BEST NOVEL
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group – Spiegel & Grau)
Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group – Orbit Books)
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio – Caravel Mystery Books)
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper Paperbacks)
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
BEST FACT CRIME
The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House - Doubleday)
Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA - Berkley)
The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial
Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets
Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)
BEST SHORT STORY
"Marley’s Revolution" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow’s Dead" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle” – Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" – Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" – A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman
(Random House Publishing Group – Bantam Books)
“The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by
Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)
BEST JUVENILE
Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books)
It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group – Disney Hyperion)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR)
The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines
(Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Creek Press)
Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)
BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher
(Arizona Theatre Company, Phoenix, AZ)
The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland, OH)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Innocence” – Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS Productions)
“The Life Inside” – Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell
(FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
“Part 1” – Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
“Pilot” – Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
“Mask” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"A Good Man of Business" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram (Dell Magazines)
GRAND MASTER Martha Grimes
RAVEN AWARDS M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD (Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 25, 2012)
Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books – Thomas Dunne Books)
# # # #
The EDGAR (and logo) are Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.
6 comments:
My sincere congratulations to all the nominees!
And an especially big congrats to my friend Molly Weston. No one has ever deserved a Raven Award more. Yay, Molly!!!!
I haven't read all the books nominated, although now, of course, I'll plan to - and looking forward to it.
There is one book here which I did read and which I included on my "Best of 2011 List." Hallie Ephron's COME AND FIND ME, which is one of the nominees for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Fingers Crossed, Hallie!
And, of course, just like everyone else in the mystery community, while I applaud the nominees, I'm a little sad not to see a couple books here which I was so sure I would. dang.
Thanks for the shout out in Facebook, Kaye! It's always amazing to me how many of the books that get nominated that it turns out I haven't read - haven't even heard of!
One that was on my year's top 10 is one I"m up against for the Mary Higgins Clark award -- Hmmmm. Learning to Swim. It's wonderful. But don't tell the judges.
I was also happy to see Steve Ulfelder's Purgatory Chasm -- he's another New England author and I think he first shopped this book at Crime Bake a few years ago.
Congratulations to all the nominees, especially to you, Hallie. I'll cross my fingers and hope you win. :) Like Hallie, I haven't heard of many of these books or authors, but I'll do a little online research before Edgar time and learn more about them, or read the books.
I can't close this post without commenting on the (once again)high number of male writers nominated for Edgars. I believe that, except for the Mary Higgins Clark award, men outnumber women 4 to 1 in all of the categories. A good book is a good book, regardless of who writes it. Still, I have to wonder why so few women are represented in this list when there are so many fine women writers out there.
Have not read Purgatory Chasm, but that is one I've heard excellent things about.
I forgot to mention another nominee that I included on my "Best of 2011 List" - The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle.
Mary, I expect you and I will find that we've probably read ALL the Agatha nominees - or pretty close.
As usual, I haven't read any of them. And oddly enough, since I'm not a Mary Higgins Clark fan, two that I'm most interested in reading because of past experience with the authors (S.J. Bolton and Hallie Ephron) are nominated for the award named for her. This is why I started my Edgar Best Novel reading project, anyway.
Steve Miller should never have been nominated for "Best Fact Crime". He bends the truth so much that his book "Girl Wanted, the chase for Sarah Pender" has more to do with a work of fiction.
On several occasion, important information is deliberatly hidden from the readers to mislead them. Some important documents are misquoted.
While Steve Miller relentlessly attacks Sarah Pender on her sexuality -in a manner that reeks of sexism- he never reveals to the reader that a key witness against Pender , Floyd Pennington, had two counts of child molesting in his record. Neither is the reader ever informed that Pennington, after an early release (thanks to his false testimony against Pender) raped someone within a year.
there is controversy around Sarah Pender's case. To make up your own mind about this nomination, read
Debunking Girl Wanted.
Thanks to whoever will listen and hear both sides of the story.
Post a Comment