Edgar Award for Best NovelCheck all the winners of Edgar Award for Best Novel. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 |
|
William Kent Krueger | Ordinary Grace (Simon & Schuster \u2013 Atria Books) |
| 2013 |
|
Dennis Lehane | Live by Night |
| 2012 |
|
Mo Hayder | Gone |
| 2011 |
|
Steve Hamilton | The Lock Artist |
| 2010 |
|
John Hart | The Last Child (Minotaur Books) |
| 2009 |
|
C. J. Box | Blue Heaven |
| 2008 |
|
John Hart | Down River (St. Martin's Minotaur) |
| 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: A Novel |
| 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 |
|
Ruth Rendell | A Dark-Adapted Eye |
| 1986 |
|
L. R. Wright | The Suspect |
| 1985 |
|
Ross Thomas | Briar Patch |
| 1984 |
|
Elmore Leonard | LaBrava |
| 1983 |
|
Rick Boyer | Billingsgate Shoal |
| 1982 |
|
William Bayer | Peregrine |
| 1981 |
|
Dick Francis | Whip Hand |
| 1980 |
|
Arthur Maling | The Rheingold Route |
| 1979 |
|
Ken Follett | 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 |
|
Per Wahlöö | The Laughing Policeman |
|
Maj Sjöwall | The Laughing Policeman | |
| 1970 |
|
Dick Francis | Forfeit |
| 1969 |
|
Michael Crichton | A Case of Need |
| 1968 |
|
Donald E. Westlake | God Save the Mark |
| 1967 |
|
Nicolas Freeling | The King of the Rainy Country |
| 1966 |
|
Elleston Trevor | The Quiller Memorandum |
| 1965 |
|
John le Carré | The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| 1964 |
|
Eric Ambler | The Light of Day |
| 1963 |
|
Edith Pargeter | Death and the Joyful Woman |
| 1962 |
|
John Creasey | 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 |
