2010 Edgar Award Winners and Nominees
Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction. The Edgar Awards were presented to the winners at the 64nd Gala Banquet on April 29, 2010.
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Best Novel
Winner
story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister and the dark truths he uncovers
 trade paperback, $14.99
Other Nominees
Tale of dark suspense set in post WW I Louisiana
trade paperback, $15
Local novelist hits the big time with nomination for the fourth in her series of Pittsburgh-set mysteries
format, $24.95
man takes job with company that cleans up crime scenes
trade paperback, $15
Oslo police inspector Harry Hole
trade paperback, $14.99
Screenwriter Nunn draws on her own life to create this darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa.
trade paperback, $15
Best First Novel
Winner
A detective and several criminologists track a madman from the Palisades to the Bowery in this debut set in 1905.
trade paperback, $14.99
Other Nominees
Young woman who has spent her life in witness protection wants to reclaim her identity
trade paperback, $13.99
Disgraced reporter returns to his hometown and uncovers murder
trade paperback, $14
Two families deal with the questions raised by their missing children
trade paperback, $13.95
Stella Hardesty, a sewing shop owner with a sideline in helping battered women
trade paperback, $13.99
black attorney in 1980's Houston is tangled up in high-profile murder case
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Best Paperback Original
Winner
ex-boxer Joe Grundy, now head of security at a posh Vancouver hotel
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Other Nominees
novel inspired by notorious trunk murder case of the thirties
trade paperback, $15
intertwines an insider testimony on the collapse of socialist Cuba with a psychological mystery
trade paperback, $14.95
The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill
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delightful British mystery about writer who may or may not have killed his ex-wife
trade paperback, $14.95
Critical or Biography
Winner
The world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
 hardcover, $25.99
trade paperback, $15.99, avail. Nov.
Other Nominees
A master of the genre looks at the genre from earliest beginnings to the modern
hardcover, $22
The life and times of Stephen King
trade paperback, $15.99
The secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
hardcover, $40
Mary Higgins Clark Award
Winner
vet pressed into service investigating series of murders by snake venom
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Other Nominees
professional pet-sitter Dixie Hemmingway
paperback, $7.99
woman's life falls apart when he husband is accused of murder
paperback, $7.99
behind the scenes peek at those Napa Valley mansions
hardcover, $23.95
Cece Caruso, author of mystery writer biographies, takes on Hitchcock
trade paperback, $13.99
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