2016
Victoria Abbott, The Marsh Madness (Berkley Prime Crime)
Elizabeth J. Duncan, Untimely Death (Crooked Lane Books)
Eva Gates, Booked for Trouble (NAL)
Victoria Hamilton, White Colander Crime (Berkley Prime Crime)
Alexis Koetting, Encore (Five Star)
2015
Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Platinum Hair (Touchwood Editions)
Judith Alguire, Many Unpleasant Returns (Signature Editions)
E.C. Bell, Seeing the Light (Tyche Books)
Janet Bolin, Night of the Living Thread (Berkley Prime Crime)
Allan Stratton, The Resurrection of Mary Mabel McTavish (Dundurn)
2014
Cathy Spencer, Framed for Murder (Comely Press)
Janet Bolin, Thread and Buried (Berkley Prime Crime)
Vicki Delany, Gold Web (Dundurn)
Elizabeth Duncan, Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By (Minotaur)
Howard Shrier, Miss Montreal (Vintage Canada)
2013
Elizabeth J. Duncan, A Small Hill to Die On (Minotaur)
Janet Bolin, Threaded for Trouble (Berkley Prime Crime)
Karen Dudley, Food for the Gods (Ravenstone)
Chris Laing, A Private Man (Seraphim)
Michelle Rowen, Blood Bath & Beyond (NAL/Obsidian)
Morley Torgov, The Mastersinger from Minsk (Dundurn)
2012
Gloria Ferris, Cheat the Hangman (Imajin Books)
Janet Bolin, Dire Threads (Berkley Prime Crime)
Alan Bradley, A Red Herring without Mustard (Doubleday Canada)
Mary Jane Maffini, The Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder (Berkley Prime Crime)
Phyllis Smallman, Champagne for Buzzards (McArthur & Company)