2012 Edgar Award Winners and Nominees

Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction. The Edgar Awards were presented to the winners at the 66th Gala Banquet on April 26, 2012.

A special shoutout to Kathy Haines for her nomination in the Best Young Adult category for her series debut, The Girl Is Murder. We've still got signed first editions.

The Girl Is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines

New York in 1942 is the setting for 15 year old would-be private eye Iris Anderson

signed hardcover, $16.99

trade paperback, $16.99

Also available as an eBook $9.99

Best Novel

Winner

Gone by Mo Hayder

Latest for Bristol DI Jack Caffery

trade paperback, $14

Also available as an eBook $13.50

Other Nominees

The Ranger by Ace Atkins

Series debut features Quinn Colson, Army Ranger turned small town sheriff

hardcover, $25.95

trade paperback, $15, available May

Also available as an eBook $12.99

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

trade paperback, $14.99

Also available as an eBook $11.99

1222 by Anne Holt

hardcover, $25

Also available as an eBook $11.99

Field Gray by Philip Kerr

Bernie Gunther features in a novel that fills in much of his wartime backstory

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Also available as an eBook $12.99

Best First Novel

Winner

Bent Road by Lori Roy

Family returns to husband's rural hometown and must face the secrets surrounding his sister's death

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Also available as an eBook $12.99

Other Nominees

Red on Red by Edward Conlon

down and dirty cop novel written by one who's been there

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Last to Fold by David Duffy

KGB agent turned New York City PI Turbo Vlost

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Also available as an eBook $12.99

All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen

Aging Interpol agent Henri Poincare

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Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder

race car mechanic Conway Sax

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Also available as an eBook $10.99

Best Paperback Original

Winner

The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

Clever novel set in an alternate history version of 1919 America

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Other Nominees

The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle

Woman faces up to dark underside of Florence on a return visit two years after she was attacked there

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The Dog Sox by Russell Hill

baseball novel set in dysfunctional minor league team

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Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley

Botswana's David "Kubu" Bengistu, police detective

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Also available as an eBook $9.99

Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis

Psychiatrist Max Liebermann takes on crime in turn-of-the-century Vienna

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Also available as an eBook $11.99