The Mystery Writers of America have announced the 2018 Edgar Award nominees and special winners. The Edgars banquet—an annual black-tie gala celebrating crime fiction, non-fiction, and television writing—will be held on Thursday, April 26th, 2018, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. As always, it's a fantastic list of great work that deserves to be checked out! What have you read already?
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Best Novel
– The Dime by Kathleen Kent
– Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr
– Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
– A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
– The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
Best First Novel by an American Author
– She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
– Dark Chapter by Winnie M. Li
– Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love
– Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy
– Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
Best Paperback Original
– In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
– Ragged Lake by Ron Corbett
– Black Fall by Andrew Mayne
– The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola
– Penance by Kanae Minato
– The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
Best Fact Crime
– Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
– The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
– American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
– The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
– Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation by Brad Ricca
Best Critical/Biographical
– From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women who Created an Icon by Mattias Bostrom
– Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier by Tatiana de Rosnay
– Murder in the Closet: Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall by Curtis Evans
– Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
– Arthur and Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
Best Short Story
– “Spring Break” – New Haven Noir by John Crowley
– “Hard to Get” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Jeffery Deaver
– “Ace in the Hole” – Montana Noir by Eric Heidle
– “A Moment of Clarity at the Waffle House” – Atlanta Noir by Kenji Jasper
– “Chin Yong-Yun Stays at Home” – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by S.J. Rozan
Best Juvenile
– Audacity Jones Steals the Show by Kirby Larson
– Vanished! by James Ponti
– The Assassin’s Curse by Kevin Sands
– First Class Murder by Robin Stevens
– NewsPrints by Ru Xu
Best Young Adult
– The Cruelty by Scott Bergstrom
– Grit by Gillian French
– The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
– Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
– The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Best Television Episode Teleplay
– “Episode 1” – The Loch, Teleplay by Stephen Brady (Acorn TV)
– “Something Happened” – Law and Order: SVU, Teleplay by Michael Chernuchin (NBC Universal/Wolf Entertainment)
– “Somebody to Love” – Fargo, Teleplay by Noah Hawley (FX Networks/MGM)
– “Gently and the New Age” – George Gently, Teleplay by Robert Murphy (Acorn TV)
– “The Blanket Mire” – Vera, Teleplay by Paul Matthew Thompson & Martha Hillier (Acorn TV)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
– “The Queen of Secrets” – New Haven Noir by Lisa D. Gray
Grand Master
– Jane Langton
– William Link
– Peter Lovesey
Raven Award
– Kristopher Zgorski, BOLO Books
– The Raven Bookstore, Lawrence,— Kansas
Ellery Queen Award
– Robert Pépin
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
– The Vineyard Victims by Ellen Crosby
– You’ll Never Know Dear by Hallie Ephron
– The Widow’s House by Carol Goodman
– Uncorking a Lie by Nadine Nettmann
– The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day