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A Grave Talent

Edgar Allan Poe Best First Novel 1994

by Laurie R. King

Assigned, along with her new partner, to the murders of three little girls, homicide detective Casey Martinelli closes in on a colony of mismatched people living in the wooded hills near the city. A first novel....


Death Comes As Epiphany

Catherine LeVendeur series #1

Macavity Best First Mystery Novel 1994

by Sharan Newman

Catherine LeVendeur is a young scholar come to conquer her sin of pride at the Convent of the Paraclete, famous for learning, prayer, and its abbess, the fabled Heloise.

When a manuscript the convent produced...


Track of the Cat

Anna Pigeon #1

Agatha Award for Best First Novel 1993

by Nevada Barr

Anna Pigeon takes a job as a park ranger looking for peace in the wilderness-but finds murder instead.


Dead Man's Island

Agatha Award for Best Novel 1993

by Carolyn G. Hart

Retired reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins--better known as ""Henrie O""--is called in by an old lover, arrogant media tycoon Chase Prescott, to investigate a murder plot against him.


Turtle Moon

Hammett Prize 1992

by Alice Hoffman

The New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers presents "a captivating...truly original novel" (Cosmopolitan), the story of a divorced woman, her disillusioned teenage son, and the events that change...


A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

Edgar Allan Poe Best novel 1992

by Lawrence Block

A successful socialite's beautiful wife was raped and murdered in her own home -- and Matt Scudder believes the victim's "grieving" husband was responsible for the outrage. But to prove it, the haunted p.i....


Maximum Bob

Hammett Prize 1991

by Elmore Leonard

Hard-ass Palm Beach County judge Bob Isom Gibbs enjoys sending even petty offenders away to do hard time -- which has made the list of miscreants who want him dead longer than a fully grown Florida gator's tail....


The Body In The Belfry

Faith Fairchild #1

Agatha Award for Best First Novel 1990

by Katherine Hall Page

The Body in the Belfry During her years spent in New York City, Faith Fairchild was convinced she had seen pretty much everything. But the transplanted caterer/minister's wife was unprepared for the surprises...


Bum Steer

Agatha Award for Best Novel 1990

by Pickard

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


Black Cherry Blues: A Novel

Dave Robicheaux #3

Edgar Allan Poe Best novel 1990

by James Burke

Dave Robicheaux was once a Louisiana homicide cop. Now he's trying to start a new life, opening up a fishing business and caring for his adopted girl, Alafair.

Compared to Louisiana, Robicheaux thought Montana...


A Thief of Time

Navajo Mysteries #8

Macavity Best Mystery Novel 1989

by Tony Hillerman

At a moonlit Indian ruin—where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground in the name of profit—a noted anthropologist vanishes while on the verge of making a startling, history-altering discovery. At an ancient...


Something Wicked

Agatha Award for Best Novel 1988

by Carolyn G. Hart

Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace.  But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props...


The Monkey's Raincoat

Elvis Cole & Joe Pike #1

Macavity Best First Mystery Novel 1988

by Robert Crais

Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. 

From the Paperback...


Marriage Is Murder

Macavity Best Mystery Novel 1988

by Nancy Pickard

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.


A Taste For Death

Adam Dalgliesh #7

Macavity Best Mystery Novel 1987

by P.D. James

When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come...


The Ritual Bath

Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus #1

Macavity Best First Mystery Novel 1987

by Faye Kellerman

Detective Peter Decker of the LAPD is stunned when he gets the report. Someone has shattered the sanctuary of a remote yeshiva community in the California hills with an unimaginable crime. One of the women was...


When the Bough Breaks

Alex Delaware #1

Edgar Allan Poe Best First Novel 1986

by Jonathan Kellerman

In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr.  Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry.  Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and  sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when  he...


Labrava

Edgar Allan Poe Best novel 1984

by Elmore Leonard

Joe LaBrava first fell in love with femme fatale movie queen Jean Shaw in a darkened theater when he was twelve. Now he's finally meeting his dream woman in the flesh, albeit in a rundown Miami crisis center....


Confess, Fletch

Fletch #2

Edgar Allan Poe Best Paperback Original 1977

by Gregory Mcdonald

Confess, Fletch

The flight from Rome had been pleasant enough, even if the business he was on wasn’t exactly. His Italian fianc?e’s father had been kidnapped and presumably murdered, and Fletch is on the...


The Thomas Berryman Number

Edgar Allan Poe Best First Novel 1977

by James Patterson

Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice....