Edgar Endorsements Everywhere

This morning brought the Mystery Writers of America’s announcement of its nominees for the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honor “the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television, published or produced in 2012.” The prizes will be presented during a banquet on May 2 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

Best Novel:

• The Lost Ones, by Ace Atkins (Putnam)

• The Gods of Gotham, by Lyndsay Faye (Putnam)

• Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn (Crown)

• Potboiler, by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)

• Sunset, by Al Lamanda (Five Star)

• Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane (Morrow)

• All I Did Was Shoot My Man, by Walter Mosley (Riverhead)

Best First Novel by an American Author:
• The Map of Lost Memories, by Kim Fay (Ballantine)

• Don’t Ever Get Old, by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne)

• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)

• The Expats, by Chris Pavone (Crown)

• The 500, by Matthew Quirk (Reagan Arthur)

• Black Fridays, by Michael Sears (Putnam)

Best Paperback Original:
• Complication, by Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press)

• Whiplash River, by Lou Berney (Morrow)

• Bloodland, by Alan Glynn (Picador)

• Blessed Are the Dead, by Malla Nunn (Emily Bestler)

• The Last Policeman, by Ben H. Winters (Quirk)

Best Fact Crime:

• Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, by Paul French (Penguin)

• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, by Gilbert King (Harper)

• More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers’ Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered, by D.P. Lyle (Medallion)

• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, by Ben Macintyre (Crown)

• The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, by Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Best Critical/Biographical:

• Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-boiled Detective Transformed, by John Paul Athanasourelis (McFarland & Company)

• Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly
and Declan Burke (Emily Bestler)

• The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics, by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)

• In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, edited by Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)

Best Short Story:
• “Iphigenia in Aulis,” by Mike Carey (in An Apple for the Creature, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner; Ace)

• “Hot Sugar Blues,” by Steve Liskow (in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance, edited by Lee Child; Mulholland)

• “The Void It Often Brings With It,” by Tom Piccirilli (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], November 2012)

• “The Unremarkable Heart,” by Karin Slaughter (in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance)

• “Still Life No. 41,” by Teresa Solana (EQMM, March/April 2012)

Best Juvenile:
• Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind, by Tom Angleberger (Amulet)
• 13 Hangmen, by Art Corriveau (Amulet)
• The Quick Fix, by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Amulet)
• Spy School, by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for
Young Readers)
• Three Times Lucky, by Sheila Turnage (Dial Books for Young Readers)

Best Young Adult:

• Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things, by Kathryn Burak
(Roaring Brook Press)

• The Edge of Nowhere, by Elizabeth George (Viking)

• Crusher, by Niall Leonard (Delacorte BFYR)

• Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone, by Kat Rosenfield (Dutton
Children’s Books)

• Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)

Best Television Episode Teleplay:
• “Pilot, ” Longmire, teleplay by Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny (A&E)

• “Child Predator,” Elementary, teleplay by Peter Blake (CBS)

• “Slaughterhouse,” Justified, teleplay by Fred Golan (Sony/FX)

• “A Scandal in Belgravia,” Sherlock, teleplay by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)

“New Car Smell,” Homeland, teleplay by Meredith Stiehm (Showtime/Fox21)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:

“When They Are Done With Us, by Patricia Smith (in Staten Island Noir, edited by Patricia Smith; Akashic Books)

Grand Master:

Ken Follett and Margaret Maron

Raven Awards:

Oline Cogdill and Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego and
Redondo Beach, California

Ellery Queen Award:

Johnny Temple, Akashic Books

The Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award:

(To be presented at the Mystery Writers of America’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, May 1)

• Dead Scared, by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)

• A City of Broken Glass, by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)

• The Reckoning, by Jane Casey (Minotaur)

• The Other Woman, by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)

• Sleepwalker, by Wendy Corsi Staub (Harper)

Congratulations to all of the nominees!

Click here to see this year’s full list of submissions in all of the Edgar Award categories.

READ MORE: “MWA Rewards Success,” by J. Kingston Pierce
(The Rap Sheet).