Thursday, April 26, 2012

Edgar Award Winners 2012

The 2012 Edgar Awards "for distinguished work in the mystery genre" were presented tonight by the Mystery Writers of America. Nominees and winners for some of the categories are listed below. For a complete list, see here.

BEST NOVEL

--> Gone by Mo Hayder
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt
Field Gray by Philip Kerr

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

--> Bent Road by Lori Roy
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Last to Fold by David Duffy
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder





BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

--> The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis


BEST FACT CRIME

--> Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal



From Stephen King's blog


BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

--> On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick

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BEST SHORT STORY

--> "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull
"Marley's Revolution" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland
"Tomorrow's Dead" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean
"The Adakian Eagle" - Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" - Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon
"The Case of Death and Honey" - A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

--> Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely

GRAND MASTER

Martha Grimes

RAVEN AWARDS

M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, California
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

1 comment:

  1. It's only fair "Girl Wanted, the chase for Sarah Pender" didn't get an award. The book was riddled with inaccuracies and so completely one sided that it didn't gave an accurate overview of the case.

    You can check that at the following Link
    Debunking Girl Wanted

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