Aşağıda en iyi roman ödülü kazananların listesi yer almaktadır.
- 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
- 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 Barbara Vine, A Dark Adapted Eye
- 1986 L. R. Wright, The Suspect
- 1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch
- 1984 Elmore Leonard, La Brava
- 1983 Rick Boyer, Billinsgate Shoal
- 1982 William Bayer, Peregrine
- 1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand
- 1980 Arthur Maling, The Rheingold Route
- 1979 Ken Follett, The Eye of the Needle
- 1978 William 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 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo, The Laughing Policeman
- 1970 Dick Francis, Forfeit
- 1969 Michael Crichton writing as Jeffrey Hudson, A Case of Need
- 1968 Donald E. Westlake, God Save the Mark
- 1967 Nicholas Freeling, King of the Rainy Country
- 1966 Adam Hall, The Quiller Memorandum
- 1965 John le Carrí©, The Spy who Came in from the Cold
- 1964 Eric Ambler, The Light of Day
- 1963 Ellis Peters, Death and the Joyful Woman
- 1962 J. J. Marric, Gideon`s Fire
- 1961 Julian Symons, 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