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The Edgar Awards

Named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe. The Mystery Writers of America give these awards for the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced the previous year

2002 Nominees
Best Novel: The Judgment by D.W. Buffa
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain
Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
Reflecting the Sky by S.J. Rozan


Best First Novel: Open Season by C.J. Box
Red Hook by Gabriel Cohen
Line of Vision by David Ellis
Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler
The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton


Best Paperback Original: Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria
Hell's Kitchen by Jeffery Deaver (writing as William Jefferies)
The Mother Tongue by Teri Holbrook
Dead of Winter by P.J. Parrish
Straw Men by Martin J. Smith


Best Fact Crime: Leavenworth Train: Bitter Justice in the Vanishing West by Joe Jackson
The Wrong Man by James Neff
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind by Roy Hazelwood and Stephen G. Michaud
Base Instincts: What Makes Killers Kill? by Jonathan H. Pincus
Son of a Grifter by Kent Walker with Mark Schone


Best Critical/Biographical Work: The History of Mystery by Max Allan Collins
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers by Jo Hammett
My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized but True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb by Michael J. Hayde
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 edited by Richard Layman with Julie Rivett
Who Was That Lady? Craig Rice: The Queen of Screwball Mystery by Jeffrey Marks
Edgar Allan Poe A to Z by Dawn B. Sova


Best Young Adult: Dark Secrets: Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler
Death on Sacred Ground by Harriet K. Feder
Shades of Simon Gray by Joyce McDonald
Witch Hill by Marcus Sedgwick
The Boy in the Burning House by Tim Wynne-Jones


Best Juvenile: Ghost Soldier by Elaine Marie Alphin
Dangling by Lillian Eige
Ghost Sitter by Peni R. Griffin
Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes
Bug Muldoon: The Garden of Fear by Paul Shipton


Best Mystery Motion Picture: The Man Who Wasn't There, screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
Gosford Park, screenplay by Julian Fellowes
Mulholland Drive, screenplay by David Lynch
Series 7: The Contenders, screenplay by Daniel Minahan
Memento, screenplay by Christopher Nolan


Mary Higgins Clark Award: Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman
Perhaps She'll Die by M.K. Preston
Murder of a Sweet Old Lady by Denise Swanson


Grand Master Award: Robert B. Parker


2001


Best Novel: The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale--Winner!
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
Red Light by T. Jefferson Parker
The Whole Truth by Nancy Pickard


Best First Novel: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss--Winner!
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
Crow in Stolen Colors by Marcia Simpson
Raveling by Peter Moore Smith


Best Paperback Original: The Black Maria by Mark Graham--Winner!
Murder on St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson
Killing Kin by Chassie West
The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn by Eric Wright
Pursuit and Persuasion by Sally Wright


Best Critical/Biographical Work: Conundrums for the Long Week-End by Robert Kuhn McGregor with Ethan Lewis


Best Fact Crime: Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill


Best Young Adult: Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin


Best Children's: Dovey Coe by Frances O'Roark Dowell


Best Mystery Motion Picture: Traffic


Mary Higgins Clark Award: Authorized Personnel Only by Barbara D'Amato


Grand Master Award: Edward D. Hoch


2000


Best Novel
: Bones by Jan Burke--Winner!
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson


Best First Novel: The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison--Winner!
Certifiably Insane by Arthur W. Bahr
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
God Is a Bullet by Boston Teran
Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods


Best Paperback Original: Fulton County Blues by Ruth Birmingham--Winner!
Lucky Man by Tony Dunbar
The Resurrectionist by Mark Graham
Outcast by José Latour
In Big Trouble by Laura Lippman


Best Critical/Biographical Work: Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower


Best Fact Crime: Blind Eye by James B. Stewart


Best Young Adult: Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde


Best Children's
: The Night Flyers by Elizabeth McDavid Jones


Grand Master Award: Mary Higgins Clark

1999

Best Novel: Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark--Winner!
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard
The Last Days of Il Duce by Domenic Stansberry
A Likeness in Stone by J. Wallis Martin


Best First Novel: A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton--Winner!
Reckless Homicide by Ira Genberg
Numbered Account by Christopher Reich
Nice by Jen Sacks
A Criminal Appeal by D.R. Schanker


Best Paperback Original: The Widower's Two-Step by Rick Riordan--Winner!
Atlanta Graves by Ruth Birmingham
Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman
Zen Attitude by Sujata Massey
Murder Manual by Steven Womack


Best Critical/Biographical Work: Mystery and Suspense Writers edited by Robin W. Winks and Maureen Corrigan--Winner!
The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers by Janice Brown
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael edited by Anne K. Kaler
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller
Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe by John Evangelist Walsh


Best Fact Crime: To the Last Breath by Carlton Stowers --Winner!
Death Sentence by Jerry Bledsoe
Tough Jews by Rich Cohen
Greentown by Timothy Dumas
One of Ours by Richard A. Serrano


Best Young Adult: The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin --Winner!
Finn by Katharine Jay Bacon
The Maze by Will Hobbs
Paperquake by Kathryn Reiss
For Mike by Shelley Sykes


Best Children's: Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen --Winner!
The Kidnappers by Willo Davis Roberts
Alice Rose & Sam by Kathryn Lasky
The Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
Holes by Louis Sachar


Grand Master Award: P.D. James


1998


Best Novel: Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke


Best First Novel: Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon


Best Paperback Original: Charm City by Laura Lippman


Best Critical/Biographical Work: G Is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone by Nathalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay


Best Fact Crime: The Death of Innocents by Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan


Best Young Adult: Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs


Best Children's: Sparrows in the Scullery by Barbara Brooks Wallace


Best Short Story: "Keller on the Spot" by Lawrence Block


Grand Master Award: Barbara Mertz a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels


1997 The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
1996 Come to Grief by Dick Francis
1995 The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
1994 The Sculptress by Minette Walters
1993 Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
1992 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
1991 New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
1990 Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
1989 A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1988 Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
1987 A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1986 The Suspect by L.R. Wright
1985 Briarpatch by Ross Thomas
1984 La Brava by Elmore Leonard
1983 Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
1982 Peregrine by William Bayer
1981 Whip Hand by Dick Francis
1980 The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
1979 Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
1978 Catch Me, Kill Me by William Hallahan
1977 Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
1976 Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
1975 Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
1974 Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1973 The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
1972 The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
1971 The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
1970 Forfeit by Dick Francis
1969 A Case of Need by Jeffrey Hudson a.k.a. Michael Crichton
1968 God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
1967 King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling
1966 The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
1965 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
1964 The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1963 Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
1962 Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric
1961 Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
1960 The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
1959 The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
1958 Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1957 A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
1956 Beast in View by Margaret Millar
1955 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1954 Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay

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