Mystery Award Winners 2019

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The Liar | Steve Cavanagh* Long upon the Land | Margaret Maron The Edgar Award When a wealthy businessman’s Judge Deborah Knott's father, Kezzie, for Best Mystery Novel daughter is kidnapped he calls on comes under suspicion in the death of Eddie Flynn, former con-artist now a man, while Deborah delves into the Named for Edgar Allan Poe, father of the hotshot lawyer, to find her. But as pasts of her wealthy mother and modern detective story, this award by the Eddie learns more he starts to suspect it may all bootlegger dad. be a set-up. Mystery Writers of America is the most Rising Man | Abir Mukherjee prestigious award in the realm of mystery and Dodgers | Bill Beverly (Fiction) In the days of the British Raj in 1919, When the cops bust a stash house Captain Sam Wyndham, a former detective fiction. and arrest 15-year-old East’s uncle, Scotland Yard detective newly arrived www.theedgars.com he feels ready to step up and do a in Calcutta, is confronted with the man's job -- even if it means finding murder of a British official who was found with a and killing a key witness." -- From jacket note in his mouth warning the British to leave The Dry | Jane Harper India. The Agatha Awards Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in Glass Houses | Louise Penny The Agatha Awards honor the traditional decades to attend the funeral of his In another thrilling Gamache adventure, mystery — books best typified by the works best friend, Luke. As Falk a mysterious figure appears on the of Agatha Christie. The genre is generally reluctantly investigates Luke's death, village green and refuses to communi- characterized by mysteries that contain no long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the cate in any way. explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous lies that have haunted them. A Great Reckoning | Louise Penny violence. They are chosen and presented by Before the Fall | Noah Hawley Armand Gamache is given an intricate members of the mystery fan organization old map as a gift the first day of his new Malice Domestic, Ltd. (Fiction) Nine important people are killed in a job, the map eventually leads him to www.malicedomestic.org shattering secrets. plane crash. Two others survive: an artist and a 4 year old child. As we Life or Death | Michael Robotham learn more about the passengers and the A day before he’s due to be released, an crash the mystery deepens and soon spirals inmate who may be the only one who The Dagger Awards out of control. knows where a heist’s 5 million dollars is hidden, disappears. The hunt for the The Dagger Awards were Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King inmate, and the money is on. (Fiction) founded by the Crime Writers’ Let Me Die in His Footsteps | Lori In a high-suspense race against Association in 1956 and celebrate the very Roy (Fiction) time, three of the most unlikely and best in crime and thriller writing. Dagger In a small Kentucky town, Annie Hol- winning heroes King has ever Awards are given for lifetime achievement, leran confronts the secrets of two created try to stop a lone killer from crime, thrillers, historical, and first time au- families touched by an evil that has blowing up thousands. thors. passed between generations.

www.thecwa.co.uk Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke Truth be Told | Hank Phillippi Ryan An African-American Texas A family is evicted from their home. Ranger becomes embroiled in an Investigating the foreclosures, reporter investigation into the deaths of an Jane Ryland learns the truth behind a Listed books are shelved in Mystery unless African American lawyer from big-bucks scheme and those who will otherwise noted. Chicago, and a local white woman. stop at nothing to keep their goal a secret.