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Edgar Awards

Best Novel Awards

2015
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (winner)
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Wolf by Mo Hayder

2014
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (winner)

2013
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (winner)

2012
Gone by Mo Hayder (winner)

2010
The Last Child by John Hart (winner)

2009
Blue Heaven by C J Box (winner)
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
The Dying Breed by Declan Hughes
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
The Night Following by Morag Joss
Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno

2008
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Down River by John Hart (winner)
Priest by Ken Bruen
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

2007
The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
The Istanbul Variations by Olen Steinhauer
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (winner)
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

2006
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter (winner)
Drama City by George Pelecanos
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Red Leaves by Thomas H Cook
Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

2005
By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman
California Girl by T Jefferson Parker (winner)
Evan's Gate by Rhys Bowen
Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney

2004
The Guards by Ken Bruen
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin (winner)

2003
City Of Bones by Michael Connelly
Jolie Blon's Bounce by James Lee Burke
No Good Deed by Manda Scott
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
Winter and Night by S J Rozan (winner)

2002
The Judgment by D W Buffa
Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain
Reflecting the Sky by S J Rozan
Silent Joe by T Jefferson Parker (winner)
Tell No One by Harlan Coben

2001
The Bottoms by Joe R Lansdale (winner)
A Dangerous Road by Kris Nelscott
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
Red Light by T Jefferson Parker
The Whole Truth by Nancy Pickard

2000
Bones by Jan Burke (winner)
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
L. A. Requiem by Robert Crais
River Of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Strawberry Sunday by Stephen Greenleaf

1999
Beyond Recall by Robert Goddard
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
The Last Days of Il Duce by Domenic Stansberry
A Likeness in Stone by Julia Wallis Martin
Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark (winner)

1998
Black and Blue by Ian Rankin
Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (winner)
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
The Purification Ceremony by Mark Sullivan
A Wasteland of Strangers by Bill Pronzini

1997
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H Cook (winner)
Hearts and Bones by Margaret Lawrence
Mean Streak by Carolyn Wheat
Pentecost Alley by Anne Perry
With Child by Laurie R King

1996
The Bookman's Wake by John Dunning
Come to Grief by Dick Francis (winner)
The Roaring Boy by Edward Marston
The Shadow Man by John Katzenbach
The Summons by Peter Lovesey

1995
Lights Out by Peter Abrahams
A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block
Miami, It's Murder by Edna Buchanan
The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker (winner)
Wednesday's Child by Peter Robinson

1994
Free Fall by Robert Crais
The Journeyman Tailor by Gerald Seymour
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg
The Sculptress by Minette Walters (winner)
Wolf in the Shadows by Marcia Muller

1993
32 Cadillacs by Joe Gores
Backhand by Liza Cody
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (winner)
Pomona Queen by Kem Nunn
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley

1992
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (winner)
Don't Say a Word by Andrew Klavan
I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
Palindrome by Stuart Woods
Prior Convictions by Lia Matera

1991
Bones and Silence by Reginald Hill
Deadfall in Berlin by R D Zimmerman
Fade The Heat by Jay Brandon
New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (winner)
Whiskey River by Loren D Estleman

1990
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (winner)
The Booster by Eugene Izzi
The Death of A Joyce Scholar by Bartholomew Gill
Goldilocks by Andrew Coburn
A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield

1989
A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M Kaminsky (winner)
In the Lake of the Moon by David Lindsey
Joey's Case by K C Constantine
Sacrificial Ground by Thomas H Cook
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman

1988
The Corpse in Oozak's Pond by Charlotte MacLeod
Nursery Crimes by B M Gill
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (winner)
Rough Cider by Peter Lovesey
A Trouble Of Fools by Linda Barnes

1987
Charlie Muffin and Russian Rose by Brian Freemantle
Come Morning by Joe Gores
A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (winner)
The Straight Man by Roger L Simon
A Taste for Death by P D James

1986
City of Glass by Paul Auster
A Shock to the System by Simon Brett
The Suspect by L R Wright (winner)
The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell

1985
The Black Seraphim by Michael Gilbert
Briarpatch by Ross Thomas (winner)
Chessplayer by William Pearson
Emily Dickinson Is Dead by Jane Langton
The Twelfth Juror by B M Gill

1984
La Brava by Elmore Leonard (winner)
The Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carré
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney
Texas Station by Christopher Leach

1983
Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer (winner)

1982
Peregrine by William Bayer (winner)

1981
Whip Hand by Dick Francis (winner)

1980
Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling (winner)

1979
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (winner)

1978
Catch Me: Kill Me by William H Hallahan (winner)

1977
Promised Land by Robert B Parker (winner)

1976
Hopscotch by Brian Garfield (winner)

1975
Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary (winner)

1974
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman (winner)

1973
The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer (winner)

1972
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth (winner)

1971
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (winner)

1970
Forfeit by Dick Francis (winner)

Best First Novel Awards

2015
Bad Country by CB McKenzie
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (winner)
Invisible City by Julia Dahl
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
Murder At the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver
Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh

2014
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (winner)

2013
The Expats by Chris Pavone (winner)

2012
Bent Road by Lori Roy (winner)

2010
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (winner)

2009
Calumet City by Charlie Newton
A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
The Foreigner by Francie Lin (winner)
The Kind One by Tom Epperson
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller

2008
Head Games by Craig McDonald
In the Woods by Tana French (winner)
Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
Pyres by Derek Nikitas
Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard

2007
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (winner)
A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read
Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
The King of Lies by John Hart
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Best Paperback original Awards

2015
The Bar Keep by William Lashner
The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson
The Gone Dead Train by Lisa Turner
The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani (winner)
Stay With Me by Alison Gaylin
World of Trouble by Ben H Winters

2014
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (winner)

2013
The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters (winner)

2012
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (winner)

2010
Body Blows by Marc Strange (winner)

Best Juvenile Awards

2014
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (winner)

2013
The Quick Fix by Jack D Ferraiolo (winner)

2012
Icefall by Matthew J Kirby (winner)

2010
Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (winner)

Best Young Adult Awards

2014
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher (winner)

2013
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E Wein (winner)

2012
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (winner)

2010
Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (winner)

Mary Higgins Clark Awards

2013
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan (winner)

2012
Learning to Swim by Sara J Henry (winner)