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| 2011 (Best First Novel) |
| The Damage Done |
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Hilary Davidson
Book list Travel writer Lily Moore is called back to New York by news of the death of her younger sister, Cla...More |
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| 2010 (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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| 2010 (Best First Novel) |
| A Bad Day for Sorry |
Sophie Littlefield
Publishers Weekly Littlefield's amusing, sassy debut introduces Stella Hardesty, a widow and survivor of...More |
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| 2009 (Best Novel) |
| The Brass Verdict |
Michael Connelly
Library Journal Mickey Haller, last seen in The Lincoln Lawyer, returns to the courtroom in an unusual way h...More |
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| 2008 (Best First Novel) |
| In the Woods |
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Tana French
Library Journal Three children wander into some woods near Dublin, but only one is found, hysterical and blo...More |
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| 2007 (Best Novel) |
| No Good Deeds |
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Laura Lippman
Library Journal Following on the heels of Lippman's haunting standalone To the Power of Three, Tess Mona...More |
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| 2005 (Best Novel) |
| Blood Hollow |
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William Kent Kruger
Publishers Weekly In his fourth Cork O'Connor mystery (after 2001's Purgatory Ridge), Krueger tells ...More |
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| 2005 (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 Novel) |
| Every Secret Thing |
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Laura Lippman
Book list Lippman has won just about every mystery writing award there is--the Edgar, the Agatha, the Anthon...More |
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| 2004 (Best First Novel) |
| Monkeewrench |
P.J. Tracy
Library Journal Right from the opening scene in which a priest complains about heartburn caused by the cooki...More |
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| 2003 (Best Novel) |
| City of Bones |
Michael Connelly
Book list "Child cases haunted you. They hollowed you out and scarred you. There was no bulletproof ves...More |
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| 2002 (Best First Novel) |
| Open Season |
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C.J. Box
Book list Every few years a first novel appears that immediately sets itself apart from the crowd. As reader...More |
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| 2001 (Best Novel) |
| A Place of Execution |
Val McDermid
Book list Readers will be reminded of the real-life Moors Murders and of Stephen King's fictive eerie-vil...More |
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| 2001 (Best First Novel) |
| Death of a Red Heroine |
Qiu Ziaolong
Library Journal The murder of a young woman found in a canal some distance from Shanghai threatens to go unno...More |
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| 2000 (Best Novel) |
| In a Dry Season |
Peter Robinson
Library Journal Robinson's latest in the Inspector Banks series is actually two parallel stories: the bru...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) |
| Blood Work |
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Michael Connelly
Publishers Weekly Connelly follows up Trunk Music with a tautly paced, seductively involving thriller about a...More |
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| 1999 (Best First Novel) |
| Iron Lake |
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William Kent Krueger
Book list As Aurora, Minnesota, readies for a picture-perfect white Christmas, Cork O'Connor, the former ...More |
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| 1998 (Best Novel) |
| No Colder Place |
S.J. Rozan
Publishers Weekly It's a nice inside joke when, in this fourth book in the Bill Smith and Lydia Chin seri...More |
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| 1998 (Best First Novel) |
| The Killing Floor |
Lee Child
Library Journal The transient Jack Reacher finds himself in tiny Margrave, Georgia, and is almost immediately...More |
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| 1997 (Best Novel) |
| The Poet |
Michael Connelly
Library Journal Edgar Award winner Connelly deserts popular series detective Harry Bosch for a new hero: crim...More |
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| 1997 (Best First Novel) |
| Death in Little Tokyo |
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Dale Furutani
Publishers Weekly Furutani gives a short course on Japanese-American culture on the West Coast in this pedant...More |
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| 1996 (Best Novel) |
| Under the Beetles Cellar |
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Mary Willis Walker
School Library Journal YA?Trapped underground for a ritualistic 50 days of cleansing are a busload of 11 elem...More |
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| 1996 (Best First Novel) |
| Death in Bloodhound Red |
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Virginia Lanier
Library Journal Not a police officer per se, rural Georgia's Jo Beth Sidden, a breeder and trainer of blo...More |
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| 1995 (Best Novel) |
| She Walks These Hills |
Sharyn 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) |
| The Alienist |
Caleb Carr
Library Journal A society-born police reporter and an enigmatic abnormal psychologist--the ``alienist'...More |
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| 1993 (Best Novel) |
| Bootleggers Daughter |
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Margaret Maron
Publishers Weekly Maron's ( Past Imperfect ) series launch introduces attorney Deborah Knott, the daughte...More |
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| 1993 (Best First Novel) |
| Blanche on the Lam |
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Barbara Neely
Publishers Weekly Neely's deftly written first novel pays tribute to the community and culture of a worki...More |
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| 1992 (Best First Novel) |
| Murder on the Iditarod Trail |
Sue Henry
Publishers Weekly In this enthralling debut mystery, someone is killing the dogsled racers competing in Alask...More |
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| 1991 (Best Novel) |
| G is for Gumshoe |
Sue Grafton
School Library Journal Feisty private investigator Kinsey Millhone continues to solve mysteries, in this case...More |
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| 1991 (Best First Novel) |
| Postmortem |
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Patricia Cornwell
Book list Young women with little in common are being tortured and strangled in Richmond, Virginia. Medical e...More |
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| 1990 (Best Novel) |
| The Sirens Sang of Murder |
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Sarah Caudwell
Publishers Weekly Caudwell's third suspense novel takes place in the Channel Islands and is narrated, lik...More |
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| 1990 (Best First Novel) |
| Katwalk |
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Karen Kijewski
Publishers Weekly Investigator Kat Colorado jets to Las Vegas to check on a fortune owed to her friend Charit...More |
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