Annal:1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1982 Edgar–Novel winner
- Score: 10.32
Circling high over Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon, the most awesome of the flying predators. She awaits a signal from her falconer. It is given: the bird attacks, plummeting from the sky at nearly 200 miles an hour, striking a young woman and killing her instantly.
So begins Peregrine, a chilling tale of obsession.
By chance, newscaster Pamela Barrett witnesses the slaying. Her impassioned account of it on television that evening thrills the falconer, a brilliant madman who identifies with his deadly bird. He becomes fascinated with Pam and…
