The Top Book List

Award year

1989 Edgar Awards

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3, official announcement 4, official announcement 5, official announcement 6, official announcement 7

Best Novel

Winner
A Cold Red Sunrise
Stuart M. Kaminsky
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A Thief of Time
Tony Hillerman
Edgar Awards Finalist
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In the Lake of the Moon
David L. Lindsey
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Joey's Case
K.C. Constantine
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Sacrificial Ground
Thomas H. Cook
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Best First Novel by an American Author

Winner
Carolina Skeletons
David Stout
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A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
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Julian Solo
Shelley Reuben
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Murder Once Done
Mary Lou Bennett
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The Murder of Frau Schutz
J. Madison Davis
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Best Paperback Original

Winner
The Telling of Lies
Timothy Findley
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A Radical Departure
Lia Matera
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Judgement By Fire
Fredrick D. Huebner
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Trapdoor
Keith Peterson
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Also recognized

Preacher by Ted Thackrey JrFinalist

Best Fact Crime

Winner
In Broad Daylight
Harry N. MacLean
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A Gathering of Saints
Robert Lindsey
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Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring
Pete Earley
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Monkey on a Stick
Lindsey Gruson and John Hubner
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The Cocaine Wars
Paul Eddy, Hugo Sabogal and Sara Walden
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Best Juvenile

Winner
Megan's Island
Willo Davis Roberts
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Following the Mystery Man
Mary Downing Hahn
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Is There Anybody There?
Eve Bunting
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Something Upstairs
Avi
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The Lamp from the Warlock's Tomb
John Bellairs
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Best Young Adult

Winner
Incident at Loring Groves
Sonia Levitin
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Second Fiddle
Ronald Kidd
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Shadow in the North
Philip Pullman
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The Accident
Todd Strasser
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The Falcon Sting
Barbara Brenner
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Best Critical/Biographical Work

Winner
Cornell Woolrich: First You Dream, Then You Die
Francis M. Nevins and Jr
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Silk Stalkings: When Women Write of Murder
Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson
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The Dime Detectives
Ron Goulart
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Also recognized

Sisters in Crime: Feminism and the Crime Novel by Maureen T. ReddyFinalist

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