Annal:2006 Edgar Allan Poe Award® for Best 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:
Citizen Vince: A Novel
- 2006 Edgar–Novel winner
- Score: 10.56
It’s the fall of 1980, eight days before a presidential election that pits the downtrodden Jimmy Carter against the suspiciously sunny Ronald Reagan (“Are you better off than you were four years ago?”). In a quiet house in Spokane, Washington, Vince Camden wakes up at 1:59 a.m., pockets his weekly stash of stolen credit cards, and drops in on an all-night poker game with his low-life friends on his way to his witness-protection job dusting crullers at Donut Make You Hungry. This is the sum of Vince’s new life: donuts, forged credit cards, marijuana smuggled in…
The Lincoln Lawyer: A Novel
- 2006 Macavity-Novel winner
- 2006 Shamus-Novel winner
- 2006 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2006 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2006 Steel Dagger shortlist
- 2005 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 44.56
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil. Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend the clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It’s no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even some of his own clients. From bikers to con artists to drunk drivers and drug dealers, they’re all on Mickey Haller’s client list. But when a…
Red Leaves: A Novel
- 2006 Barry-Novel winner
- 2006 Anthony-Novel nominee
- 2006 Dagger shortlist
- 2006 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 28.56
Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano, the eight-year-old daughter of a neighboring family. The next morning Amy is missing.
Suddenly Eric is one of the stricken parents he has seen on television, professing faith in his child’s innocence. As the police investigation increasingly focuses on Keith, Eric must counsel his son, find him a lawyer, protect him from the community’s steadily growing…
Vanish: A Novel
- 2006 Edgar–Novel nominee
- 2006 Macavity-Novel nominee
- Score: 12.56
A nameless, beautiful woman appears to be just another corpse in the morgue. An apparent suicide, she lies on a gurney, awaiting the dissecting scalpel of medical examiner Maura Isles. But when Maura unzips the body bag and looks down at the body, she gets the fright of her life. The corpse opens its eyes.
Very much alive, the woman is rushed to the hospital, where with shockingly cool precision, she murders a security guard and seizes hostages…one of them a pregnant patient, Jane Rizzoli.
Who is this violent, desperate soul, and what does she want? As…
Drama City: A Novel
- 2006 Edgar–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.56
Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he’s come “uptown”—back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive. But Lorenzo’s had enough of the life: now he has a job as a Humane Society officer, policing animal abusers and protecting the abused. In the dangerous streets he used to menace, Lorenzo plays a part in maintaining order—and it’s a role reversal some of his former friends don’t appreciate. Rachel…
