Claim: Lucretia Grindle's 2006 Face of Angels was nominated for an Edgar Award and was cited by the BBC Radio Four's Front Row as one of the six best thrillers of the year.
Evidence: The Faces of Angels, published in the UK in 2006 and cited by BBC Radio 4's Front Row as one of the six best thrillers of the year, was the first of three novels by Grindle to combine elements of psychological suspense with the police procedural genre in an Italian setting, having a common character in Florentine ispettore Alessandro Pallioti, with the two followup novels having the additional dimension of "interweaving modern plots with story lines set [at] critical moments in Italian 20th century history. The Faces of Angels was nominated for an Edgar Award for best original paperback novel for 2012 the novel being published that year as a US trade paperback; The Villa Triste – longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award upon its 2010 UK publication – was published in the US (as Villa Triste) in 2013 while The Lost Daughter had UK and US publishing dates of respectively 2011 and 2015.