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| 2009 (Best Novel) |
| The Brass Verdict |
Michael Connelly
Library Journal
: Starred Review. Mickey Haller, last seen in The Lincoln Lawyer, returns to the courtroom in ...More |
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| 2007 (Best Novel) |
| No Good Deeds |
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Laura Lippman
Library Journal: Following on the heels of Lippman's haunting standalone To the Power of Three, Tess Mona ...More |
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| 2005 (Best Novel) |
| Blood Hollow |
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William Kent Kruger
Publishers Weekly: In his fourth Cork O'Connor mystery (after 2001's Purgatory Ridge), Krueger tells a chill ...More |
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| 2005 (Best First Novel) |
| Dating Dead Men |
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Harley Jane Kozak
Library Journal
: All greeting card artist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wants to do is get the status of her franchis ...More |
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| 2004 (Best Novel) |
| Every Secret Thing |
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Laura Lippman
Publishers Weekly: With this engrossing mystery/suspense stand-alone novel, Lippman, winner of the Edgar, Shamus and ...More |
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| 2004 (Best First Novel) |
| Monkeewrench |
P.J. Tracy
Library Journal: Right from the opening scene in which a priest complains about heartburn caused by the cooking of a ...More |
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| 2003 (Best Novel) |
| City of Bones |
Michael Connelly
Library Journal
: Hard-boiled LAPD detective Harry Bosch, last seen in A Darkness More Than Light, has been working ...More |
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| 2002 (Best First Novel) |
| Open Season |
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C.J. Box
Publishers Weekly
: Enthusiastic blurbs even from luminaries such as Tony Hillerman, Les Standiford and Loren Estlem ...More |
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| 2001 (Best Novel) |
| A Place of Execution |
Val McDermid
Publishers Weekly
: This superb novel should make Gold Dagger-nominee McDermid's reputation and bring her new reader ...More |
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| 2001 (Best First Novel) |
| Death of a Red Heroine |
Qiu Ziaolong
Library Journal
: The murder of a young woman found in a canal some distance from Shanghai threatens to go unnoticed ...More |
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| 2000 (Best Novel) |
| In a Dry Season |
Peter Robinson
Library Journal
: Robinson's latest in the Inspector Banks series is actually two parallel stories: the brutal post- ...More |
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| 2000 (Best First Novel) |
| Murder, With Peacocks |
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Donna Andrews
Library Journal
: Meg Lanslow, maid of honor for three impending weddings, returns to her Virginia small-town home f ...More |
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| 1999 (Best Novel) |
| Blood Work |
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Michael Connelly
Library Journal
: Having made the best sellers lists with The Poet, Connelly waves goodbye to protagonist Harry Bosc ...More |
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| 1999 (Best First Novel) |
| Iron Lake |
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William Kent Krueger
Library Journal
: In Krueger's first mystery after a spate of short stories, former sheriff Cork O'Connor deals with ...More |
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| 1998 (Best Novel) |
| No Colder Place |
S.J. Rozan
Publishers Weekly
: It's a nice inside joke when, in this fourth book in the Bill Smith and Lydia Chin series, a ded ...More |
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| 1998 (Best First Novel) |
| The Killing Floor |
Lee Child
Library Journal
: The transient Jack Reacher finds himself in tiny Margrave, Georgia, and is almost immediately arre ...More |
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| 1997 (Best Novel) |
| The Poet |
Michael Connelly
Library Journal
: Edgar Award winner Connelly deserts popular series detective Harry Bosch for a new hero: crime rep ...More |
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| 1997 (Best First Novel) |
| Death in Little Tokyo |
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Dale Furutani
Publisher's Weekly
: Furutani gives a short course on Japanese-American culture on the West Coast in this pedantic, ...More |
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| 1996 (Best Novel) |
| Under the Beetles Cellar |
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Mary Willis Walker
Publishers Weekly
: Walker, whose The Red Scream won the Edgar Award for Best Mystery of 1994, returns with a knocko ...More |
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| 1996 (Best First Novel) |
| Death in Bloodhound Red |
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Virginia Lanier
Library Journal
: Not a police officer per se, rural Georgia's Jo Beth Sidden, a breeder and trainer of bloodhounds, ...More |
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| 1995 (Best Novel) |
| She Walks These Hills |
Sharyn McCrumb
Library Journal
: A tale of an escaped convict from Edgar Award winner McCrumb. Copyright 1994 Cahners Business In...More |
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| 1995 (Best First Novel) |
| The Alienist |
Caleb Carr
Library Journal
: A society-born police reporter and an enigmatic abnormal psychologist--the ``alienist'' of the tit ...More |
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| 1993 (Best Novel) |
| Bootleggers Daughter |
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Margaret Maron
Publishers Weekly
: Maron's ( Past Imperfect ) series launch introduces attorney Deborah Knott, the daughter of an i ...More |
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| 1993 (Best First Novel) |
| Blanche on the Lam |
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Barbara Neely
Publishers Weekly
: Neely's deftly written first novel pays tribute to the community and culture of a working-cl ...More |
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| 1992 (Best First Novel) |
| Murder on the Iditarod Trail |
Sue Henry
Publishers Weekly
: In this enthralling debut mystery, someone is killing the dogsled racers competing in Alaska' ...More |
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| 1991 (Best Novel) |
| G is for Gumshoe |
Sue Grafton
School Library Journal
: Feisty private investigator Kinsey Millhone continues to solve mysteries, in this case find ...More |
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| 1991 (Best First Novel) |
| Postmortem |
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Patricia Cornwell
Publishers Weekly
: Cornwell, a former reporter who has worked in a medical examiner's office, sets her first myster ...More |
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| 1990 (Best Novel) |
| The Sirens Sang of Murder |
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Sarah Caudwell
Publishers Weekly
: Caudwell's third suspense novel takes place in the Channel Islands and is narrated, like its ...More |
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| 1990 (Best First Novel) |
| Katwalk |
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Karen Kijewski
Publishers Weekly
: Investigator Kat Colorado jets to Las Vegas to check on a fortune owed to her friend Charity Col ...More |
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