Annal:2004 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2004. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Resurrection Men: An Inspector Rebus Novel
- 2004 Edgar–Novel winner
- Score: 10.54
Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he’s been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as “resurrection men,” he joins a covert mission to gain evidence of a drug heist orchestrated by three of his classmates. But the group has been assigned an unsolved murder that may have resulted from Rebus’s own mistake. Now Rebus can’t determine if he’s been set up for a fall or if his disgraced classmates are as ruthless as he suspects.
When Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke discovers that…
- 2004 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.54
Kirino’s novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo Suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her dead-beat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.
The ringleader of this cover-up, Masako Katori, emerges as the emotional heart of OUT and as one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed creations in recent fiction. Masako’s own search for a way OUT of the straitjacket of a dead-end life leads her, too, to take drastic action.
The complex yet…
- 2004 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 2003 Agatha–1st Novel winner
- 2004 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2004 Anthony-Historical nominee
- 2004 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2004 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 44.54
What do Hercule Poirot and Charlotte Gray have in common? It may be the wonderful Maisie Dobbs. Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyship’s Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her wing and became her patron. She encouraged Maisie to study at Cambridge, and was aided in this by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as an investigator by the elite of Europe when discretion and results were required. It was he who first recognized Maisie’s intuitive…
- 2004 Shamus-Novel winner
- 2004 Barry-Novel nominee
- 2004 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2004 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 28.54
Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda SÌoch·na—the Guards, Ireland’s police force—and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober moments Jack aspires to become Ireland’s best private investigator, not to mention its first—Irish history, full of betrayal and espionage, discourages any profession so closely related to informing. But in truth Jack is teetering on the brink of his life’s sharpest edges, his memories of the past cutting deep into his…
