[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: 2009 Edgar Awards
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:13:28 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for the list, Amber! I just put Blue Heaven into the Edgar Allen Poe
awards special collection.
Carrie
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From: Amber Wallenstein <amber.wallens@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Fw: 2009 Edgar Awards
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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.
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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.
Check
Library Catalog
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
Check Library Catalog
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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