LibGuides: The Edgar Awards: Best First Novel by an American Author

The Edgar Awards

Best First Novel by an American Author (1946- )

2020s

Titles highlighted in BLUE are print copies found within the Unger Memorial Library Collections. Titles highlighted in GREEN are e-book or audiobook only. Titles highlighted in ORANGE are on order.

Winner

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

Miracle Creek by Kim, Angie
Call Number: Fiction K489m (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780374156022
Publication Date: 2019-04-16
How far will you go to protect your family? Will you keep their secrets? Ignore their lies? In a small town in Virginia, a group of people know each other because they're part of a special treatment center, a hyperbaric chamber that may cure a range of conditions from infertility to autism. But then the chamber explodes, two people die, and it's clear the explosion wasn't an accident. A powerful showdown unfolds as the story moves across characters who are all maybe keeping secrets, hiding betrayals. Chapter by chapter, we shift alliances and gather evidence: Was it the careless mother of a patient? Was it the owners, hoping to cash in on a big insurance payment and send their daughter to college? Could it have been a protester, trying to prove the treatment isn't safe?
Miracle Creek [E-Book] by Angie Kim
Call Number: OverDrive
ISBN: 9780374717988
Publication Date: 2019-04-16

Finalists

My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
The Good Detective by John McMahon
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Three-Fifths by John Vercher
American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

My Lovely Wife

My Lovely Wife [E-Book] by Samantha Downing
Call Number: Ficton D751m Ebook (OverDrive
ISBN: 9780451491749
Publication Date: 2019
Our love story is simple. I met a gorgeous woman. We fell in love. We had kids. We moved to the suburbs. We told each other our biggest dreams, and our darkest secrets. And then we got bored. We look like a normal couple. We're your neighbors, the parents of your kid's friend, the acquaintances you keep meaning to get dinner with. We all have our secrets to keeping a marriage alive. Ours just happens to be getting away with murder.
My Lovely WIfe [Streaming audiobook] by Samantha Downing
Call Number: Fiction D751m Audiobk
ISBN: 9781984846839
Publication Date: 2019

The Good Detective

The Good Detective by John McMahon
Call Number: Fiction M47946g (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780525535539
Publication Date: 2019-03-19
How can you solve a crime if you've killed the prime suspect? Detective P.T. Marsh was a rising star on the police force of Mason Falls, Georgia--until his wife and young son were killed in an accident. Since that night, caught in a spiral of grief and booze, he's lost the ability to see the line between smart moves and disastrous decisions. Such as when he decides to 'help out' an exotic dancer by confronting her abusive boyfriend. When the next morning he gets called to the scene of his newest murder case, he is stunned to arrive at the house of a dead man, the very man he beat up the night before. He could swear the guy was alive when he left, but can he be sure? What he does know is that his fingerprints are all over the crime scene. But the trouble is only beginning. P.T. and his partner Remy begin to suspect the murder is connected to a local arson and lynching; two days earlier, the dead body of a black teenager was found in a burned-out field, a portion of a blackened rope around his neck--and P.T. realizes he might have killed the #1 suspect of this horrific crime. Amid rising racial tension and media scrutiny, P.T. uncovers something sinister at the heart of the boy's murder--a conspiracy leading all the way back to the time of the Civil War. Risking everything to unravel the puzzle even as he fights off his own personal demons, P.T. races headlong toward an incendiary and life-altering showdown.
The Good Detective [E-Book] by John McMahon
Call Number: Fiction M47946g Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780525535553
Publication Date: 2019
The Good Detective [Streaming Audioook] by John McMahon
Call Number: Fiction M47946g Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781984839763
Publication Date: 2019

The Secrets We Kept

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
Call Number: FIC PRESC LAR SE (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780525656159
Publication Date: 2019-09-03
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world -- using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, but under Sally's tutelage quickly learns how to blend in, make drops, and invisibly ferry classified documents. Their story is intertwined with that of the decades-long affair between Pasternak and his mistress and muse, Olga Ivinskaya, who was sent to the Gulag and inspired Zhivago's heroine, Lara.
The Secrets We Kept [E-Book] by Lara Prescott
Call Number: Fiction P9315s Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780525656166
Publication Date: 2019

American Spy

American Spy by Wiklinson, Lauren
Call Number: Fiction W6869a (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780812988284
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
1986, the heart of the Cold War. A young black woman working in an old boys' club, Marie Mitchell's FBI career has stalled out and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. Given the opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention, she says yes. In the year that follows Marie observes Sankara, seduces him-- and has a hand in the coup that will bring him down. But doing so will change everything she believes about what it means to be a spy, a lover, a sister, and a good American.

