Velvet Was the Night
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Curated category · 2006—2025
Best mystery & crime
Award-winning and editorially recommended mystery & crime across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
- Selections
- 386
- Authors
- 306
- Lists & prizes
- 2
Showing 193–240 of 386
We Are Watching Eliza Bright: A Novel
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We Run the Tides: A Novel
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We Were Never Here: A Novel
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Who is Maud Dixon? A Novel
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Widespread Panic: A Novel
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A Shadow Intelligence
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Agency
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Amnesty: A Novel
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Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel
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Blackwood
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Catherine House: A Novel
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Djinn Patrol On The Purple Line
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Leave The World Behind: A Novel
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Long Bright River: A Novel
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Mexican Gothic
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Moonflower Murders: A Novel
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Piranesi
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Sisters: A Novel
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Slippery Creatures
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Survivor Song: A Novel
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The Missing American
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The Only Good Indians
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The Searcher: A Novel
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The Space Between Worlds
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The Stranger Diaries
Edgar Award for Best Novel
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
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Winter Counts: A Novel
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A Friend Is A Gift You Give Yourself: A Novel
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Agent Running In The Field: A Novel
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American Spy: A Novel
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Any Old Diamonds
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Black Souls
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Conviction
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Disappearing Earth: A Novel
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Down the River Unto the Sea
Edgar Award for Best Novel
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead: A Novel
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Heaven, My Home
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Magic For Liars: A Novel
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Recursion: A Novel
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The Other End Of The Line
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The Sentence Is Death: A Novel
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The Wolf And The Watchman: A Novel
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Bitter Orange
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Bluebird, Bluebird
Edgar Award for Best Novel
City Of Ash And Red: A Novel
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Greeks Bearing Gifts
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Grist Mill Road: A Novel
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