MWA Announces 2012 Edgar Nominations
Mystery Writers of America has announced the nomineesfor the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The Edgar Awards will be announced and presented on April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York, New York.
BEST NOVEL
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA G.P.Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic Atlantic MonthlyPress)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (MinotaurBooks)
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 BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House PublishingGroup Spiegel & Grau)
Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The PermanentPress)
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 (HachetteBook 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 (HarperCollinsPublishers Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House TradePaperbacks)
BEST FACT CRIME
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime ThatScandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins(Crown Publishing)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on theEdge by T.J. English (HarperCollins William Morrow)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine andthe Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House -Doubleday)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by SteveMiller (Penguin Group USA – Berkley)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise andSpectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin GroupUSA – Viking)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and theSecrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by DanBurstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin’sGriffin)
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 DetectiveFilm by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie byWalter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of IllinoisPress)
BEST SHORTSTORY
“Marley’s Revolution” Alfred HitchcockMystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
“Tomorrow’s Dead” Ellery Queen MysteryMagazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
“The Adakian Eagle” Down These StrangeStreets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA Ace Books)
“Lord John and the Plague of Zombies” DownThese Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA ミAce Books)
“The Case of Death and Honey” A Study inSherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group ミBantam Books)
“The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of theTrain” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by PeterTurnbull (Dell Magazines)
BEST JUVENILE
Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams AmuletBooks)
It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group DisneyHyperion)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey(Egmont USA)
BEST YOUNGADULT
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin YoungReaders Group G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (RandomHouse Children’s Books Knopf BFYR)
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (MacmillanChildren’s Publishing Group Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)
BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Clubby Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, AZ)
The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse,Cleveland, OH)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODETELEPLAY
“Innocence” Blue Bloods, Teleplayby Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS Productions)
“The Life Inside” Justified,Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell(FX Productions and Sony PicturesTelevision)
“Part 1” Whitechapel, Teleplay byBen Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
“Pilot” Homeland, Teleplay by AlexGansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
“Mask” Law & Order: SVU,Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
“A Good Man of Business” Ellery QueenMystery Magazine by David Ingram (Dell Magazines)
GRAND MASTER
Martha Grimes
RAVEN AWARDS
Mis for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
JoeMeyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARKAWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday,April 25, 2012)
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollinsPublishers William Morrow)
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown PublishingGroup)
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books Thomas Dunne Books)