Winners of the Best Novel category for the Edgar Awards.
Edgar Award for Best Novel Public
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Live by night by Dennis Lehane
3 stars
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that …
Phil in SF says: 2013 winner
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Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda …
Phil in SF says: 2014 winner
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Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1)
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created …
Phil in SF says: 2015 winner
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Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
On a dark Kentucky night in 1952 exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden …
Phil in SF says: 2016 winner
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Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New …
Phil in SF says: 2017 winner
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Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Highway 59, #1)
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black …
Phil in SF says: 2018 winner
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Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley (King Oliver, #1)
Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD’s finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is …
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The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, …
Phil in SF says: 2020 winner
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Five Decembers by James Kestrel
December 1941. America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to …
Phil in SF says: 2022 winner
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Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka
Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same …
Phil in SF says: 2023 winner
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Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New …
Phil in SF says: 2024 winner
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The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell (Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp, #2)
In the garden of a large Georgian villa in Southwest London, socialites and politicos swap gossip and sip Pimm's while …
Phil in SF says: 2025 winner
