| 2011(Best Novel) |
| Three-Day Town |
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Margaret Maron
Book list In her seventeenth Deborah Knott mystery, Maron's two series protagonists the warm North Caroli...More |
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| 2011(Best First Novel) |
| Learning To Swim |
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Sara J. Henry
Publishers Weekly Freelance writer Troy Chance, the protagonist of Henry's impressive first novel, impul...More |
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| 2010 (Best Novel) |
| Bury Your Dead |
Louise Penny
Publishers Weekly At the start of Agatha-winner Penny's moving and powerful sixth Chief Insp. Armand Gam...More |
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| 2010 (Best Children's/Young Adult) |
| The Other Side of Dark |
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Sarah Smith
Book list Crazy Katie sees and draws ghosts of real people who were killed in horrid circumstances. Law Walke...More |
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| 2009 (Best Novel) |
| The Brutal Telling |
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Louise Penny
Library Journal Having won numerous mystery prizes, including the prestigious Arthur Ellis and Anthony award...More |
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| 2008 (Best First Novel) |
| Death of a cozy writer |
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G.M. Malliet.
Publishers Weekly Fans of stylish English detective work will welcome Malliet's droll debut, the first i...More |
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| 2007 (Best First Novel) |
| Prime Time |
Hank Phillippi Ryan
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| 2007 (Best Nonfiction) |
| Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters |
Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley
Library Journal The enduring popularity of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) can largely be attributed to h...More |
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| 2005 (Best Non-Fiction) |
| Girl Sleuth |
Melanie Rehak
Publishers Weekly The intrepid Nancy Drew has given girls a sense of their own power since she was born, Ath...More |
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| 2004 (Best First Novel) |
| Dating Dead Men |
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Harley Jane Kozak
Publishers Weekly Even Stephanie Plum's antics will seem sedate after readers make the acquaintance of L...More |
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| 2004 (Best Juvenile) |
| Chasing Vermeer |
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Blue Balliett
Publishers Weekly Puzzles nest within puzzles in this ingeniously plotted and lightly delivered first novel ...More |
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| 2004 (Best Novel) |
| Birds of a Feather |
Jacqueline Winspear
Book list Sinking into a novel this good is as satisfying as sinking into a good leather chair: we know we ar...More |
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| 2003 (Best Novel) |
| Letter From Home |
Carolyn Hart
Library Journal A letter from her Oklahoma hometown spirits famous journalist Gretchen Gilman back to 1944, ...More |
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| 2003 (Best First Novel) |
| Maisie Dobbs |
Jacqueline Winspear
Publishers Weekly In Winspear's inspired debut novel, a delightful mix of mystery, war story and romance...More |
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| 2003 (Best Juvenile) |
| The 7th Knot |
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Kathleen Karr
Book list Gr. 6-9. Karr offers an offbeat turn-of-the-last-century novel that dances on the edge of the fant...More |
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| 2002 (Best Novel) |
| Youve Got Murder |
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Donna Andrews
Publishers Weekly In a detour from her first three outings featuring the delightful Meg Langslow (Revenge of...More |
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| 2001 (Best Novel) |
| Murphys Law |
Rhys Bowen
Library Journal Mosley's first foray into writing science fiction since Blue Light (LJ 10/1/98), these i...More |
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| 2001 (Best First Novel) |
| Bubbles Unbound |
Sarah Strohmeyer
Book list Having studied at the feet of the Master Evanovich, first-novelist Strohmeyer unleashes Lehigh, Pen...More |
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| 2000 (Best Novel) |
| Mariners Compass |
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Earlene Fowler
Library Journal In order to inherit a house from a man she never met, series protagonist Benni Harper (Dove i...More |
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| 2000 (Best First Novel) |
| Murder, With Peacocks |
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Donna Andrews
Library Journal Meg Lanslow, maid of honor for three impending weddings, returns to her Virginia small-town h...More |
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| 1999 (Best Novel) |
| Butchers Hill |
Laura Lippman
Publishers Weekly Tess Monaghan, newspaperwoman turned sleuth, makes it official with a new business as a PI ...More |
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| 1999 (Best First Novel) |
| The Doctor Digs a Grave |
Robin Hathaway
School Library Journal YA-Hathaway introduces sleuth cardiologist Dr. Andrew Fenimore, whose expert medical k...More |
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| 1998 (Best Novel) |
| The Devil in Music |
Kate Ross
Library Journal Ross's historical mysteries featuring English dandy Julian Kestrel (e.g., Whom the Gods L...More |
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| 1997 (Best Novel) |
| Up Jumps the Devil |
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Margaret Maron
Library Journal Maron returns to fictional Colleton County, North Carolina, the setting of The Bootlegger'...More |
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| 1997 (Best First Novel) |
| Murder on a Girls Night Out |
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Anne George
Publishers Weekly A refreshingly different heroine, retired Alabama schoolteacher Patricia Anne Hollowell, is...More |
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| 1996 (Best First Novel) |
| The Body in the Transept |
Jeanne M. Dams
Publishers Weekly Drawing on American sensibilities and English tradition, Dams's debut introduces widowe...More |
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| 1995 (Best Novel) |
| She Walks These Hills |
Sharym McCrumb
Library Journal A tale of an escaped convict from Edgar Award winner McCrumb. Copyright © Reed Business...More |
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| 1995 (Best First Novel) |
| Do Unto Others |
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Jeff Abbott
Publishers Weekly Abbott's debut mystery is a bright, often funny portrayal of the social mechanics of a ...More |
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