Annal:1997 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Paperback Original
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 1997. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Fade Away: A Myron Bolitar Mystery
- 1997 Edgar-Paperback winner
- 1997 Shamus-Paperback winner
- 1997 Barry-Paperback nominee
- Score: 26.47
The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos—and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he’d once competed against was bringing back memories—of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can’t relive, and a present he may not survive.
In novels that crackle with wit…
- 1997 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.47
With her mother’s last words still echoing in her ears, Tyler Jones, the San Francisco-based newspaper columnist and amateur sleuth introduced in The Other Side of Silence, journeys to the family home in northern Minnesota. Tyler, directed to “find the truth,” has no inkling what truth it is she is supposed to search for in this idyllic haven perched on the edge of Lake Superior. One startling truth she uncovers is that she is deeply attached to this landscape of her childhood and ancestry.
As Tyler attempts to fulfill her mother’s deathbed wish, she…
- 1997 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 1997 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- 1996 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 18.47
After a tragic exile in England, Gale Grayson returns with her daughter to her southern roots, only to find eccentric relatives—and a decades-old scandal alive and well. They’d been talking about Gale’s Aunt Linnie since 1925, when she was found hanging from a pecan tree. When Linnie’s grandson is killed by a shotgun blast, it falls to Gale to sort out the truth—and that means she will have to dig deep into the town’s darkest secrets—and her own painful past.
Tribe: A Todd Mills Mystery
- 1997 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.47
All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette…and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy Award-winning TV reporter. He had it all—until his double life became front-page news. Since his lover’s murder, Todd hadn’t worked. It was the first pause in his professional life.
Now he’s out, warily beginning a romance with police detective Steve Rawlins, when an old friend, an ex-girlfriend, calls for help. The son…
- 1997 Barry-Paperback winner
- 1997 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 16.47
Eight years had passed since fate left its mark on her grandfather’s ranch. Shedding her new name and identity, Amelia Rawlins came out of anonymity and back home—a place of childhood memories, a place where she could walk with her grandfather’s spirit and carry on his work. But the horrors of the past also found a home there, and her return didn’t escape the vengeful eyes of someone who thought Amelia had no right to be spared on that long-ago dreadful day.
