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2009 Edgar® Nominees
Winners are listed in Red.
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Best Novel Nominees
- Missing by Karin Alvtegen (Felony & Mayhem Press)
- Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
- Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
- The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
- The Night Following by Morag Joss (Random House – Delacorte Press)
- Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)
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- The Kind One by Tom Epperson (Five Star, div of Cengage)
- Sweetsmoke by David Fuller (Hyperion)
- The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)
- Calumet City by Charlie Newton (Simon & Schuster - Touchstone)
- A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock (Random House - Doubleday)
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Best Paperback Original
- The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr (Random House Trade)
- Money Shot by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
- Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney (Random House - Dell)
- China Lake by Meg Gardiner (New American Library – Obsidian Mysteries)
- The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli (Random House - Bantam)
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Best Critical/Biographical
- African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland & Company)
- Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto (Columbia University Press)
- Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin (McFarland & Company)
- The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley (Greenwood Publishing – Praeger)
- Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Sterling Publishing – Metro Books)
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