The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime winners are listed below.
Year! scope="col" width="30%" | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 1990 | | Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell | Winner | |
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| | Shortlist | |
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| The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders | Shortlist | |
| Murder in Little Egypt | Shortlist | |
| 1991 | | In a Child's Name | Winner | |
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| and Ernest Volkman | Goombata | Shortlist | |
| Beyond Reason | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| 1992 | | | Winner | |
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| Witnesses from the Grace: The Stories Bones Tell | Shortlist | |
| Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Pauk Castellano | Shortlist | |
| Den of Thieves | Shortlist | |
| and James P. Cole | Death of Elvis: What Really Happened | Shortlist | |
| 1993 | | Swift Justice | Winner | |
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| | Shortlist | |
| Blood Echoes | Shortlist | |
| Everything She Ever Wanted | Shortlist | |
| My Husband's Trying to Kill Me | Shortlist | |
| 1994 | | Until the Twelfth of Never | Winner | |
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| Lindbergh: The Crime | Shortlist | |
| and Gregory White Smith | Final Justice | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| and Rob Warden | Gone in the Night | Shortlist | |
| 1995 | | To Protect and to Serve | Winner | |
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| Before He Wakes | Shortlist | |
| Mississippi Mud | Shortlist | |
| In the Best of Families | Shortlist | |
| Breakdown | Shortlist | |
| 1996 | | Circumstantial Evidence | Winner | |
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| and Mark Olshaker | Mindhunter | Shortlist | |
| Born to Kill | Shortlist | |
| Unfinished Murder | Shortlist | |
| By Two and Two | Shortlist | |
| 1997 | | Power to Hurt | Winner | |
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| 1998 | | To the Last Breath | Winner | |
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| Death Sentence | Shortlist | |
| Tough Jews | Shortlist | |
| Greentown | Shortlist | |
| One of Ours | Shortlist | |
| 1999 | | The Death of Innocents | Winner | |
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| Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb | Shortlist | |
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| Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice | Shortlist | |
| May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment | Shortlist | | |
Year! scope="col" width="30%" | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 2005 | | Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice | Winner | |
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| Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates | Shortlist | |
| Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts | Shortlist | |
| Forensics for Dummies | Shortlist | |
| Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer | Shortlist | |
| Ready for the People: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor | Shortlist | |
| 2006 | | Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece | Winner | |
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| Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans | Shortlist | |
| The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison | Shortlist | |
| True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa | Shortlist | |
| Written in Blood | Shortlist | |
| 2007 | | Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer | Winner | [2] |
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| A Death in Belmont | Shortlist | |
| Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine | Shortlist | |
| Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer | Shortlist | |
| Strange Piece of Paradise | Shortlist | |
| The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder | Shortlist | |
| 2008 | | | Winner | [3] |
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| Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit | Shortlist | |
| Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind | Shortlist | |
| The Birthday Party | Shortlist | |
| 2009 | | | Winner | [4] |
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| For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago | Shortlist | |
| Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution | Shortlist | |
| The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren | Shortlist | |
| The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher | Shortlist | | |
Year! scope="col" width="30%" | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 2010 | | Columbine | Winner | |
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| Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde | Shortlist | |
| Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art | Shortlist | |
| The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide | Shortlist | |
| Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa | Shortlist | |
| 2011 | | Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity | Winner | |
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| Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery | Shortlist | |
| Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin | Shortlist | |
| The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South | Shortlist | |
| The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science | Shortlist | |
| 2012 | | Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President | Winner | [5] [6] |
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| | Shortlist | [7] |
| | Shortlist | |
| Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| 2013 | | Midnight in Peking | Winner | [8] |
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| | Shortlist | |
| Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies | Shortlist | |
| More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered | Shortlist | |
| The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up | Shortlist | |
| 2014 | | | Winner | [9] |
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| Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery | Shortlist | [10] |
| Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| 2015 | | | Winner | [11] [12] |
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| Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America | Shortlist | |
| The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| 2016 | | | Winner | [13] [14] |
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| Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide | Shortlist | |
| Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him | Shortlist | |
| Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime | Shortlist | |
| American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic | Shortlist | |
| 2017 | | | Winner | [15] |
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| Morgue: A Life in Death | Shortlist | |
| The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan | Shortlist | |
| Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England | Shortlist | |
| While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness | Shortlist | |
| 2018 | | | Winner | [16] |
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| The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple | Shortlist | |
| American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land | Shortlist | |
| The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery | Shortlist | |
| Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation | Shortlist | |
| 2019 | | Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation | Winner | [17] |
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| Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal | Shortlist | |
| The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure | Shortlist | |
| The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century | Shortlist | |
| I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer | Shortlist | |
| The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia | Shortlist | | |
Year! scope="col" width="30%" | Author | Title | Result | |
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| 2020 | | | Winner | [18] [19] |
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| The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America | Shortlist | |
| American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century | Shortlist | |
| Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History | Shortlist | |
| Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall | Shortlist | |
| 2021 | | Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic | Winner | [20] [21] |
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| Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America | Shortlist | |
| | Shortlist | |
| Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country | Shortlist | |
| Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife | Shortlist | |
| 2022 | | Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York | Winner | [22] |
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| The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History | Shortlist | |
| Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away | Shortlist | |
| Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice | Shortlist | |
| The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade | Shortlist | |
| When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer | Shortlist | |
| 2023 | | Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation | Winner | [23] |
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| Slenderman | Shortlist | [24] |
| Trailed | Shortlist | |
| American Caliph | Shortlist | |
| American Demon | Shortlist | |
| 2024 | | Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal | Winner | [25] [26] |
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| In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America’s Child | Shortlist | [27] |
| Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall | Shortlist | |
| Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders | Shortlist | |
| I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever | Shortlist | |
| The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy | Shortlist | | |
