Annal:2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2002. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2002 Edgar–Novel winner
- 2001 LATimes–Mystery winner
- 2002 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- 2001 Hammett nominee
- Score: 38.52
With the horrible remnants of a childhood tragedy forever visible across his otherwise handsome face, Joe Trona is scarred in more ways than one. Rescued from an orphanage by Will Trona, a charismatic Orange County politician who sensed his dark potential, Joe is swept into the maelstrom of power and intimidation that surrounds his adoptive father’s illustrious career. Serving as Will’s right-hand man, Joe is trained to protect and defend his father’s territory—but he can’t save the powerful man from his enemies. Will Trona is murdered, and Joe will stop at…
- 2002 Shamus-Novel winner
- 2002 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2002 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 22.52
S. J. Rozan is widely regarded as one of the finest crime writers to emerge in the past decade. Praised by critics and colleagues alike, her works have been finalists for most of the major awards and have won both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Now, with Reflecting the Sky, she has written her finest, most broad-ranging novel to date.
Lydia Chin, a Chinese-American private investigator in her late twenties, is hired by Grandfather Gao, one of the most respected figures in New York City’s Chinatown, for what appears to be a simple…
- 2002 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
The detectives at the 87th are already busy for the holidays. Steve Carella and Fat Ollie Weeks catch the squeal when the lions in the city zoo get an unauthorized feeding of a young woman’s body. And then there’s a trash can stuffed with a book salesman carrying a P-38 Walther and a wad of big bills.
The bad bills and the dead book salesman lead to the offices of a respected publisher, Wadsworth and Dodds. This is good news for Fat Ollie, because he’s working on a police novel—one written by a real cop—and he’s sure it’s going to be a bestseller.
- 2002 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2002 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2002 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2002 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 24.52
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it’s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Beck has been…
- 2002 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.52
No one had a more brilliant legal mind than Judge Calvin Jeffries. And no one cared less about the law and more about power. That is, until Jeffries is found murdered in a courthouse parking lot. The crime shocks the community, but justice is swift. Jeffries’s killer is caught, confesses, and then unexpectedly commits suicide in his jail cell. The case is closed.
Soon a second judge is stabbed to death under identical circumstances. This time the suspect is a homeless derelict who doesn’t even know his own name. Like the Jeffries murder, the killing appears to…
