Year
|
Author
|
Title
|
Publisher
|
Result
|
Ref.
|
1978
|
Harry Hawkes
|
The Capture of the Black Panther
|
|
Winner (joint)
|
[3]
|
1978
|
Audrey Williamson
|
The Mystery of the Princes
|
|
Winner (joint)
|
[3]
|
1979
|
Jon Connell and Douglas Sutherland
|
Fraud
|
|
Winner (joint)
|
[3]
|
1979
|
Shirley Green
|
Rachman
|
|
Winner (joint)
|
[3]
|
1980
|
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
|
Conspiracy
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1981
|
Jacobo Timerman
|
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1982
|
John Cornwell
|
Earth to Earth
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1983
|
Peter Watson
|
Double Dealer: How Five Art Dealers, Four Policemen, Three Picture Restorers, Two Auction Houses and a Journalist Plotted to Recover Some of the World's Most Beautiful Stolen Paintings
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1984
|
David Yallop
|
In God's Name
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1985
|
Brian Masters
|
Killing for Company
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1986
|
John Bryson
|
Evil Angels
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1987
|
Bernard Taylor and Stephen Knight
|
Perfect Murder
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1988
|
Bernard Wasserstein
|
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1989
|
Robert Lindsey
|
A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1990
|
Jonathan Goodman
|
The Passing of Starr Faithfull
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1991
|
John Bossy
|
Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1992
|
Charles Nicholl
|
The Reckoning
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1993
|
Alexandra Artley
|
Murder in the Heart
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1994
|
David Canter
|
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1995
|
Martin Beales
|
Dead Not Buried
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1996
|
Antonia Fraser
|
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1997
|
Paul Britton
|
The Jigsaw Man (The Remarkable Career of Britain's Foremost Criminal Psychologist)
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1998
|
Gitta Sereny
|
Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill - The Story of Mary Bell
|
|
Winner
|
[3]
|
1999[a]
|
Brian Cathcart
|
The Case of Stephen Lawrence
|
Viking
|
Winner
|
[4]
|
Martin Booth
|
The Dragon Syndicates
|
Doubleday
|
Shortlist
|
[4]
|
Stuart S. Kind
|
The Sceptical Witness
|
Hodology Ltd.
|
Shortlist
|
[4]
|
2000
|
Edward Bunker
|
Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade
|
No Exit Press
|
Winner
|
[5][6]
|
Andrew Motion
|
Wainewright the Poisoner
|
Faber and Faber
|
Shortlist
|
[6]
|
Errol Trzebinski
|
The Life and Death of Lord Errol
|
Fourth Estate
|
Shortlist
|
[6]
|
Tony Barnes
|
Richard Elias and Peter Walsh, Cocky
|
Milo Books
|
Shortlist
|
[6]
|
Tony Thompson
|
Bloggs 19
|
Warner Books
|
Shortlist
|
[6]
|
2001
|
Philip Etienne and Martin Maynard, with Tony Thompson
|
The Infiltrators: the First Inside Account of Life Deep Undercover with Scotland Yard's Most Secret Unit
|
Penguin
|
Winner
|
[7]
|
Adrian Weale
|
Patriot Traitors: Roger Casement, John Amery and the Real Meaning of Treason
|
Viking Press
|
Shortlist
|
[7]
|
Zacaria Erzinçlioglu
|
Maggots, Murder and Men: Memories and Reflections of a Forensic Entomologist
|
Harley Books
|
Shortlist
|
[7]
|
2002
|
Lillian Pizzichini
|
Dead Man's Wages: The Secrets of a London Conman and His Family
|
Picador
|
Winner
|
[8]
|
Julian Earwaker and Kathleen Becker
|
Scene of the Crime: a Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective FictionJudged to be outside the scope of the award but worthy of commendation
|
Aurum
|
Special mention
|
[8]
|
Don Hale, with Marika Huns and Hamish McGregor
|
Town Without Pity: the Fight to Clear Stephen Downing of the Bakewell Murder
|
Century
|
Shortlist
|
[8]
|
Miranda Carter
|
Anthony Blunt, His Lives
|
Macmillan
|
Shortlist
|
[8]
|
2003
|
Samantha Weinberg
|
Pointing from the Grave: a True Story of Murder and DNA
|
Hamish Hamilton
|
Winner
|
[9]
|
Chandak Sengoopta
|
Imprint of the Raj: the Colonial Origin of Fingerprinting and its Voyage to Britain
|
Macmillan
|
Shortlist
|
[9]
|
Donald Thomas
|
An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War
|
John Murray
|
Shortlist
|
[9]
|
Erik Larson
|
The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
|
Doubleday
|
Shortlist
|
[9]
|
Michael Bilton
|
Wicked Beyond Belief: the Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[9]
|
Peter Walsh
|
Gang War: the Inside Story of the Manchester Gangs
|
Milo Books
|
Shortlist
|
[9]
|
2004
|
John Dickie
|
Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia
|
Hodder & Stoughton
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
Sarah Wise
|
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London
|
Jonathan Cape
|
Winner
|
[10]
|
Mende Nazer and Damian Lewis
|
Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and her Fight for Survival
|
Time Warner
|
Shortlist
|
[10]
|
Rebecca Gowers
|
The Swamp of Death: A True Tale of Victorian Lies and Murder
|
Hamish Hamilton
|
Shortlist
|
[10]
|
Steve Holland
|
The Trials of Hank Janson
|
Telos Publishing
|
Shortlist
|
[10]
|
2005
|
Gregg and Gina Hill
|
On The Run: a Mafia childhood
|
Hutchinson
|
Winner
|
[11]
|
Bella Bathurst
|
The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights, and Plundered Shipwrecks.
