Edgar Awards
Each Spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre.
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Under the Harrow2016
Summary: A debut psychological thriller about a young woman who finds her sister brutally murdered, and the shocking incident in their past that may hold the key to finding the killerWhen Nora takes the train... more »E-AUDIOBOOK
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The sympathizer2015
Summary: Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life in 1975 Los Angeles.- place hold (0)
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Acceleration
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American lightning : terror, mystery, movie-making, and the crime of the century2008
Summary: A tale of murder, deceit, celebrity, media manipulation, and film as propaganda, when the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 exposed a deadly "national dynamite plot" by trade... more »- place hold (0)
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The Art Of Secrets
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Awakening2009
Summary: Clara Benning, a veterinary surgeon in charge of a wildlife hospital in a small English village, is young and intelligent, but nearly a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she generally... more »- place hold (0)
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Bearskin2018
Summary: Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking... more »- place hold (0)
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Bent Road2011
Summary: Celia Scott and her family move back to her husband's hometown in Kansas, where his sister died under mysterious circumstances twenty years before, and where Celia and two of her children struggle to adjust--especially when a local girl disappears.- place hold (0)
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Black cherry blues : a Dave Robicheaux novel2012
Summary: Evil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child. Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far... more »- place hold (0)
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Black mass : the Irish mob, the FBI, and a devil's deal2000
Summary: A gripping, epic true story of violence, double-cross, and brutal murders involving Irish mobsters and corrupt FBI agents in South Boston.. Two boys--John Connolly, and James "Whitey"... more »- place hold (0)
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Blind eye : how the medical establishment let a doctor get away with murder1999
Summary: In 1985, a young doctor named Michael Swango was convicted of poisoning five hospital co-workers in Illinois. Sentenced to five years in jail but paroled in 1987, Swango would work -- and kill --... more »- place hold (0)
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Blood and money2001
Summary: Explores the circumstances surrounding the sudden 1969 death of Joan Hill, her physician-husband's trial for murder, and shocking subsequent events in Houston, Texas.- place hold (0)
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Blue heaven2008
Summary: A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie... more »- place hold (0)
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Bluebird, bluebird : a novel2017
Summary: When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star... more »- place hold (0)
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The Boy In The Burning House
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The Buddy files : the case of the lost boy2010
Summary: While searching for his mysteriously lost human family, Buddy the dog is adopted by another family and helps solve the mystery of their missing boy.- place hold (0)
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California girl2004
Summary: A different world then, a different world now ... California in the 1960s, and the winds of change are raging. Orange groves uprooted for tract houses, people flooding into Orange County, strange new... more »- place hold (0)
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Chasing Vermeer2004
Summary: When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.- place hold (0)
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The Chatham School Affair
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Cimarron rose : a novel1997
Summary: "Texas attorney and former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland has many secrets in his dark past. Among them is Vernon Smothers's son Lucas, a now-teenaged boy about whom only Vernon and Billy Bob know... more »- place hold (0)
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Closed for the season : a mystery story2009
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.- place hold (0)
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Code name Verity2013
Summary: In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive while keeping secret all that she can.- place hold (0)
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A cold day for murder2011
Summary: It's December in the Park, and a ranger is missing. It's no great loss to the rest of the Park rats, they figure he's stumbled into a snowbank and will re-emerge come breakup, just in time for the... more »- place hold (0)
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A cold red sunrise : an Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mystery2000
Summary: One Dead CommissarAt an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery... more »- place hold (0)
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Columbine2009
Summary: Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.- place hold (0)
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Come To Grief
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Cop Town : a novel2014
Summary: Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. Before the day has barely begun, she already suspects she's not... more »- place hold (0)
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Cover of snow : a novel2013
Summary: "Waking up one wintry morning in her old farmhouse nestled in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, Nora Hamilton instantly knows that something is wrong. When her fog of sleep clears, she finds her... more »- place hold (0)
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The crossing places : a Ruth Galloway mystery2010
Summary: When a child's bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk's north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry... more »- place hold (0)
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Dance hall of the dead1991
Summary: Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuai, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, of the Navajo Tribal Police, tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the... more »- place hold (0)
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The Day of the jackal
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Deathwatch
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Destiny of the Republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president2011
Summary: James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and an admired reformist... more »- place hold (0)
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Down river2007
Summary: 2008 Edgar Winning Novel Down River. Everything that shaped him happened near that river.Now its banks are filled with lies and greed, shame, and murder.John Hart's debut, The King of Lies, was... more »- place hold (0)
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Down the river unto the sea2018
Summary: After serving time in Rikers Island solitary for assault, Joe King Oliver, who is an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to investigate.- place hold (0)
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Dry bones in the valley : a novel2015
Summary: "The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border [of Pennsylvania], Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music.... more »- place hold (0)
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Eye of the needle : a novel1978
Summary: One enemy spy knows the secret of the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin - code name: "The Needle" - who holds the key to the ultimate Nazi victory.... more »- place hold (0)
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Fade away : a Myron Bolitar novel2010
Summary: Myron Bolitar, after having his goal to play for the NBA stopped by an injury, becomes involved in the underbelly of the 90s sports world when he searches for a missing basketball star.- place hold (0)
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The Faithful Spy : A Novel
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