Winner

Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen

Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen
Call Number: FIC MULLE CAI PL (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781982127480
Publication Date: 2020-03-03

FINALISTS

Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

Murder in Old Bombay

Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Call Number: FIC MARCH NEV MU (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781250269546
Publication Date: 2020-11-10

Catherine House

Catherine House by Thomas, Elisabeth
Call Number: FIC THOMA ELIS CA (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780062905659
Publication Date: 2020-05-12
Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years--summers included--completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire.

Winter House

Winter Counts [E-Book] : a novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Call Number: FIC WEIDE DAVH WI Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780062968968
Publication Date: 2020-08-25
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal. He enlists the help of his ex-girlfriend and sets out to learn where the drugs are coming from, and how to make them stop. They follow a lead to Denver and find that drug cartels are rapidly expanding and forming new and terrifying alliances. And back on the reservation, a new tribal council initiative raises uncomfortable questions about money and power. As Virgil starts to link the pieces together, he must face his own demons and reclaim his Native identity. He realizes that being a Native American in the twenty-first century comes at an incredible cost.

Darling Rose Gold

Darling Rose Gold by Wrobel, Stephanie
Call Number: Fiction W9568d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780593100066
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
For the first eighteen years of her life, Rose Gold Watts believed she was seriously ill. She was allergic to everything, used a wheelchair and practically lived at the hospital. Neighbors did all they could, holding fundraisers and offering shoulders to cry on, but no matter how many doctors, tests, or surgeries, no one could figure out what was wrong with Rose Gold. Turns out her mom, Patty Watts, was just a really good liar. After serving five years in prison, Patty gets out with nowhere to go and begs her daughter to take her in. The entire community is shocked when Rose Gold says yes. Patty insists all she wants is to reconcile their differences. She says she's forgiven Rose Gold for turning her in and testifying against her. But Rose Gold knows her mother. Patty Watts always settles a score. Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling... And she's waited such a long time for her mother to come home.
Darling Rose Gold [E-Book] by Stephanie Wrobel
Call Number: FIC WROBE STE D Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780593100097
Publication Date: 2020

WINNER: Deer Season by Erin Flanagan

Deer Season by Erin Flanagan
Call Number: FIC FLANA ERI DE (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781496226815
Publication Date: 2021-09-01

FINALISTS

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza
What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins
The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Call Number: FIC KURIA VER NE (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780778311553
Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza
Call Number: FIC NICIE FAB SU (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593191262
Publication Date: 2021-06-22
What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins
Call Number: FIC TOMPK JOA WH (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593085998
Publication Date: 2021-04-13
The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer
Call Number: FIC WAHRE CAI DA (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593296134
Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March
Call Number: FIC MARCH NEV MU (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9781250269546
Publication Date: 2020-11-10

WINNER

Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor
Call Number: FIC CRANO ELI DO
ISBN: 9781641293457
Publication Date: 2022-03-22
Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent takes Billy into his home, hoping to protect his star player as the Pirates begin their playoff run. But when Billy's stepfather is found murdered, nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the town apart.

FINALISTS

Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Shutter by Ramona Emerson
More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

Shutter [E-Book] by Ramona Emerson
Call Number: FIC EMERS RAM SH Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9781641293341
Publication Date: 2022-08-02
This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller, supernatural horror, and poignant portrayal of coming of age on the reservation. Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases—she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won’t let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life. Her taboo and psychologically harrowing ability was what drove her away from the Navajo reservation, where she was raised by her grandmother. It has isolated her from friends and gotten her in trouble with the law. And now it might be what gets her killed. When Rita is sent to photograph the scene of a supposed suicide on a highway overpass, the furious, discombobulated ghost of the victim—who insists she was murdered—latches onto Rita, forcing her on a quest for revenge against her killers, and Rita finds herself in the crosshairs of one of Albuquerque’s most dangerous cartels. Written in sparkling, gruesome prose, Shutter is an explosive debut from one of crime fiction's most powerful new voices.

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More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
Call Number: FIC GUTIE KAT MO (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780063118454
Publication Date: 2022-06-07
More Than You'll Ever Know [E-Book] by Katie Gutierrez
Call Number: FIC GUTIE KAT MO Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780063118485
Publication Date: 2022-06-07
More Than You'll Ever Know [streaming audiobook] by Katie Gutierrez
Call Number: FIC GUTIE KAT MO Audiobk (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780063118492
Publication Date: 2022

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Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Call Number: FIC LI GRAD PO (Adult fiction)
ISBN: 9780593184738
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Portrait of a Thief [E-Book] by Grace D. Li
Call Number: FIC LI GRAD PO Ebook (OverDrive)
ISBN: 9780593186077
Publication Date: 2022

2010s

Winner

In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

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Rogue Island by Bruce De Silva

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Bent Road by Lori Roy

Bent Road [E-Book] by Lori Roy
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781101476185
Publication Date: 2011
For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his Kansas past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and the same small town where Eve mysteriously died. And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve. . .