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[11]
|
Eric Jager
|
The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
|
Century
|
Shortlist
|
[11]
|
James Owen
|
A Serpent in Eden: The Greatest Murder Mystery of All Time
|
Little, Brown
|
Shortlist
|
[11]
|
Sadakat Kadri
|
The Trial: a history from Socrates to O. J. Simpson
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[11]
|
2006
|
Linda Rhodes, Lee Sheldon, and Kathryn Abnet
|
The Dagenham Murder: The Brutal Killing of PC George Clark, 1846 (The Borough of Barking and Dagenham)
|
|
Winner
|
[12]
|
Nuala O'Faolain
|
The Story of Chicago May
|
Michael Joseph
|
Shortlist
|
[12]
|
Sebastian Junger
|
A Death in Belmont
|
Fourth Estate
|
Shortlist
|
[12]
|
Sister Helen Prejean
|
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
|
Canterbury Press
|
Shortlist
|
[12]
|
Sue Williams
|
And Then the Darkness: The Fascinating Story of the Disappearance of Peter Falconio and the Trials of Joanne Lees
|
John Blake
|
Shortlist
|
[12]
|
William Queen
|
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang
|
Mainstream
|
Shortlist
|
[12]
|
2007
|
Not awarded. It was decided that the award was to become a biennial award.
|
[13]
|
2008
|
Kester Aspden
|
Nationality: Wog - The Hounding of David Oluwale
|
Random House
|
Winner
|
[14][15]
|
David Rose
|
Violation: Justice, Race and Serial Murder in the Deep South
|
HarperPress
|
Shortlist
|
[14][15]
|
Duncan Staff
|
The Lost Boy
|
Bantam Press
|
Shortlist
|
[14][15]
|
Francisco Goldman
|
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi
|
Atlantic Books
|
Shortlist
|
[14][15]
|
Kate Summerscale
|
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher The Murder at Road Hill House
|
Bloomsbury
|
Shortlist
|
[14][15]
|
Peter Zimonjic
|
Into the Darkness: 7/7
|
Vintage Books
|
Shortlist
|
[14][15]
|
2009
|
Not awarded as award had become biennial.
