Cozy Mystery List
A Guide to Cozy Mystery (and Other Favorite) Books and DVDs
 

 EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD
BEST YOUNG ADULT

2008:  Rat Life by Tedd Arnold
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston

2007:  Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Winner)
The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks
The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks
The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci

2006:  Last Shot by John Feinstein (Winner)
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams
Quid Pro Quo by Vicki Grant
Spy Goddess, Book One: Live & Let Shop by Michael Spradlin
Young Bond, Book One: Silverfin by Charlie Higson

2005:  In Darkness, Death by Dorothy Hoobler & Thomas Hoobler (Winner)
Jude by Kate Morgenroth
Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly
Story Time by Edward Bloor
The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick

2004:  Acceleration by Graham McNamee (Winner)
Death and the Arrow by Chris Priestly
Feast of Fools by Bridget Crowley
The Last Treasure by Janet Anderson
Uncovering Sadie's Secrets by Libby Sternberg

2003:  The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3 by Daniel Parker (Winner)
Cheating Lessons by Nan Willard Cappo
Hit and Run by Mark Delaney
Safe House by Jenny Carroll
The Night the Penningtons Vanished by Marianna Heusler

2002:  The Boy in the Burning House by Tim Wynne-Jones (Winner)
Dark Secrets Don't Tell by Elizabeth Chandler
Death on Sacred Ground by Harriet K. Feder
Shades of Simon Gray by Joyce McDonald
Witch Hill by Marcus Sedgwick

2001:  Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin  (Winner)
Locked Inside by Nancy Werlin 
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg 
The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci 

2000:  Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde  (Winner)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
That Kind of Money by Vicki Cameron 
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler

1999: The Killer's Cousin by Nancy Werlin (Winner)
Finn by Katharine Jay Bacon
For Mike by Shelley Sykes
Paperquake by Kathryn Reiss
The Maze by Will Hobbs

1998: Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs (Winner)
Deal with a Ghost by Marilyn Sanger
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Thin Ice by Marsha Qualey
Yesterday's Child by Sonia Levitin

1997: Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts (Winner)
Flyers by Daniel Hayes
Hawk Moon by Rob MacGregor
Mr. Was by Peter Hautman
Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? by Mel Glenn

1996: Prophecy Rock by Rob MacGregor (Winner)
Angel's Gate by Gary Crew
In the Middle of the Night by Robert Cormier
Spirit Seeker by Joan Lowery Nixon
Spying on Miss Muller by Eve Bunting

1995: Toughing It by Nancy Springer (Winner)
Pale Phoenix by Kathryn Reiss
Poison by Alane Ferguson
Shadowmaker by Joan Lowery Nixon
The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike

1994: The Name of the Game Was Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon (Winner)
Class Trip by Bebe Faas Rice
Help Wanted by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Silent Witness by Patricia H. Rushford
Strange Objects by Gary Crew

1993: A Little Bit Dead by Chap Reaver (Winner)
Breaking the Fall by Michael Cadnum
The Highest Form of Killing by Malcolm Rose
The One Who Came Back by Joann Mazzio
The Weekend Was Murder by Joan Lowery Nixon

1992: The Weirdo by Theodore Taylor (Winner)
Calling Home by Michael Cadnum
Scarface by Peter Nelson
The Christmas Killer by Patricia Windsor
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier

1991: Mote by Chap Reaver (Winner)
Guilt Trip by Stephen Schwandt
The Secret Keeper by Gloria Whelan
Zachary by Ernest Pintoff

1990: Show Me the Evidence by Alane Ferguson (Winner)
Fell Back by M.E. Kerr
Remember Me by Christopher Pike
Sniper by Theodore Taylor
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi

1989: Incident at Loring Groves by Sonia Levitin (Winner)
Second Fiddle by Ronald Kidd
Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman
The Accident by Todd Strasser
The Falcon Sting by Barbara Brenner