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

The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay

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

Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak

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