Annal:2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2001 Edgar–Novel winner
- 2001 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2000 Hammett nominee
- 2000 IHG–Novel nominee
- Score: 34.51
Today, the Sabine River runs as before, yet the bottoms have been drained. Long gone are the alligators, and the few birds that take to the air cast tiny shadows over concrete surfaces.
But way back then, during the thick of the Great Depression that squeezed Deep East Texas in its impoverishing grip, a boy could hear the crickets and the frogs in the star-studded southern night. And in this primordial time a killer stalked the land.
When young Harry Crane discovers the black woman’s body, mutilated and bound to a tree with barbed wire, he unwittingly…
- 2001 Anthony-Novel winner
- 2001 Macavity-Novel winner
- 2000 Barry-British winner
- 2000 LATimes–Mystery winner
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 46.51
On a freezing day in December 1963, thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from her village. Nothing will ever be the same again for the inhabitants of the isolated hamlet in the English countryside. A young George Bennett, a newly-promoted inspector, he is determined to solve this case—even if it just to bring home a daughter’s dead body to her mother.
As days progress, the likelihood that Alison has been murdered increases when a gruesome discovery is made in a cave. But with no corpse, the barest of clues, and an investigation that turns up more…
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2001 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.51
Whether real like Ted Bundy, or imagined like Hannibal Lecter, few killers of our time are in the same league as Raymond Raintree. And as he stands flanked by lawyers in a Florida courtroom, waiting to be convicted for the murder of Natalie Mae McCullen, Marie Lightfoot is taking it all in. A small, gutsy blonde renowned for her true-crime bestsellers, Marie knows the graphic and disturbing case will make her best book yet—because Raintree’s shocking crime, vile beyond imagining, is also impossible to turn away from. But there is something about the case—and…
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
It’s two years after the death of Tim Hess, her partner and the father of her child, and Merci is working hard to hold it all together. She and her son are living with her father. She’s also dating Mike McNally, a respected fellow officer. Merci and Mike are the golden couple on the force, and even if Merci doesn’t passionately love him, there’s a sort of comfortable inevitability to it all.
But everything explodes when a young prostitute is found brutally murdered and Mike emerges as the primary suspect. The lead investigator on the case, Merci must do…
- 2001 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
It’s February 1968, and tense race relations in Memphis are beginning to build into real conflict. The sanitation workers’ strike has been going on for almost three weeks, and marches are beginning to turn into riots.
African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton is hired by Laura Hathaway, a young white woman from up north, to look into her mother’s reasons for remembering Smokey generously in her will. Smokey reluctantly takes the case, as much to satisfy his own curiosity about these people he never knew as because he needs the work. What he uncovers is a…
