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Edgar Award Winners Honoring the best mystery fiction sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America. |
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2022 Five Decembers by James KestrelAs the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to a homicide case that will take him across the pacific and change his life forever. |
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2021 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Lineby Deepa AnapparaIn an award-winning debut based on true events, a 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home. |
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2020 The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths A first stand-alone mystery by the author of the Ruth Galloway series finds a high school English teacher chronicling her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary. |
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2019 Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter MosleyFramed by corrupt enemies within the NYPD and forced to serve a decade in prison, private detective Joe King Oliver receives a confession from a woman who helped set him up, a situation that compels him to investigate his own case at the same time he assists a black radical journalist who has been wrongly accused of murdering two corrupt cops. |
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2018 Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica LockeForced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman. |
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2017 Before the Fall by Noah HawleyThe stories of the wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy |
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2022 Deer seasonby Erin FlanaganOver a weekend a teenage girl goes missing. Hal, a mentally challenged farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of |
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2021 Please see usby Caitlin MullenTwo young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home. |
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2020 Miracle Creekby Angie KimA dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened. |
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2019 Bearskin by James A. McLaughlinHiding out from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed in Arizona, Rice More, while protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia, exposes a bear-poaching scheme that revelas his location to the criminals he was running from in the first place. |
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2018 She Rides Shotgunby Jordan HarperFresh out of jail, Nate thrusts his 11-year-old daughter into a world of robbery and violence in an effort to keep her safe from the prison gang that has put a bounty on his head and murdered her mother. |
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2017 Under the Harrowby Flynn BerryWhen Nora travels from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she finds her sister has been brutally murdered. Haunted by the murder and the secrets that surround it, Nora is under the harrow: distressed and in danger. As fear turns to obsession, Nora becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers. |
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