Annal:1989 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1989. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
A Cold Red Sunrise: An Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mystery
- 1989 Edgar–Novel winner
- Score: 10.39
One Dead Commissar
At an icebound naval weather station in far Siberia, the young daughter of an exiled dies under suspicious circumstances. The high-ranking Commissar sent to investigate the mystery suffers a similar fate: he is murdered by an icicle thrust into his skull.
One Live Cop
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to solve the Commissar’s murder, with one caveat: he is not to investigate the girl’s death. Even if all the clues tell him that the two cases are linked.
One Cold Killer
In a single, fateful day, Rostnikov will hear two confessions, watch someone die, conspire against the government, and nearly meet his own death. All under the watchful eye of the KGB—and someone much closer and infinitely more terrifying.
