Award Winners: Mystery
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Winners of the best novel category for the past ten years. For more information, including past winners and nominees, see Mystery Writers of America.
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2013 Lehane, Dennis Live By Night During Prohibition in 1926, Joe Coughlin defies his strict upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters dangerous characters who are all fighting for their American dream. 2012 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2012 Hayder, Mo Gone Investigating a serial carjacker whose actual targets are young children in back seats, Jack Caffery teams up once again with police diver Sergeant Flea Marley, whose life is endangered by a discovery in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel. 2010 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2011 Hamilton, Steve The Lock Artist Traumatized at the age of eight and pushed into a life of crime by reason of his unforgiveable talent--lock picking--Michael sees his chance to escape, and with one desperate gamble risks everything to come back home to the only person he ever loved, and to unlock the secret that has kept him silent for so long. 2010 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2010 Hart, John The Last Child After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets. 2009 Adult Mystery Book HART | |
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2009 Box, C. J. Blue Heaven Fleeing the killers whom they witnessed committing murder, twelve-year-old Annie and her younger brother William escape into the Idaho woods, pursued by the murderers and a group of dirty cops seeking to prevent the youngsters from revealing what they know. 2008 Adult Fiction Book BOX | |
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2008 Hart, John Down River Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Chase returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in the crimes. 2007 Adult Mystery Book HART | |
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2007 Goodwin, Jason The Janissary Tree When the Ottoman Empire of 1836 is shattered by a wave of political murders that threatens to upset the balance of power, Yashim, an intelligence agent and a eunuch, conducts an investigation into clues within the empire's once-elite military forces. 2006 Adult Mystery Book GOODWIN | |
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2006 Walter, Jess Citizen Vince Beginning his witness-protection job at a doughnut restaurant in the week before the 1980 presidential election, small-time thief Vince Camden finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a local politician's troubles. 2005 Adult Fiction Book WALTER | |
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2005 Parker, T. Jefferson California Girl Living in Orange County, California, in the late 1960s, three brothers pursue leads relevant to their respective careers as a homicide detective, a minister, and a reporter when a woman from a childhood rival family is found murdered. 2004 Adult Fiction | |
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2004 Rankin, Ian Resurrection Men While in a reform school for cops, Inspector John Rebus joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by some of his classmates known as "Resurrection Men." 2002 Adult Mystery | |
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