The Top Book List

Award year

2007 Edgar Awards

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3, official announcement 4, official announcement 5, official announcement 6, official announcement 7, official announcement 8

Best Novel

Winner
The Janissary Tree
Jason Goodwin
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Gentlemen & Players
Joanne Harris
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Liberation Movements
Olen Steinhauer
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The Dead Hour
Denise Mina
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The Pale Blue Eye
Louis Bayard
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The Virgin of Small Plains
Nancy Pickard
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Best First Novel by an American Author

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The Faithful Spy
Alex Berenson
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A Field of Darkness
Cornelia Read
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Holmes on the Range
Steve Hockensmith
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King of Lies
John Hart
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Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
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Best Paperback Original

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Snakeskin Shamisen
Naomi Hirahara
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City of Tiny Lights
Patrick Neate
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The Goodbye Kiss
Massimo Carlotto
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The Open Curtain
Brian Evenson
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Also recognized

The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul LevineFinalist

Best Fact Crime

Winner
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson
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A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger
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Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine
Kate Clark Flora and Joseph K. Loughlin
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Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer
Robin Odell
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Strange Piece of Paradise
Terri Jentz
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The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder
Daniel Stashower
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Best Juvenile

Winner
Room One: A Mystery or Two
Andrew Clements
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Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake
Jennifer Allison
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The Bloodwater Mysteries: Snatched
Peter Hautman and Mary Logue
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The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery
Nancy Springer
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The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery
Sarah Masters Buckey
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Best Young Adult

Winner
Buried
Robin Merrow MacCready
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Crunch Time
Mariah Fredericks
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The Christopher Killer
Alane Ferguson
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The Night My Sister Went Missing
Carol Plum-Ucci
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The Road of the Dead
Kevin Brooks
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Best Critical/Biographical Work

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The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear
E.J. Wagner
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Unless the Threat of Death is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir
John T. Irwin
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Mary Higgins Clark Award

Winner
Bloodline
Fiona Mountain
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