|
|
2010[b]
|
Ruth Dudley Edwards
|
Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing & the Families' Pursuit of Justice
|
Harvill Secker
|
Winner
|
[16]
|
Alex McBride
|
Defending the Guilty
|
Penguin / Viking
|
Shortlist
|
[16]
|
David R. Dow
|
Killing Time
|
Heinemann
|
Shortlist
|
[16]
|
David Cesarani
|
Major Farran's Hat
|
Heinemann
|
Shortlist
|
[16]
|
Douglas Preston, with Mario Spezi
|
The Monster of Florence: A True Story
|
Virgin / Random House
|
Shortlist
|
[16]
|
Jeff Guinn
|
The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Shortlist
|
[16]
|
2011[c]
|
Douglas Starr
|
The Killer of Little Shepherds
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Winner
|
[17]
|
Colin Evans
|
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn
|
Icon Books
|
Shortlist
|
[17]
|
Judith Flanders
|
The Invention of Murder
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[17]
|
Kate Colquhoun
|
Mr Briggs' Hat
|
Little, Brown
|
Shortlist
|
[17]
|
Michael Capuzzo
|
The Murder Room
|
Michael Joseph
|
Shortlist
|
[17]
|
2012
|
Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan
|
The Eleventh Day
|
Transworld
|
Winner
|
[18][19]
|
Ben Lopez
|
The Negotiator
|
Little, Brown
|
Highly commended
|
[18]
|
David Smith with Carol Ann Lee
|
Witness
|
Mainstream
|
Shortlist
|
[18][20]
|
Gavin Knight
|
Hood Rat
|
Pan Macmillan
|
Shortlist
|
[18][20]
|
Leaf Fielding
|
To Live Outside the Law
|
Serpent’s Tail
|
Shortlist
|
[18][20]
|
Misha Glenny
|
Dark Market
|
Vintage
|
Shortlist
|
[18][20]
|
2013
|
Paul French
|
Midnight in Peking
|
Penguin / Viking
|
Winner
|
[21][22]
|
Richard Hoskins
|
The Boy in the River
|
Pan Macmillan
|
Highly commended
|
[21]
|
Carol Ann Lee
|
A Fine Day for a Hanging
|
Mainstream
|
Shortlist
|
[21]
|
Clive Stafford Smith
|
Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America
|
Random House
|
Shortlist
|
[21]
|
Diana Souhami
|
Murder at Wrotham Hill
|
Quercus
|
Shortlist
|
[21]
|
Mukesh Kapila with Damien Lewis
|
Against a Tide of Evil
|
Mainstream
|
Shortlist
|
[21]
|
2014
|
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
|
The Siege
|
Viking
|
Winner
|
[23][24][25]
|
Damien Echols
|
Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row
|
Atlantic Books
|
Shortlist
|
[23][25]
|
Jeff Guinn
|
Manson
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Shortlist
|
[23][25]
|
Kate Colqhoun
|
Did She Kill Him?
|
Little, Brown Book Group
|
Shortlist
|
[23][25]
|
Paul Lewis and Rob Evans
|
Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
|
Faber and Faber
|
Shortlist
|
[23][25]
|
Samantha Geimer
|
The Girl
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Shortlist
|
[23][25]
|
2015
|
Dan Davies
|
In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile
|
Quercus
|
Winner
|
[26][27]
|
Ǻsne Seierstad
|
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway
|
Virago
|
Shortlist
|
|
Bryan Stevenson
|
Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption
|
Scribe
|
Shortlist
|
|
Iain Overton
|
Gun Baby Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of the Gun
|
Canongate
|
Shortlist
|
|
Jill Leovy
|
Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
|
Bodley Head
|
Shortlist
|
|
Paul Fischer
|
A Kim Jong il Production
|
Penguin
|
Shortlist
|
|
2016
|
Andrew Hankinson
|
You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]
|
Scribe
|
Winner
|
[28]
|
Adam Sisman
|
John le Carré: The Biography
|
Bloomsbury
|
Shortlist
|
[28]
|
Luke Harding
|
A Very Expensive Poison
|
Faber and Faber
|
Shortlist
|
[28]
|
Martin Edwards
|
The Golden Age of Murder
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[28]
|
Thomas Grant
|
Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories
|
John Murray
|
Shortlist
|
[28]
|
Wensley Clarkson
|
Sexy Beasts: The Hatton Garden Mob
|
Quercus
|
Shortlist
|
[28]
|
2017
|
Stephen Purvis
|
Close but No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba
|
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
|
Winner
|
[29]
|
A. T. Williams
|
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II
