Annal:1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best First Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1995. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1995 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- Score: 10.45
There has never been a hero quite like Romulus Ledbetter, a Juilliard-trained pianist who makes his home in a cave in New York’s Inwood Park. There has never been a debut novelist quite like George Dawes Green with his singular gift for marrying malevolence with poetry, tragedy with uproariousness, and madness with lucidity. And there has never been a novel quite like The Caveman’s Valentine, a rich, idiosyncratic achievement that is by turns suspenseful, deeply moving, and hilarious.
Romulus Ledbetter wasn’t always homeless. He once was a devoted…
- 1994 New Blood Dagger winner
- 1995 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 16.44
A riveting debut featuring a hero readers will not soon forget. Jack Flippo was the hottest ticket in the Dallas DA’s office until an affair with a drug dealer’s wife ended his legal career. Now he’s living above a garage and doing a less-than-reputable lawyer’s snooping and legwork all over the big town.
- 1995 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.45
Jonathan Kellerman says Mallory’s Oracle is “a joy.” Nelson DeMille and other advance readers have called it “truly amazing,” “a classic” with “immense appeal”. It is all of that, and more: a stunning debut novel about a web of unsolved murders in New York’s Gramercy Park and the singular woman who makes them her obsession.
At its center is Kathleen Mallory, an extraordinary wild child turned New York City policewoman. Adopted off the streets as a little girl by a police inspector and his wife, she is still not altogether civilized now that she is a sergeant…
One for the Money: A Stephanie Plum Novel
- 1995 New Blood Dagger winner
- 1995 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 1995 Shamus-1st Novel nominee
- 1994 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 28.45
Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She’s a product of the “burg,” a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six. Now Stephanie’s all grown up and out on her own, living five miles from Mom and Dad’s, doing her best to sever the…
- 1995 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.45
A smart and successful young attorney, Gail Connor is on the verge of a partnership at a major law firm in the “new” Miami, a city more Latin than Anglo, with a dark side that slides right into the Everglades. But Gail’s success at work has masked failure in her personal life: an empty marriage, a daughter she hardly knows, and a past she would rather forget.
Then her sister, Renee, is found dead with her wrists slashed.
This riveting, high-tension legal thriller written by a former prosecutor draws us into hot and dangerous Miami, where Gail Connor is…
