Nominees for the 2016 Edgar Awards Announced

Earlier this week the nominees for the 2016 Edgar Awards were announced by the Mystery Writers of America. The winners will be announced at the 70th Gala Banquet in New York City on April 28th, 2016.

And the nominees are …

Best Novel:
• The Strangler Vine by M. J. Carter (Putnam)
• The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr (Putnam)
• Life or Death by Michael Robotham (Mulholland Books)
• Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Dutton)
• Canary by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books)
• Night Life by David C. Taylor (Forge Books)

Best First Novel:
• Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
• Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy (Putnam)
• Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
• Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm (Viking)

Best Paperback Original:
• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay (Mulholland Books)
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan (William Morrow)
• Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine (Seventh Street Books)
• Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books)
• The Daughter by Jane Shemilt (William Morrow)

Best Fact Crime:
• Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian (Little, Brown)
• Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T. J. English (William Morrow)
• Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)
• Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove Press)
• American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple (Lyons Press)

Best Critical/Biographical:
• The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
• The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth (Putnam)
• Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (Arcade Publishing)
• Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica by Matthew Parker (Pegasus Books)
• The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury)

Best Short Story:
• "The Little Men" by Megan Abbott (Mysterious Bookshop)
• "On Borrowed Time" by Mat Coward (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
• "The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday" by Peter Farrelly (Providence Noir, Akashic Books)
• "Family Treasures" by Shirley Jackson (Let Me Tell You, Random House)
• "Obits" by Stephen King (Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Scribner)
• "Every Seven Years" by Denise Mina (Mysterious Bookshop)

Best Juvenile:
• If You Find This by Matthew Baker (Little, Brown)
• Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver and H. C. Chester (HarperCollins)
• The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands (Simon & Schuster)
• Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster)
• Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi (Algonquin Young Readers)

Best Young Adult:
• Endangered by Lamar Giles (HarperTeen)
• A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins)
• The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic Press)
• The Walls Around You by Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Ask the Dark by Henry Turner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Best Television Episode Teleplay:
• Episode 7 by Chris Chibnall (Broadchurch)
• Gently with the Women by Peter Flannery (George Gently)
• Elise — The Final Mystery by Anthony Horowitz (Foyle's War)
• Terra Incognita by Erik Mountain and Melissa Scrivner Love (Person of Interest)
• The Beating of Her Wings by Richard Warlow (Ripper Street)

• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" by Russell W. Johnson (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

• Grand Master: Walter Mosley

• Raven Awards: Margaret Kinsman, Sisters in Crime

• Ellery Queen Award: Janet Rudolph, Mystery Readers International

Mary Higgins Clark Award:
• A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody (Minotaur Books)
• The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron (William Morrow)
• The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)