Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce on the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, its Nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television, published or produced in 2011. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at our 66th Gala Banquet, April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
BEST NOVEL
Ace Akins, The Ranger (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Mo Hayder, Gone (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X (Minotaur Books)
Anne Holt, 1222 (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
Philip Kerr, Field Gray (G.P. Putnam's Sons – Marion Wood Books)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Edward Conlon, Red on Red (Spiegel & Grau)
David Duffy, Last to Fold (Thomas Dunne Books)
Leonard Rosen, All Cry Chaos (The Permanent Press)
Lori Roy, Bent Road (Dutton)
Steve Ulfelder, Purgatory Chasm (Minotaur Books)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Robert Jackson Bennett, The Company Man (Orbit Books)
Lucretia Grindle, The Faces of Angels (Felony & Mayhem Press)
Russell Hill, The Dog Sox (Pleasure Boat Studio – Caravel Mystery Books)
Michael Stanley, Death of the Mantis (Harper Paperbacks)
Frank Tallis, Vienna Twilight (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
For nomiees in other catgories, click on the link to the MWA website
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