The 2011 Edgar Award Nominees Announced

Mystery Writers of America has announced (on the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Edgar
Allan Poe), its Nominees for the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at our 65th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL

 
Caught by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins – William Morrow)

Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin Group USA - Viking)

The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins – William Morrow)

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)

I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)

 

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
 

Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
 

The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
 

The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster)
 

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
 

Snow Angels by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
 

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
 

Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
 

The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt)
 

Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
 

Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
 

Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press)

 

BEST FACT CRIME
 

Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
 

The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South
by Alex Heard (HarperCollins)
 

Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery
by Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
 

Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his
Assassin by Hampton Sides (Random House - Doubleday)
 

The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
by Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf)
 

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
 

The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
 

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making
by John Curran (HarperCollins)
 

Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley)
 

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendevouz with American
History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
 

Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)
 

BEST SHORT STORY
 

"The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
 

"The Plot" – First Thrills by Jeffery Deaver (Tom Doherty – Forge Books)
 

"A Good Safe Place” – Thin Ice by Judith Green (Level Best Books)
 

"Monsieur Alice is Absent" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
by Stephen Ross (Dell Magazines)
 

"The Creative Writing Murders" – Dark End of the Street by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)
 

BEST JUVENILE
 

Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)
 

The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
 

The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends)
 

Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jiim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
 

The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
 

BEST YOUNG ADULT
 

The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
 

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)
 

7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
 

The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
(Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
 

Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)

 

BEST PLAY
 

The Psychic by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre – Burbank, CA)
 

The Tangled Skirt by Steve Braunstein (New Jersey Repertory Company)
 

The Fall of the House by Robert Ford (Alabama Shakespeare Festival)
 

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
 

“Episode 1” - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
 

“Episode 4” – Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
 

“Full Measure” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
 

“No Mas” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
 

“The Next One’s Gonna Go In Your Throat” – Damages, Teleplay by Todd A. Kessler,
Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman (FX Networks)
 

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
 

"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Evan Lewis (Dell Magazines)
 

GRAND MASTER
 

Sara Paretsky

 

RAVEN AWARDS
 

Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois
 

Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2010)

 

Wild Penance by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
 

Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
 

Down River by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
 

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
 

Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins - Avon)

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