Do you love mysteries and thrillers but feel like you’ve
already read everything by your favorite authors? Each spring, the Mystery Writers of America honors the best mysteries of the past
year through its prestigious Edgar Awards.
Check out these great new mystery authors who were this year’s Edgar
nominees for Best First Novels:
2013 Edgar Award Winner
for Best First Novel:
The Expats by Chris Pavone
In this international thriller, an American woman living
abroad with her husband struggles to keep details of her secret prior life
buried. At the same time, she begins to
suspect that her husband and another American couple, with whom they have
become friends, are hiding dangerous secrets of their own.
2013 Edgar Award Runners-up for Best First Novel:
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
In this historical adventure set in 1920’s China and Cambodia,
a young woman embarks on an archaeological quest for a set of ancient scrolls
that may hold the history to Cambodia’s Khmer Empire. In addition to a great adventure, the novel offers
a fascinating look at China during the period of its transition from
colonialism to communism.
Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
In a great blend of humor and mystery, 87-year-old retired
Memphis homicide cop Buck Schatz learns that a former Nazi prison guard, who
beat him mercilessly during his days as a POW, escaped Germany after WWII with a
fortune in stolen gold. With the help of
his grandson, Buck tracks his former tormentor in hopes of bringing him to
justice and retrieving the riches for himself – only to find that a host of
other interested parties are on the former Nazi’s trail as well.
A recent Harvard Law School grad hired by a prestigious
Washington, D.C. consulting firm finds his life threatened when he stumbles
upon corruption among major players in the world of politics – a group of 500
political heavyweights who run Washington from behind the scenes.
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
British-born Maggie Hope, educated in America, returns home to
London in 1940 and finds employment as a secretary to recently-elected Prime Minister
Winston Churchill. With WWII escalating,
Maggie finds that her access to the
inner workings of the Prime Minister’s office and her talent for code-breaking provide
her with a unique opportunity to unravel a plot against the life of Churchill
that may also threaten her own family.
Black Fridays by Michael Sears
Jason Stafford, a young father and former high-flying Wall
Street trader, is released from prison after serving two years for committing a
significant financial fraud. Hired by an
investment firm to try and get ahead of a Federal investigation into its trading
practices, Jake soon discovers that the firm’s sleazy business dealings may reflect
a scandal of epic proportions. Jake's involvement in the dangerous scandal threatens his desperate efforts to regain custody of his autistic son.
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