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)

2016 Edgar Award Nominees

PRESS RELEASE:

January 19, 2016, New York, NY - Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 207^th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Nominees for the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2015. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at our 70^th Gala Banquet,April 28, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL

The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

The Lady From Zagreb by Philip Kerr (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Life or Death by Michael Robotham (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books)

Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House - Dutton)

Canary by Duane Swierczynski (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books)

Night Life by David C. Taylor (Forge Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm (Penguin Random House - Viking)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL 

The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay

(Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books

What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

The Daughter by Jane Shemilt (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

BEST FACT CRIME

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

by Eric Bogosian (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)

Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him

by T.J. English (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

byAllen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper)

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

by Val McDermid (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)

American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed

America's  Deadliest Drug Epidemic

by John Temple (Rowman & Littlefield – Lyons Press)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers - HarperCollins)

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

by Frederick Forsyth (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald

by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (Arcade Publishing)

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica

by Matthew Parker (Pegasus Books)

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury Publishing – Bloomsbury USA)

BEST SHORT STORY

"The Little Men" – Mysterious Bookshop by Megan Abbott (Mysterious Bookshop)

"On Borrowed Time" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mat Coward (Dell Magazines)

"The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday” – Providence Noir

by Peter Farrelly (Akashic Books)

"Family Treasures" – Let Me Tell You  by Shirley Jackson (Random House)

"Obits" – Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)

“Every Seven Years” – Mysterious Bookshop by Denise Mina (Mysterious Bookshop)

BEST JUVENILE

Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi (Algonquin Young Readers - Workman)

If You Find This by Matthew Baker (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver & H.C.Chester

 (HarperCollins Publishers – HarperCollins Children’s Books)

Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands  (Simon & Schuster - Aladdin)

Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

 Endangered by Lamar Giles (HarperCollins Children’s Books - HarperTeen)

A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers – Katherine Tegen Books)

The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic – Scholastic Press)

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin Young Readers - Workman)

Ask the Dark by Henry Turner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Clarion Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

"Episode 7," - Broadchurch, Teleplay by Chris Chibnall (BBC America)

"The Beating of her Wings" - Ripper Street, Teleplay by Toby Finlay (BBC America)

"Gently with the Women" - George Gently, Teleplay byPeter Flannery(Acorn TV)

"Elise - The Final Mystery" - Foyle's War, Teleplay by Anthony Horowitz (Acorn TV)

 "Terra Incognita" - Person of Interest, Teleplay by Erik Mountain & Melissa Scrivner Love (CBS/Warner Brothers)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

"Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

by Russell W. Johnson (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER

Walter Mosley

RAVEN AWARDS
Margaret Kinsman

Sisters in Crime

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Janet Rudolph, Founder of Mystery Readers International

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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody (Minotaur Books – A Thomas Dunne Book)

The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)

Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (Llewellyn Worldwide – Midnight Ink)

Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

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