Named after Edgar Allan Poe, the Edgars are awarded every spring by the Mystery
Writers of America (MWA) “for distinguished work in the mystery genre.” This is
a list of winners in the Best Novel category. (www.theedgars.com)
2014: 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
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
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 by Nicolas Freeling
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