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Edgar Award Winners Honoring the best mystery fiction sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America. |
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2026 The Big Empty by Robert CraisWhen Elvis Cole finds himself shadowed by a gang of vicious criminals, a missing-persons cold case becomes far more sinister, and soon he must call his ex-Marine friend Joe Pike for help. This is book 20 in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series. |
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2025 The In Crowd by Charlotte VassellWhen two bodies, linked to two different cold cases, are found, Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp, along with his associates, investigates these parallel missing persons cases, finding himself ensnared in the unexpected political machinations of a duke-in-waiting. This is the second book in the Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp series. |
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2024 Flags on the Bayouby James Lee BurkeAccused of murder, an enslaved woman goes on the run with an abolitionist schoolteacher in the fall of 1863, dodging constables and slave catchers, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author. |
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2023 Notes on an Executionby Danya KukafkaTold through the women in his life–his mother, his sister-in-law, and the detective who brought him to justice–this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours |
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2022 Five Decembers by James KestrelAs the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to a homicide case that will take him across the Pacific and change his life forever. |
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2021 9-year-old reality-television enthusiast in India uses crime-show approaches to investigate the disappearance of a classmate, before additional abductions shatter life in his sprawling city home. |
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2020 The Stranger Diaries by Elly GriffithsA new mystery by the author of the Ruth Galloway series finds a high school English teacher chronicling her suspicions about the murder of a colleague before discovering a sinister message in her own diary. |
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2026
A Silicon Valley fixer investigates a billionaire founder's death while pursuing her own agenda in this twisty, sharply observed debut mystery from a tech world insider.
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2025
Holy Cityby Henry WiseA deputy sheriff in rural Southern Virginia must weigh his personal guilt and his public duty when an innocent man is arrested in the brutal murder of an old friend and an unpredictable female detective is hired to assist him.
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2024 The Peacock and the Sparrowby I. S. BerryStationed in Bahrain for his final tour, world-weary CIA spy Shane Collins is ready to return home until he meets a beautiful and enigmatic artist. Before he can win her love, he is caught in the crosshairs of a revolution and must use his skills to navigate a bloody uprising. |
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2023
Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent takes Billy into his home, hoping to protect his star player as the Pirates begin their playoff run. But when Billy's stepfather is found murdered, nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the town apart.
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2022 Deer Seasonby Erin FlanaganOver a weekend a teenage girl goes missing. Hal, a mentally challenged farmhand, returns from a hunting trip with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma Costagan and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of. |
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2021 Please See Usby Caitlin MullenTwo young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home. |
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2020 Miracle Creekby Angie KimA dramatic murder trial in the aftermath of an experimental medical treatment and a fatal explosion upends a rural Virginia community where personal secrets and private ambitions complicate efforts to uncover what happened. |
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