Winner

The Expats : a Novel by Chris Pavone

The Expats by Chris Pavone
Call Number: Fiction P339e (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307956354
Publication Date: 2012-03-06
An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems.
The Expats [E-Book] by Chris Pavone
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780307956378
Publication Date: 2012

Winner

Red Sparrow : a Novel by Jason Matthews

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Call Number: Fiction M439r v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9781476706139
Publication Date: 2014-12-09
In contemporary Russia, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova has been drafted to become a “Sparrow”—a spy trained in the art of seduction to elicit information from their marks. She’s been assigned to Nathaniel Nash, a CIA officer who handles the organization’s most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception and, inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America’s valuable mole in Moscow.
Red Sparrow [CD] by Jason Matthews; Jeremy Bobb (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction MA (Adult Audiobook CD)
ISBN: 9781442365520
Publication Date: 2013-06-04

Winner

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman

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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry

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She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

She Rides Shotgun [E-Book] by Jordan Harper
Call Number: OverDrive E-Books
ISBN: 9780062394422
Publication Date: 2017-06-06
Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail and driving a stolen car. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life. Nate made dangerous enemies in prison—a gang called Aryan Steel has put out a bounty on his head, counting on its members on the outside to finish him off. They’ve already murdered his ex-wife, Polly’s mother. And Polly is their next target. Nate and Polly’s lives soon become a series of narrow misses, of evading the bad guys and the police, of sleepless nights in motels. Out on the lam, Polly is forced to grow up early: with barely any time to mourn her mother, she must learn how to take a punch and pull off a drug-house heist. She finds herself transforming from a shy little girl into a true fighter. Nate, in turn, learns what it’s like to love fiercely and unconditionally—a love he’s never quite felt before. But can their powerful bond transcend the dangerous existence he’s carved out for them? Will they ever be able to live an honest life, free of fear?

Winner

Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin

Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Call Number: Fiction M47898b (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780062742810
Publication Date: 2018-06-12
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 wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It's hard work, and totally solitaryb7sperfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he's so desperately sought is suddenly at risk

2000s

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The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison

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A Conspiracy of Paper : a Novel by David Liss

A Conspiracy of Paper : a novel by David Liss
Call Number: Fiction L772d (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780375502927
Publication Date: 2000-02-01
Benjamin Weaver is an outsider in eighteenth-century London: a Jew among Christians; a ruffian among aristocrats; a retired pugilist who, hired by London's gentry, travels through the criminal underworld in pursuit of debtors and thieves. Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence.

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Line of Vision by David Ellis

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The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathan King

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Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel

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Country of Origin by Don Lee

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Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel

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The Faithful Spy : a Novel by Alex Berenson

The Faithful Spy : a novel by Alex Berenson
Call Number: Fiction B49w v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780345478993
Publication Date: 2006-04-25
John Wells is the only American CIA agent ever to penetrate al Qaeda. Since before the attacks in 2001, Wells has been hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, biding his time, building his cover.
Now, on the orders of Omar Khadri–the malicious mastermind plotting more al Qaeda strikes on America–Wells is coming home. Neither Khadri nor Jennifer Exley, Wells’s superior at Langley, knows quite what to expect.

Winner

In the Woods by Tana French

In the Woods [Streaming Audio] by Tana French
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook)
ISBN: 9781456100704
Publication Date: 2011-03-28
After a 12-year-old Irish lad and his two pals fail to return from a day in the woods, searchers find only the terrified sixth grader; with blood-filled shoes and no memory of what happened. Now 32, the tragedy's sole survivor Rob Ryan is a detective on Dublin's Murder Squad. A current investigation takes Rob to the exact site of his childhood trauma. With the present case chillingly similar to his 20-year-old nightmare, Rob hopes to unlock the shrouded secrets of his past.

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The Foreigner by Francie Lin

1990s

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The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe

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Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem [CD] by Patricia Cornwell; C. J. Critt (Narrated by)
Call Number: CD Fiction CO S1
ISBN: 9780788744631
Publication Date: 2002-01-07
Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is trying to unmask a serial killer, but someone is sabotaging her investigation. Worse yet, someone wants her dead.

Winner

Slow Motion Riot : a Novel by Peter Blauner

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The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523b v.1 (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780316153614
Publication Date: 1992-01-21
The first of the Harry Bosch series. For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch - hero, maverick, nighthawk - the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal.
The Black Echo [E-Book] : Harry Bosch Series, Book 1 by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9780316144520
Publication Date: 2002

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A Grave Talent by Laurie R. King

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The Caveman's Valentine by George Dawes Green

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Penance by David Housewright

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Simple Justice by John Morgan Wilson

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Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon

Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon
Call Number: Fiction K163L (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780553062243
Publication Date: 1997-05-05
It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer ’s “enchanted campus” of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man in search of a killer. Michael Connolly has been sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man’s bed and making love to another man’s wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man’s-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of brilliance and discovery, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer—as the world is about to be changed forever.

