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2009 Edgar Award Winners Announced by Chadwick Ginther - Sunday, May 03, 2009 at 11:29am

The Mystery Writers of America have named the winners of the 2009 Edgar Awards.

  • Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (Best Novel)
  • The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Best First Novel by an American Author)
  • China Lake by Meg Gardiner (Best Paperback Original)
  • Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Best Critical/Biography)
  • American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum (Best Fact Based Crime)
  • Skinhead Central from The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker (Best Short Story)
  • Paper Towns by John Green (Best Young Adult)
  • The Postcard by Tony Abbot (Best Juvenile)
  • The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd (The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award)

A full list of nominees and winners in all categories may be found here.

Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime
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Blue Heaven - mass market paperback
by C. J. Box - $9.99 - add to cart

A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of northern Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder - four men who know exactly who Willi...

 

The Foreigner - trade paperback
by Francie Lin - $15.50 - add to cart

Emerson Chang is a mild mannered bachelor on the cusp of forty, a financial analyst in a neatly pressed suit, a child of Taiwanese immigrants who doesn't speak a word of Chinese, and, wel...

 

China Lake - mass market paperback
by Meg Gardiner - $9.99 - add to cart

Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to discover that Tabitha, her ex-sister-in-law...

 

Blue Religion - trade paperback
by Ed. Michael Connelly - $17.99 - add to cart

Nineteen original stories--including a new contribution by New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly--about riveting showdowns between cops and criminals.From Hawaii at the turn ...

 

PAPER TOWNS - young adult hardcover
by John Green - $20.00 - add to cart

When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night, dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge, he follows her. Margo's always planned ...

 

The Postcard - children's paperback
by Tony Abbott - $6.99 - add to cart

"So how smart are you?" said a man's voice abruptly. And loudly. "Because now... it's starting." A creepy phone call. An old, yellowed postcard. A bizarre magazine story. And a strange...

 

The Killer's Wife - hardcover
by Bill Floyd - $26.95 - add to cart

Six years after her courageous testimony helped put her husband on death row for a string of gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has almost succeeded in putting her past to rest. She has moved ...

 






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