Investigate Some of the Best Mysteries of 2012
Mystery Writers of America is a distinguished organization of mystery writers and fans. MWA has been promoting mysterious literature since 1945, and includes some of the biggest names in the genre—recent presidents include Charlaine Harris, Laura Lippman and Lee Child. This month, MWA announced the nominees for their annual Edgar Awards. Named for Edgar Allen Poe, these prizes are presented to the authors of the best mystery and crime books published in the U.S. during the prior year. Hopefully you can handle the suspense until the winners are announced on May 2.
Check out a contender for the Edgar Awards:
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
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 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
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
TV Episode Teleplay
"Pilot" - Longmire, Teleplay by Hunt Baldwin & John Coveny (A&E/Warner Horizon Television)
"Child Predator" - elemeNtarY, Teleplay by Peter Blake (CBS Productions)
"Slaughterhouse" - Justified, Teleplay by Fred Golan (Sony Pictures Television/FX Productions)
"A Scandal in Belgravia" - Sherlock, Teleplay by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)
"New Car Smell" - Homeland, Teleplay by Meredith Stiehm (Showtime/Fox21)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
For the best mystery short story by a previously unpublished author
"When They Are Done With Us" - Staten Island Noir by Patricia Smith
Mary Higgins Clark Award
For the book most closely written in the Mary Higgins Clark Tradition according to guidelines set forth by Mary Higgins Clark
Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton
A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell
The Reckoning by Jane Casey
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub
*These titles are not currently available at Oakland Public Library, but can be borrowed using LinkPlus. If you’re new to LinkPlus, read this.
Posted on 1/26/2013 by Christy Thomas, Librarian, Main Library