Annal:1995 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best 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–Novel winner
- Score: 10.45
Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates has just published her first book, describing the blood-curdling exploits of serial killer Louie Bronk. Now on death row, Louie’s sentence is about to be carried out. Molly will be there as a witness, and she wants to write about it—the final coda to Louie’s story. But suddenly, she’s being strongly discouraged by her boss at the Lone Star Monthly and by Charlie McFarland, the millionaire real estate developer whose first wife, Tiny, was Bronk’s most famous victim—and the only one whose murder is a capital offense.…
A Long Line of Dead Men: A Matthew Scudder Mystery
- 1995 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 1995 Shamus-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.45
The winner of multiple Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon Awards, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Lawrence Block has elevated the detective novel to high art—combining grit with intelligence, suspense with stunning emotional complexity and power. And in unlicensed private investigator Matthew Scudder, he has created a character whose depth and stark humanity is unrivalled in contemporary fiction.
An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restaurant—a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its…
- 1995 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.45
Eighteen-year-old Eddie Nye was bound for U.S.C. and a bright future that fateful summer in the Bahamas. But somebody set Eddie up. Instead of four years of higher education, he did fifteen behind bars for drug smuggling. Eddie went in innocent, but with three prison murders under his belt, he comes out dangerous. Although all he wants is to stay clean, Eddie’s future won’t be that easy. The nightmares of his past—corruption, greed, and most of all a stunning betrayal—are on a collision course with a daring plot hatched in a prison cell. To learn the secret of…
- 1995 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.45
Like her legendary crime-journalist creator, Cuban-American Britt Montero covers the police beat for a Miami newspaper. In this blistering adventure, Montero has a double dose of dirty work on her hands as she tracks a serial rapist while probing a baffling string of brutal murders.
According to her mentor, retired police detective Dan Flood, a powerful politician who is running for governor got away with one of those murders.
- 1995 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.45
It was a crime of staggering inhumanity: a seven-year-old girl taken from her working class Yorkshire home by an attractive young couple posing as social workers. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks feels certain little Gemma Scupham is dead, yet the motive for her kidnapping remains a mystery. No ransom is ever demanded, nor could Gemma’s tortured, guilt-ridden mother afford to pay one. And when the body of a young man is discovered in an abandoned mine, slain in a particularly brutal fashion, a disturbing, perplexing case takes an even more sinister…
