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2008 Edgar® Nominees & Winners


Winners are listed in red.

 •  Novel  •  First Novel  •  Paperback Original  •  Critical/Biographical  •  Fact Crime  •  Short Story
 •  Young Adult  •  Juvenile  •  Play  •  TV Episode  •  Motion Picture
 •  Robert L. Fish Memorial •  Mary Higgins Clark  •  Grand Master  •  Raven



Best Novel nominees

Best Novel Nominees

  • Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt and Company)
  • Priest by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  • The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
  • Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
  • Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
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Best first novel by an American

  • Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
  • In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking)
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  • Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard (The Rookery Press)
  • Head Games by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
  • Pyres by Derek Nikitas (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Best paperback original nominees

Best Paperback Original
  • Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
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  • Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Random House - Mortalis)
  • Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks (Serpent's Tail)
  • Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
  • Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)
Best Critical/Biographical

Best Critical/Biographical
  • The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson (Random House)
  • A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational by Maurizio Ascari (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou (Palgrave Macmillan)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
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  • Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell (McFarland & Company)

2007 Edgar® Nominees & Winners