2002 Edgar Award Winners and Nominees

Best Novel

Winner

Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker

Excellent crime novel in which son seeks answers to adopted father's
murder

paperback /$7.99

Other Nominees

The Judgment by D.W. Buffa

The third book in Buffa's series with attorney Joseph Antonelli

paperback /$7.50

Tell No One by Harlan Coben

Mysterious email leads man to think his wife, abducted years ago, may still be alive

paperback, $7.99

Money, Money, Money by Ed McBain

An 87th precinct novel

paperback, $7.99

Reflecting the Sky by S.J. Rozan

An exciting Lydia Chin mystery with a Hong Kong travelogue thrown in for free

paperbackr, $6.99

Best First Novel

Winner

Line of Vision by David Ellis

interesting legal thriller with first person narrative by confessed murder suspect

paperback, $7.99

Other Nominees

Open Season by C.J. Box

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett

paperback, $6.99

Red Hook by Gabriel Cohen

Powerful depiction of NYPD cop coming to terms with his own life in the neighborhood of the title.

Out of print

Gun Monkeys by Victor Gischler

Super-violent revenge novel set in Central Florida

paperback, $6.99

The Jasmine Trade by Denise Hamilton

LA Times reporter Eve Diamond

paperback, $6.99

Best Paperback Original

Winner

Adios Muchacho by Daniel Chavarria

Flashes of humor light up this madcap caper by an Uruguayan author but set in Cuba

trade paperback, $13.95

Other Nominees

Hell's Kitchen by Jeffery Deaver

A third installment in the location scout series

paperback, $7.99

The Mother Tongue by Teri Holbrook

Latest in a fine series featuring historian Gale Grayson

not available

Dead of Winter by P.J. Parrish

Second appearance for Louis Kincaid, a mixed race cop who returns to his home town in Mississippi

Paperback, $6.99

Straw Men by Martin J. Smith

Best of Smith's Pittsburgh-set adventures for memory expert Jim Christensen

Out of Print

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Winner

Summer of Storms by Judith Kelman

Suspenseful thriller concerns reopened murder investigation

paperback, $7.50

Other Nominees

Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen

Charming debut for turn of the century Irish immigrant Molly Murphy

paperback, $6.99

Perhaps She'll die by Marcia Preston

Women returns home to solve the mystery of her father's lynching 

Out of Print

Murder of a Sweet Old Lady by Denise Swanson

Second in the Scumble River series with school psychologist Skye Denison

paperback, $6.99