Surprise Me! Club

2000

• Giles Blunt,  Forty Words for Sorrow
• S.V. Date, Smokeout
• J.M. Hayes,  Mad Dog and Englishman
• William Hoffman, Blood and Guile
• Michael Kahn, Bearing Witness

2001

• Dan Barton, The Heckler
• Michael Bowen,  Screenscam
• Leonard Chang, Over the Shoulder
• John Colapinto, About the Author
• Robert Eversz, Killing Paparazzi
• Sharon Fiffer, Killer Stuff
• Eric Garcia, Casual Rex
• Elizabeth Gunn, Six Pound Walleye
• Jane Haddam,  True Believers
• Michael Malone,  First Lady
• Sujata Massey,  The Bride's Kimono
• John Smolens, Cold

2002

• Robert Andrews, A Murder of Promise
• Carolyn Haines, Splintered Bones
• William Heffernan, Unholy Order
• Nicolas Kublicki, The Diamond Conspiracy
• Jim Lehrer, No Certain Rest
• Lise McClendon, Sweet and Lowdown
• Nicole Mones,  A Cup of Light
• Rebecca Pawel,  Death of a Nationalist (Edgar Award)
• Daniel Silva,  The English Assassin
• Lea Wait, Shadows at the Fair
• Sterling Watson, Sweet Dream Baby

2003

• Peter Abrahams,  Their Wildest Dreams
• Michelle Blake, The Book of Light
• Ken Bruen,  The Guards
• Christopher Fowler,  A Full Dark House
• J.F. Freedman, Fallen Idols
• Joseph Geary, Spiral
• David Hewson,  Season for the Dead
• Lynn Hightower, Fortunes of the Dead
• Andrew Klavan, Dynamite Road
• Joseph Klempner, Fogbound
• Aimee Liu, Flash House
• Sarah Smith,  Chasing Shakespeares

2004

• Doug Allyn, The Burning of Rachel Hayes
• Dick Cady, the Executioner's Mask
• Reed Coleman,  Redemption Street
• Paul Garrison, The Ripple Effect
• Neil Griffiths, Betrayal in Naples
• Jeff Long, The Reckoning
• William Nicholson, The Society of Others
• Phil Rickman,  Prayer of the Night Shepherd
• Stephen Schwandt, Siren Song
• Patricia Smiley,  False Profits
• Mary-Anne Tirone Smith, She Smiled Sweetly
• Marianne Wesson, The Chilling Effect

2005

• Tony Broadbent,  The Smoke
• Mark Cohen,  Blue Tick Revenge
• Christine Gentry, Carnosaur Crimes
• Juris Jurjevics,  The Trudeau Vector
• Henry Kisor, A Venture into Murder
• Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Is Murder
• Jane Langton, Steeplechase
• John Lawton,  Flesh Wounds
• Adrian Mathews,  The Apothecary's House
• Will Staeger, Painkiller
• Aline Templeton, Cold in the Earth
• Tom Zigal, The White League

2006

• Simon Beckett,  The Chemistry of Death
• Benjamin Black,  Christine Falls
• William Boyd,  Restless
• Ellen Crosby, The Merlot Murders
• Mark De Castrique,  Foolish Undertaking
• Steve Jackson, The Mentor
• Peter James,  Looking Good Dead
• Aaron Latham, Riding John Wayne
• Peter May,  Extraordinary People
• Patrick McManus,  The Blight Way
• Kate Mosse,  Labyrinth
• R T Raichev,  The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette

2007

• Diana Abu-Jaber,  Origin
• Blaize Clement,  Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund
• Gregg Hurwitz,  The Crime Writer
• David Ignatius,  Body of Lies
• Jay Nussbaum,  A Monk Jumped over a Wall
• David Peace,  Year Zero
• Caro Ramsay, Absolution
• Michael Robotham, Night Ferry
• David Stone,  Echelon Vendetta
• James Swain,  Midnight Rambler
• Ruth Weissberger,  Cure for Remembering