The Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for their 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, known as the Edgars. The 2013 Edgar nominees listed below honor books published in 2012. The Edgars are the most prestigious awards in mystery and thriller writing and they’re also the cutest ones. Look at that statuette of Poe the winners receive! I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t store that thing in the bathroom like some Oscar winners do. I’m feeling judged by that little dude. Congrats to all the nominees – the winners will be announced at the Edgar Awards banquet in New York on May 2nd.
BEST NOVEL
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn
Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
Sunset by Al Lamanda
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
The Expats by Chris Pavone
The 500 by Matthew Quirk
Black Fridays by Michael Sears
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Complication by Isaac Adamson
Whiplash River by Lou Berney
Bloodland by Alan Glynn
Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn
The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters
BEST FACT CRIME
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted
the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
by Gilbert King
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered
by D.P. Lyle, MD
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
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
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed
by John Paul Athanasourelis
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest
Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
by James O’Brien
In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the
Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler
BEST SHORT STORY
"Iphigenia in Aulis" – An Apple for the Creature by Mike Carey
"Hot Sugar Blues" – Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
by Steve Liskow
"The Void it Often Brings With It” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Tom Piccirilli
"The Unremarkable Heart" – Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance
by Karin Slaughter
"Still Life No. 41" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Teresa Solana
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
13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau
The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo
Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak
The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George
Crusher by Niall Leonard
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein