Current & Past Claymore Award Winners
2020 Claymore Award Winners
Winner
Nicholas Holloway
Three Houses on a Hill
Runner-Up
Steven Sanders
War Wolves
Second Runner-Up
Edson Knapp
Ghosts of Kilimanjaro
2019 Claymore Award Winners
Winner (tie)
John Carenen
Breathtaking in the Blue Ridge
Winner (tie)
Joseph Simurdiak
A Red Autumn Wind
Runner-Up
K.C. Bonner
Gator Bait
Second Runner-Up
C.C. Harrison
Bad Deeds
2018 Claymore Award Winners
Winner
Cathy Perkins
The Body in the Beaver Pond
Runner-Up
Danny Lindsey
Murder in Choctaw County
Second Runner-Up
Elena Melissa Hartwell
Under Fallow Ground
2017 Claymore Award Winners
Winner
Danny Lindsey, Serial Justice
Runner-Up
Michelle Kubitz, Dragonfly Lake
Second Runner-Up
Lois J. Schmitt, Something Fishy
2016 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner
R.G. Belsky, Forget-Me-Not
Runner-Up
Roger Toll, Hooray for Hollywood
Second Runner-Up
Peggy O’Neal Peden, Jake’s Han
2015 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner – Michael F. Stewart, The Boy Who Swallows Flies
1st Runner Up – Jean Rabe, The Christmas Card Killer
2nd Runner Up (Tie) – Philip Cioffari, Night and Its Burdens, Sasscer Hill, Dark Side of Town
2015 Claymore Finalists (In alphabetical order by Author):
J.D. Allen, 19 Crimes
Philip Cioffari, Night and Its Burdens
Nikki M. Clarke, Wicked Hands
Alice Fitzpatrick, The Thing of Darkness
Sasscer Hill, Dark Side of Town
L.G. Jenkins, Diptastic
J.E. Mooney (Jean Rabe), The Christmas Card Killer
Ben Orlando, The Lost Journals of Sundown
Michael F. Stewart, The Boy Who Swallows Flies
Jonathan Stone, Two for the Show
2014 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner – Dana Chamblee Carpenter, Bohemian Gospel
1st Runner Up – Ronald Kidd, The Raven and Me
2nd Runner Up (Tie) – Philip Cioffari, Cold Eye of Danger, Barbara Nickless, White Line Fever
2014 CLAYMORE AWARD FINALISTS
(In alphabetical order by Author):
Ross Cavins, Barry Versus the Apocalypse
Nichole Christoff, The Kill Shot: Book 2
Steven Cooper, Desert Remains
Laine Cunningham, Break the Bow
Rick Koster, Gris Gris Gumbo
Barbara Nickless,White Line Fever
Tim O’Brien, Twelve Bricks
2013 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner – Terri Coop, Dial 1-Pro-Hac-Vice
1st Runner Up – Jacob M. Appel, The Man Who Trounced God at Chess
2nd Runner Up – Elizabeth Visser, Profile of a Killer
2013 CLAYMORE AWARD FINALISTS
(In alphabetical order by Author):
Laura Brennan, The End of All Things
Vinnie Hansen, Black Beans & Venom
Charles Kingsman, Unbelievers
John Madinger, Hot Shot
Joan Kane Nichols, A Novel By Dickens
Ray Peden, One Tenth of the Law
Shellie Williams, Deadly Secrets
2012 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner – Jonathan Stone, Again (retitled Moving Day)
1st Runner Up – V.R. Barkowski, A Twist Of Hate
2nd Runner Up (tie, listed in alphabetical order by author) -Carol Baier, Wicked Schemes
2nd Runner Up (tie, listed in alphabetical order by author) – Mark Troy, The Law of the Splintered Paddle (retitled The Splintered Paddle)
2012 CLAYMORE AWARD FINALISTS
(In alphabetical order by Author):
Anna Castle, Murder By Misrule
Philip Cioffari, The Bronx Kill
Marianna Heusler, Hallowed Darkened Space
Susan Lindgren, Forgotten Treasures
Terry Shames, The Last Death of Jack Harbin
Maris Soule, A Killer Past
2011 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner – Judith Dailey, Animal, Vegetable, Murder
1st Runner Up – Craig Faustus Buck, Go Down Hard
2nd Runner Up – Joan Lipinsky Cochran, The Yiddish Gangster’s Daughter
2011 CLAYMORE AWARD FINALISTS
(In alphabetical order by Author):
Baron R. Birtcher, Rain Dogs
Bryan Camp, Where the Dead Remain
Debora Dale, Canyon Road
Jessica Ferguson, A Bad Guy Forever
Frank Jenkins, An Embarrassment of Riches
Doc Macomber, Riff Raff
E. Joan Sims, A.K.A. Love
2010 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNERS
Winner – Tom Wallace, Gnosis
1st Runner Up – Carolyn McSparren, A Disciplined Death
2nd Runner Up – Korey Kaul, Jury Rig
2010 CLAYMORE AWARD FINALISTS
(In alphabetical order by Author):
Ronnie Casella, The Watchers
Philip Cioffari, Dark Road, Dead End
Alan Lewis, The Blood in Snowflake Garden
E. J. Rand, Labyrinth
Terry Shames, The Art of Murder
Michael Siverling, The Blood of Alexander
J. J. White, Prayer Offerings
2009 CLAYMORE AWARD WINNER (Inaugural Year)
Winner – Linda Black, The Death of Noble Dancer
2009 FINALISTS
(In alphabetical order by Author):
Glen Allison, Hunka Burnin’ Death
David Booker, The Painted Beast
Nancy Horgan, The Murder Rules
David E. Knop, Mining Sacred Ground
Joseph Newcum, Cast Out of Paradise
Sarah Parrott (writing as Jayne Ormerod), The Blond Leading the Blond
Eyre Price, An Unsolicited Manuscript
Jonathan Sicherman, Watchman’s Tale
Marylee Woods, Temporarily Dead