Edgar Awards

The Edgar awards are given by the Mystery Writers of America. They were first given in 1946. These mystery book awards are named after Edgar Allen Poe - a well-known writer of mystery and horror in the mid 19th century. Mr. Poe developed most of the key elements of the detective story in the 1840s.

As many as 1,000 books are considered for the award.

According to the rules, mystery books must be published in 2008 to be eligible for the 2009 award.

Foreign authors are eligible for Best Novel award ... but only US writers can be given the Best First Novel award.

The 2010 Edgars were awarded on April 29th in New York City.

Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best Novel:

Tim Gautreaux	*The Missing*	Knopf
Katherine George	The Odds	Minotaur
John Hart - Winner!	The Last Child	Minotaur
Charlie Huston	The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death	Ballantine
Jo Nesbo	*Nemesis*	HarperCollins
Malla Nunn	A Beautiful Place To Die	Simon and Schuster

Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best First Novel:

David Cristofano	The Girl She Used To Be	Grand Central Publishing
Bryan Gruley	Starvation Lake	Touchstone
Heather Gudenkauf	The Weight Of Silence	MIRA Books
Sophie Littlefield	*A Bad Day For Sorry*	Thomas Dunne Books
Attica Locke	Black Water Rising	HarperCollins
Stephanie Pintoff - Winner!	In The Shadow of Gotham	Minotaur

Here are Edgar Awards lists of winners going back to 1975:

Edgar Awards for Best Novel

Year	Author	Book
2010	John Hart	The Last Child
2009	C. J. Box	Blue Heaven
2008	John Hart	Down River
2007	Jason Goodwin	The Janissary Tree
2006	Jess Walter	Citizen Vince
2005	T. Jefferson Parker	California Girl
2004	Ian Rankin	Resurrection Men
2003	S. J. Rozan	Winter and Night
2002	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe
2001	Joe R. Lansdale	The Bottoms
2000	Jan Burke	Bones
1999	Robert Clark	Mr. White's Confession
1998	James Lee Burke	Cimarron Rose
1997	Thomas H. Cook	The Chatham School Affair
1996	Dick Francis	Come To Grief
1995	Mary Willis Walker	The Red Scream
1994	Minette Walters	The Sculptress
1993	Margaret Maron	Bootlegger's Daughter
1992	Lawrence Block	A Dance At The Slaughterhouse
1991	Julie Smith	New Orleans Mourning
1990	James Lee Burke	Black Cherry Blues
1989	Stuart M. Kaminsky	A Cold Red Sunrise
1988	Aaron Elkins	Old Bones
1987	Barbara Vine	A Dark-Adapted Eye
1986	L. R. Wright	The Suspect
1985	Ross Thomas	Briarpatch
1984	Elmore Leonard	La Brava
1983	Rick Boyer	Billingsgate Shoal
1982	William Bayer	Peregrine
1981	Dick Francis	Whip Hand
1980	Arthur Maling	The Rheingold Route
1979	Ken Follett	The Eye of The Needle
1978	William H. Hallahan	Catch Me; Kill Me
1977	Robert B. Parker	Promised Land
1976	Brian Garfield	Hopscotch
1975	Jon Cleary	Peter's Pence

Edgar Awards for Best First Novel

Year	Author	Book
2010	Stephanie Pintoff	In The Shadow of Gotham
2009	Francie Lin	The Foreigner
2008	Tana French	In The Woods
2007	Alex Berenson	The Faithful Spy
2006	Theresa Schwegel	Officer Down
2005	Don Lee	Country of Origin
2004	Rebecca Pawel	Death of a Nationalist
2003	Jonathon King	The Blue Edge of Midnight
2002	David Ellis	Line of Vision
2001	David Liss	A Conspiracy of Paper
2000	Eliot Pattison	The Skull Mantra
1999	Steve Hamilton	A Cold Day in Paradise
1998	Joseph Kanon	Los Alamos
1997	John Morgan Wilson	Simple Justice
1996	David Housewright	Penance
1995	George Dawes Green	The Caveman's Valentine
1994	Laurie King	A Grave Talent
1993	Michael Connelly	The Black Echo
1992	Peter Blauner	Slow Motion Riot
1991	Patricia Daniels Cornwell	Post Mortem
1990	Susan Wolfe	The Last Billable Hour
1989	David Stout	Carolina Skeletons
1988	Deidre S. Laiken	Death Among Strangers
1987	Larry Beinhart	No One Rides For Free
1986	Jonathan Kellerman	When The Bough Breaks
1985	R. D. Rosen	Strike Three, You're Dead
1984	Will Harriss	The Bay Psalm Book Murder
1983	Thomas Perry	The Butcher's Boy
1982	Stuart Woods	Chiefs
1981	K. Nolte Smith	The Watcher
1980	Richard North Patterson	The Lasko Tangent
1979	William L. DeAndrea	Killed In The Ratings
1978	Robert Ross	A French Finish
1977	James Patterson	The Thomas Berryman Number
1976	Rex Burns	The Alvarez Journal
1975	Gregory McDonald	Fletch

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