Category List – Best Short Story

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Award YearAward CategoryTitleAuthor's NamePublisher/ProducerNotes
2024 Best Short Story Hallowed Ground Linda Castillo Macmillan Publishers - Minotaur Books
2024 Best Short Story Thriller Heather Graham Blackstone Publishing Thriller Anthology
2024 Best Short Story Miss Direction Rob Osler Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: September-October 2023
2024 Best Short Story The Rise Ian Rankin Amazon Publishing Amazon Original Stories
2024 Best Short Story Pigeon Tony's Last Stand Lisa Scottoline Amazon Publishing Amazon Original Stories
2023 Best Short Story Red Flag Gregory Fallis Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: March-April 2022
2023 Best Short Story Backstory Charles John Harper Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: January-February 2022
2023 Best Short Story Locked-In William Burton McCormick Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: January-February 2022
2023 Best Short Story The Amnesty Box Tim McLoughlin Akashic Books Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Anthology
2023 Best Short Story First You Dream, Then You Die Donna Moore Titan Books Black is the Night Anthology
2022 Best Short Story Blindsided Michael Bracken & James A. Hearn Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: September-October 2021
2022 Best Short Story The Vermeer Conspiracy V.M. Burns Crooked Lane Books Midnight Hour Anthology
2022 Best Short Story Lucky Thirteen Tracy Clark Crooked Lane Books Midnight Hour Anthology
2022 Best Short Story The Road to Hana R.T. Lawton Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: May-June 2021
2022 Best Short Story The Locked Room Library Gigi Pandian Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue - July-August 2021
2022 Best Short Story The Dark Oblivion Cornell Woolrich Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: January-February 2021
2021 Best Short Story The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay Leslie Elman Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: January-February 2020
2021 Best Short Story Dust, Ash, Flight Maaza Mengiste Akashic Books Addis Ababa Noir
2021 Best Short Story Etta at the End of the World Joseph S. Walker Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: May-June 2020
2021 Best Short Story The Twenty-Five Year Engagement James W. Ziskin Pegasus Books - Pegasus Crime In League with Sherlock Holmes
2020 Best Short Story One of These Nights Livia Llewellyn Akashic Books Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
2020 Best Short Story The Passenger Kirsten Tranter Akashic Books Sydney Noir
2020 Best Short Story Home at Last Sam Wiebe Down & Out Books Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan
2020 Best Short Story Brother's Keeper Dave Zeltserman Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue - May-June 2019
2020 Best Short Story Turistas Hector Acosta Down & Out Books Paque Tu Lo Sepas
2019 Best Short Story Rabid - A Mike Bowditch Short Story Paul Doiron Minotaur Books
2019 Best Short Story Paranoid Enough for Two John Lutz Kensington Publishing The Honorable Traitors
2019 Best Short Story Ancient and Modern Val McDermid Pegasus Books Bloody Scotland
2019 Best Short Story English 398: Fiction Workshop Art Taylor Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: July-August 2018
2019 Best Short Story The Sleep Tight Motel Lisa Unger Amazon Publishing Dark Corners Collection
2018 Best Short Story Spring Break John Crowley Akashic Books New Haven Noir
2018 Best Short Story Hard to Get Jeffery Deaver Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: July-August 2017
2018 Best Short Story Ace in the Hole Eric Heidle Akashic Books Montana Noir
2018 Best Short Story A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House Kenji Jasper Akashic Books Atlanta Noir
2018 Best Short Story Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home S.J. Rozan Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine Issue: January-February 2017
2017 Best Short Story Oxford Girl Megan Abbott Akashic Books Missiissippi Noir
2017 Best Short Story A Paler Shade of Death Laura Benedict Akashic Books St. Louis Noir
2017 Best Short Story Autumn at the Automat Lawrence Block Pegasus Books In Sunlight or in Shadow
2017 Best Short Story The Music Room Stephen King Pegasus Books In Sunlight or in Shadow
2017 Best Short Story The Crawl Space Joyce Carol Oates Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: Sept/Oct 2016
2016 Best Short Story The Little Men Megan Abbott Mysterious Bookshop
2016 Best Short Story On Borrowed Time Mat Coward Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: June 2015
2016 Best Short Story The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday Peter Farrelly Akashic Books Providence Noir
2016 Best Short Story Family Treasures Shirley Jackson Random House Let Me Tell You
2016 Best Short Story Obits Stephen King Simon & Schuster - Scribner Bazaar of Bad Dreams
2016 Best Short Story Every Seven Years Denise Mina Mysterious Bookshop
2015 Best Short Story 200 Feet John Floyd Strand Magazine
2015 Best Short Story What Do You Do? Gillian Flynn Penguin Random House - Bantam Books Volume: Rogues
2015 Best Short Story Red Eye Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly Simon & Schuster Volume: Faceoff
2015 Best Short Story Teddy Brian Tobin Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: May 2014
