Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.
Edgar Award for Best Novel Public
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LaBrava by Elmore Leonard (Cundo Rey, #1)
Here is Elmore Leonard's best novel to date, which says a good deal indeed.
Joe LaBrava, ex-Secret Service agent, …
Phil in SF says: 1984 winner
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A car bomb explodes in a white-orange flash, blowing a pretty young homicide detective to bits. A thousand miles away …
Phil in SF says: 1985 winner
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The Suspect by L. R. Wright (Karl Alberg, #1)
When there is a murder in a town like Sechelt—a sleepy community on Canada's aptly named Sunshine Coast—it is necessarily …
Phil in SF says: 1986 winner
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A Dark-Adapted Eye by Ruth Rendell
One of tile greatest living practitioners of the British mystery, Ruth Rendell, is writing here for the first time under …
Phil in SF says: 1987 winner
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Old Bones by Aaron Elkins (Gideon Oliver, #4)
With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes …
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A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Porfiry Rostnikov, #5)
Praised by the Washington Post as a writer with the imagination of Scheherazade, Stuart M. Kaminsky again con-firms his immense …
Phil in SF says: 1989 winner
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Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
In this masterful novel James Lee Burke proves himself both a brilliant storyteller and a prose stylist who ranks with …
Phil in SF says: 1990 winner
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New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith (Skip Langdon, #1)
Because of her connections at the highest social level of socially obsessed New Orleans, Policewoman Skip Langdon is assigned by …
Phil in SF says: 1991 winner
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A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block (Matthew Scudder, #9)
Widely acknowledged as one of America's leading crime writers, Block has won praise for his style, for his twisty, realistic …
Phil in SF says: 1992 winner
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Phil in SF says: 1993 winner
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The Sculptress by Minette Walters
Everyone knows about Olive Martin, the huge and menacing woman who was found five years ago with the carved-up bodies …
Phil in SF says: 1994 winner
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The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker (Molly Cates, #1)
In her latest, hard-hitting novel of suspense, award-winning writer Mary Willis Walker introduces a gutsy new heroine—Texas-based crime reporter Molly …
Phil in SF says: 1995 winner
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Come to Grief by Dick Francis (Sid Halley, #3)
After constant requests from fans to bring back Sid Halley, the champion jockey turned investigator of Odds Against and the …
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The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
On a summer morning in 1926, a young woman alights from a bus in a Cape Cod village and embarks …
Phil in SF says: 1997 winner
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Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke (Billy Bob Holland, #1)
Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is Vernon …
Phil in SF says: 1998 winner
