Monday, January 21, 2013

Edgar Nominees

Crime fiction readers take note. The Mystery Writers of America recently announced the 2013 Edgar nominees, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television. Winners will be announced on May 2, 2013. The complete list of nominees can be found here. Fiction nominees for adults and young adults are listed below.

BEST NOVEL
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins  
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye  
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn  
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman  
Sunset by Al Lamanda
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley


BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Expats by Chris Pavone
The 500 by Matthew Quirk
Black Fridays by Michael Sears


BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Complication by Isaac Adamson  
Whiplash River by Lou Berney
Bloodland by Alan Glynn  
Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn
The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters


BEST YOUNG ADULT
The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George
Crusher by Niall Leonard
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein


THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
 (for cozy mysteries)
Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton
A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell
The Reckoning by Jane Casey
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub

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