The 2016 Edgar Awards Nominees Announced

With today’s celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 207th birthday, Mystery Writers of America has announced its 2016’s nominees for the Edgar Awards. The awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction as well as TV that was produced in 2015.

The winners of the awards will be revealed April 28 this year, at the  70th Gala Banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

Here are the nominees for fiction and non-fiction writing:

BEST NOVEL

The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter

The Lady From Zagreb by Philip Kerr

Life or Death by Michael Robotham

Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy

Canary by Duane Swierczynski

Night Life by David C. Taylor

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton

Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay

What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan

Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine

Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty

The Daughter by Jane Shemilt

BEST FACT CRIME

Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the American Genocide by Eric Bogosian

Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T.J. English

Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth

Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica by Matthew Parker

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward

BEST SHORT STORY

The Little Men by Megan Abbott

On Borrowed Time by Mat Coward

The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday by Peter Farrelly

Family Treasures by Shirley Jackson (in Let Me Tell You, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt)

Obits by Stephen King (in Bazaar of Bad Dreams, by Stephen King)

Every Seven Years by Denise Mina

BEST JUVENILE

Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi

If You Find This by Matthew Baker

Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver & H.C. Chester

Blackthorn Key, by Kevin Sands

Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy, by Susan Vaught

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Endangered by Lamar Giles

A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Ask the Dark by Henry Turner

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick by Russell W. Johnson

GRAND MASTER

Walter Mosley

RAVEN AWARDS

Margaret Kinsman

Sisters in Crime

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Janet Rudolph, founder of Mystery Readers International

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody

The Masque of a Murderer by Suzanne Calkins

Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron

The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson

Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street)