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Forget the royal wedding news today--it's all about the Edgar Awards! Honoring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction produced the previous year, the Edgars began in 1954 and are named in honor of Edgar Allan Poe. Here are the winners, as announced last night at the Mystery Writers of America banquet (sorry the hats weren't as good as those worn at Westminster Abbey, so we'll just stick to announcing the books):
Best Novel: The Lock Artist by
Steve Hamilton
Best First Novel (by an American): Rogue Island by
Bruce DeSilva
Best Paperback Original: Long Time Coming by
Robert Goddard
Best Fact Crime: Scoreboard, Baby by
Ken Armstrong and
Nick Perry
Best Critical/Biographical: Charlie Chan by
Yunte Huang
Best Young Adult: Interrogation of Gabriel James by
Charlie Price
Best Juvenile: The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by
Dori Hillestad Butler
Best Short Story: "The Scent of Lilacs" "“ Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn
Grand Master Award: Sara Paretsky
See our full list of nominees and winners
for this year and previous ones.
