Razorblade Tears

Gold Dagger Award · 2022 · ShortlistAnthony Award for Best Novel · 2022 · WinnerEdgar Award (Best Novel) · 2022 · Shortlist

Flatiron BooksJuly 6, 2021mystery-crimeISBN 9781250252777

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Gold Dagger Award	2022	Shortlist
Anthony Award for Best Novel	2022	Winner	“Cosby's second Anthony win came for a powerful novel of fathers, grief, and vengeance that confronted homophobia and racism with equal unflinching honesty.”
Edgar Award (Best Novel)	2022	Shortlist

About This Book

Two ex-convicts—one Black, one white—are forced to confront their own prejudices when their sons, who were married to each other, are brutally murdered, and they team up to find the killers.

About the Author

S. A. CosbyUS

S.A. Cosby is an American crime fiction author from Gloucester County, Virginia, known for his hardboiled crime novels set in the American South. He is one of the most celebrated voices in contemporary crime fiction, praised for his kinetic prose, complex characters, and unflinching depictions of race, class, and violence in rural Virginia. Read more →