room Upstairs
Mildred Davis
1948 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Fabulous Clipjoint
Fredric Brown
1947 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel
The Horizontal Man
Helen Eustis
1946 Edgar Allan Poe Award – First Novel