[bksvol-discuss] Fw: 2009 Edgar Awards

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  • Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 22:53:53 -0400

2009 Edgar Awards
The mystery story is two stories in one:
the story of what happened and the
story of what appeared to happen.
Mary Roberts Rinehard

Introduction
The Edgars Award are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America for 
the best in mystery and crime fiction and nonfiction.

Blue heaven - Box, C. J.
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Pub Date: 01/08/2008
ISBN-13: 9780312365707
ISBN-10: 0312365705
2009 Edgar Award Winner, Best Novel.
Fleeing the killers whom they witnessed committing murder, twelve-year-old 
Annie and her younger brother William escape into the woods of northern Idaho,
not knowing whom they can trust and pursued by the murderers and a group of 
dirty cops seeking to prevent the youngsters from revealing what they know.
By the award-winning author of the Joe Pickett mysteries.
First Chapter

The foreigner - Lin, Francie
Publisher: Picador
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Pub Date: 05/27/2008
ISBN-13: 9780312364045
ISBN-10: 0312364040
2009 Edgar Award Winner, Best First Novel by An American.
Following the death of his mother, Emerson Chang, a mild-mannered, bachelor and 
financial analyst, journeys to Taipei to scatter her ashes and to bring
an inheritance to his younger brother, Little P., a member of the Taiwanese 
criminal underworld whose crimes have estranged him from his family. A first
novel.
First Chapter

China Lake : an Evan Delaney novel - Gardiner, Meg
Publisher: Obsidian
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Pub Date: 06/03/2008
ISBN-13: 9780451224552
ISBN-10: 0451224558
2009 Edgar Award Winner, Best Paperback Original.
When she discovers that her unstable former sister-in-law has joined the 
Remnant, a fanatical religious cult, and that she plans to regain custody of her
son and take him with her into the cult, Evan Delaney is dragged into the 
nightmare when a member of the Remnant is found murdered and her brother becomes
a suspect in the crime.

American lightning : terror, mystery, movie-making, and the crime of the 
century - Blum, Howard
Publisher: Crown Publishers
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Pub Date: 09/16/2008
ISBN-13: 9780307346940
ISBN-10: 0307346943
2009 Edgar Award Winner, Best Fact Crime.
A narrative history details a deadly explosion that ripped through the offices 
of the Los Angeles Times in October 1910, part of a planned assault on one
hundred American cities, the investigation--led by master detective William J. 
Burns--that followed, and the arrest and sensational trial of two union
activists for the crime.
First Chapter

Paper towns - Green, John
Publisher: Dutton Books
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Pub Date: 10/16/2008
ISBN-13: 9780525478188
ISBN-10: 0525478183
2009 Edgar Award Winner, Best Young Adult.
Having been in love with Margo forever, Quentin is happy to help her with her 
strange plots and campaigns for revenge, but when she vanishes one evening
without a trace, Quentin finds himself delving into clues in order to resolve 
many unanswered questions.

The postcard - Abbott, Tony
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
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Pub Date: 04/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780316011723
ISBN-10: 031601172X

2009 Edgar Award Winner, Best Children's Title.
Inspired by an old postcard and unfinished magazine, Jason gathers all the 
strange clues he has discovered and heads down to St. Petersburg with his friend
Dia in the hopes of uncovering the truth about his family's past.

The killer's wife - Floyd, Bill
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Pub Date: 03/04/2008
ISBN-13: 9780312373399
ISBN-10: 0312373392
2009 Edgar Award Winner:  Mary Higgins Clark/Simon and Schuster Award (for the 
book most closely written in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition)
Six years after her former husband had been sentenced to death for a series of 
brutal killings, Leigh Wren has built a new life for herself and her young
son, until the father of one of her ex-husband's victims reveals her past, 
forcing her to confront her memories of life with a deviant serial killer and
bringing her face to face with another, vicious murderer.
First Chapter
2008 Edgar Award Winners

Down river - Hart, John
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
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Pub Date: 10/02/2007
ISBN-13: 9780312359317
ISBN-10: 0312359314

Best Novel, 2008.
Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam 
Harston returns to North Carolina and to a hostile family, only to find himself
trapped in the middle of a new case of violence, greed, family secrets, and 
murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect
in the crimes.
First Chapter

In the woods - French, Tana
Publisher: Viking
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Pub Date: 05/17/2007
ISBN-13: 9780670038602
ISBN-10: 0670038601

Best First Novel by an American Writer, 2008.
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from 
their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly
similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him 
to piece together his traumatic memories.

Queenpin : a novel - Abbott, Megan E.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
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Pub Date: 06/05/2007
ISBN-13: 9781416534280
ISBN-10: 1416534288
Best Paperback Original, 2008.
Taken under the wing of an infamous mob luminary who reigned during the golden 
era of such figures as Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano, a bookkeeper from
a seedy nightclub finds herself seduced by the lucrative lifestyle of the 
underworld. By the author of Die a Little.
First Chapter

Arthur Conan Doyle : a life in letters - Doyle, Arthur Conan
Publisher: Penguin Press
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Pub Date: 11/01/2007
ISBN-13: 9781594201356
ISBN-10: 1594201358

Best Critical/Biographical Work, 2008.
An annotated collection of the esteemed author's private correspondence 
includes letters shared with his mother that offers insight into his endless 
search
for fulfillment and success outside of the Sherlock Holmes tales, his decision 
to leave his medical profession to write full time, and his forays into
spiritualism. 50,000 first printing.
Table of Contents

Reclaiming history : the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - Bugliosi, 
Vincent
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
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Pub Date: 05/30/2007
ISBN-13: 9780393045253
ISBN-10: 0393045250
Best Fact Crime, 2008.
An all-encompassing analysis of the assassination of JFK and its surrounding 
conspiracy theories draws on forensic evidence, key witness testimonies, and
other sources to explain what really happened and why conspiracy theories have 
become so popularized.

Wild indigo - Ault, Sandi
Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime
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Pub Date: 01/02/2007
ISBN-13: 9780425213698
ISBN-10: 0425213692
Mary Higgins Clark/Simon and Schuster Award, 2008.
Witnessing the death of a Tanoah man during a buffalo stampede, Bureau of Land 
Management agent Jamaica Wild begins to suspect that the man's demise may
not have been accidental and evaluates the evidence at the side of her Pueblo 
surrogate grandmother and an adopted wolf cub.

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