2008 Edgar Awards Nominees

by david pensato - Monday, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:51am

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the 2008 Nominees for the Edgar Awards. Named after the association's "patron saint" Edgar Allan Poe, the Edgars have been awarded since 1946. This year's winners (in 15 categories) will be announced at the association's annual banquet, to be held on May 1 in New York City.

The nominees for in the "Best Novel" category are:

More Nominees After the Jump...

Best Paperback Original

All Nominees Here.

Searchable Database of all Previous Winners and Nominees Here.

Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime

More articles from home


See:

Christine Falls

- hardcover

by Benjamin Black - $31.00 - Add to Cart

In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic societ...

PRIEST

- hardcover

by Ken Bruen - $29.95 - Add to Cart

Ireland, awash with cash and greed, no longer turns to the Church for solace or comfort. But the decapitation of Father Joyce in a Galway confessional horrifies even the most jaded citize...

The Yiddish Policemen''s Union

- hardcover

by Michael Chabon - $33.95 - Add to Cart

For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and th...

Soul Patch

hardcover

By Coleman, Reed Farrel - $0.00 - Add to Cart

Down River

- hardcover

by John Hart - $28.95 - Add to Cart

Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Novel.John Hart’s debut, The King of Lies, was compelling and lyrical, with Janet Maslin of The New York Times declaring, “There hasn’t been a thri...

Queenpin

- trade paperback

by Megan Abbott - $15.99 - Add to Cart

Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original.A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a ...

Blood of Paradise

By Corbett, David - $16.50 - Add to Cart

CRUEL POETRY

- trade paperback

by Vicki Hendricks - $18.00 - Add to Cart

"I loved this book. It's a private ticket into a secret world of desire and sex and the raw edge between them . . . I read it with the fever of the addicted."--Michael Connelly "I never ...

ROBBIE'S WIFE

- mass market paperback

by Russell Hill - $8.99 - Add to Cart

WHO IS CONRAD HIRST A NOVEL

- trade paperback

by Kevin Wignall - $16.00 - Add to Cart

Who is Conrad Hirst? Knowing the answer could get you killed. Not knowing could get him killed. Conrad Hirst is a hired killer working for a German crime boss. Disturbed by the death o...




Location & Hours

Contact Us 1.800.561.1833

Account Log In

Useful Info