2015 Best Short Story The Snow Angel Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Issue: January 2014
2014 Best Short Story The Caxton Private Lending Library and Book Depository John Connolly Mysterious Bookshop Volume: Bibliomysteries
2014 Best Short Story So Long, Chief Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane The Strand
2014 Best Short Story The Terminal Reed Farrel Coleman Amazon Publishing - Thomas and Mercer Anthology: Kwik Krimes
2014 Best Short Story There are Roads in the Water Trina Corey Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: January 2013
2014 Best Short Story Where That Morning Sun Goes Down Tim L. Williams Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: August 2013
2013 Best Short Story Hot Sugar Blues Steve Liskow Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books Anthology: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
2013 Best Short Story Iphigenia in Aulis Mike Carey Penguin Group USA - Ace Books Anthology: An Apple for the Creature
2013 Best Short Story Still Life No. 41 Teresa Solana Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: March/April 2012
2013 Best Short Story The Unremarkable Heart Karin Slaughter Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company - Mulholland Books Anthology: Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
2013 Best Short Story The Void it Often Brings with It Tom Piccirilli Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: November 2012
2012 Best Short Story The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train Peter Turnbull Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
2012 Best Short Story Lord John and the Plague of Zombies Diana Gabaldon Penguin Group USA - Ace Books Anthology: Down These Strange Streets
2012 Best Short Story Marley's Revolution John C. Boland Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
2012 Best Short Story The Adakian Eagle Bradley Denton Penguin Group USA - Ace Books Anthology: Down These Strange Streets
2012 Best Short Story The Case of Death and Honey Neil Gaiman Random House - Bantam Anthology: A Study in Sherlock
2012 Best Short Story Tomorrow's Dead David Dean Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
2011 Best Short Story The Scent of Lilacs Doug Allyn Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
2011 Best Short Story A Good Safe Place Judith Green Level Best Books Anthology: Thin Ice
2011 Best Short Story Monsieur Alice is Absent Stephen Ross Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
2011 Best Short Story The Creative Writing Murders Edmund White Bloomsbury Anthology: Dark End of the Street
2011 Best Short Story The Plot Jeffery Deaver Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books Anthology: First Thrills
2010 Best Short Story Amapola Luis Alberto Urrea Akashic Books Anthology: Phoenix Noir
2010 Best Short Story Animal Rescue Dennis Lehane Akashic Books Anthology: Boston Noir
2010 Best Short Story Digby, Attorney at Law Jim Fusilli Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Comment: May 2009
2010 Best Short Story Femme Sole Dana Cameron Akashic Books Anthology: Boston Noir
2010 Best Short Story Last Fair Deal Gone Down Ace Atkins Busted Flush Press Comment: Crossroad Blues
2009 Best Short Story Skinhead Central T. Jefferson Parker Little, Brown and Company Anthology: The Blue Religion
2009 Best Short Story A Sleep Not Unlike Death Sean Chercover Kensington Publishing Anthology: Hardcore Hardboiled
2009 Best Short Story La Vie en Rose Dominique Mainard Akashic Books Anthology: Paris Noir
2009 Best Short Story Scratch a Woman Laura Lippman HarperCollins - William Morrow Anthology: Hardly Knew Her
2009 Best Short Story Skin and Bones David Edgerley Gates Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Volume: October 2008
2008 Best Short Story The Golden Gopher Susan Straight Akashic Books Anthology: Los Angeles Noir
2008 Best Short Story Blue Note Stuart M. Kaminsky Bleak House Books Anthology: Chicago Blues
2008 Best Short Story Hardly Knew Her Laura Lippman Harcourt, Inc. Anthology: Dead Man's Hand
2008 Best Short Story The Catch Mark Ammons Level Best Books Anthology: Still Waters
2008 Best Short Story Uncle Daniel Woodrell Bleak House Books Anthology: A Hell of a Woman
2007 Best Short Story The Home Front Charles Ardai Little, Brown Anthology: Death Do Us Part
2007 Best Short Story Building S.J. Rozan Akashic Books Anthology: Manhattan Noir
2007 Best Short Story Cranked Bill Crider Busted Flush Press Anthology: Damn Near Dead
2007 Best Short Story Rain Thomas H. Cook Akashic Books Anthology: Manhattan Noir
2006 Best Short Story The Catch James W. Hall Carroll & Graf Anthology: Greatest Hits
2006 Best Short Story Born Bad Jeffery Deaver Mysterious Press Anthology: Dangerous Women
2006 Best Short Story Her Lord and Master Andrew Klavan Mysterious Press Anthology: Dangerous Women
2006 Best Short Story Misdirection Barbara Seranella Carroll & Graf Anthology: Greatest Hits
2006 Best Short Story Welcome to Monroe Daniel Walker River City Publishing Anthology: A Kudzu Christmas
2005 Best Short Story Something About a Scar Laurie Lynn Drummond HarperCollins Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
2005 Best Short Story Adventure of the Missing Detective Gary Lovisi St. Martin's Minotaur Anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
2005 Best Short Story Imitate the Sun Luke Sholer Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Volume: November 2004
2005 Best Short Story The Book Signing Pete Hamill Akashic Books Anthology: Brooklyn Noir