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. 
indicates
a review by Mysterious
Reviews.
2008
◊ Best Mystery: The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
◊ Best Thriller: The Watchman by Robert Crais
◊ Best First Novel: Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover
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