2016 Edgar Award Winners Announced

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Mystery Writers of America announced on April 28 the winners for the 2016 Edgar Award as follows:

BEST NOVEL: LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS, by Lori Roy (Dutton)

Best First Novel: THE SYMPATHIZER, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)

Best Paperback Original: THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE, by Lou Berney (Morrow)

Best Short Story: “Obits,” by Stephen King (in BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS, Simon & Schuster)

Best Fact Crime: WHIPPING BOY, by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)

Best Critical/Biographical: THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)

Best Juvenile: FOOTER DAVIS PROBABLY IS CRAZY, by Susan Vaught (Simon &Shuster)

Best Young Adult: A MADNESS SO DISCREET, by Mindy McGinnis (Scholastic)

Best TV Episode Teleplay: “Gently with the Women,” by Peter Flannery (in ”George Gently”; Acorn TV)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: “Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick,” by Russell W. Johnson (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, January 2015)

Grand Master Award: Walter Mosley

Raven Awards (separately): Margaret Kinsman and Sisters in Crime

Ellery Queen Award: Janet Rudolph, founder of Mystery Readers International

Mary Higgins Clark Award: LITTLE PRETTY THINGS, by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)

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