2017 Edgar Award Nominees Annouced

(エドガー賞候補作発表)

The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced the nominees for the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Awards as follows:

BEST NOVEL

 The Ex by Alafair Burke (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)

 Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

 Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

 What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

 Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

 Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)

 Dodgers by Bill Beverly (Crown Publishing Group)※早川書房より刊行予定

 IQ by Joe Ide (Little, Brown & Company – Mulholland Books)

 The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

 Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

 The Lost Girls by Heather Young (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

 Shot in Detroit by Patricia Abbott (Polis Books)

 Come Twilight by Tyler Dilts (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)

 The 7th Canon by Robert Dugoni (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)

 Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

 A Brilliant Death by Robin Yocum (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

 Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

BEST FACT CRIME

 Morgue: A Life in Death by Dr. Vincent DiMaio & Ron Franscell (St. Martin’s Press)

 The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

 Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder That Shocked Victorian England by Paul Thomas Murphy (Pegasus Books)

 While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man’s Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders (Penguin Random House – Viking Books)

 The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale (Penguin Random House – Penguin Press)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

 Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Random House – Nan A. Talese)

 Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967 by Mitzi M. Brunsdale (McFarland & Company)

 Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (W.W. Norton – Liveright)

 Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal (W.W. Norton – Liveright)

BEST SHORT STORY

 “Oxford Girl”Mississippi Noir by Megan Abbott (Akashic Books)

 “A Paler Shade of Death”St. Louis Noir by Laura Benedict (Akashic Books)

 “Autumn at the Automat”In Sunlight or in Shadow by Lawrence Block (Pegasus Books)

 “The Music Room”In Sunlight or in Shadow by Stephen King (Pegasus Books)

 “The Crawl Space” by Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Sep/Oct 2016)

BEST JUVENILE

 Summerlost by Ally Condie (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton BFYR)

 OCDaniel by Wesley King (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)

 The Bad Kid by Sarah Lariviere by (Simon & Schuster – Simon & Schuster BFYR)

 Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand (Simon & Schuster – Simon & Schuster BFYR)

 Framed! by James Ponti (Simon & Schuster – Aladdin)

 Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

 Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger (Simon & Schuster – Simon Pulse)

 The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Henry Holt BFYR)

 Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown BFYR)

 My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier (Soho Press – Soho Teen)

 Thieving Weasels by Billy Taylor (Penguin Random House – Penguin Young Readers – Dial Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

 ”Episode 1 – From the Ashes of Tragedy” – The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Teleplay by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (FX Network)

 ”The Abominable Bride” – Sherlock, Teleplay by Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat (Hartswood Films/Masterpiece)

 ”Episode 1 – Dark Road” – Vera, Teleplay by Martha Hillier (Acorn TV)

 ”A Blade of Grass” – Penny Dreadful, Teleplay by John Logan (Showtime)

 ”Return 0″ – Person of Interest, Teleplay by Jonathan Nolan & Denise The (CBS/Warner Brothers)

 ”The Bicameral Mind” – Westworld, Teleplay by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy (HBO/Warner Bros. Television)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

 “The Truth of the Moment” by E. Gabriel Flores (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, December 2016)

GRAND MASTER

 Max Allan Collins

 Ellen Hart

RAVEN AWARD

 Dru Ann Love

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

 Neil Nyren


THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

 The Other Sister by Dianne Dixon (Sourcebooks – Sourcebooks Landmark)

 Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson (Llewellyn Worldwide – Midnight Ink)

 Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Tor/Forge Books – Forge Books)

 Blue Moon by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

 The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

The winners will be announced on April 27, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

(受賞作の発表は4月27日)