The MWA Announces the Nominees for the 2013 Edgar Awards

The nominees for the 2013 Edgar Awards have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television, published or produced in 2012.

The Edgar Awards will be presented to the winners at the 67th Gala Banquet, May 2nd, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

Best Novel …
• The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Putnam)
• The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Putnam)
• Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
• Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)
• Sunset by Al Lamanda (Five Star)
• Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (William Morrow)
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Riverhead Books)

Best First Novel by an American Author …
• The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay (Ballantine Books)
• Don't Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books)
• Mr. Churchill's Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam Books)
• The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown)
• The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Little, Brown)
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Putnam)

Best Paperback Original …
• Complication by Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press)
• Whiplash River by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
• Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Picador)
• Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn (Atria Books)
• The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)

Best Fact Crime …
• Midnight in Peking by Paul French (Penguin Books)
• Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (Harper)
• More Forensics and Fiction by D. P. Lyle (Medallion Press)
• Double Cross by Ben Macintyre (Crown)
• The People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry (FSG Originals)

Best Critical/Biographical …
• Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe by John Paul Athanasourelis (John McFarland)
• In Pursuit of Spenser by Otto Penzler, editor (Smart Pop)
• Books to Die For by John Connolly and Declan Burke, editors (Atria Books)
• The Scientific Sherlock Holmes by James O'Brien (Oxford University Press)

Best Short Story …
• "Iphigenia in Aulis" (An Apple for the Creature) by Mike Carey (Ace Books)
• "Hot Sugar Blues" (Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance) by Steve Liskow (Mulholland Books)
• "The Void it Often Brings With It" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tom Piccirilli (Dell Magazines)
• "The Unremarkable Heart" (Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance) by Karin Slaughter (Mulholland Books)
• "Still Life No. 41" (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by Teresa Solana (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile …
• Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger (Amulet Books)
• 13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau (Amulet Books)
• The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Amulet Books)
• Spy School by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster)
• Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (Penguin Books)

Best Young Adult …
• Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak (Roaring Book Press)
• The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George (Viking)
• Crusher by Niall Leonard (Delacorte)
• Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield (Dutton)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)
• "Child Predator" (Elementary) by Peter Blake (CBS Productions)

Best Television Episode Teleplay …
• "Pilot" (Longmire) by Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny (A&E/Warner Horizon Television)
• "Slaughterhouse" (Justified) by Fred Golan (Sony Pictures Television/FX Productions)
• "A Scandal in Belgravia" (Sherlock) by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)
• "New Car Smell" (Homeland) by Meredith Stiehm (Showtime/Fox21)

• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "When They Are Done With Us" (Staten Island Noir) by Patricia Smith (Akashic Books)

• Grand Masters: Ken Follett and Margaret Maron: by

• Raven Awards: Oline Cogdill; and Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore (San Diego CA): by

• Ellery Queen Award: Akashic Books

The Simon & Schuster — Mary Higgins Clark Award …
• Dead Scared by S. J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
• A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge Books)
• The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Minotaur Books)
• The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)
• Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub (Harper)