2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

In the Woods
(Winner)
Tana French

Juvenile

The Night Tourist
(Winner)
Katherine Marsh

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Wild Indigo
(Winner)
Sandi Ault

Novel

Down River
(Winner)
John Hart

Paperback Original

Queenpin
(Winner)
Megan Abbott

Young Adult

Rat Life
(Winner)
Tedd Arnold

First Novel

Head Games
(Nominee)
Craig McDonald

Snitch Jacket
(Nominee)
Christopher Goffard

Missing Witness
(Nominee)
Gordon Campbell

Pyres
(Nominee)
Derek Nikitas

Juvenile

Shadows on Society Hill
(Nominee)
Evelyn Coleman

Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things
(Nominee)
Wendelin Van Draanen

Deep and Dark and Dangerous
(Nominee)
Mary Downing Hahn

The Name of this Book Is Secret
(Nominee)
Pseudonymous Bosch

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Inferno
(Nominee)
Karen Harper

The First Stone
(Nominee)
Judith Kelman

In Cold Pursuit
(Nominee)
Sarah Andrews

Novel

Christine Falls
(Nominee)
Benjamin Black

Priest
(Nominee)
Ken Bruen

Soul Patch
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
(Nominee)
Michael Chabon

Paperback Original

Blood of Paradise
(Nominee)
David Corbett

Robbie's Wife
(Nominee)
Russell Hill

Cruel Poetry
(Nominee)
Vicki Hendricks

Who is Conrad Hirst?
(Nominee)
Kevin Wignall

Short Story

Hardly Knew Her
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

Young Adult

Fragments
(Nominee)
Jeffry W. Johnston

Touching Snow
(Nominee)
M. Sindy Felin

Blood Brothers
(Nominee)
S.A. Harazin

Diamonds in the Shadow
(Nominee)
Caroline B. Cooney

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

Award Years

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