The Mystery Writers of America have just announced the shortlists for
their Edgar Awards.
Best Novel Nominees
* Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt and Company)
* Priest by Ken Bruen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
* The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
* Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
* Down River by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Best First Novel By An American Author
* Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
* In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group – Viking)
* Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard (The Rookery Press)
* Head Games by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
* Pyres by Derek Nikitas (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Best Paperback Original
* Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
* Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Random House – Mortalis)
* Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks (Serpent’s Tail)
* Robbie’s Wife by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
* Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)
Best Critical/Biographical
* The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson (Random House)
* A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational by Maurizio Ascari (Palgrave Macmillan)
* Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou (Palgrave Macmillan)
* Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
* Chester Gould: A Daughter’s Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O’Connell (McFarland & Company)
Best Fact Crime
* The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert (Penguin Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
* Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company
* Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn’t Commit by Kerry Max Cook (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
* Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn’t Quit by Kevin Flynn (Penguin Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
* Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson (Penguin Group – Viking)
Best Short Story
* “The Catch” – Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
* “Blue Note” – Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Bleak House Books)
* “Hardly Knew Her” – Dead Man’s Hand by Laura Lippman (Harcourt Trade Publishers)
* “The Golden Gopher” – Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books
* “Uncle” – A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell (Busted Flush Press)
Best Young Adult
* Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin – Dial Books for Young Readers)
* Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
* Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing – Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
* Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
* Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing – Simon Pulse)
Best Juvenile
* The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
* Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
* Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
* The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
* Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)
The Simon & Schuster –
Mary Higgins Clark Award
* In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
* Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
* Inferno by Karen Harper (Harlequin – MIRA Books)
* The First Stone by Judith Kelman (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
* Deadman’s Switch by Barbara Seranella (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
* “The Catch” – Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
