Congratulations Edgar Award Winners!

Each year in the spring the Edgar Awards are announced and handed out by the Mystery Writers of America.

This year the award for best book went to:
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane

In 1926, during Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a ladder of organized crime that takes him from Boston to Cuba, where he encounters a dangerous cast of characters who are all fighting for their piece of the American dream.

The award for best paperback original went to:The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters

When the Earth is doomed by an imminent and unavoidable asteroid collision, New Hampshire homicide detective Hank Palace considers the worth of his job in a world destined to end in six months and investigates a suspicious suicide that nobody else cares about.

Best first novel by an American author:
The Expats by Chris Pavone

An international spy thriller about a former CIA agent who moves with her family to Luxembourg where everything is suspicious and nothing is as it seems.

Best fact crime award went to: Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking.


For the full list of the Edgar winners and nominees for each category, click here.