|
Jonathan Cape
|
Shortlist
|
[29]
|
Anja Reich-Osang
|
The Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage
|
Text Publishing
|
Shortlist
|
[29]
|
Gary Younge
|
Another Day in the Death of America
|
Guardian / Faber and Faber
|
Shortlist
|
[29]
|
Kate Summerscale
|
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
|
Bloomsbury
|
Shortlist
|
[29]
|
Simon Farquhar
|
A Dangerous Place
|
The History Press
|
Shortlist
|
[29]
|
2018
|
Thomas Harding
|
Blood on the Page
|
William Heinemann
|
Winner
|
[30][31]
|
Alexandria Mariano-Lesnevich
|
The Fact of a Body
|
Macmillan
|
Shortlist
|
[30]
|
David Grann
|
Killers of the Flower Moon
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Shortlist
|
[30]
|
Laura Thompson
|
Rex v Edith Thompson
|
Head of Zeus
|
Shortlist
|
[30]
|
Piu Eatwell
|
Black Dahlia Red Rose
|
Coronet
|
Shortlist
|
[30]
|
T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
|
A False Report
|
Hutchinson
|
Shortlist
|
[30]
|
2019
|
Ben MacIntyre
|
The Spy and the Traitor
|
Viking
|
Winner
|
[32]
|
Claire Harman
|
Murder by the Book
|
Viking
|
Shortlist
|
[32]
|
Hallie Rubenhold
|
The Five
|
Doubleday
|
Shortlist
|
[32]
|
Kirk Wallace Johnson
|
The Feather Thief
|
Hutchinson
|
Shortlist
|
[32]
|
Mikita Brottman
|
An Unexplained Death
|
Canongate
|
Shortlist
|
[32]
|
Sue Black
|
All That Remains
|
Doubleday
|
Shortlist
|
[32]
|
2020
|
Casey Cep
|
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
|
William Heinemann
|
Winner
|
[33][34][35]
|
Adam Sisman
|
The Professor and the Parson
|
Profile Books
|
Shortlist
|
[33]
|
Caroline Goode
|
Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod
|
Oneworld Publications
|
Shortlist
|
[33]
|
Peter Everett
|
Corrupt Bodies
|
Icon Books
|
Shortlist
|
[33]
|
Sean O'Connor
|
The Fatal Passion of Alma Rattenbury
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Shortlist
|
[33]
|
Susannah Stapleton
|
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
|
Picador
|
Shortlist
|
[33]
|
2021
|
Sue Black
|
Written in Bone
|
Doubleday, Penguin
|
Winner
|
[36][37]
|
Andrew Harding
|
These Are Not Gentle People
|
MacLehose
|
Shortlist
|
[38]
|
Becky Cooper
|
We Keep the Dead Close
|
William Heinemann, Penguin
|
Shortlist
|
[38]
|
Ben MacIntyre
|
Agent Sonya
|
Viking, Penguin
|
Shortlist
|
[38]
|
Debora Harding
|
Dancing with the Octopus
|
Profile Books
|
Shortlist
|
[38]
|
Nick Hayes
|
The Book of Trespass
|
Bloomsbury
|
Shortlist
|
[38]
|
2022
|
Julia Laite
|
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice
|
Profile Books
|
Winner
|
[39][40][41]
|
Ben Machell
|
The Unusual Suspect
|
Canongate
|
Shortlist
|
[42][43]
|
Gwen Adshead
|
The Devil You Know
|
Faber and Faber
|
Shortlist
|
[42][43]
|
Julie Kavanagh
|
The Irish Assassins
|
Atlantic Books; Grove Press UK
|
Shortlist
|
[42][43]
|
Patrick Radden Keefe
|
Empire of Pain
|
Pan Macmillan; Picador
|
Shortlist
|
[42][43]
|
Thomas Morris
|
The Dublin Railway Murder
|
Penguin Random House; Harvill Secker
|
Shortlist
|
[42][43]
|
2023
|
Wendy Joseph
|
Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
|
Transworld
|
Winner
|
[44][45]
|
Amit Katwala
|
Tremors in the Blood
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[46]
|
David Whitehouse
|
About a Son
|
Orion Publishing Group
|
Shortlist
|
[46]
|
Julie Mackay
|
To Hunt a Killer
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[46]
|
Martin Edwards
|
The Life of Crime
|
HarperCollins
|
Shortlist
|
[46]
|
Stephen Bates
|
The Poisonous Solicitor
|
Icon Books
|
Shortlist
|
[46]
|
2024
|
Michael Finkel
|
The Art Thief
|
Simon & Schuster
|
Shortlist
|
[47][48]
|
Matt Johnson with John Murray
|
No Ordinary Day
|
Ad Lib Publishers
|
Shortlist
|
[47][48]
|
Jennifer McAdam with Douglas Thompson
|
Devil’s Coin
|
Ad Lib Publishers
|
Shortlist
|
[47][48]
|
Alex Mar
|
Seventy Times Seven
|
Bedford Square Publishers
|
Shortlist
|
[47][48]
|
Jennifer Robinson and Keina Yoshida
|
How Many More Women?
|
Endeavor
|
Shortlist
|
[47][48]
|
Nicholas Shakespeare
|
Ian Fleming: The Complete Man
|
VIntage
|
Shortlist
|
[47][48]
|