| 2003 |
Julia Spencer-Fleming |
In the Bleak Midwinter |
| 2002 |
Sarah Strohmeyer |
Bubbles Unbound |
| 2001 |
Rosemary Sevens |
Death on a Silver Tray |
| 2000 |
Donna Andrews |
Murder with Peacocks |
| 1999 |
Robin Hathaway |
The Doctor Digs a Geave |
| 1998 |
Sujata Massey |
The Salaryman's Wife |
| 1997 |
Anne George |
Murder on a Girl's Night Out |
| 1996 |
Jeanne M. Dams |
The Body in the Transept |
| 1995 |
Jeff Abbott |
Do Unto Others |
| 1994 |
Nevada Barr |
Track of the Cat |
| 1993 |
barbara Neely |
Blanche on the Lam |
| 1992 |
Mary Willis Walker |
Zero at the Bone |
| 1991 |
Katharine Hall Page |
Body in the Belfry |
| 1990 |
Jill Churchill |
Grime and Punishment |
| 1989 |
Elizabeth George |
A Great Deliverance |