Nominations for the 2014 Edgar Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2014 Edgar Awards honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television, published or produced in 2013, have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America. The winners will be announced at a Gala Banquet on May 1st, 2014 in New York City.

The nominees are …

Best Novel:
• Sandrine's Case by Thomas H. Cook (Mysterious Press)
• The Humans by Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
• How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• Standing in Another Man's Grave by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
• Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy (Dutton)

Best First Novel:
• The Resurrectionist by Matthew Guinn (W. W. Norton)
• Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur Books)
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Scribner)
• Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins)

Best Paperback Original:
• The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne (William Morrow)
• Almost Criminal by E. R. Brown (Dundurn)
• Joe Victim by Paul Cleave (Atria Books)
• Joyland by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
• The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)
• Brilliance by Marcus Sakey (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Fact Crime:
• Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins (Crown)
• Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal by Michael D'Antonio (St. Martin's Press)
• The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber (Grand Central)
• The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry (Little, Brown)
• The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

Best Critical/Biographical:
• Maigret, Simenon and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories by Bill Alder (McFarland & Company)
• America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik Dussere (Oxford University Press)
• Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing by Justin Gifford (Temple University Press)
• Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett (St. Martin's Press)
• Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction by Melissa Schaub (Palgrave Macmillan)

Best Short Story:
• "The Terminal" – Kwik Krimes by Reed Farrel Coleman (Thomas & Mercer)
• "The Caston Private Lending Library & Book Depository" – Bibliomysteries by John Connolly (Mysterious Press)
• "There are Roads in the Water" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tina Corey (Dell Magazines)
• "So Long, Chief" – Strand Magazine by Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane (The Strand)
• "Where That Morning Sun Does Down" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tim L. Williams (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile:
• Strike Three, You're Dead by Josh Berk (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking by Erin Dionne (Dial)
• P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man by Caroline Lawrence (Putnam)
• Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (Hyperion)
• One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (Alfred A. Knopf)

Best Young Adult:
• All the Truth That's In Me by Julie Berry (Viking)
• Far Far Away by Tom McNeal (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Criminal by Terra Elan McVoy (Simon Pulse)
• How to Lead a Life of Crime by Kirsten Miller (Razorbill)
• Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher (Little, Brown)

Best Television Episode Teleplay:
• "Legitimate Rape" – Law & Order: SVU by Kevin Fox and Peter Blauner (NBC Universal)
• "Episode 3" – Luther by Neil Cross (BBC Worldwide)
• "Episode 1" – The Fall by Allan Cubitt (Netflix)
• "Variations Under Domestication" – Orphan Black by Will Pascoe (BBC Worldwide)
• "Pilot" – The Following by Kevin Williamson (Fox/Warner Bros. Television)

The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:
• "The Wentworth Letter" – Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional by Jeff Soloway (St. Martin's Press)

Grand Masters: Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart

Raven Award: Aunt Agatha's Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Simon & Schuster — Mary Higgins Clark Award:
• There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron (William Morrow)
• Fear of Beauty by Susan Froetschel (Seventh Street Books)
• The Money Kill by Katia Lief (Harper)
• Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (Ballantine)
• The Sixth Station by Linda Stasi (Forge Books)