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Edgar Award
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards are named after the Mystery Writers of America's patron saint, Edgar Allan Poe, and are awarded to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the genre. To learn more about the Edgar Award visit the Mystery Writers of America.
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The Last Child
By Hart, John
2009-05 - Minotaur Books
9780312359324
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best Novel
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Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller "Down River," Hart returns with the story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown.
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In the Shadow of Gotham
By Pintoff, Stefanie
2009-04 - Minotaur Books
9780312544904
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best First Novel
An atmospheric, taut, and truly original historical mystery, "In the Shadow of Gotham" features an engaging main character and a gorgeously rendered setting: turn-of-the-century New York.
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Body Blows: A Joe Grundy Mystery
By Strange, Marc
2009-06 - Castle Street Mysteries
9781554883905
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best Paperback
Ex-boxer Joe Grundy is embroiled in the intrigues of his own boss, millionaire Leo Alexander, the owner of Vancouver's Lord Douglas Hotel. Somebody has murdered Leo's live-in servant and not-so-secret lover, and Grundy has to get to the bottom of the i
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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
By Penzler, Otto
2009-11 - Little Brown and Company
9780316031936
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2010 Edgar Award-Best Critical/Biographical
From Michael Connelly and Faye Kellerman to Ian Rankin and Anne Perry, some of the most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they create their most beloved characters.
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Columbine
By Cullen, Dave
2009-04 - Twelve
9780446546935
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best Fact Crime
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Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.
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Reality Check
By Abrahams, Peter
2009-05 - Harper Teen
9780061227660
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best Young Adult
When Clea falls for Cody, her disapproving father sends her to boarding school. Soon afterward, Clea mysteriously disappears, and Cody sets out to discover what happened, in this thrilling tale by the author of the Echo Falls Mystery series.
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Closed for the Season: A Mystery Story
By Hahn, Mary Downing
2009-06 - Clarion Books
9780547084510
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best Juvenile
Arthur and Logan, set out to solve the mystery of a murder that had taken place some years ago in the old house Logan's family has just moved into. The boys' quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels of society in their small Maryland town, and eventually to a derelict amusement park that is supposedly closed for the season.
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Phoenix Noir
By Millikin, Patrick
2009-11 - Akashic Books
9781933354859
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2010 Edgar Award Winner-Best Short Story, "Amapola"
Brand-new stories by: Diana Gabaldon, Lee Child, James Sallis, Luis Alberto Urrea, Jon Talton, Megan Abbott, Charles Kelly, Robert Anglen, Patrick Millikin, Laura Tohe, Kurt Reichenbaugh, Gary Phillips, David Corbett, Don Winslow, Dogo Barry Graham, and Stella Pope Duarte. Patrick Millikin is a bookseller at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. As a freelance writer, his articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in Publishers Weekly, Firsts Magazine, Paradoxa, Yourflesh Quarterly, and other publications. Millikin currently lives in central Phoenix.
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