2016 Edgar Award Nominees Announced
（エドガー賞候補作発表）
Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced the nominees for the 2016 Edgar Awards as follows:
BEST NOVEL:
The Strangler Vine, by M.J. Carter (Putnam)
The Lady From Zagreb, by Philip Kerr (Putnam)
Life or Death, by Michael Robotham (Mulholland Books)
Let Me Die in His Footsteps, by Lori Roy (Dutton)
Canary, by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books)
Night Life, by David C. Taylor (Forge Books)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR:
Past Crimes, by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
Where All Light Tends to Go, by David Joy (Putnam)
Luckiest Girl Alive, by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)
The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
Unbecoming, by Rebecca Scherm (Viking)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:
The Long and Faraway Gone, by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter, by Malcolm Mackay (Mulholland Books)
What She Knew, by Gilly Macmillan (William Morrow)
Woman with a Blue Pencil, by Gordon McAlpine (Seventh Street Books)
Gun Street Girl, by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books)
The Daughter, by Jane Shemilt (William Morrow)
BEST FACT CRIME:
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the American Genocide, by Eric Bogosian (Little, Brown)
Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him, by T.J. English (William Morrow)
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime, by Val McDermid (Grove Press)
American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic, by John Temple (Lyons Press)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL:
The Golden Age of Murder, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue, by Frederick Forsyth (Putnam)
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (Arcade Publishing)
Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica, by Matthew Parker (Pegasus Books)
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury USA)
BEST SHORT STORY:
“The Little Men” by Megan Abbott (Mysterious Bookshop)
“On Borrowed Time” by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, June 2015)
“The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday”, by Peter Farrelly (Providence Noir; Akashic Books)
“Family Treasures” by Shirley Jackson (Let Me Tell You; Random House)
“Obits” by Stephen King (Bazaar of Bad Dreams; Scribner)
“Every Seven Years” by Denise Mina (Mysterious Bookshop)
BEST JUVENILE:
Catch You Later, Traitor, by Avi (Algonquin/Workman)
If You Find This, by Matthew Baker (Little, Brown)
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head, by Lauren Oliver & H.C.Chester (HarperCollins)
Blackthorn Key, by Kevin Sands (Simon & Schuster/Aladdin)
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy, by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books)
BEST YOUNG ADULT:
Endangered, by Lamar Giles (HarperTeen)
A Madness So Discreet, by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins/Katherine Tegen Books)
The Sin Eater’s Daughter, by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic Press)
The Walls Around Us, by Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin/Workman)
Ask the Dark, by Henry Turner (Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Books)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY:
“Episode 7” – Broadchurch, Teleplay by Chris Chibnall (BBC America)
“Gently with the Women” – George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)
“Elise – The Final Mystery” – Foyle’s War, Teleplay by Anthony Horowitz (Acorn TV)
“Terra Incognita” – Person of Interest, Teleplay by Erik Mountain & Melissa Scrivner Love (CBS/Warner Brothers)
“The Beating of her Wings” – Ripper Street, Teleplay by Richard Warlow (BBC America)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD:
“Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick” by Russell W. Johnson (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2015)
GRAND MASTER RECIPIENT:
Walter Mosley
RAVEN AWARD RECIPIENTS:
Margaret Kinsman
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD RECIPIENT:
Janet Rudolph, Founder of Mystery Readers International
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD:
A Woman Unknown, by Frances Brody (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Book)
The Masque of a Murderer, by Suzanne Calkins (Minotaur Books)
Night Night, Sleep Tight, by Hallie Ephron (HWilliam Morrow)
The Child Garden, by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
Little Pretty Things, by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)
All the winners will be announced at the Edgar Banquet on April 28 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City, except for the Mary Higgins Clard Award, which will be announced on April 27.
（受賞作の発表は４月28日。メアリー・ヒギンズ・クラーク賞の受賞作は27日に発表となる）