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 OriginalAll Nominees Here.
Searchable Database of all Previous Winners and Nominees Here.
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
"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 ...
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...
