Annal:2003 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Paperback Original
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2003. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2003 Anthony-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 18.53
The “master of white-knuckled suspense” (Harlan Coben) is back…and so is Texas judge Whit Mosely-in an all-new, all-exciting tale of a legendary treasure, modern-day piracy, and a life-or-death game that turns Whit’s friend, Port Leo police detective Claudia Salazar, into a high-seas hostage.
- 2003 Barry-Paperback nominee
- 2003 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 12.53
Eight months pregnant: a time when most women would want to stay off their feet. But forensic psychologist Michael Stone is no ordinary woman. When her old friend, the warden at Nelson’s Point Correctional Facility, asks her to replace a psychologist who was leading the sex offender therapy group, Michael can’t say no. As she soon discovers, her predecessor was dismissed for having sexual relations with an inmate—and had befriended a smooth-talking prisoner in her group…a prisoner who now has his eyes on Michael. When violence erupts, leaving one inmate dead and one official in a coma, all eyes are trained on Michael’s group. With no witnesses or weapons to be found, Michael races against the clock—armed only with her knowledge of the psychopathic mind—to uncover a vicious criminal network that might extend far beyond the prison walls…
- 2003 Edgar-Paperback nominee
- Score: 6.53
Something is happening to Bonnie Winter.
She’s a working wife and mother, and her job is cleaning up crime scenes. Considering what she sees everyday, it must take a lot to disturb a woman like Bonnie Winter.
You can’t imagine.
In this brilliantly unnerving novella, Graham Masterton speaks the unspeakable with terrifying precision and elegance, and finds menace in the most ordinary turns of an ordinary day. Step into Bonnie Winter’s world and just try to forget it.
