The 2017 Edgar Award Nominations for Best Novel, Best First Novel, Best Paperback Original

The Edgar Awards will be handed out on April 27, 2017, in Manhattan.

I've read almost all the Best Novel and Best First Novel nominees. Usually I try to read the Best Paperback Originals as well, but I've fallen way short of that mark. I have read other books by Tyler Dilts, Robert Dugoni, and Adrian McKinty, and I can see why they were nominated. I'll keep trying. (Last year the book I most enjoyed was a paperback original!) I'll add links as I read more. 

Click on the title for my review.

Best Novel

• The Ex by Alafair Burke (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper) 
• Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)

Best First Novel

• Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)
• Dodgers by Bill Beverly (Crown Publishing Group)
• IQ by Joe Ide (Little, Brown & Company – Mulholland Books)
• The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright (Penguin Random House –Marian Wood Book/Putnam)
• The Lost Girls by Heather Young (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Best Paperback Original

• Shot in Detroit by Patricia Abbott (Polis Books)
• Come Twilight by Tyler Dilts (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer) 
• The 7th Canon by Robert Dugoni (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
• Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
• A Brilliant Death by Robin Yocum (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
• Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)