Edgar Awards

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce as we celebrate the 204th anniversary of the birth 

of Edgar Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery 

fiction, non-fiction and television, published or produced in 2012. The Edgar® Awards will be 

presented to the winners at our 67th Gala Banquet, May 2, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York 

City. 

BEST NOVEL

The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 

The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 

Gone Girl: A Novel by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers) 

Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 

Sunset by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning – Five Star) 

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

All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley (Penguin Group USA – Riverhead Books) 

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay (Random House Publishing– Ballantine) 

Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books) 

Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House Publishing– Bantam Books) 

The Expats by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers) 

The 500 by Matthew Quirk (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Reagan Arthur) 

Black Fridays by Michael Sears (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL   

Complication by Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press) 

Whiplash River by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks) 

Bloodland by Alan Glynn (Picador) 

Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books - Emily Bestler Books) 

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

BEST FACT CRIME

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted  

the Last Days of Old China by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books) 

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America  

by Gilbert King (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper) 

More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers’ Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered

by D.P. Lyle, MD (Medallion Press) 

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (Crown Publishers) 

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 (Farrar Straus & Giroux Originals) 

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL 

Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed  

by John Paul Athanasourelis (McFarland and Company) 

Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest  

Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke  

(Simon & Schuster – Atria Books – Emily Bestler Books) 

The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics  

by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press) 

In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the  

Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Iphigenia in Aulis" – An Apple for the Creature by Mike Carey (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books) 

"Hot Sugar Blues" – Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance  

by Steve Liskow (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books) 

"The Void it Often Brings With It” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine  

by Tom Piccirilli (Dell Magazines) 

"The Unremarkable Heart" – Mystery Writers of America Presents:  Vengeance  

by Karin Slaughter (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books) 

"Still Life No. 41" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Teresa Solana  

(Dell Magazines) 

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 (Abrams – Amulet Books) 

13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau (Abrams – Amulet Books) 

The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Abrams – Amulet Books) 

Spy School by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) 

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage  

(Penguin Young Readers Group – Dial Books for Young Readers) 

BEST YOUNG ADULT 

 Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak  

(Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Brook Press) 

The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George (Penguin Young Readers Group – Viking) 

Crusher by Niall Leonard (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte BFYR) 

Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield  

(Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books) 

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Publishing Worldwide - Hyperion) 

BEST TELEVISION 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  

"When They Are Done With Us" – Staten Island Noir  

by Patricia Smith (Akashic Books) 

GRAND MASTER

Ken Follett 

Margaret Maron 

RAVEN AWARDS

Oline Cogdill 

Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego & Redondo Beach, CA 

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD    

Akashic Books 

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD 

(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, May 1, 2013) 

Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books) 

A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge Books) 

The Reckoning by Jane Casey (Minotaur Books) 

The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books) 

Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper)