Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Awards
Posted by: Gary Niebuhr
The Mystery Writers of America have announced their Edgar Awards for 2012 for the best writing from 2011. They are:
BEST NOVEL: Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
Nominees: The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons); The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books); 1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster – Scribner); Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA – Dutton)
Nominees: Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group – Spiegel & Grau); Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books); All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press); Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group – Orbit Books)
Nominees: The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press); The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio – Caravel Mystery Books); Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Paperbacks); Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
BEST FACT CRIME:
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House – Doubleday)
Nominees: The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing); The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins – William Morrow); Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA – Berkley); The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA – Viking)
BEST JUVENILE: Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
Nominees: Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books); It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers); Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group – Disney Hyperion); The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)
BEST YOUNG ADULT: The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR)
Nominees: Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons); The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons); The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Creek Press); Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
Nominees: Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books); Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow); Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books); Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)
Booklist’s own Bill Ott attended the Edgars, and blogged about it for Likely Stories.
