Annal:2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best First Novel
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Results of the Edgar Allan Poe Award® in the year 2006. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Officer Down: A Novel
- 2006 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- 2006 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 16.56
Chicago police officer Samantha Mack’s gun killed her partner. But who pulled the trigger?
Immoral: A Novel
- 2006 Macavity-1st Novel winner
- 2006 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 New Blood Dagger shortlist
- Score: 34.56
In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first page to the last.
Lieutenant Jonathan Stride is suffering from an ugly case of déjà vu. For the second time in a year, a beautiful teenage girl has disappeared off the streets of Duluth, Minnesota—gone without a trace, like a bitter gust off Lake Superior. The two victims couldn’t be more…
Die a Little: A Novel
- 2006 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- 2006 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 18.56
Shadow-dodging through the glamorous world of 1950s Hollywood and its seedy flip side, Megan Abbott’s debut, Die a Little, is a gem of the darkest hue. This ingenious twist on a classic noir tale tells the story of Lora King, a schoolteacher, and her brother Bill, a junior investigator with the district attorney’s office. Lora’s comfortable, suburban life is jarringly disrupted when Bill falls in love with a mysterious young woman named Alice Steele, a Hollywood wardrobe assistant with a murky past.
Made sisters by marriage but not by choice, the bond…
Run the Risk: A Novel
- 2006 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
A detective faces a horrifying choice between love and duty in this hair-raising debut.
Reminiscent of the best in today’s suspense—from Jeffery Deaver’s roller-coaster twists to James Patterson’s cinematic pacing—Run the Risk introduces a blazing new talent in Scott Frost. As one of the writers behind Twin Peaks, he knows something about creating eerie and atmospheric tension. In this brilliant novel, he gives us a heroine who faces a challenge no one can ever be completely prepared for and a story as urgently and viscerally told as any in recent…
- 2006 Edgar-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
New York rule #1: Don’t make eye contact…
Samantha Leiffer has a self-centered self-help guru for a mother, a cadre of off-kilter Greenwich Village pals, and an ambisexually-cheating ex-boyfriend. She doesn’t need more grief. Then she spies two people dumping a dubious-looking ice chest into the Hudson River, and she has a chilling hunch about what’s inside.
Not being the kind of girl to let two psychos get away with murder, Sam sets out to unravel a mystery—and is soon being stalked by a sinister, shadowy figure who’s wearing one-of-a-kind mirrored…
