#best first novel

When The Black Echo was published in 1992, it emerged without the usual fanfare that accompanies a major debut. Yet even before the novel quietly won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, crime-fiction critics sensed something different. Here was a w

On Wednesday, July 12, at an invitation-only cocktail party in Manhattan, Tana French won the Strand Critics Award for Best Novel for The Trespasser (Viking Penguin). Heather Young won the Best First Novel award for The Lost Girls (William Morrow). A