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The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime, established in 1948, is presented to nonfiction hardcover, paperback, or electronic books about mystery.[1] The category includes both true crime books, as well as books "detailing how to solve actual crimes."[1]
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime winners are listed below.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1948 | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against the Law | Winner | |
1949 | Marie Rodell (editor) | Regional Murder | Winner |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1950 | Joseph Henry Jackson | Bad Company | Winner | |
1951 | Edward D. Radin | Twelve Against Crime | Winner | |
William T. Brannon | N/A[a] | Shortlist | ||
1952 | St. Clair McKelway | True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality | Winner | |
W. T. Brannon | Lady Killers | Shortlist | ||
1953 | Erle Stanley Gardner | Court of Last Resort | Winner | |
1954 | John Bartlow Martin | Why Did They Kill? | Winner | |
1955 | Charles Boswell and Lewis Thompson | The Girl with the Scarlet Brand | Winner | |
1956 | Manly Wade Wellman | Dead and Gone | Winner | |
Lillian de la Torre | The Truth About Belle Guness | Shortlist | ||
Robert J. Donovan | The Assassins | Shortlist | ||
1957 | Charles Samuels and Louise Samuels | Night Fell on Georgia | Winner | |
William Bradford Huie | Ruby McCollum, The Woman in the Suwanne Jail | Shortlist | ||
Hugh Ross Williamson | Historical Whodunits | Shortlist | ||
1958 | Harold R. Danforth and James D. Horan | The D.A.'s Man | Winner | |
Lenore Glen Offord and Joseph Henry Jackson | The Girl in the Belfry | Shortlist | ||
Henry Goddard, edited by Patrick Pringle | Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner | Shortlist | ||
1959 | Wenzell Brown | They Died in the Chair | Winner | |
Edward D. Radin | The Deadly Reasons | Shortlist | ||
Sam Kollman as told to Hillel Black | The Royal Vultures | Shortlist | ||
Edgar Lustgarten | The Murder and the Trial | Shortlist | ||
Berton Donovan | The Incurable Wound | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1960 | Thomas Gallagher | Fire at Sea | Winner | |
Eugene B. Block | Great Train Robberies of the West | Shortlist | ||
1961 | Miriam Allen deFord | The Overbury Affair | Winner | |
Sir Sydney Smith | Mostly Murder | Shortlist | ||
Christianna Brand | Heaven Knows Who | Shortlist | ||
1962 | Barrett Prettyman, Jr. | Death and the Supreme Court | Winner | |
Paul Holmes | The Sheppard Murder Case | Shortlist | ||
Edward D. Radin | Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story | Shortlist | ||
George Waller | Kidnap | Shortlist | ||
1963 | Francis Russell | Tragedy in Dedham | Winner | |
1964 | Gerold Frank | The Deed | Winner | |
Brad Williams | Flight 967 | Shortlist | ||
Peter Wyden | The Hired Killers | Shortlist | ||
1965 | Anthony Lewis | Gideon's Trumpet | Winner | |
William Kunstler | The Minister and the Choir Singer | Shortlist | ||
Norman Lewis | The Honored Society | Shortlist | ||
Wayne G. Broehl, Jr. | The Molly Maguires | Shortlist | ||
Arthur H. Lewis | Lament for the Molly Maguires | Shortlist | ||
1966 | Truman Capote | In Cold Blood | Winner | |
Harry Golden | A Little Girl is Dead | Shortlist | ||
Michael V. DiSalle with Lawrence G. Blochman | The Power of Life and Death | Shortlist | ||
Miriam Allen deFord | Murderers Sane and Mad | Shortlist | ||
Jürgen Thorwald | The Century of the Detective | Shortlist | ||
1967 | Gerold Frank | The Boston Strangler | Winner | |
Julian Symons | Crime and Detection | Shortlist | ||
Elwyn Jones | The Last Two to Hang | Shortlist | ||
1968 | Victoria Lincoln | A Private Disgrace | Winner | |
Margaret Kreig | Black Market Medicine | Shortlist | ||
Selwyn Raab | Justice in the Back Room | Shortlist | ||
Curt Gentry | Frame-Up | Shortlist | ||
1969 | John Walsh | Poe the Detective | Winner | |
John Frasca | The Mulberry Tree | Shortlist | ||
Norman Zierold | Three Sisters in Black | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1970 | Herbert B. Ehrmann | The Case that Will Not Die | Winner | |
Don T. Block | Scottsboro | Shortlist | ||
Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth Gross | The Victims | Shortlist | ||
Fred C. Shapiro | Whitmore | Shortlist | ||
1971 | Mildred Savage | A Great Fall | Winner | |
Girard Chester | The Ninth Juror | Shortlist | ||
Ramsey Clark | Crime in America | Shortlist | ||
1972 | Sandor Frankel | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Winner | |
Robert Sullivan | The Disappearance of Dr. Parkman | Shortlist | ||
William A. Clark | The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor | Shortlist | ||
1973 | Stephen Fay, Lewis Chester, and Magnus Linkletter | Hoax | Winner | |
A. C. Greene | The Santa Claus Bank Robbery | Shortlist | ||
Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts | Shipwreck | Shortlist | ||
T. P. Slattery | They Got to Find Me Guilty Yet | Shortlist | ||
1974 | Barbara Levy | Legacy of Death | Winner | |
Louis Nizer | The Implosion Conspiracy | Shortlist | ||
Paulette Cooper | The Medical Detectives | Shortlist | ||
John Pearson | The Profession of Violence | Shortlist | ||
Ed Cray | Burden of Proof | Shortlist | ||
