The Gumshoe Award

The Gumshoe Award is given out each year by the editors of Mystery Ink to recognize the best achievements in crime fiction. Winners are selected from titles published in the previous year.

2007

Best Mystery: All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Best Thriller: Prayers for the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno

Best European Crime Novel: When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum

Best First Novel: The King of LIes by John Hart

2006

Best Mystery: To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman

Best Thriller: Company Man by Joseph Finder

Best European Crime Novel: The Vanished Hands by Robert Wilson

Best First Novel: The Baby Game by Randall Hicks

2005

Best Mystery: Hard, Hard City by Jim Fusilli

Best Thriller: Rain Storm by Barry Eisler

Best European Crime Novel: The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell

Best First Novel: Misdemeanor Man by Dylan Schaffer

2004

Best Novel: Blood is the  Sky by Steve Hamilton

Best First Novel: Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy

2003

Best Novel: Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos

Best First Novel: The Distance by Eddie Muller

2002

Best Novel: Pursuit by Thomas Perry

Best First Novel: Open Season by C. J. Box