Topic: Edgar Awards

5 award-winning mystery novels for young adults

Here are five great mystery novels aimed at teenage readers.

5 best mystery books for kids

Thrilling but not too frightening, here are 5 children's mysteries that are great for younger readers.

5 true crime stories you don't want to miss

These five Edgar Award nominees are true-crime stories taken straight from real life.

5 great mystery novels

Here are the five mystery novels that made the cut for the 2012 Edgar Awards.

Ides of March: what to read on March 15

Each year when March 15 rolls around, many of us grope mentally backward to 9th-grade English class and do our best to remember who exactly who it was that warned Julius Caesar to "Beware the ides of March" and why. But in the years since Shakespeare first coined the phrase in 1599 the fatal date has become well ensconced in literature. To bring yourself up to speed on "ides" literature, here's a beginner's list.

5 great mystery books for children

Is there a young mystery aficionado in your life? He or she is sure to love at least one of these five imaginative, engaging books nominated for the 2011 Edgar Award for best juvenile mystery.

5 arresting true crime books

Sometimes truth really is stranger (and scarier!) than fiction. Here are the 2011 Edgar Award nominees for best true crime book.

Edgar Award nominees: 5 mystery novels you don't want to miss

It's Edgar Allen Poe's 202nd birthday and that means that it's time for the announcement of the 2011 Edgar Award nominees as selected by The Mystery Writers of America. These five books are the nominees for best mystery novel. All Edgar award winners will be announced on April 28.

Best books of 2010: fiction

In 2010 Monitor reviewers critiqued hundreds of books. Here's a list of the 11 fiction titles they considered the most outstanding. To assist you with your holiday shopping, each title here has a link that allows you to purchase the book – even as you help to support The Christian Science Monitor

3 noteworthy summer mysteries

These summer thrillers offer adrenaline-fueled trips to Saudi Arabia,Dublin, and the ski slopes.

The Long Goodbye

Spade and Archer

A prequel to ‘The Maltese Falcon’ tells how this unlikely duo came to be.

Best novels of 2008

The Monitor’s annual gift guide to the best fiction books of 2008.

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Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

A 'delicious' Latin music mix, quilts that qualify as art, the Iditarod from the comfort of your sofa, and more.

Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

U2 revisits past successes, Blair and Brown battle it out in 'The Deal' DVD, dogster.com wins barks of approval, and more.

Six picks: Recommendations from the Monitor staff

Wimbledon's Serb dominance, an armchair scientist's ticket to outer space, Inspector Wexford's renewed sleuthing, and more.

Calling all summer sleuths

Boys and girls tackle the mysterious in four new books for ages 9-12.