Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2018 Edgar Award Nominations

NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 209 th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Nominees for the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2017. The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners at our 72 nd Gala Banquet, April 26, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL

The Dime by Kathleen Kent (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr (Penguin Random House G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus Books)
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti(Penguin Random House The Dial Press)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (HarperCollins Ecco)
Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li (Polis Books)
Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love (Penguin Random House Crown)
Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy (Macmillan Flatiron Books)
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (Random House)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen (Amazon Publishing Thomas & Mercer)
Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett (ECW Press)
Black Fall by Andrew Mayne (HarperCollins Publishers Harper Paperbacks)
The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola(Sourcebooks Sourcebooks Landmark)
Penance by Kanae Minato (Hachette Book Group Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong (Text Publishing)

BEST FACT CRIME

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Penguin Random House Doubleday)
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster)
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
(W.W. Norton & Company Liveright)
The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery
by Bill and Rachel McCarthy James (Simon & Schuster Scribner)
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca (St. Martin's Press)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women who Created an Icon
by Mattias Bostrom (Grove/Atlantic The Mysterious Press)
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne Du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin's Press)
Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall
by Curtis Evans (McFarland Publishing)
Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson (W.W. Norton & Company)
Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
by Michael Sims (Bloomsbury USA)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Spring Break" New Haven Noir by John Crowley (Akashic Books)
"Hard to Get" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Jeffery Deaver (Dell Magazines)
"Ace in the Hole" Montana Noir by Eric Heidle (Akashic Books)
"A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House" Atlanta Noir by Kenji Jasper (Akashic Books)
"Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home" Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
by S.J. Rozan (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE

Audacity Jones Steals the Show by Kirby Larson (Scholastic Scholastic Press)
Vanished! By James Ponti (Simon & Schuster Aladdin)
The Assassin's Curse by Kevin Sands (Simon & Schuster Aladdin)
First Class Murder by Robin Stevens (Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster BFYR)
NewsPrints by Ru Xu (Scholastic Graphix)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom (Macmillan Children's Publishing Group Feiwel & Friends)
Grit by Gillian French (HarperCollins Publishers HarperTeen)
The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak (Simon & Schuster)
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Simon & Schuster Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (HarperCollins Publishers Balzer + Bray)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

"Episode 1" The Loch, Teleplay by Stephen Brady (Acorn TV)
"Something Happened" Law and Order: SVU, Teleplay by Michael Chernuchin
(NBC Universal/Wolf Entertainment)
"Somebody to Love" Fargo, Teleplay by Noah Hawley (FX Networks/MGM)
"Gently and the New Age" George Gently, Teleplay by Robert Murphy (Acorn TV)
"The Blanket Mire" Vera, Teleplay by Paul Matthew Thompson & Martha Hillier (Acorn TV)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

"The Queen of Secrets" New Haven Noir by Lisa D. Gray (Akashic Books)

GRAND MASTER

Jane Langton
William Link
Peter Lovesey

RAVEN AWARD

Kristopher Zgorski, BOLO Books
The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence Kansas

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Robert Ppin

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER Mary Higgins CLARK AWARD

The Vineyard Victims by Ellen Crosby (Minotaur)
You'll Never Know Dear by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins William Morrow)
The Widow's House by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins William Morrow Paperbacks)
Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann (Llewellyn Worldwide Midnight Ink)
The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day(HarperCollins William Morrow Paperbacks)

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