Annal:1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1994 Edgar–Novel winner
- 1994 Macavity-Novel winner
- Score: 20.44
In prison, they call her the Sculptress for the strange figurines she carves— symbols of the day she hacked her mother and sister to pieces and reassembled them in a blood-drenched jigsaw. Sullen, menacing, grotesquely fat, Olive Martin is burned-out journalist Rosalind Leigh’s only hope of getting a new book published.
But as she interviews Olive in her cell, Roz finds flaws in the Sculptress’s confession. Is she really guilty as she insists? Drawn into Olive’s world of obsessive lies and love, nothing can stop Roz’s pursuit of the chilling, convoluted truth.…
- 1994 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.44
Jennifer Sheridan hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike because she believes that her fiancé, a decorated LA cop in an elite plainclothes unit, is in trouble. The two are soon caught up in a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops and conspiracies of silence. It is not long before every cop in LA is gunning for Elvis and Joe, now accused of murder.
Smilla's Sense of Snow (Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow)
- 1994 Silver Dagger
- 1994 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 14.44
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories—a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime…
It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy’s body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn’t fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of…
- 1994 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.44
Word is out that an IRA informer is hiding out on the mountains of County Tyrone, but whilst MI5 must protect him and keep him alive at all costs, the IRA need to find him and silence him—forever.
Wolf in the Shadows: A Sharon McCone Mystery
- 1994 Anthony-Novel winner
- 1994 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 1994 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 22.44
Successful in her investigative work for All Souls Legal Cooperative, happy with her newly renovated house, and feeling somewhat more secure in her relationship with the mysterious environmental activist, Hy Ripinsky, Sharon is shocked to find herself suddenly faced with a wrenching ultimatum.
No longer a small, informal co-op, All Souls has grown. New legal partners, exasperated with Sharon’s free-wheeling ways, want to kick her upstairs with a raise, perks, and a “career opportunity” that will chain her to a desk forever. Offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal,…