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A Cold Day in Paradise by Steve Hamilton

1980s

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The Lasko Tangent by Richard North Patterson

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The Watcher by K. Nolte Smith

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Chiefs by Stuart Woods

Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Call Number: Fiction W8975cg (Adult Fiction)
Publication Date: 1981
In the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the body bears marks of what seems to be a ritual beating. The investigation falls to Will Henry Lee, a failed cotton farmer newly appointed as Delano's first chief of police. Lee's obsession with the crime begins a story that weaves through the decades, following the life of a small southern town and the role of three police chiefs in unraveling the crime.

Winner

The Butcher's Boy by Thomas Perry

The Butcher's Boy [E-Book] : the Butcher's Boy Series, Book 1 by Thomas Perry
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781588362964
Publication Date: 2003
Murder has always been easy for the Butcher's Boy; it's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of police specialists who watch the world of organized crime, but though everyone knows that something big is going on, only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in the Justice Department, works her way closer to the truth, and to the frightening man behind it

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The Bay Psalm Book Murder by Will Harriss

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Strike Three, You're Dead by R. D. Rosen

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When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman

When the Bough Breaks [Kindle] by Jonathan Kellerman
Call Number: Kindle-0123 (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780345540218
Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Child psychologist Alex Delaware examines a disturbed young girl and uncovers evidence of a brutal double murder, a child molester's grisly suicide, and a horrible forty-year old secret that continues to have an effect today.

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No One Rides for Free by Larry Beinhart

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Death Among Strangers by Deidre S. Laiken

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Carolina Skeletons by David Stout

1970s

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A Time of Predators by Joe Gores

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The Anderson Tapes by Lawrence Sanders

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Finding Maubee by A. H. Z. Carr

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Squaw Point by R. H. Shimer

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The Billion Dollar Sure Thing by Paul Erdman

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Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Fletch [Kindle] by Gregory MacDonald
Call Number: Kindle-0769
ISBN: 9780672520204
Publication Date: 1974-01-01
Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can’t be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it comes to getting his story. Working undercover at the beach to dig up a drug-trafficking scheme for his next blockbuster piece, Fletch is invited into a much deeper narrative. Alan Stanwyk, CEO of Collins Aviation and all-around family man, mistakes the reporter for a strung-out vagabond and asks him for a favor: kill him and escape to Brazil with $50,000. Intrigued, Fletch can’t help but dig into this suspicious deal he’s being offered.

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The Alvarez Journal by Rex Burns

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The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson

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A French Finish by Robert Ross

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Killed in the Ratings by William L. DeAndrea

1960s

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The Grey Flannel Shroud by Henry Slesar

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The Man in the Cage by John Holbrooke Vance

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The Green Stone by Suzanne Blanc

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The Fugitive by Robert L. Fish

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Florentine Finish by Cornelius Hirschberg

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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late [Large Print] by Harry Kemelman
Call Number: Fiction K31r v.1 LargeType (Adult Fiction - Large Print)
ISBN: 9780816135370
Publication Date: 1983-08-01
A new rabbi in a small New England town investigates the murder of a nanny.
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late [E-Book] by Harry Kemelman
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book
ISBN: 9781504016049
Publication Date: 2015-08-04

The Edgar Awards

2020s

Winner

Miracle Creek by Angie Kim

Finalists

My Lovely Wife

The Good Detective

The Secrets We Kept

American Spy

Winner

Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen

FINALISTS

Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

WINNER: Deer Season by Erin Flanagan

FINALISTS

Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian

Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza

What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins

The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer

Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March

WINNER

Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

FINALISTS

Jackal by Erin E. Adams

Shutter by Ramona Emerson

More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

2010s

Winner

In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

Winner

Rogue Island by Bruce De Silva

Winner

Bent Road by Lori Roy

Winner

The Expats : a Novel by Chris Pavone

Winner

Red Sparrow : a Novel by Jason Matthews

Winner

Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman

Winner

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Winner

Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry

Winner

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

Winner

Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin

2000s

Winner

The Skull Mantra by Eliot Pattison

Winner

A Conspiracy of Paper : a Novel by David Liss

Winner

Line of Vision by David Ellis

Winner

The Blue Edge of Midnight by Jonathan King

Winner

Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel

Winner

Country of Origin by Don Lee

Winner

Officer Down by Theresa Schwegel

Winner

The Faithful Spy : a Novel by Alex Berenson

Winner

In the Woods by Tana French

Winner

The Foreigner by Francie Lin

1990s

Winner

The Last Billable Hour by Susan Wolfe

Winner

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

Winner

Slow Motion Riot : a Novel by Peter Blauner

Winner