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Edgar Award Winners and Nominees


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In the Woods
In the Woods
by Tana French
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The only thing more exciting than a great thriller is a terrific debut by a great thriller writer! Tana French makes a tremendous splash with In the Woods, a harrowing mystery in the vein of Mystic River that wholly earns the comparison. I dare you to... (read more)

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The Last Child
The Last Child
by John Hart
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Winner of the 2010 Edgar Award for Best Novel John Harts New York Times bestselling debut, The King of Lies, announced the arrival of a major talent. With Down River, he surpassed his earlier success, transcending the barrier between thriller and... (read more)

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Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
by James Lee Burke
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Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered ... Now they're after his little girl... From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer ... and the demons of his past.... (read more)

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Winter and Night
Winter and Night
by S. J. Rozan
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"To read S.J. Rozan is to experience the kind of pure pleasure only a master can deliver." --Dennis Lehane EDGAR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR S.J. ROZAN WINTER AND NIGHT "S.J. ROZAN IS ONE OF THE FINEST WRITERS TODAY." --Linda A. Fairstein, author of The... (read more)

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The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
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The sixth in the Philip Marlowe series, The Long Goodbye is significant not only as the last book Raymond Chandler wrote but as a personal consummation of craft that brought his detective novels into the realm of distinguished fiction. "The first... (read more)

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The Janissary Tree
The Janissary Tree
by Jason Goodwin
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 Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court... (read more)

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Hopscotch (Otto Penzler Presents...)
Hopscotch (Otto Penzler Presents...)
by Brian Garfield
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Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to satisfy his hunger for excitement. But he could not recreate the ultimate conflict of life or death with no rules, the experience of pitting himself against... (read more)

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The Chatham School Affair
The Chatham School Affair
by Thomas H. Cook
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Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy. Layer by layer, in... (read more)

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Silent Joe
Silent Joe
by T. Jefferson Parker
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Scarred for life by a brutal father, Joe Trona found a safe haven and a loving childhood in the home of the couple who adopted him. Now he spends his days as a deputy for the Orange County sheriff's department and his nights as a driver and aide to Will... (read more)

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Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)
Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Inspector Rebus Novels)
by Ian Rankin
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Packed off to the remote Scottish Police College for a lesson in teamwork — after hurling a mug at his supervisor's face — Inspector John Rebus finds himself in a snake pit. His classmates, an unruly band of rebel cops known as Resurrection Men,... (read more)

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Promised Land
Promised Land
by Robert B Parker
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Acclaimed mystery author Robert B. Parker continues to win an even greater audience with each new Spenser novel. For all crime fiction lovers who discovered Parker through his latest bestsellers "Pastime" and "Double Deuce", his entire Dell backlist is... (read more)

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Bootlegger's Daughter
Bootlegger's Daughter
by Margaret Maron
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Attorney Deborah Knott is running for district judge in good-old-boy-ruled Colleton County, N.D.... (read more)

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The Professional (Spenser Mysteries)
The Professional (Spenser Mysteries)
by Robert B Parker
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The wives of Boston's wealthiest men have a mutual secret: they all had an affair with the same cad who's blackmailing them, and Spenser's been hired to stop him. But when the wives start dying one by one, Spenser's new case becomes murder.... (read more)

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Citizen Vince
Citizen Vince
by Jess Walter
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Darkly hilarious and unexpectedly profound, Citizen Vince is an irresistible tale about the price of freedom and the mystery of salvation, by an emerging writer of boundless talent. Eight days before the 1980 presidential election, Vince Camden wakes... (read more)

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The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall
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The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series — by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö — finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer. On a... (read more)

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The Sculptress
The Sculptress
by Minette Walters
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In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves-- symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen, menacing, grotesquely fat, Olive Martin is burned-out... (read more)

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Dance Hall of the Dead
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
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<p> Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican... (read more)

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The Bottoms (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
The Bottoms (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by Joe R Lansdale
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A thriller with echoes of William Faulkner and Harper Lee, The Bottoms is classic American storytelling in its truest, darkest, and more affecting form.   Its 1933 in East Texas and the Depression lingers in the air like a slow moving storm. When a... (read more)

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The Suspect (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
The Suspect (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)
by L R Wright
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To Karl Alberg, a small town on Canada's ?Sunshine Coast? looks like the perfect place to sooth a psyche that's been battered by too much big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intriguing, and unattached... (read more)

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Down River
Down River
by John Hart
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A powerful, heart-pounding thriller from the unparalleled New York Times bestselling and two-time Edgar Award-winning author of The Last Child and The King of Lies, Down River will haunt your thoughts long after the last page is turned. Adam Chase... (read more)

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