2015 Edgar® Awards nominees announced today

In celebration of the 206th anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe's birthday, the Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2015 Edgar Awards. The shortlist includes works of fiction and nonfiction for both adults and children. Awards will be announced and grand master authors James Ellroy and Lois Duncan will be honored at a gala ceremony in New York City on April 29th. A selection of nominated works follows. For a complete list of nominees in all categories, www.theedgars.com/nominees.html.

Best Novel
This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Wolf by Mo Hayder
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin

Best First Novel by an American author
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
Invisible City by Julia Dahl
The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
Bad Country by C.B. McKenzie
Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh
Murder At the Brightwell by Ashley Weaver

Best Fact Crime
Kitty Genovese: the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America by Kevin Cook
The Savage Harvest: a tale of cannibals, colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art by Carl Hoffman
The Other Side by Lacy M. Johnson
Tinseltown: murder, morphine and madness at the dawn of Hollywood by William Mann
The Mad Sculptor: the maniac, the model and the murder that shook the nation by Harold Schechter