Best Private Eye Novel Contest

The annual Best Private Eye Novel Contest is sponsored by the Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) and St. Martin's Minotaur. The contest is open to any professional or non-professional writer who has never been the author of a published "private eye" novel (as defined by the contest sponsors).

2007: Father's Day by Keith Gilman

2006: Unrobed by Michael Wiley (published as The Last Striptease)

2005: No winner selected

2004: First Kill by Michael Kronenwetter

2003: Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta

2002: The Sterling Inheritance by Michael Siverling

2001: No winner selected

2000: Catching Water in a Net by J. L. Abramo

1999: Street Legal by Robert Truluck

1998: The Losers' Club by Lise S. Baker

1997: A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton

1996: No winner selected

1995: Diamond Head by Charles Knief

1994: The Heaven Stone by David Daniel

1993: The Harry Chronicles by Allan Pedrazas

1992: Storm Warning by A. C. Ayres (published as Hour of the Manatee)

1991: A Sudden Death at the Norfolk Cafe by Winona Sullivan

1990: The Loud Adios by Ken Kuhlken

1989: Kindred Crime by Janet Dawson

1988: Katwalk by Karen Kijewski

1987: Fear of the Dark by Gar Anthony Haywood

1986: An Infinite Number of Monkeys by Les Roberts