Here is the list of Edgar Best Novel winners:
2014How many of these have you read? Is it a good representation of the genre for the last few decades?
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
2013
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
2012
Gone by Mo Hayder
2011
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
2010
The Last Child by John Hart
2009
Blue Heaven by C. J. Box
2008
Down River by John Hart
2007
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
2006
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
2005
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
2004
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
2003
Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan
2002
Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker
2001
The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale
2000
Bones by Jan Burke
1999
Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark
1998
Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
1997
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook
1996
Come to Grief by Dick Francis
1995
The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker
1994
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
1993
Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
1992
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block
1991
New Orleans Mourning by Julie Smith
1990
Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke
1989
A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky
1988
Old Bones by Aaron Elkins
1987
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
1986
The Suspect by L.R. Wright
1985
Briar Patch by Ross Thomas
1984
La Brava by Elmore Leonard
1983
Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer
1982
Peregrine by William Bayer
1981
Whip Hand by Dick Francis
1980
The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling
1979
The Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
1978
Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan
1977
Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
1976
Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
1975
Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary
1974
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
1973
The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer
1972
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
1971
The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo (Pantheon)
1970
Forfeit by Dick Francis
1969
A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson
1968
God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake
1967
The King of the Rainy Country
1966
The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall
1965
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre
1964
The Light of Day by Eric Ambler
1963
Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters
1962
Gideon's Fire by J. J. Marric
1961
The Progress of a Crime by Julian Symons
1960
The Hours Before Dawn by Celia Fremlin
1959
The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin
1958
Room to Swing by Ed Lacy
1957
A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong
1956
Beast in View by Margaret Millar
1955
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
1954
Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
4 comments:
I've read twelve of them, going back to 1965. I'm surprised it's that many.
Only three, I liked all of them.
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