EDGAR AWARDS
Presented by the Mystery Writers of America, the Edgar Awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television.
BEST NOVEL
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
BEST FACT CRIME
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvouz with American History by Yunte Huang
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
AGATHA AWARDS
Named in honor of Agatha Christie, the Agatha Awards honor the “traditional mystery,” mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence.
BEST NOVEL
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
BEST FIRST NOVEL
The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames
BEST NON-FICTION
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran