Who Murdered God 1991 - Carsten Stroud, Sniper's Moon 1992 - Paul Grescoe, Flesh Wound 1993 - Sean Stewart, Passion Play 1994 - Gavin Scott, Memory Trace 1995 - Sparkle Hayter, What's A Girl Gotta Do? 1996 - (tie) John Spencer Hill, The Last Castrato and D.H. Toole, Moonlit Days and Nights 1997 - C. C. Benison, Death At Buckingham Palace 1998 - Kathy Reichs, Déja Dead 1999 - Liz Brady, Sudden Blow 2000 - Andrew Pyper, Lost Girls 2001 - Mark Zuehlke, Hands Like Clouds 2002 - Jon Redfern, The Boy Must Die 2003 - James W. Nichol, Midnight Cab 2004 - Jan Rehner, Just Murder 2005 - Jon Evans, Dark Places 2006 - Louise Penny, Still Life 2007 - Anne Emery, Sign of the Cross 2008 - Liam Durcan, Garcia's Heart 2009 - Howard Shrier, Buffalo Jump 2010 - Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 2011 - Avner Mandelman, The Debba 2012 - Ian Hamilton, The Water Rat of Wanchai 2013 - Simone St. James, The Haunting of Maddy Clare 2014 - J. Kent Messum, Bait 2015 - Steve Burrows, A Siege of Bitterns 2016 - Ausma Zehanat Khan, The Unquiet Dead 2017 - Elle Wild, Strange Things Done 2018 - Dave Butler, Full Curl 2019 - A.J. Devlin, Cobra Clutch 2020 - Philip Elliott, Nobody Move 2021 - Guglielmo D'Izzia, The Transaction Best Novella 2013 - Lou Allin, Contingency Plan 2014 - Melodie Campbell, The Goddaughter's Revenge 2015 - Jas R. Petrin, A Knock on the Door 2016 - Jeremy Bates, Black Canyon 2017 - Rick Blechta, Rundown 2018 - Mike Culpepper, How Lon Pruitt Was Found Murdered in an Open Field with No Footprints Around 2019 - John Lawrence Reynolds, Murder Among the Pines 2020 - Wayne Arthurson, The Red Chesterfield 2021 - Sam Wiebe, Never Going Back Best Crime Book in French 2000 - Lionel Noël, 2001 - Norbert Spehner, 2002 - Anne-Michèle Lévesque, 2003 - Jacques Côté, 2004 - Jean Lemieux, 2005 - Ann Lamontagne, 2006 - Gérard Galarneau, 2007 - No award given 2008 - Mario Bolduc, 2009 - Jacques Côté, 2010 - Jean Lemieux, 2011 - Jacques Côté, 2012 - Martin Michaud, 2013 - Mario Bolduc, 2014 - Maureen Martineau, 2015 - Andrée A. Michaud, 2016 - Luc Chartrand, 2017 - Marie-Ève Bourassa, 2018 - Marie Saur, 2019 - Hervé Gagnon, 2020 - Andrée A. Michaud, 2021 -