2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
If I Die Tonight
Alison Gaylin
2018 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Unseeing
Anna Mazzola
2017 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Rain Dogs
Adrian McKinty
2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Long and Faraway Gone
Lou Berney
2015 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Secret History of Las Vegas
Chris Abani
2014 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Wicked Girls
Alex Marwood
2013 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Last Policeman
Ben H. Winters
2012 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Company Man
Robert Jackson Bennett
2011 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Long Time Coming
Robert Goddard
2010 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Body Blows
Marc Strange
2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
China Lake
Meg Gardiner
2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Queenpin
Megan Abbott
2007 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Snakeskin Shamisen
Naomi Hirahara
2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Girl in the Glass
Jeffrey Ford
2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Confession
Domenic Stansberry
2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Find Me Again
Sylvia Maultash Warsh
2003 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Out of Sight
T.J. MacGregor
2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Adios Muchachos
Daniel Chavarria
2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Black Maria
Mark Graham
2000 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Fulton County Blues
Ruth Birmingham
1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Widower’s Two-Step
Rick Riordan
1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Charm City
Laura Lippman
1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Fade Away
Harlan Coben
1996 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Tarnished Blue
William Heffernan
1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Final Appeal
Lisa Scottoline
1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Dead Folks’ Blues
Steven Womack
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
A Cold Day for Murder
Dana Stabenow
1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Dark Maze
Thomas Adcock
1991 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
David Handler
1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Rain
Keith Peterson
1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Telling of Lies
Timothy Findley
1988 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Bimbos of the Death Sun
Sharyn McCrumb
1987 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Junkyard Dog
Robert Campbell
1986 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Pigs Get Fat
Warren Murphy
1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Grandmaster
Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
1984 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Mrs. White
Margaret Tracy
1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Triangle
Teri White
1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Old Dick
L.A. Morse
1981 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Public Murders
Bill Granger
1980 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Hog Murders
William L. Deandrea
1979 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Deceit and Deadly Lies
Franklin Bandy
1978 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Quark Maneuver
Michael Jahn
1977 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Confess, Fletch
Gregory McDonald
1976 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Autopsy
John R. Feegel
1975 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Corpse That Walked
Roy Winsor
1974 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Death of an Informer
Will Perry
1973 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
The Invader
Richard Wormser
1972 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
For Murder I Charge More
Frank McAuliffe
1971 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
Flashpoint
Dan J. Marlowe
1970 Edgar Allan Poe Award – Paperback Original
