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Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is a professional organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday. It presents the Edgar Award, a small bust of Edgar Allan Poe, to mystery or crime writers every year. It presents the Raven Award to non-writers, who contribute to the mystery genre. The category of Best Juvenile Mystery is also part of the Edgar Award, with such notable recipients as Barbara Brooks Wallace having won the honor twice, for The Twin in the Tavern in 1994 and Sparrows in the Scullery in 1998, and Tony Abbott for his novel The Postcard, which received critical accolades in 2009. Grand Master Award The Grand Master Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America. It recognizes lifetime achievement and consistent quality. (The award was presented irregularly up to 1978; from 1979 to 2008, it was given to one writer each year. Since 2009, as many as three authors have been honored annually.) In 2018, the Mystery Writers of America announced that it would honor best-selling author and former prosecutor Linda Fairstein with one of its Grand Master Awards for literary achievement. But two days after controversy erupted in connection with her alleged role in the Central Park jogger case, the organization withdrew the honor. Raven Award The Raven Awards are recorded in the Edgars Database of the Mystery Writers of America. See also The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time, selected by active MWA members in 1995 Crime Writers' Association Crime Writers of Canada Mystery Writers of Japan Swedish Crime Writers' Academy References External links Official website. Discover the Mystery Writers Of America popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Mystery Writers Of America books.
Best Seller Mystery Writers Of America Books of 2024
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Cold Choices
Larry BondFollowing the events Jerry Mitchell encountered in Dangerous Ground, the pilotturnedsubmarine officer is now a department head, the navigator, aboard USS Seawolf. Now on a mission ...
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A Red Death
Walter MosleyIt's 1953 in Redbaiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business wh...
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Mystery Writers of America Presents Ice Cold
Jeffery Deaver & Raymond BensonNuclear brinksmanship. Psychological warfare. Spies, double agents, femme fatales, and dead drops. The Cold Wara terrifying time when nuclear war between the world's two superpow...
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The Stargazey
Martha GrimesSaturday night. It was not a night to be spending alone, riding a bus. When he was a teenager at the comprehensive, Saturday night without a girl, without a date, without at least ...
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The Man with a Load of Mischief
Martha GrimesFrom bestselling author Martha Grimes, Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury is back on the case in an installment in the Richard Jury Mystery series. Long Piddleton had always be...
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The Man from the Train
Bill James & Rachel McCarthy JamesAn Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…openeyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows leg...
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A Small Place
Jamaica KincaidA brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antiguaby the author of Annie John"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you wi...
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The Old Fox Deceived
Martha GrimesIt is a chilly and foggy Twelfth Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward piece of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that pr...
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The Accursed
Joyce Carol Oates"Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s finest postmodern Gothic novel: E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problemat...
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So Much for That
Lionel Shriver“Shriver has a gift for creating real and complicated characters… A highly engrossing novel.” San Francisco Chronicle From New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver (The Po...
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Getaway
Nelson DeMille & Lisa ScottolineIn this short story from the International Thriller Writers’ anthology MatchUp, bestselling authors Nelson DeMille and Lisa Scottolinealong with their popular series characters Joh...
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Pleasantville
Attica LockeWINNER OF THE HARPER LEE PRIZE FOR LEGAL FICTIONWall Street Journal BEST BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFrom Attica Locke, a writer and produc...
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Mystery Writers of America Presents The Mystery Box
Brad MeltzerThere's nothing more mysterious than a locked box. Whether it's a literal strongbox, an empty coffin, the inner workings of a scientist's mind, or an underground prison cell, there...
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Vertigo 42
Martha GrimesThe inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: “Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her ...
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I Am No One You Know
Joyce Carol OatesI Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rar...
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Deadly Anniversaries
Marcia Muller & Bill PronziniA Best Book of 2020 from Suspense Magazine Deadly Anniversaries celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Mystery Writers of America with a collection of stories from some of the top ...
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Roberto Bolaño & Natasha WimmerA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM "ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS" (JAMES WOOD, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) ...
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How to Write a Mystery
Mystery Writers of AmericaFrom 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteriesfrom character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers“this is a ...
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas PrestonThe #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston ...
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Portrait in Sepia
Isabel AllendeA sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship. Au...
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Howloween Murder
Laurien BerensonAs the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, counts down to a spooky celebration on October 31st, a horrifying murder leaves Melanie Travis pawing for clues in a hairraising game of tric...
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The Horse You Came in On
Martha GrimesThe murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sargeant Wiggins, Jury arr...
