Books

Edgar Award (awards)

This award was given to 445 books.


  1. Live by Night

    by Dennis Lehane

    Year: 2013
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  2. Gone Girl

    by Gillian Flynn

    Year: 2013
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  3. Leonid McGill Mystery: Book 4

    All I Did Was Shoot My Man

    by Walter Mosley

    Year: 2013
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  4. Sunset

    by Al Lamanda

    Year: 2013
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  5. The Expats

    by Chris Pavone

    Year: 2013
    Category: First Novel
    Finalist
  6. The Tattooed Girl

    The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time

    by John-Henri Holmberg, Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Critical Biographical
    Finalist
  7. Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making

    Stories and Secrets from her Archive

    by John Curran

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Critical Biographical
    Finalist
  8. On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling (Writers on Writers)

    by Michael Dirda

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Critical Biographical
  9. Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film

    by Philippa Gates

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Critical Biographical
    Finalist
  10. Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie

    by Walter Raubicheck, Walter Srebnick

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Critical Biographical
    Finalist
  11. The Murder of the Century

    The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

    by Paul Collins

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  12. The Savage City

    Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge

    by T. J. English

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  13. Destiny of the Republic

    A Tale of Medicine, Madness and the Murder of a President

    by Candice Millard

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Fact Crime
  14. Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender

    by Steve Miller

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  15. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit

    The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter

    by Mark Seal

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  16. Red on Red

    by Edward Conlon

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  17. Last to Fold

    by David L. Duffy

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  18. All Cry Chaos

    by Leonard Rosen

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  19. Bent Road

    by Lori Roy

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best First Novel
  20. Purgatory Chasm: A Mystery

    by Steve Ulfelder

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  21. Horton Halfpott

    Or, The Fiendish Mystery of Smugwick Manor, or, The Loosening of M'Lady Luggertuck's Corset

    by Tom Angleberger

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  22. Brixton Brothers: Book 3

    It Happened on a Train

    by Mac Barnett

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  23. Vanished

    by Sheela Chari

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  24. Icefall

    by Matthew J. Kirby

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Juvenile
  25. The Wizard of Dark Street

    by Shawn Thomas Odyssey

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  26. The Ranger

    by Ace Atkins

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  27. Jack Caffery: Book 5

    Gone

    by Mo Hayder

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Novel
  28. Galileo Series: Book 1

    The Devotion of Suspect X

    by Keigo Higashino

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  29. 1222

    by Anne Holt

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  30. Bernard Gunther: Book 7

    Field Grey

    by Philip Kerr

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  31. The Company Man

    by Robert Jackson Bennett

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Paperback Original
  32. The Faces of Angels

    by Lucretia Grindle

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  33. The Dog Sox

    by Russell Hill

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  34. Detective Kubu: Book 3

    Death of the Mantis

    by Michael Stanley

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  35. Vienna Twilight (A Max Liebermann Mystery)

    by Frank Tallis

    Year: 2012
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  36. Lacey Flint: Book 1

    Now You See Me

    by S. J. Bolton

    Year: 2012
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  37. Come and Find Me

    by Hallie Ephron

    Year: 2012
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  38. Jocelyn Shore: Book 1

    Death on Tour

    by Janice Hamrick

    Year: 2012
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  39. Learning to Swim

    by Sara J. Henry

    Year: 2012
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
  40. Elizabeth Parker: Book 3

    Murder Most Persuasive

    by Tracy Kiely

    Year: 2012
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  41. Mickey Bolitar: Book 1

    Shelter

    by Harlan Coben

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  42. Shades of London: Book 1

    The Name of the Star

    by Maureen Johnson

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  43. The Silence of Murder

    by Dandi Daley Mackall

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult
  44. Iris Anderson

    The Girl Is Murder

    by Kathryn Miller Haines

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  45. Kill You Last

    by Todd Strasser

    Year: 2012
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  46. For Dummies

    Sherlock Holmes for Dummies

    by Stephen Doyle, David A. Crowder

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
    Finalist
  47. Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks

    Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making

    by John Curran

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
    Finalist
  48. Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads

    by David Morrell, Hank Wagner

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
    Finalist
  49. Charlie Chan

    The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
  50. The Wire

    Truth Be Told

    by Rafael Alvarez, David Simon

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
    Finalist

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