2012 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEES
The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Awards as follows:
BEST MYSTERY NOVEL:
The Ranger, by Ace Atkins (Putnam)
Gone, by Mo Hayder (Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X, by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222, by Anne Holt (Scribner)
Field Gray, by Philip Kerr (Putnam/Marion Wood Books)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR:
Red on Red, by Edward Conlon (Spiegel & Grau)
Last to Fold, by David Duffy (Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos, by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
Bent Road, by Lori Roy (Dutton)
Purgatory Chasm, by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:
The Company Man, by Robert Jackson Bennett (Orbit Books)
The Faces of Angels, by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
The Dog Sox, by Russell Hill (Caravel Mystery Books)
Death of the Mantis, by Michael Stanley (Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight, by Frank Tallis (Random House)
BEST FACT CRIME:
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars, by Paul Collins (Crown)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge, by T.J. English (William Morrow)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard (Doubleday)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender, by Steve Miller (Berkley)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter, by Mark Seal (Viking)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL:
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 (St. Martin's Griffin)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making, by John Curran (HarperCollins)
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling, by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film, by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie, by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)
BEST SHORT STORY:
"Marley's Revolution," by John C.Boland (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2011)
"Tomorrow's Dead," by David Dean (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 2011)
"The Adakian Eagle," by Bradley Denton (Down These Strange Streets; edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Ace)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies," by Diana Gabaldon (Down These Strange Streets; edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, Ace)
"The Case of Death and Honey," by Neil Gaiman (A Study in Sherlock; edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, Bantam)
"The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train," by Peter Turnbull (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011)
BEST JUVENILE:
Horton Halfpott, by Tom Angleberger (Amulet Books)
It Happened on a Train, by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster)
Vanished, by Sheela Chari (Disney Hyperion)
Icefall, by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street, by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)
BEST YOUNG ADULT:
Shelter, by Harlan Coben (Putnam)
The Name of the Star, by Maureen Johnson (Putnam)
The Silence of Murder, by Dandi Daley Mackall (Knop)
The Girl is Murder, by Kathryn Miller Haines (Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last, by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)
BEST PLAY:
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club, by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, AZ)
The Game's Afoot, by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY:
"Innocence" - Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (CBS Productions)
"The Life Inside" - Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell(FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
"Part 1" - Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
"Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
"Mask" - Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD:
"A Good Man of Business," by David Ingram (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 2011)
GRAND MASTER:
Martha Grimes
RAVEN AWARDS:
M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD:
Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD:
(Presented at MWA's Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 25, 2012)
Now You See Me, by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Come and Find Me, by Hallie Ephron (William Morrow)
Death on Tour, by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
Learning to Swim, by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
Murder Most Persuasive, by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books/Thomas Dunne Books)
The winners will be announced on April 26 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
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