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Ring Shout
P. Djeli ClarkNebula, Locus, and Alex Awardwinner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror“...
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Send Bygraves
Martha GrimesIn Send Bygraves, Martha Grimes has given us her most fascinating book, a dramatic mystery poem that uses the conventions of the traditional British mystery to explore the very nat...
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Manhattan Mayhem
Mary Higgins Clark, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Thomas H. Cook & T. Jefferson ParkerFrom Wall Street to Harlem, the borough of Manhattan is the setting for allnew stories of mystery, murder, and suspense, presented by bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark and feat...
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Overthrow
Stephen KinzerStephen Kinzer's Overthrow provides a fastpaced narrative history of the coups, revolutions, and invasions by which the United States has toppled fourteen foreign governments not ...
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White Butterfly
Walter MosleyThe police don't show up on Easy Rawlins's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956, and it takes more than one murdered black girl before the cops get interested...
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Magic Hour
Susan IsaacsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSusan Isaacs brings her wicked wit and keen understanding of what really goes on between men and women to a very different slice of Long Islandthe Ham...
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Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
Vendela VidaOn the day of her father's funeral, twentyeightyearold Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, an...
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Outer Banks
Anne Rivers Siddons“Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done. . . incredibly rich characterizations and a profound sense of place.” Cosm...
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The Tattooed Girl
Joyce Carol OatesJoshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his muchprized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwit...
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Mystery Writers of America Presents The Prosecution Rests
Linda Fairstein & Mystery Writers of America, Inc.After the crime is over, the real drama begins. That's what this riveting collection proves as it carries us from the witch trials to Depressionera Chicago to today's higheststakes...
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The Old Contemptibles
Martha GrimesFollowing a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation. Detained in Londo...
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Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance
Lee Child & Mystery Writers of America, Inc.When a different kind of justice is needed swift, effective, and personal a new type of avenger must take action. Vengeance features new stories by bestselling crime writers incl...
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Mystery Writers of America Presents The Blue Religion
Michael Connelly & Mystery Writers of America, Inc.Taking us from smoggy Los Angeles to the woods of Idaho, from Hawaii at the turn of the twentieth century to the postCivil War frontier, these riveting stories trace the perils and...
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The Deserter
Nelson DeMille & Alex DemilleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn “outstanding” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) blistering thriller featuring a brilliant and unorthodox Army investigator, his enigmatic female partn...
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The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook
Kate White, Harlan Coben, Gillian Flynn, Mary Higgins Clark & Brad MeltzerEnjoy over 100 recipes and murderously fun facts from legendary mystery authors like Sue Grafton, Louise Penny, Harlan Coben, and James Patterson! With art deco embellishments and...
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A Kiss Gone Bad
Jeff AbbottMeet Whit Mosely in this "intricately woven, fastmoving mystery" as he plays a twisted game of death from the New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Abbot (Publishers Weekly).A de...
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Coronado
Dennis LehaneNow available with a contemporary look, a musthave collection of riveting short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island.“Locations are...
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The Cuban Affair
Nelson DeMilleNelson DeMille’s #1 New York Times bestseller, “an actionpacked, relentlessly paced thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), featuring DeMille’s newest characterU.S. Army com...
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Jerusalem Inn
Martha GrimesFrom the rough but colorful pub that provides the book’s title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphereor thwarted romanc...
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The All of It
Jeannette Haien“A quiet little stunner, written with the sure hand of an artist and the ear of a seasoned storyteller.” St. Louis PostDispatchJeannette Haien’s awardwinning first novel relates th...
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The Lazarus Files
Matthew McGoughA deeplyreported, riveting account of a cold case murder in Los Angeles, unsolved until DNA evidence implicated a shocking suspect – a female detective within the LAPD’s own ranks....
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The River We Remember
William Kent KruegerAN EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestse...
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Mr. Dickens and His Carol
Samantha Silva"CHARMING...I READ IT IN A COUPLE OF EBULLIENT, CHRISTMASSY GULPS." Anthony Doerr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See"GRACED BY THE GHOSTLY PRESENC...
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The Case Has Altered
Martha GrimesThe sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter. Mysteriously lit, it was as if the watery, colorless land refused drabness, stood determinedly again...
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The Way of All Fish
Martha GrimesAn “absurdly amusing” (The New York Times Book Review) sequel to Martha Grimes’s bestselling novel, Foul Matter, this wicked satire of the publishing industry is “comic, caustic, a...
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Across the Rio Colorado
Ralph ComptonAcross rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . .Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men...
