Endeavor Historical Dagger

2017
Winner
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee

Shortlist
The Devil’s Feast by MJ Carter

The Ashes of Berlin by Luke McCallin
The Long Drop by Denise Mina

By Gaslight by Steven Price
The City in Darkness by Michael Russell

Longlist
The Coroner’s Daughter by Andrew Hughes
The Black Friar by SG MacLean
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Dark Asylum by ES Thomson

2016
Winner
Stasi Child by David Young

Shortlist
The House at Baker Street by Michelle Birkby
The Other Side of Silence by Phillip Kerr
A Book of Scars by William Shaw
The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith
Striking Murder by AJ Wright

2015
Winner
The Seeker by SG MacLean

Shortlist
Havana Sleeping by Martin Davies
The Man from Berlin by Luke McCallin
The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
Lamentation by CJ Sansom
The Silent Boy by Andrew Taylor

2014
Winner
The Devil in the Marshalsea by Antonia Hodgson

Shortlist
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders by Kate Griffin
Treachery by SJ Parris
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh
Theft of Life by Imogen Robertson
The City of Strangers by Michael Russell
The Dead Can Wait by Robert Ryan

Historical Dagger
2013
Winner
The Scent of Death by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
The Heretics by Rory Clements
Pilgrim Soul by Gordon Ferris
The Paris Winter by Imogen Robertson
Dead Men and Broken Hearts by Craig Russell
The Twelfth Department by William Ryan

Ellis Peters Historical Award
2012
Winner
Icelight by Aly Monroe

Shortlist
The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau
Bitter Water by Gordon Ferris
I will have vengeance by Maurizio di Giovanni
Prague Fatale by Phillip Kerr
Sacrilege by SJ Parris
A Willing Victim by Laura Wilson

2011
Winner
The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin

Shortlist
Prince by Rory Clements
The Red Coffin by Sam Eastland
The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris
The Cleansing Flames by RN Morris
Island of Bones by Imogen Robertson

2010
Winner
Revenger by Rory Clements

Shortlist
Washington Shadow by Aly Monroe
Heresy by SJ Parris
Heartstone by CJ Sansom
The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor
To Kill A Tsar by Andrew Williams

2009
Winner
If The Dead Rise Not by Phillip Kerr

Shortlist
The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean
The Intelligence Officer by Mark Mills
The Interrogator by Andrew Williams
An Empty Death by Laura Wilson

2008
Winner
Stratton’s War by Laura Wilson

Shortlist
Last Nocturne by Marjorie Eccles
The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin
A Mortal Curiosity by Ann Granger
Inspector Ghote’s First Case by HRF Keating
A Quiet Flame by Phillip Kerr
Death on a Branch Line by Andrew Martin
A Vengeful Longing by RN Morris
Revelation by CJ Sansom
Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor

2007
Winner
Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

Shortlist
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
The One From the Other by Phillip Kerr
Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin
The Savage Garden by Mark Mills
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

2006
Winner
Red Sky Lament by Edward Wright

Shortlist
The Pale Blue Eyes by Louis Bayard
Nefertiti & The Book of the Dead by Nick Drake
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
The Sultan’s Seal by Jenny White

Ellis Peters Historical Dagger
2005
Winner
Dark Fire by CJ Sansom

Shortlist
The God of Chaos by Tom Bradby
The Palace Tiger by Barbara Cleverly
After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson
The Portrait by Iain Pears
Mortal Mischeif by Frank Tallis

2004
Winner
The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly

Shortlist
The Shape of Sand by Marjorie Eccles
Hell at the Breech by Tom Franklin
The Thief Taker by Janet Gleeson
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Judgement of Caesar by Steven Saylor
The Lover by Laura Wilson

2003
Winner
The American Boy by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
The White Russian by Tom Bradby
The Advocate by Marcello Fois
London Dust by Lee Jackson
Blood on the Wood by Gillian Linscott
Dissolution by CJ Sansom
The Bridge of Sights by Olen Steinhauer

2002
Winner
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Shortlist
The Jupiter Myth by Lindsey Davis
The Pale Companion by Philip Gooden
Dead Man Riding by Gillian Linscott
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
The Desperate Remedy by Martin Stephen

2001
Winner
The Office of the Dead by Andrew Taylor

Shortlist
Ode To A Banker by Lindsey Davis
A Distinction of Blood by Hannah March
A Cold Touch of Ice by Michael Pearce
Last Seen in Massila by Steven Saylor
Mortal Sins by Penn Williamson

2000
Winner
Absent Friends by Gillian Linscott

1999
Winner
Two for the Lions by Lindsey Davis