1975 | Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry | Helter Skelter | Winner | |
Gerald Meyer | The Memphis Murders | Shortlist | ||
Ernest Tidyman | Dummy | Shortlist | ||
1976 | Tom Wicker | A Time to Die | Winner | |
Gene Miller | Invitation to a Lynching | Shortlist | ||
Isser Harel | The House on Garibaldi Street | Shortlist | ||
1977 | Thomas Thompson | Blood and Money | Winner | |
Edward Keyes | The Michigan Murders | Shortlist | ||
Margaret Anne Barnes | Murder in Coweta County | Shortlist | ||
1978 | George Jonas and Barbara Amiel | By Persons Unknown | Winner | |
Lacey Fosburgh | Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder | Shortlist | ||
Clark Howard | Six Against the Rock | Shortlist | ||
Vin McLellan and Paul Avery | The Voice of Guns | Shortlist | ||
Roberta S. Feuerlicht | Justice Crucified | Shortlist | ||
1979 | Vincent Bugliosi and Ken Hurwitz | Til Death Do Us Part | Winner | |
Jack W. Baugh and Jefferson Morgan | Why Have They Taken Our Children? | Shortlist | ||
Charles Silberman | Criminal Violence | Shortlist | ||
Alan Weinstein | Perjury | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1980 | Herbert B. Ehrmann | The Case that Will Not Die | Winner | |
Don T. Block | Scottsboro | Shortlist | ||
Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth Gross | The Victims | Shortlist | ||
Fred C. Shapiro | Whitmore | Shortlist | ||
1981 | Mildred Savage | A Great Fall | Winner | |
Girard Chester | The Ninth Juror | Shortlist | ||
Ramsey Clark | Crime in America | Shortlist | ||
1982 | Sandor Frankel | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Winner | |
Robert Sullivan | The Disappearance of Dr. Parkman | Shortlist | ||
William A. Clark | The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor | Shortlist | ||
1983 | Stephen Fay, Lewis Chester, and Magnus Linkletter | Hoax | Winner | |
A. C. Greene | The Santa Claus Bank Robbery | Shortlist | ||
Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts | Shipwreck | Shortlist | ||
T. P. Slattery | They Got to Find Me Guilty Yet | Shortlist | ||
1984 | Barbara Levy | Legacy of Death | Winner | |
Louis Nizer | The Implosion Conspiracy | Shortlist | ||
Paulette Cooper | The Medical Detectives | Shortlist | ||
John Pearson | The Profession of Violence | Shortlist | ||
Ed Cray | Burden of Proof | Shortlist | ||
1985 | Mike Weiss | Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings | Winner | |
John Cornwell | Earth to Earth | Shortlist | ||
Jim Atkinson and John Bloom | Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs | Shortlist | ||
David Black | Murder at the Met | Shortlist | ||
Jane Pejsa | The Molineux Affair | Shortlist | ||
1986 | Tom Wicker | A Time to Die | Winner | |
Gene Miller | Invitation to a Lynching | Shortlist | ||
Isser Harel | The House on Garibaldi Street | Shortlist | ||
1987 | Thomas Thompson | Blood and Money | Winner | |
Edward Keyes | The Michigan Murders | Shortlist | ||
Margaret Anne Barnes | Murder in Coweta County | Shortlist | ||
1988 | George Jonas and Barbara Amiel | By Persons Unknown | Winner | |
Lacey Fosburgh | Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder | Shortlist | ||
Clark Howard | Six Against the Rock | Shortlist | ||
Vin McLellan and Paul Avery | The Voice of Guns | Shortlist | ||
Roberta S. Feuerlicht | Justice Crucified | Shortlist | ||
1989 | Vincent Bugliosi and Ken Hurwitz | Til Death Do Us Part | Winner | |
Jack W. Baugh and Jefferson Morgan | Why Have They Taken Our Children? | Shortlist | ||
Charles Silberman | Criminal Violence | Shortlist | ||
Alan Weinstein | Perjury | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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1990 | Jack Olsen | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell | Winner | |
Joseph Wambaugh | The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders | Shortlist | ||
Linda Wolfe | Wasted: The Preppie Murder | Shortlist | ||
Peter Elkind | The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders | Shortlist | ||
Darcy O'Brien | Murder in Little Egypt | Shortlist | ||
1991 | Peter Maas | In a Child's Name | Winner | |
John Cummings and Ernest Volkman | Goombata | Shortlist | ||
Ken Englade | Beyond Reason | Shortlist | ||
Barry Siegel | A Death in White Bear Lake | Shortlist | ||
1992 | David Simon | Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets | Winner | |
Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover | Witnesses from the Grace: The Stories Bones Tell | Shortlist | ||
Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins | Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Pauk Castellano | Shortlist | ||
James B. Stewart | Den of Thieves | Shortlist | ||
Charles C. Thompson II and James P. Cole | Death of Elvis: What Really Happened | Shortlist | ||
1993 | Harry Farrell | Swift Justice | Winner | |
Jana Bommersbach | The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd | Shortlist | ||
Thomas H. Cook | Blood Echoes | Shortlist | ||
Ann Rule | Everything She Ever Wanted | Shortlist | ||
Jim Schutze | My Husband's Trying to Kill Me | Shortlist | ||
1994 | Bella Stumbo | Until the Twelfth of Never | Winner | |
Noel Behn | Lindbergh: The Crime | Shortlist | ||
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith | Final Justice | Shortlist | ||
