Down River Wins the Edgar Award for Best Novel

by Chadwick Ginther - Tuesday, May 06, 2008 at 11:35am

John Hart's thriller Down River has captured the Edgar for Best Novel, and Tana French was award the Prize for Best First Novel for In the Woods. Megan Abbott's Queenpin won for Best Paperback Original, and Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters received the Critical/Biographical Edgar.

The Awards are presented by the Mystery Writers of America and named for Edgar Allen Poe, who is credited with the invention of the detective fiction genre.

For a complete list of the nominees, click here.

Categories: Awards, Mystery & Crime

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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...

In the Woods

- mass market paperback

by Tana French - $10.99 - Add to Cart

Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author.When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw...

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 ...

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters

- hardcover

by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley - $45.50 - Add to Cart

This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. For the ...




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