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…
