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Edgar Allen Poe Awards

The Edgar Allen Poe Awards are given annually by the Mystery Writers of America to honor the best in the mystery genre. Bookshare.org is pleased to offer the following titles awarded the Edgar Award for best novel.

Winners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

2007	The Janissary Tree	by Jason Goodwin
2006	Citizen Vince	by Jess Walter
2005	California Girl	by T. Jefferson Parker
2004	Resurrection Men	by Ian Rankin
2003	Winter and Night	by S. J. Rozan
2002	Silent Joe	by T. Jefferson Parker
2001	The Bottoms	by Joe R. Lansdale
2000	Bones	by Jan Burke
1999	Mr. White's Confession	by Robert Clark
1998	Cimarron Rose	by James Lee Burke
1997	The Chatham School Affair	by Thomas H. Cook
1996	Come to Grief	by Dick Francis
1995	The Red Scream	by Mary Willis Walker
1994	The Sculptress	by Minette Walters
1993	Bootlegger's Daughter	by Margaret Maron
1992	A Dance at the Slaughterhouse	by Lawrence Block
1991	New Orleans Mourning	by Julie Smith
1990	Black Cherry Blues	by James Lee Burke
1989	A Cold Red Sunrise	by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1988	Old Bones	by Aaron Elkins
1987	A Dark-Adapted Eye	by Ruth Rendell, Barbara Vine
1986	The Suspect	by L. R. Wright
1985	Briar Patch	by Ross Thomas
1984	La Brava	by Elmore Leonard
1983	Billingsgate Shoal	by Rick Boyer
1982	Peregrine	by William Bayer
1981	Whip Hand	by Dick Francis
1980	The Rheingold Route	by Arthur Maling
1979	Eye of the Needle	by Ken Follett
1978	Catch Me: Kill Me	by William H. Hallahan
1977	Promised Land	by Robert B. Parker
1976	Hopscotch	by Brian Garfield
1975	Peter's Pence	by Jon Cleary
1974	Dance Hall of the Dead	by Tony Hillerman
1973	The Lingala Code	by Warren Kiefer
1972	The Day of the Jackal	by Frederick Forsyth
1971	The Laughing Policeman	by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
1970	Forfeit	by Dick Francis
1969	A Case of Need	by Michael Crichton (writing as Jeffery Hudson)
1968	God Save the Mark	by Donald E. Westlake
1967	The King of the Rainy Country	by Nicolas Freeling
1966	The Quiller Memorandum	by Adam Hall
1965	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	by John Le Carre
1964	The Light of Day	by Eric Ambler
1963	Death and the Joyful Woman	by Ellis Peters
1962	Gideon's Fire	by J. J. Marric
1961	The Progress of a Crime	by Julian Symons
1960	The Hours Before Dawn	by Celia Fremlin
1959	The Eighth Circle	by Stanley Ellin
1958	Room to Swing	by Ed Lacy
1957	A Dram of Poison	by Charlotte Armstrong
1956	Beast in View	by Margaret Millar
1955	The Long Goodbye	by Raymond Chandler
1954	Beat Not the Bones	by Charlotte Jay


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