First Mystery Club

1998

• Scott Anderson, Triage
• Charles Atkins,  The Portrait
• William Christopher Baer, Kiss Me Judas
• Cheryl Benard,  Moghul Buffet
• Tim Goodwin, Seeds of Destruction
• Nicola Griffith,  The Blue Place
• Steve Hamilton, A Cold Day in Paradise
• Daniel Hecht,  Skull Session
• William Kent Krueger,  Iron Lake
• Stan Latreille, Perjury
• Eddie Little, Another Day in Paradise
• Phil Lovesey, Death Duties
• Kevin McColley, Praying to a Laughing God
• Ann McMillan, Death March
• Nicole Mones,  Lost in Translation
• Julie Parsons, Mary, Mary
• Joe Quirk, Ultimate Rush
• Lisa Reardon, Billy Dead
• Chris Rogers, Bitch Factor
• Fred Willard, Down on Ponce
• KJA Wishnia, 21 Shades of Black

1999

• Russell Andrews, East of A
• Cara Black,  Murder in the Marais
• Robert Draper, Hadrian's Walls
• Dan Fesperman, Lie in the Dark
• P.L. Gaus,  Blood of the Prodigal
• Emer Gillespie, Virtual Stranger
• Fred Harris, Coyote Revenge
• Joanne Harris,  Chocolat
• Brian Hodge, Wild Horses
• Stan Jones,  White Sky, Black Ice
• Baine Kerr, Harmful Intent
• David Manuel, A Matter of Roses
• Stephen Miller, The Woman in the Yard
• Owen Parry, Faded Coat of Blue
• Eliot Pattison,  Skull Mantra
• Elena Santangelo, By Blood Possessed
• Jenny Siler, Easy Money
• Howard Swindle, Jitter Joint
• Boston Teran,  God Is a Bullet

2000

• Reed Arvin, The Will
• Stephen Booth,  Black Dog
• Mark Coggins,  The Immortal Game
• Clarie Davis,  Winter Range
• Peter Shann Ford, Keeper of Dreams
• James Humphreys, Sleeping Partner
• David Liss,  A Conspiracy of Paper
• Kris Nelscott, A Dangerous Road
• Scott Phillips, The Ice Harvest
• Sheldon Siegel,  Special Circumstances
• Marcia Simpson,  Crow in Stolen Colors
• Peter Moore Smith, Raveling
• Virginia Swift, Brown-Eyed Girl
• Carol Thurston, The Eye of Horus
• Qiu Xiaolong,  Death of a Red Heroine

2001

• Baron Birtcher, Roadhouse Blues
• C.J. Box, Open Season
• Caroline Carver, Blood Junction
• Herb Chapman,  The Book of Cain
• Suzan Chazin, The Fourth Angel
• Gabriel Cohen, Red Hook
• K.J. Erickson, Third Person Singular
• David Fulmer,  Chasing the Devil's Tail
• Jim Fusilli, Closing Time
• Jonathan Harris, Seizing Amber
• John Hayes, Catskill
• Hector MacDonald, Mind Game
• Ellen Pall, Corpse de Ballet
• M.K. Preston, Perhaps She'll Die
• Bill Stackhouse, Stream of Death
• Sarah Strohmeyer, Bubbles Unbound
• Jon Talton,  Concrete Desert
• Whitney Terrell, The Huntsman
• Jess Walter,  Over Tumbled
• Betty Webb,  Desert Noir

2002

• Aileen Baron,  The Fly Has a Hundred Eyes
• Stephen Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park
• Paula Cohen, Gramercy Park
• David Corbett,  The Devil's Redhead
• Barry Eisler,  Rain Fall
• Charles Fleming, The Ivory Coast
• Carol Goodman, The Lake of Dead Languages
• Kathleen Hills,  Past Imperfect
• Elizabeth Innes-Brown, Burning Marguerite
• Jim Kelly,  The Water Clock
• Simon Kernick, The Business of Dying
• Jonathon King,  The Blue Edge of Midnight
• Christine Kling, Surface Tension
• J.M. Morris, Fiddleback
• Ed O'Connor, The Yeare's Midnight
• Ben Rehder,  Buck Fever
• Julia Spencer-Fleming,  In the Bleak Midwinter
• Len Williams, Justice Deferred

