2008 Edgar Awards Nominees
by david pensato - Monday Jan 21 2008 11:51 am
Posted in: Awards, Mystery & Crime


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.



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 society It's not...

 

Priest - hardcover
By Ken Bruen - $29.95 - add to cart
 

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 the shocking...

 

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 thriller as sh...

 

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 mob lumina...

 

Cruel Poetry - trade paperback
By Vicki Hendricks - $18.00 - add to cart
 

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
 




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