2017 Edgar Awards

On Thursday, 19 January 2017, Mystery Writers of America  announced the Nominees for the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2016. 

The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at the 71st Gala Banquet, April 27, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

Following is a list of the books and short stories nominated.

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) 

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 – Marian Wood       Book/Putnam) 

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” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Joyce Carol Oates (Dell Magazines)

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) 

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)