EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL
Submitted by lbhick on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 18:52
- 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 Patterson - 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 - Black Echo
- 1992 Peter Blauner - Slow Motion
- 1991 Patricia Cornwell - Post Mortem
- 1990 Susan Wolfe - The Last Billable Hour
- 1989 David Stout - Carolina Skeletons
- 1988 Deidre S. Laiken - Death Among the Strangers
- 1987 Larry Beinhart - No One Rides for Free
- 1986 Jonathan Kellerman - When the Bough Breaks
- 1985 R. D. Rosen - Strike Three, Your'e Dead
- 1984 Will Harriss - The Bay Psalm Book Murder
- 1983 Thomas Perry - The Butcher's Boy
- 1982 Stuart Woods - Chiefs
- 1981 Kay Nolte Smith - The Watcher
- 1980 Richaed 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
- 1974 Paul E. Erdman - The Billion Dollar Sure Thing
- 1973 R. H. Shimer - Squaw Point
- 1972 A. H. Z. Carr - Finding Maubee
- 1971 Lawrence Sanders - The Anderson Tapes
- 1970 Joe Gores - A Time for Predators
- 1969 E. Richard Johnson - Silver Street
- 1968 Michael Collins - Act of Fear
- 1967 Ross Thomas - The Cold War Swap
- 1966 John Ball - In the Heat of the Night
- 1965 Harry Kellerman - Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
- 1964 Cornelius Hirschberg - The Florentine Finish
- 1963 Robert L. Fish - The Fugitive
- 1962 Suzanne Blanc - The Green Stone
- 1961 John Holbrooke - The Man in the Cage
- 1960 Henry Slesar - The Grey Flannel Shroud
- 1959 Richard Martin Stern - The Bright Road to Fear
- 1958 William Rawle Weeks - Knock and Wait a While
- 1957 Donald McNutt - Rebecca's Pride
- 1956 Lane Kauffman - The Perfectionist
- 1955 Jean Potts - Go, Lovely Rose
- 1954 Ira Levin - A Kiss Before Dying
- 1953 William Campbell Gault - Don't Cry for Me
- 1952 Mary McMullen - Strange Hold
- 1951 Thomas Walsh - Nightmare in Manhattan
- 1950 Alan Green - What a Body
- 1949 Mildred Davis - The Room Upstairs
- 1948 Fredric Brown - The Fabulous Clipjoint
- 1947 Helen Eustis - The Horizontal Man
- 1946 Julius Fast - Watchful at Night
Highlighted books are books I've read.
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