Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American AuthorCheck all the winners of Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 |
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Jason Matthews | Red Sparrow (Simon & Schuster - Scribner) |
| 2013 |
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Chris Pavone | The Expats |
| 2012 |
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Lori Roy | Bent Road |
| 2011 |
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Bruce DeSilva | Rogue Island |
| 2010 |
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Stefanie Pintoff | In the Shadow of Gotham |
| 2009 |
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Francie Lin | The Foreigner |
| 2008 |
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Tana French | In the Woods |
| 2007 |
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Alex Berenson | The Faithful Spy |
| 2006 |
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Theresa Schwegel | Officer Down |
| 2005 |
|
Don Lee | Country of Origin |
| 2004 |
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Rebecca Pawel | Death of a Nationalist (Soho Press) |
| 2003 |
|
Jonathon King | The Blue Edge of Midnight |
| 2002 |
|
David Ellis | Line of Vision |
| 2001 |
|
David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel |
| 2000 |
|
Eliot Pattison | The Skull Mantra |
| 1999 |
|
Steve Hamilton | A Cold Day in Paradise |
| 1998 |
|
Joseph Kanon | Los Alamos |
| 1997 |
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John Morgan Wilson | Simple Justice: A Benjamin Justice Mystery |
| 1996 |
|
David Housewright | Penance |
| 1995 |
|
George Dawes Green | The Caveman's Valentine |
| 1994 |
|
Laurie R. King | A Grave Talent |
| 1993 |
|
Michael Connelly | The Black Echo |
| 1992 |
|
Peter Blauner | Slow Motion Riot |
| 1991 |
|
Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem |
| 1990 |
|
Susan Wolfe | The Last Billable Hour |
| 1989 |
|
David Stout | Carolina Skeletons |
| 1988 |
|
Deidre S. Laiken | Death Among Strangers |
| 1987 |
|
Larry Beinhart | No One Rides for Free |
| 1986 |
|
Jonathan Kellerman | When the Bough Breaks |
| 1985 |
|
Richard Rosen | Strike Three You're Dead |
| 1984 |
|
Will Harriss | The Bay Psalm Book Murder |
| 1983 |
|
Thomas Perry | The Butcher's Boy |
| 1982 |
|
Stuart Woods | Chiefs |
| 1981 |
|
Kay Nolte Smith | The Watcher |
| 1980 |
|
Richard North Patterson | The Lasko Tangent |
| 1979 |
|
William L. DeAndrea | Killed in the Ratings |
| 1978 |
|
Robert Ross | A French Finish |
| 1977 |
|
James Patterson | The Thomas Berryman Number |
| 1976 |
|
Rex Burns | The Alvarez Journal |
| 1975 |
|
Gregory Mcdonald | Fletch |
| 1974 |
|
Paul Erdman | The Billion Dollar Sure Thing |
| 1973 |
|
R. H. Shimer | Squaw Point |
| 1972 |
|
Albert H. Z. Carr | Finding Maubee |
| 1971 |
|
Lawrence Sanders | The Anderson Tapes |
| 1970 |
|
Joe Gores | A Time of Predators |
| 1969 |
|
Dorothy Uhnak | The Bait |
| 1969 |
|
E. Johnson | Silver Street |
| 1968 |
|
Michael Collins | Act of Fear |
| 1967 |
|
Ross Thomas | The Cold War Swap |
| 1966 |
|
John Ball | In the Heat of the Night |
| 1965 |
|
Harry Kemelman | Friday the Rabbi Slept Late |
| 1964 |
|
Cornelius Hirschberg | Florentine Finish |
| 1963 |
|
Robert L. Fish | The Fugitive |
| 1962 |
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Suzanne Blanc | The Green Stone |
| 1961 |
|
Jack Vance | The Man in the Cage |
| 1960 |
|
Henry Slesar | The Gray Flannel Shroud |
| 1959 |
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Richard Martin Stern | The Bright Road to Fear |
| 1958 |
|
William Rawle Weeks | Knock and Wait a While |
| 1957 |
|
Donald McNutt Douglass | Rebecca's Pride |
| 1956 |
|
Lane Kauffmann | The Perfectionist |
| 1955 |
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Jean Potts | Go, Lovely Rose |
| 1954 |
|
Ira Levin | A Kiss Before Dying |
| 1953 |
|
William Campbell Gault | Don't Cry for Me |
| 1952 |
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Mary McMullen | Strangle Hold |
| 1951 |
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Thomas Walsh | Nightmare in Manhattan |
| 1950 |
|
Alan Green | What a Body! |
| 1949 |
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Mildred B. Davis | The Room Upstairs |
| 1948 |
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Fredric Brown | The Fabulous Clipjoint |
| 1947 |
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Helen Eustis | The Horizontal Man |
| 1946 |
|
Julius Fast | Watchful at Night |
