The Lock Artist

Edgar Award (Best Novel) · 2011 · Winner

Minotaur BooksJanuary 12, 2010mystery-crimeISBN 9780312380342

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Edgar Award (Best Novel)	2011	Winner

About This Book

Eighteen-year-old Mike has been mute since a traumatic incident at age eight, but possesses a remarkable gift for opening locks. His talent makes him valuable to dangerous people and plunges him into a criminal underworld. Edgar Award winner for Best Novel.

About the Author

Steve HamiltonAmerican

Steve Hamilton is an American crime novelist known for the Alex McKnight series set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He won the Edgar Award for Best Novel for The Lock Artist, a standalone thriller told by a teenage safecracker.