2004 Edgar Award Winners and Nominees

Best Novel

Winner

Resurrection Man by Ian Rankin

Rebus is sent for "re-education" with other maverick cops

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Other Nominees

The Guards by Ken Bruen

Introduces ex-Galway cop Jack Taylor in a noir Irish novel appealing to Rankin fans

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Out by Natsuo Kirino

A dark story of four Tokyo factory women brought together by a horrible crime

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Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

delightful debut set in '20s England introduces title character who rises from house servant to private investigator

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Best First Novel

Winner

Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel

young sergeant in the Guardia Civilia find that things are not as they seem in Franco's Spain

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Other Nominees

12 Bliss Street by Martha Conway

hip, sexy thriller of woman who wants a little excitement in her life and gets more than she bargained for

Out of Print

Offer of Proof by Robert Heilbrun

public defender takes on seemingly hopeless case

Out of Print

Night of the Dance by James Hime

retired Texas Ranger takes on old missing persons case

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Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer

wonderfullly atmospheric novel set in Easter Europe shortly after the War

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Best Paperback Original

Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh

woman finds body in swimming pool and mysterious missing manuscript

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Cut and Run by Jeff Abbott

Excellent addition to the Whit Mosely series has his long-gone mother resurfacing

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The Last Witness by Joel Goldman

Kansas City attorney Lou Mason in a mystery with political overtones

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Wisdom of the Bones by Christopher Hyde

desDallas cop pursues serial killer midst the chaos of the Kennedy assassinationcrip

Out of Print

Southland by Nina Revoyr

Japanese-American law student obsessed with uncovering her family history and solving a murder

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Mary Higgins Clark Award

Winner

Ricochet by Nancy Baker Jacobs

A young mother's abusive husband winds up a corpse

Out of Print

Other Nominees

A Bloodhound to Die For by Virginia Lanier

The long-awaited and sadly last of the Jo Beth Siddons series

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The Samurai's Daughter by Sujata Massey

Rei Shimura returns home and becomes involved in a slave labor reparations case from WW II

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The Body in the Lighthouse by Katherine Hall Page

Faith Sibley, on vacation on the coast, uncovers forces seeking to wreck this pristine environment

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Song of the Bones by Marcia K. Preston

Chantalene becomes involved in a complex case of long-lost husbands, oil deals and imposters

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