Jack Olsen | The Misbegotten Son | Shortlist | ||
David Protess and Rob Warden | Gone in the Night | Shortlist | ||
1995 | Joe Domanick | To Protect and to Serve | Winner | |
Jerry Bledsoe | Before He Wakes | Shortlist | ||
Edward Humes | Mississippi Mud | Shortlist | ||
Dennis McDougal | In the Best of Families | Shortlist | ||
Eileen McNamara | Breakdown | Shortlist | ||
1996 | Pete Earley | Circumstantial Evidence | Winner | |
John Douglas and Mark Olshaker | Mindhunter | Shortlist | ||
T. J. English | Born to Kill | Shortlist | ||
James Neff | Unfinished Murder | Shortlist | ||
Jim Schutze | By Two and Two | Shortlist | ||
1997 | Darcy O'Brien | Power to Hurt | Winner | |
1998 | Carlton Stowers | To the Last Breath | Winner | |
Jerry Bledsoe | Death Sentence | Shortlist | ||
Rich Cohen | Tough Jews | Shortlist | ||
Timothy Dumas | Greentown | Shortlist | ||
Richard A. Serrano | One of Ours | Shortlist | ||
1999 | Richard Firstman | The Death of Innocents | Winner | |
Bernard Lefkowitz | Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb | Shortlist | ||
Ben MacIntyre | The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief | Shortlist | ||
Ann Rule | Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice | Shortlist | ||
John C. Tucker | May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2005 | Edward Dolnick | Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice | Winner | |
Suzanne O'Malley | Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates | Shortlist | ||
Julian Rubinstein | Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts | Shortlist | ||
D.P. Lyle | Forensics for Dummies | Shortlist | ||
Ann Rule | Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer | Shortlist | ||
Marissa N. Batt | Ready for the People: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor | Shortlist | ||
2006 | Edward Dolnick | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | Winner | |
Jed Horne | Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans | Shortlist | ||
John Emsley | The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison | Shortlist | ||
Michael Finkel | True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa | Shortlist | ||
Diane Fanning | Written in Blood | Shortlist | ||
2007 | James L. Swanson | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | Winner | [3] |
Sebastian Junger | A Death in Belmont | Shortlist | ||
Kate Clark Flora | Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine | Shortlist | ||
Robin Odell | Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer | Shortlist | ||
Terri Jentz | Strange Piece of Paradise | Shortlist | ||
Daniel Stashower | The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder | Shortlist | ||
2008 | Vincent Bugliosi | The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy | Winner | [4] |
Kevin Flynn | Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit | Shortlist | ||
Bruce Watson | Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind | Shortlist | ||
Stanley Alpert | The Birthday Party | Shortlist | ||
2009 | Howard Blum | American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century | Winner | [5] |
Simon Baatz | For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago | Shortlist | ||
T.J. English | Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution | Shortlist | ||
Jonathan Lopez | The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren | Shortlist | ||
Kate Summerscale | The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Dave Cullen | Columbine | Winner | |
Jeff Guinn | Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Shortlist | ||
Laney Salisbury | Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art | Shortlist | ||
Dick Lehr | The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide | Shortlist | ||
R. A. Scotti | Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa | Shortlist | ||
2011 | Candice Millard | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | Winner | |
Scott Higham | Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery | Shortlist | ||
Hampton Sides | Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin | Shortlist | ||
Alex Heard | The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South | Shortlist | ||
Douglas Starr | The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science | Shortlist | ||
2012 | Candice Millard | Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President | Winner | [7][8] |
Paul Collins | The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars | Shortlist | [9] | |
T. J. English | The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge | Shortlist | [9] | |
Steve Miller | Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender | Shortlist | [9] | |
Mark Seal | The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter | Shortlist | [9] | |
2013 | Paul French | Midnight in Peking | Winner | [10] |
Gilbert King | Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America | Shortlist | ||
Ben Macintyre | Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies | Shortlist | ||
P. D. Lyle | More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered | Shortlist | ||
Richard Lloyd Parry | The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up | Shortlist | ||
