Books

Edgar Award (awards)

This award was given to 395 books.


  1. The Wire: Truth Be Told

    by Rafael Alvarez

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
    Finalist
  2. For Dummies

    Sherlock Holmes for Dummies

    by Steven Doyle, David A. Crowder

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

    Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making

    by John Curran

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

    by David Morrell, Hank Wagner

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

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

    by Yunte Huang

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
  6. Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery

    by Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  7. Hellhound on His Trail

    The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

    by Hampton Sides

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  8. The Killer of Little Shepherds

    A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science

    by Douglas Starr

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  9. The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South

    by Alex Heard

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Fact Crime
    Finalist
  10. The Serialist

    by David Gordon

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  11. Galveston

    by Nic Pizzolatto

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  12. Inspector Vaara: Book 1

    Snow angels

    by James Thompson

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  13. The serialist

    by David Gordon

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  14. Rogue Island

    by Bruce DeSilva

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Novel
  15. Mike Bowditch Mystery: Book 1

    The Poacher's Son

    by Paul Doiron

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  16. Zora and Me

    by Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  17. The Buddy Files: Book 1

    The Case of the Lost Boy

    by Dori Hillestad Butler

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Juvenile
  18. The Haunting of Charles Dickens

    by Lewis Buzbee

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  19. The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman

    by Ben H. Winters

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Juvenile
    Finalist
  20. Griff Carver, Hallway Patrol

    by Jim Krieg

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Juvenile
  21. Poke Rafferty: Book 4

    The Queen of Patpong

    by Timothy Hallinan

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  22. Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

    by Tom Franklin

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  23. Caught

    by Harlan Coben

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  24. Dublin Murder Squad: Book 3

    Faithful Place

    by Tana French

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  25. I'd Know You Anywhere

    by Laura Lippman

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist
  26. The Lock Artist

    by Steve Hamilton

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Novel
    Rank: Winner
  27. The News Where You Are

    by Catherine O'Flynn

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  28. Expiration Date

    by Duane Swierczynski

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  29. Ten little herrings

    by L. C. Tyler

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  30. Liebermann Papers: Book 4

    Darkness Rising

    by Frank Tallis

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Paperback Original
    Finalist
  31. Long Time Coming

    by Robert Goddard

    Year: 2011
    Category: Best Paperback Original
  32. Wild Penance (Wild Mysteries)

    by Sandi Ault

    Year: 2011
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  33. Down River

    by Karen Harper

    Year: 2011
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  34. Ruth Galloway: Book 1

    The Crossing Places

    by Elly Griffiths

    Year: 2011
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
  35. Live to Tell: Book 1

    Live to Tell

    by Wendy Corsi Staub

    Year: 2011
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  36. Blood Harvest

    by S. J. Bolton

    Year: 2011
    Category: Mary Higgins Clark
    Finalist
  37. The River

    by Mary Jane Beaufrand

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  38. Please Ignore Vera Dietz

    by A. S. King

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  39. 7 Souls

    by Barnabas Miller, Jordan Orlando

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  40. The Interrogation of Gabriel James

    by Charlie Price

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult
  41. Dust City

    by Robert Paul Weston

    Year: 2011
    Category: Young Adult
    Finalist
  42. The Lineup

    The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives

    by Otto Penzler

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Critical/Biographical
  43. Stella Hardesty: Book 1

    A Bad Day for Sorry

    A Crime Novel

    by Sophie Littlefield

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  44. Black Water Rising

    by Attica Locke

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Novel
    Finalist
  45. The Girl She Used to Be

    by David Cristofano

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Novel by an American Author
    Finalist
  46. Starvation Lake: A Mystery

    by Bryan Gruley

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Novel by an American Author
    Finalist
  47. The Weight of Silence

    by Heather Gudenkauf

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Novel by an American Author
    Finalist
  48. Simon Ziele Mysteries: Book 1

    In the Shadow of Gotham

    by Stefanie Pintoff

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best First Novel by an American Author
    Rank: Winner
  49. The Odds

    by Kathleen George

    Year: 2010
    Category: Best Novel
    Finalist

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