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MWA Announces 2012 Edgar Award Winners

Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2011.

BEST NOVEL

Gone by Mo Hayder
 

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Bent Road by Lori Roy
 

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
 
BEST FACT CRIME

Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
 
 
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
 
 
BEST SHORT STORY

 “The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train” by Peter Turnbull


BEST JUVENILE

Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby


BEST YOUNG ADULT

 The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall
 
 
BEST PLAY

The Game’s Afoot by Ken Ludwig
 

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

 “Pilot” – Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff
 
 

Edgar Award Nominees - Best Juvenile and Best Young Adult

Each Spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre in honor of Edgar Allan Poe. On April 26, the winners will be announced in New York City.

The nominees for Best Juvenile are:

• Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger
• It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett
• Vanished by Sheela Chari
• Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
• The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey

The nominees for Best Young Adult are:

• Shelter by Harlan Coben
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
• The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall
• The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines
• Kill You Last by Todd Strasser