Looking for a great mystery?
Below, we’ve created a special literary mixtape linking to free samples of books nominated for the 2012 Edgar Awards–the Mystery Writers of America’s newly revealed picks for the best books of the year.
The winners will be revealed at a banquet ceremony on April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

Best Novel
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)

For the other lists and links go here.