2014 | Daniel Stashower | The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War | Winner | [11] |
Paul Collins | Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery | Shortlist | [12] | |
Michael D’Antonio | Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal | Shortlist | [12] | |
Charles Graeber | The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder | Shortlist | [12] | |
Cate Lineberry | The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines | Shortlist | [12] | |
2015 | William J. Mann | Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood | Winner | [13][14] |
Kevin Cook | Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America | Shortlist | [13] | |
Carl Hoffman | The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | Shortlist | [13] | |
Lacy M. Johnson | The Other Side: A Memoir | Shortlist | [13] | |
Harold Schechter | The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation | Shortlist | [13] | |
2016 | Allen Kurzweil | Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully | Winner | [15][16] |
Eric Bogosian | Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide | Shortlist | ||
T. J. English | Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him | Shortlist | ||
Val McDermid | Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime | Shortlist | ||
John Temple | American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic | Shortlist | ||
2017 | Kate Summerscale | The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer | Winner | [17] |
Vincent diMaio | Morgue: A Life in Death | Shortlist | ||
Laurence Leamer | The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan | Shortlist | ||
Paul Thomas Murphy | Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England | Shortlist | ||
Eli Sanders | While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness | Shortlist | ||
2018 | David Grann | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI | Winner | [18] |
Jeff Guinn | The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Shortlist | ||
Monica Hesse | American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land | Shortlist | ||
Bill James | The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery | Shortlist | ||
Brad Ricca | Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation | Shortlist | ||
2019 | Robert W. Fieseler | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Winner | [19] |
Jonathan Green | Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal | Shortlist | ||
Carl Hoffman | The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure | Shortlist | ||
Kirk Wallace Johnson | The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century | Shortlist | ||
Michelle McNamara | I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | Shortlist | ||
Alex Perry | The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia | Shortlist |
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
2020 | Axton Betz-Hamilton | The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity | Winner | [20][21] |
Karen Abbott | The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America | Shortlist | ||
Maureen Callahan | American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Shortlist | ||
Peter Houlahan | Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Shortlist | ||
James Polchin | Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | Shortlist | ||
2021 | Eric Eyre | Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic | Winner | [22][23] |
Mark A. Bradley | Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America | Shortlist | [23] | |
Emma Copley Eisenberg | The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia | Shortlist | [23] | |
Sierra Crane Murdoch | Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Shortlist | [23] | |
Ariel Sabar | Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife | Shortlist | [23] | |
2022 | Elon Green | Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York | Winner | [24] |
Margalit Fox | The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History | Shortlist | ||
Ann Hagedorn | Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away | Shortlist | ||
Ellen McGarrahan | Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice | Shortlist | ||
Benjamin T Smith | The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade | Shortlist | ||
Curtis Wilkie | When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer | Shortlist | ||
2023 | Erika Krouse | Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation | Winner | [25] |
Kathleen Hale | Slenderman | Shortlist | [26] | |
Kathryn Miles | Trailed | Shortlist | [26] | |
Shahan Mufti | American Caliph | Shortlist | [26] | |
Daniel Stashower | American Demon | Shortlist | [26] | |
2024 | Nathan Masters | Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal | Winner | [27][28] |
Kim Cross | In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America’s Child | Shortlist | [29] | |
Zeke Faux | Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall | Shortlist | [29] | |
John Glatt | Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders | Shortlist | [29] | |
Barbara Rae-Venter | I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever | Shortlist | [29] | |
Joe Sexton | The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy | Shortlist | [29] |