Saturday, April 30, 2011

2011 Edgar Awards

The winners were announced on Thursday, April 28 and here is the list.
BEST NOVEL
THE LOCK ARTIST by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
ROGUE ISLAND by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
LONG TIME COMING by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)

BEST FACT CRIME
SCOREBOARD, BABY: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity, by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
CHARLIE CHAN: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvouz with American History, by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
THE BUDDY FILES: The Case of the Lost Boy, by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
INTERROGATION OF GABRIEL JAMES by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)

BEST PLAY
THE PSYCHIC by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre – Burbank, CA)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
"Episode 1" - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Evan Lewis (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER
Sara Paretsky

RAVEN AWARDS
Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Forest Park, Illinois
Once Upon A Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, Minnesota

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD (Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2011)
THE CROSSING PLACES by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

2 comments:

  1. I am really interested in reading Rogue Island as I have read several reviews of this book and it sounds like a great thriller. The Lock Artist also sounds like a book I would enjoy. Thanks for posting this list.

    Steve

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  2. So glad you enjoyed it Steve.

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