2003

• Alafair Burke,  Judgment Calls
• Jodi Compton, The 37th Hour
• Austin Davis, Shoveling Smoke
• David Farris, Lie Still
• Michael Gruber,  Tropic of Night
• Erin Hart,  Haunted Ground
• Rupert Holmes,  Where the Truth Lies
• Joyce Krieg, Murder off Mike
• William Landay, Mission Flats
• Anthony Lee,  Martin Quinn
• Adrian McKinty,  Dead I Well May Be
• Theresa Monsour, Clean Cut
• Ann Parker,  Silver Lies
• John Rickards,  Winter's End
• Gene Riehl,  Quantico Rules
• John Robinson,  The Sapphire Sea.
• Kirk Russell,  Shell Games
• Peter Spiegelman,  Black Maps
• Wallace Stroby, The Barbed-Wire Kiss
• Simon Tolkien, Final Witness
• P.J. Tracy,  Monkeewrench
• Jacqueline Winspear,  Maisie Dobbs
• Ed Wright, Clea's Moon

2004

• Richard Benke, Ghost Ocean.
• Charles Benoit,  Relative Danger
• Dustin Thomason/Ian Caldwell,  Rule of Four
• Melissa Clark, Find Courtney
• Jodi Compton, The 37th Hour
• Colin Cotterill,  The Coroner's Lunch
• Joseph Gangemi, Inamorata
• Jilliane Hoffman, Retribution
• Paul Jaskunas, Hidden
• Jack Kerley, The Hundredth Man
• Michael Koryta, Tonight I Said Goodbye
• Jeff Lindsay,  Darkly Dreaming Dexter
• Clare Matturro,  Skinny Dipping
• John McEvoy,  Blind Switch
• Mark Mills, Amagansett
• Dylan Schaffer, Misdemeanor Man
• Stav Sherez, The Devil's Playground
• Leslie Silbert, The Intelligencer
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon,  The Shadow of the Wind

2005

• Megan Abbott,  Die a Little
• Elizabeth Benedict, Practice of Deceit
• Milton T Burton, The Rogue's Game
• Donis Casey,  The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
• Vicki Delany,  Scare the Light Away
• Jon Fasman, The Geographer's Library
• Brad Geagley, Year of the Hyenas
• Craig Johnson,  Cold Dish
• Elisabeth Kostova,  The Historian
• Pam Lewis,  Speak Softly, She Can Hear
• Stuart MacBride,  Cold Granite
• Catriona McPherson, After the Armistice Ball
• Andrew Nugent, The Four Corners Mystery
• Kermit Roosevelt, The Shadow of the Law
• Theresa Schwegel,  Officer Down
• Ilona Van Mil, Sugarmilk Falls

2006

• James R. Benn,  Billy Boyle
• James Church,  Corpse in the Koryo
• Michael Cox,  The Meaning of Night
• Gillian Flynn,  Sharp Objects
• Jack Fredrickson, Safe Place for Dying
• Paul Goldstein,  Errors and Omissions
• Jason Goodwin,  The Janissary Tree
• John Hart,  The King of Lies
• Steve Hockensmith,  Holmes on the Range
• Declan Hughes,  The Wrong Kind of Blood
• Marshall Karp,  The Rabbit Factory
• Jesse Kellerman,  Sunstroke
• Matthew Klein,  Switchback
• Sandra Parshall,  Heat of the Moon
• Cornelia Read,  A Field of Darkness
• Jeb Rubenfeld,  Interpretation of Murder
• Diane Setterfield,  The Thirteenth Tale
• Joshua Spanogle,  Isolation Ward
• Nick Stone, Mr. Clarinet
• Leonie Swann,  Three Bags Full
• Michael Walters,  The Shadow Walker

2007

• Sandi Ault,  Wild Indigo
• Brett Battles,  The Cleaner
• Laura Benedict,  Isabella Moon
• Grace Brophy,  The Last Enemy
• Chelsea Cain, Heartsick
• Gordon Campbell,  Missing Witness
• Jennifer Carrell,  Interred with Their Bones
• Tana French,  In the Woods
• Brent Ghelfi,  Volk's Game
• Michael Harvey,  The Chicago Way
• Joe Hill,  Heart-Shaped Box
• Lisa Lutz,  The Spellman Files
• Jenni Mills,  The Crow Stone
• Michael Norman,  The Commission
• Peter Pringle, Day of the Dandelion
• Matt Richtel,  Hooked
• Marcus Sakey,  The Blade Itself
• Tom Straw, The Trigger Episode
• L.C. Tyler,  The Herring Seller's Apprentice
• Lee Vance,  Restitution