MWA Edgar Award Winners 2017
This year the Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at the 71st Gala Banquet, April 27, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
Here are the winners in each category:
Best Novel
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)
Best First Novel by an American Author
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)
Best Paperback Original
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
Best Fact Crime
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale (Penguin Random House – Penguin Press)
Best Critical/Biographical
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (W.W. Norton – Liveright)
Best Short Story
“Autumn at the Automat” – In Sunlight or in Shadow by Lawrence Block (Pegasus Books)
Best Juvenile
OCDaniel by Wesley King (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)
Best Young Adult
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown BFYR)
Best Television Episode Teleplay
“A Blade of Grass” – Penny Dreadful, Teleplay by John Logan (Showtime)
Robert. L. Fish Memorial Award
“The Truth of the Moment” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by E. Gabriel Flores (Dell Magazines)
Grand Master
Max Allan Collins
Ellen Hart
Raven Awards
Dru Ann Love
Ellery Queen Award
Neil Nyren
The Simon & Schuster – Mmary Higgins Clark Award
The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)