Annal:1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best First Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1999. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Cold Day in Paradise: An Alex McKnight Mystery
- 1999 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- 1999 Shamus-1st Novel winner
- 1999 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 26.49
Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes, has been locked in the state pen for years, But in the small town of Paradise, Michigan, where McKnight has traded his badge for a cozy cabin in the woods, a murderer with Rose’s unmistakable trademarks appears to be back to his killing ways. With Rose locked away, McKnight can’t understand who else would…
A Criminal Appeal: A Novel
- 1999 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 1999 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 12.49
Fresh out of law school, Nora Lumsey—a farm-bred, big-boned woman, recovering bigot, and a compulsive meddler—has just begun her clerkship for Judge Carter Albertson of the Indiana Court of Appeals when she is instructed to draft an opinion affirming the conviction of Dexter Hinton, a deaf black child who has confessed to the murder of an elderly white woman in a drive-by shooting. When Nora discovers a personal connection to Dexter’s family, she finds her passion to do justice at odds with her role as a ghostwriter for the judge and “handmaiden to the law,” and…
Nice: A Novel
- 1999 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.49
Grace is nice to a fault. She never picks fights, and doesn’t like to criticize or hurt people’s feelings. Problem is, the men in her life never seem to take a hint. And she just can’t bear to tell them outright when she isn’t interested. So she kills them. A clean break—no messy emotions, no heated arguments. But someone is onto her. His name is Sam, and he and Grace, with one very dangerous thing in common, make a killer couple. It’s a match made in heaven-as long as they can both survive the relationship…
- 1999 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.49
Michael Ashmore, senior partner at a top law firm, has a reputation he cherishes. In a world of liars, he’s an honest man. So he shouldn’t start an affair with a junior attorney at his firm. But he loves her. As a major airline’s counsel, he shouldn’t hide a failed drug test for his pilot brother, Charlie. But the test showed a mere trace of a prescription sleeping pill. And Charlie swears he’ll never touch a pill again.
Then Charlie’s plane crashes, killing everyone on board. Charlie is found loaded with barbiturates. Now Michael, himself charged with…
- 1999 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.49
A job he shouldn’t have taken…A woman he shouldn’t have loved…A secret he shouldn’t expose…if he wants to live.
Nick Neumann had it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fiancée, a star-making Wall Street career. But behind the dazzling veneer of this golden boy is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before.
Now chilling new evidence has implicated his father’s employer, the United Swiss Bank, in the crime. Nick doesn’t know how. Or why. But he has a plan to find out: move to Zurich. Work for the same bank. Follow in his…
