Edgar Award for Best Novel Public

Created by Phil in SF

Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.

  1. LaBrava by  (Cundo Rey, #1)

    No rating

    Here is Elmore Leonard's best novel to date, which says a good deal indeed.

    Joe LaBrava, ex-Secret Service agent, independent …

    Phil in SF says:

    1984 winner

  2. Briarpatch by 

    No rating

    A car bomb explodes in a white-orange flash, blowing a pretty young homicide detective to bits. A thousand miles away …

    Phil in SF says:

    1985 winner

  3. The Suspect by  (Karl Alberg, #1)

    No rating

    When there is a murder in a town like Sechelt—a sleepy community on Canada's aptly named Sunshine Coast—it is necessarily …

    Phil in SF says:

    1986 winner

  4. A Dark-Adapted Eye by 

    No rating

    One of tile greatest living practitioners of the British mystery, Ruth Rendell, is writing here for the first time under …

    Phil in SF says:

    1987 winner

  5. Old Bones by  (Gideon Oliver, #4)

    No rating

    With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel goes …

    Phil in SF says:

    1988 winner

  6. A Cold Red Sunrise by  (Porfiry Rostnikov, #5)

    No rating

    Praised by the Washington Post as a writer with the imagination of Scheherazade, Stuart M. Kaminsky again con-firms his immense …

    Phil in SF says:

    1989 winner

  7. Black Cherry Blues by  (Dave Robicheaux, #3)

    No rating

    In this masterful novel James Lee Burke proves himself both a brilliant storyteller and a prose stylist who ranks with …

    Phil in SF says:

    1990 winner

  8. New Orleans Mourning by  (Skip Langdon, #1)

    No rating

    Because of her connections at the highest social level of socially obsessed New Orleans, Policewoman Skip Langdon is assigned by …

    Phil in SF says:

    1991 winner

  9. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by  (Matthew Scudder, #9)

    No rating

    Widely acknowledged as one of America's leading crime writers, Block has won praise for his style, for his twisty, realistic …

    Phil in SF says:

    1992 winner

  10. Bootlegger's Daughter by 

    No rating

    Deborah Knott was expected to be a conventional little girl and eventually a conventional woman, worshipped on a pedestal by …

    Phil in SF says:

    1993 winner

  11. The Sculptress by 

    No rating

    Everyone knows about Olive Martin, the huge and menacing woman who was found five years ago with the carved-up bodies …

    Phil in SF says:

    1994 winner

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