Edgar® Awards winners announced
The Edgar® Nominees
See the list of nominees as a press release (PDF)
• Novel • First Novel • Paperback Original • Fact Crime • Critical/Biographical • Short Story • Juvenile • Young Adult • Play • TV Episode • Robert L. Fish Memorial • Mary Higgins Clark • Grand Master • Raven • Ellery Queen
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)
--> 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)
Best First Novel
Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group - Spiegel & Grau)
Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
--> Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)
Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
--> Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)
Best Paperback Original
--> The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group - Orbit Books)
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio - Caravel Mystery Books)
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio - Caravel Mystery Books)
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Best Fact Crime
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
--> Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House - Doubleday)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA - Berkley)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
--> Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House - Doubleday)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA - Berkley)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
Best Critical Biographical
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin's Griffin)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
--> On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
--> On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)
Best Short Story
"Marley's Revolution" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow's Dead" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle" - Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" - Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" - A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group - Bantam Books)
--> "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow's Dead" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle" - Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" - Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" - A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group - Bantam Books)
--> "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)
Best Juvenile
Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams - Amulet Books)
It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group - Disney Hyperion)
--> Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)
It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group - Disney Hyperion)
--> Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)
Young Adult
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
--> The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children's Books - Knopf BFYR)
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children's Publishing Group - Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
--> The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children's Books - Knopf BFYR)
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children's Publishing Group - Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)
Play
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, AZ)
--> The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH)
--> The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH)
TV Episode
"Innocence" - Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (CBS Productions)
"The Life Inside" - Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
"Part 1" - Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
--> "Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
"Mask" - Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)
"The Life Inside" - Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
"Part 1" - Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
--> "Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
"Mask" - Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)
Robert L. Fish Memorial
"A Good Man of Business" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram (Dell Magazines)
Mary Higgins Clark
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow)
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
--> Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow)
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
--> Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)
Grand Master
Martha Grimes
Raven
M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries