MWA Announces Nominees for the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

This year marks the 205th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe (January 19th), and what better homage to this great author than awarding the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and TV produced or published in 2013 during the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

There are some popular names among the nominees, along with newcomers that are well worth remembering for great things to come. The winners will be announced at the 68th Annual Edgar Awards banquet, May 1, 2014 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

Here are the nominees for fiction writing:

BEST NOVEL

Sandrine’s Case by Thomas H. Cook (Grove Atlantic – The Mysterious Press)
The Humans by Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin (Hachette Book Group – Reagan Arthur Books)
Until She Comes Home by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA – Dutton Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

The Resurrectionist by Matthew Guinn (W.W. Norton)
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Alfred A. Knopf)
Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur Books)
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins Publishers)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantyne (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)
Almost Criminal by E. R. Brown (Dundurn)
Joe Victim by Paul Cleave (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)
Joyland by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)
Brilliance by Marcus Sakey (Amazon Publishing – Thomas and Mercer)

BEST SHORT STORY

“The Terminal” – Kwik Krimes by Reed Farrel Coleman (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
“So Long, Chief” – Strand Magazine
by Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane (The Strand)
“The Caston Private Lending Library & Book Depository” – Bibliomysteries
by John Connolly (Mysterious)
“There are Roads in the Water” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Tina Corey (Dell Magazines)
“There That Morning Sun Does Down” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Tim L. Williams (Dell Magazines)

The entire list of nominees can be seen at the website of Mystery Writers of America.

If you haven’t followed who won the last year’s Edgar Allan Pow Awards (for 2013), here is the list of winners:

Best Novel

Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books) (reviewed here)