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Plucked from our shelves....
Kick back  with an award-winning mystery this weekend.
Here are the Edgars, Winners of the Edgar Allen Poe Awards for 2008, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2007. Visit the Mystery Writers of America website for more information.
Best Novel
Down River by John Hart
This thriller, by John Hart of King of Lies fame, is reminiscent of John Grisham's early work.
Best First Novel
In the Woods by Tana French
Compelling blend of police procedural and psychological suspense introduces Dublin police detective Cassie Maddox.
Best Paperback Original
Queenpin by Megan Abbott
Young woman becomes protégé of powerful, female crime boss.
Best Fact Crime
Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
History that reads like a thriller as Swanson details the 12 day chase for John Wilkes Booth from Washington to the forests of Virginia.
Best Critical/Biographical
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley
Previously unpublished letters, starting when Doyle was 8 and continuing through his adulthood.
Best Juvenile
The Night Tourist by Katherine Mars
Surreal mystery--is the hero dead? Or isn't he?? Especially rewarding for lovers of mythology.
Best Young Adult
Rat Life by Ted Arnold
A teen boy befriends a returned veteran, and then begins to wonder whether he is implicated in a local crime.
Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Michael Clayton Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Corporate thriller with lots of action.
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