2015 Edgar Award Nominees

(エドガー賞候補作発表)

Mystery Writers of America has announce the nominees for the 2015 Edgar Allan Poe Awards as follows:

BEST NOVEL

This Dark Road to Mercy, by Wiley Cash (William Morrow)

Wolf, by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic)

Mr. Mercedes, by Stephen King (Scribner)

The Final Silence, by Stuart Neville (Soho Press)

Saints of the Shadow Bible, by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)

Coptown, by Karin Slaughter (Ballantine Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman (W.W. Norton)

Invisible City, by Julia Dahl (Minotaur Books)

The Life We Bury, by Allen Eskens (Seventh Street Books)

Bad Country, by C.B. McKenzie (Minotaur Books)

Shovel Ready, by Adam Sternbergh (Crown)

Murder at the Brightwell, by Ashley Weaver (Minotaur Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Albani (Penguin Books)

Stay With Me, by Alison Gaylin (WilliamMorrow)

The Barkeep, by William Lashner (Thomas and Mercer)

The Day She Died, by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)

The Gone Dead Train, by Lisa Turner (William Morrow)

World of Trouble, by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)

BEST FACT CRIME

Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, by Kevin Cook (W.W. Norton)

The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, by Carl Hoffman (William Morrow)

The Other Side: A Memoir, by Lacy M. Johnson (Tin House Books)

Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, by William Mann (Harper)

The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation, by Harold Schechter (New Harvest)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis, by Charles Brownson (McFarland & Company)

James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, by Jim Mancall (Oxford University Press)

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir, by Robert Miklitsch (University of Illinois Press)

Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film, by Francis M. Nevins (Perfect Crime Books)

Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, by J.W. Ocker (W.W.Norton/Countryman Press)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Snow Angel” by Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2014)

“200 Feet” by John Floyd (The Strand #42, February-May 2014)

“What Do You Do?” by Gillian Flynn (in Rogue, edited by George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois; Bantama Spectra)

“Red Eye” by Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly (in FaceOff, edited by David Baldacci; Simon & Schuster)

“Teddy” by Brian Tobin (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, May 2014)

BEST JUVENILE

Absolutely Truly, by Heather Vogel Frederick (Simon & Schuster)

Space Case, by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster)

Greenglass House, by Kate Milford (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove, by “Science Bob” Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith (Quirk Books)

Saving Kabul Corner ,by N.H. Senzai (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman

Books)

Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile, by Marcia Wells (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

The Doubt Factory, by Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown)

Nearly Gone, by Elle Cosimano (Penguin/Kathy Dawson Books)

Fake ID by Lamar Giles (HarperCollins Children’s Books – Amistad)

The Art of Secrets, by James Klise (Algonquin)

The Prince of Venice Beach, by Blake Nelson (Little, Brown)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

“The Empty Hearse”Sherlock, Teleplay by Mark Gatiss (Hartswood Films/Masterpiece)

“Unfinished Business”Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS)

“Episode 1”Happy Valley, Teleplay by Sally Wainwright (Netflix)

“Dream Baby Dream”The Killing, Teleplay by Sean Whitesell (Netflix)

“Episode 6”The Game, Teleplay by Toby Whithouse (BBC America)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

“Getaway Girl” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Zoë Z. Dean (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, November 2014)

GRAND MASTER

Lois Duncan

James Ellroy

RAVEN AWARDS

Ruth & Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine

Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Charles Ardai, Editor & Founder, Hard Case Crime

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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Tuesday, April 28, 2015)

A Dark and Twisted Tide, by Sharon Bolton (Minotaur Books)

The Stranger You Know, by Jane Casey (Minotaur Books)

Invisible City, by Julia Dahl (Minotaur Books)

Summer of the Dead, by Julia Keller (Minotaur Books)

The Black Hour, by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street

Books)

The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners on Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

(受賞作の発表は4月29日(現地時間)、ニューヨークにて)