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Book Award Spotlight 2021 Edgar Awards Nominees
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Djinn patrol on the purple line : a novel
by Deepa Anappara
In 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.
** Winner! **
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Before she was Helen
by Caroline B Cooney
A woman hiding her identity behind half a century of secrets lands in the center of a dangerous conspiracy involving a neighbor's disappearance from their South Carolina retirement community. By the best-selling author of The Face on the Milk Carton.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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These women : a novel
by Ivy Pochoda
Connected by the deadly obsessions of a single man, five very different women endure lives of danger and anguish, including a mother whose daughter's murder remains unsolved. By the award-winning author of Wonder Valley.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The missing American
by Kwei Quartey
Turning private detective when her ambition to be a police officer is dashed, Emma Djan teams up with a first client to search for a man whose disappearance is linked to the email scams and fetish priests of Ghana.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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The distant dead : a novel
by Heather Young
When a young boy finds himself at the center of a murder mystery, several members of an American small town must deal with the fallout. By the author of The Lost Girls.
Available on Overdrive
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Nominees for Best First Novel by an American Author
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Murder in old Bombay
by Nev March
Investigating the double murder of two women in 1892 Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri is confronted by suspicion on both sides of a divided land before his investigation triggers unexpected consequences. An award-winning first novel.
Available in print
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Please see us
by Caitlin Mullen
Two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home. A first novel.
** Winner! **
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Catherine House : a novel
by Elisabeth Thomas
A dangerously curious, rebellious undergraduate uncovers a shocking secret about an exclusive circle of students and the dark truths beneath their school's promises of prestige.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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Winter counts : a novel
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
A vigilante enforcer on South Dakota's Rosebud Indian Reservation enlists the help of an ex to investigate the activities of an expanding drug cartel, while a new tribal council initiative raises controversial questions. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive and in print
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Darling rose gold
by Stephanie Wrobel
Enduring decades of serious illness as a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy before exposing her mother’s behavior, Rose Gold invites her unrepentant mother back into her life to secretly settle the score. A first novel.
Available on Overdrive, eReadIllinois, and in print
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Nominees for Best Fact Crime
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The third rainbow girl : the long life of a double murder in Appalachia
by Emma Copley Eisenberg
An investigation into the 1980 murder of two women in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, recreates the events of the tragedy, the targeting of vulnerable suspects and the history of mysterious violence that continues to overshadow the region.
Available in print and on Overdrive
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