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Award year

1986 Edgar Awards

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3, official announcement 4, official announcement 5, official announcement 6

Best Novel

Winner
The Suspect
L.R. Wright
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A Shock to the System
Simon Brett
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An Unkindness of Ravens
Ruth Rendell
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City of Glass: The New York Trilogy, Part 1
Paul Auster
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The Tree of Hands
Ruth Rendell
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Best First Novel by an American Author

Winner
When the Bough Breaks
Jonathan Kellerman
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Sleeping Dog
Dick Lochte
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The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man
Daniel Stashower
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The Glory Hole Murders
Tony Fennelly
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Best Paperback Original

Winner
Pigs Get Fat
Warren Murphy
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Black Gravity
Conall Ryan
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Blue Heron
Philip Ross
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Broken Idols
Sean Flannery
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Poverty Bay
Earl W. Emerson
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Best Fact Crime

Winner
Savage Grace
Stephen M.L. Aronson and Natalie Robins
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At Mother's Request: A True Story of Money, Murder and Betrayal
Jonathan Coleman
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Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album
Shana Alexander
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Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper
Gordon Burn
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The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptmann
Ludovic Kennedy
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The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady
Brian Kates
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Best Juvenile

Winner
The Sandman's Eyes
Patricia Windsor
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Locked in Time
Lois Duncan
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On the Edge
Gillian Cross
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Playing Murder
Sandra Scoppettone
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Screaming High
David Line
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Best Critical/Biographical Work

Winner
John le Carre
Peter Lewis
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Agatha Christie
Janet Morgan
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The American Private Eye: The Image in Fiction
David Geherin
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The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion
Stephan P. Clarke
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Also recognized

Private Eyes: 101 Knights, A Survey of American Fiction by Robert A. Baker and Michael T. NietzelFinalist

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