Honorable Mentions in Green
Spotted Owl Winner in Red
| Author | Title | Publisher | Residence | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argula, Anne | Homicide, My Own | Pleasure Boat | WA | 2005 |
| Bush, Nancy | Candy Apple Red | Kensington | OR | 2005 |
| Cain, Chelsea | Confessions Of A Teen Sleuth | Bloomsbury | OR | 2005 |
| Cameron, Stella | A Grave Mistake | Mira | WA | 2005 |
| Cottrell, Jeanette | At Risk Of Being A Fool | Five Star | OR | 2005 |
| Daheim, Mary | Dead Man Docking | Morrow | WA | 2005 |
| Daheim, Mary | The Alpine Quilt | Ballantine | WA | 2005 |
| Deverell, William | April Fool | McClelland & Stewart | BC | 2005 |
| Donnelly, Deborah | Death Takes a Honeymoon | Dell | ID | 2005 |
| Dunn, Carola | Fall Of A Philanderer | St. Martin’s Press | OR | 2005 |
| Elkins, Aaron | Where There’s a Will | Berkley | WA | 2005 |
| Elkins, Aaron and Charlotte | On The Fringe | Severn House | WA | 2005 |
| Elling, Kay C. | An American Assassin | Hayfield Publishing | OR | 2005 |
| Emerson, Earl | The Smoke Room | Ballantine | WA | 2005 |
| Flower, R. Barri | Justice Served | Leisure Books | OR | 2005 |
| Ford, Dr. Clyde W. | Red Herring | Mystic Voyager Press | WA | 2005 |
| Ford, Dr. Clyde W. | The Long Mile | Midnight Ink | WA | 2005 |
| Ford, G.M. | No Man’s Land | Morrow | WA | 2005 |
| Galenorn, Yasmin | Murder Under A Mystic Moon | Berkley | WA | 2005 |
| Galenorn, Yasmin | A Harvest Of Bones | Berkley | WA | 2005 |
| Gold, Alan | True Crime | Berkley | OR | 2005 |
| Gray, John MacLachlan | A White Stone Day | St. Martin’s Press | BC | 2005 |
| Gruber, Michael | Valley Of The Bones | Morrow | WA | 2005 |
| Henry, Sue | Murder at Five Finger Light | NAL | AK | 2005 |
| Ink, India (Yasmin Galenorn) | Scent to Her Grave | Berkley | WA | 2005 |
| Isenberg, Jane | Hot Wired | Avon | WA | 2005 |
| Jackson, Lisa | Deep Freeze | Zebra | OR | 2005 |
| Jance, J.A. | Long Time Gone | Morrow | WA | 2005 |
| Jance, J.A. | Edge Of Evil | Avon | WA | 2005 |
| Johnson, Bettye | Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls | Living Free Press | WA | 2005 |
| Keizer, Gregg | Midnight Plague | Putnam | OR | 2005 |
| Lawson, Michael | The Inside Ring | Doubleday | WA | 2005 |
| Limon, Martin | The Door To Bitterness | Soho | WA | 2005 |
| Lovell, Ron | Murder Below Zero | Penman Productions | OR | 2005 |
| Lowell, Elizabeth | Always Time To Die | Morrow | WA | 2005 |
| Main, Elizabeth | Murder of the Month | Five Star | OR | 2005 |
| Margolin, Phillip | Lost Lake | Harper | OR | 2005 |
| Martini, Steve | Double Tap | Putnam | WA | 2005 |
| Nance, John J. | Saving Cascadia | Simon & Schuster | WA | 2005 |
| Nelscott, Kris | War At Home | St. Martin’s Press | OR | 2005 |
| Nykanen, Mark | Search Angel | Hyperion | BC | 2005 |
| O’Brien, Kevin | The Last Victim | Pinnacle | WA | 2005 |
| O’Neill, Tom | Shark Tank | iBooks | WA | 2005 |
| Ozeroff, Barry | Sniper Shot | iBooks | OR | 2005 |
| Peters, Andrea | Four Crows | Bella International | WA | 2005 |
| Peters, Andrea | Sorry…Love Anne | Bella International | WA | 2005 |
| Quick, Amanda | Lie By Moonlight | Putnam | WA | 2005 |
| Roach, R.L. | Seismic | Vantage Press | OR | 2005 |
| Rucka, Greg | Private Wars | Bantam | OR | 2005 |
| Rushford, Patricia | As Good As Dead | Revell | WA | 2005 |
| Sachs, Harley L. | The Mystery Club and the Hidden Witness | Wings ePress | OR | 2005 |
| Sheedy, E.C. | Killing Bliss | Zebra | BC | 2005 |
| Sheedy, E.C. | Over Her Dead Body | Zebra | BC | 2005 |
| Slade, Michael | Swaztika | Signet | BC | 2005 |
| Tallman, Shirley | The Russian Hill Murders | St. Martin’s Press | OR | 2005 |
| Vachss, Andrew | Two Trains Running | Pantheon | WA | 2005 |
| Waiwaiole, Lono | Wiley’s Refrain | St. Martin’s Press | OR | 2005 |
| Walter, Jess | Citizen Vince | Regan Books | WA | 2005 |
| Wilhelm, Kate | The Price Of Failure | Mira | OR | 2005 |
| Wolfe, Liz | Natural Selection | Medallion Press | WA | 2005 |
| Wright, George Byron | Baker City 1948 | C3 Publications | OR | 2005 |
| Wyler, Allen | Deadly Errors | Forge | WA | 2005 |
| Yarrow, Joyce | Ask The Dead | Martin Brown | WA | 2005 |
| Zellnik, M.J. | Murder at the Portland Variety | Midnight Ink | WA | 2005 |