ShelfEvidentEdgar Award (Best Novel) — Complete Winners List
72 years of winners · Mystery Writers of America · Since 1946 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | Charlotte Vassell | Doubleday | |
| 2024 | James Lee Burke | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2023 | Danya Kukafka | William Morrow | |
| 2022 | James Kestrel | Hard Case Crime | |
| 2021 | Deepa Anappara | Random House | |
| 2020 | Elly Griffiths | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 2019 | Walter Mosley | Mulholland Books | |
| 2018 | Attica Locke | Mulholland Books | |
| 2017 | Noah Hawley | Grand Central Publishing | |
| 2016 | Lori Roy | Dutton | |
| 2015 | Stephen King | Scribner | |
| 2014 | William Kent Krueger | Atria Books | |
| 2013 | Dennis Lehane | William Morrow | |
| 2012 | Mo Hayder | Atlantic Monthly Press | |
| 2011 | Steve Hamilton | Minotaur Books | |
| 2010 | John Hart | Minotaur Books | |
| 2009 | C. J. Box | St. Martin's Minotaur | |
| 2008 | John Hart | St. Martin's Press | |
| 2007 | Jason Goodwin | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2006 | Jess Walter | ReganBooks | |
| 2005 | T. Jefferson Parker | — | |
| 2004 | Ian Rankin | — | |
| 2003 | S. J. Rozan | — | |
| 2002 | T. Jefferson Parker | — | |
| 2001 | Joe R. Lansdale | — | |
| 2000 | Jan Burke | — | |
| 1999 | Robert Clark | — | |
| 1998 | James Lee Burke | — | |
| 1997 | Thomas H. Cook | — | |
| 1996 | Dick Francis | — | |
| 1995 | Mary Willis Walker | — | |
| 1994 | Minette Walters | — | |
| 1993 | Margaret Maron | — | |
| 1992 | Lawrence Block | — | |
| 1991 | Julie Smith | — | |
| 1990 | James Lee Burke | — | |
| 1989 | Stuart M. Kaminsky | — | |
| 1988 | Aaron Elkins | — | |
| 1987 | Barbara Vine | — | |
| 1986 | L. R. Wright | — | |
| 1985 | Ross Thomas | — | |
| 1984 | Elmore Leonard | — | |
| 1983 | Rick Boyer | — | |
| 1982 | William Bayer | — | |
| 1981 | Dick Francis | — | |
| 1980 | Arthur Maling | — | |
| 1979 | Ken Follett | — | |
| 1978 | William H. Hallahan | — | |
| 1977 | Robert B. Parker | — | |
| 1976 | Brian Garfield | — | |
| 1975 | Jon Cleary | — | |
| 1974 | Tony Hillerman | — | |
| 1973 | Warren Kiefer | — | |
| 1972 | Frederick Forsyth | — | |
| 1971 | Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö | — | |
| 1970 | Dick Francis | — | |
| 1969 | Michael Crichton | — | |
| 1968 | Donald E. Westlake | — | |
| 1967 | Nicolas Freeling | — | |
| 1966 | Adam Hall | — | |
| 1965 | John le Carré | — | |
| 1964 | Eric Ambler | — | |
| 1963 | Ellis Peters | — | |
| 1962 | J. J. Marric | — | |
| 1961 | Julian Symons | — | |
| 1960 | Celia Fremlin | — | |
| 1959 | Stanley Ellin | — | |
| 1958 | Ed Lacy | — | |
| 1957 | Charlotte Armstrong | — | |
| 1956 | Margaret Millar | — | |
| 1955 | Raymond Chandler | — | |
| 1954 | Charlotte Jay | — |
