2018 Edgar Allen Poe Awards Nominees

The Mystery Writers of America have revealed the nominees for the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe Awards honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2016.  The Edgar® Awards will be presented at the 72nd Gala Banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City on April 26, 2018.

Best Novel

• The Dime by Kathleen Kent (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
• Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr (Penguin Random House – Marian Wood Books/G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
• A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus Books)
• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti (Penguin Random House – The Dial Press)

Best First Novel By An American Author

• She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper (HarperCollins – Ecco)
• Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li (Polis Books)
• Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love (Penguin Random House – Crown)
• Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy (Macmillan – Flatiron Books)
• Idaho by Emily Ruskovich (Random House)

Best Paperback Original

• In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen (Amazon Publishing – Lake Union)
• Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett (ECW Press)
• Black Fall by Andrew Mayne (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Paperbacks)
• The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola (Sourcebooks – Sourcebooks Landmark)
• Penance by Kanae Minato (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
• The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong (Text Publishing)

Best Fact Crime

• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Penguin Random House – Doubleday)
• The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster)
• American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse (W.W. Norton & Company – Liveright)
• The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill and Rachel McCarthy James (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
• Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca (St. Martin’s Press)

Best Critical / Biographical

• From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women who Created an Icon by Mattias Bostrom (Grove/Atlantic – The Mysterious Press)
• Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Press)
• Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall by Curtis Evans (McFarland Publishing)
• Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims (Bloomsbury USA)

Best Short Story

• “Spring Break” – New Haven Noir by John Crowley (Akashic Books)
• “Hard to Get” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Jeffery Deaver (Dell Magazines)
• “Ace in the Hole” – Montana Noir by Eric Heidle (Akashic Books)
• “A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House” – Atlanta Noir by Kenji Jasper (Akashic Books)
• “Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home” – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by S.J. Rozan (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile

• Audacity Jones Steals the Show by Kirby Larson (Scholastic – Scholastic Press)
• Vanished! by James Ponti (Simon & Schuster – Aladdin)
• The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands (Simon & Schuster – Aladdin)
• First Class Murder by Robin Stevens (Simon & Schuster – Simon & Schuster BFYR)
• NewsPrints by Ru Xu (Scholastic – Graphix)

Best Young Adult

• The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Feiwel & Friends)
• Grit by Gillian French (HarperCollins Publishers – HarperTeen)
• The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak (Simon & Schuster)
• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (Simon & Schuster – Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (HarperCollins Publishers – Balzer + Bray)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• “Episode 1” – Loch Ness, Teleplay by Stephen Brady (Acorn TV)
• “Something Happened” – Law and Order: SVU, Teleplay by Michael Chernuchin (NBC Universal/Wolf Entertainment)
• “Somebody to Love” – Fargo, Teleplay by Noah Hawley (FX Networks/MGM)
• “Gently and the New Age” – George Gently, Teleplay by Robert Murphy (Acorn TV)
• “The Blanket Mire” – Vera, Teleplay by Paul Matthew Thompson & Martha Hillier (Acorn TV)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

• “The Queen of Secrets” – New Haven Noir by Lisa D. Gray (Akashic Books)

Grand Master

• Jane Langton
• William Link
• Peter Lovesey

Raven Award

• Kristopher Zgorski, BOLO Books
• The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence Kansas

Ellery Queen Award

• Robert Pépin

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The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award

• The Vineyard Victims by Ellen Crosby (Minotaur)
• You’ll Never Know Dear by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins – William Morrow Paperbacks)
• Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann (Llewellyn Worldwide – Midnight Ink)
• The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day (HarperCollins – William Morrow Paperbacks)

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