The 2014 Edgar Award winners have been announced:. Read more about six of the winners below including full length reviews and backstories of three of the books:
- Edgar Award for Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
- Edgar Award for Best First Novel: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
- Edgar Award for Best Paperback: Wicked Girls by Stephanie Hemphill
- Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime: The Hour of Peril by Daniel Stashower
- Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical:America Is Elsewhere by Erik Dussere
- Edgar Award for Young Adult: Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
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