Edgar Award Winners 2012

The 2012 Edgar Awards "for distinguished work in the mystery genre" were presented tonight by the Mystery Writers of America. Nominees and winners for some of the categories are listed below. For a complete list, see here.

BEST NOVEL

--> Gone by Mo Hayder

The Ranger by Ace Atkins

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt
Field Gray by Philip Kerr

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

--> Bent Road by Lori Roy

Red on Red by Edward Conlon

Last to Fold by David Duffy

All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen

Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

--> The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle

The Dog Sox by Russell Hill

Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley

Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis

BEST FACT CRIME

--> Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins

The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English

Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal

From Stephen King's blog

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

--> On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda

The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg

Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran

Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates

Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick

On Poe's birthday, it's tradition
for a bottle of cognac and three
roses to be left at his gravesite 

BEST SHORT STORY

--> "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull

"Marley's Revolution" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland

"Tomorrow's Dead" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean

"The Adakian Eagle" - Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton

"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" - Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon

"The Case of Death and Honey" - A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

--> Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry

Now You See Me by S.J. Bolton

Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron

Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick

Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely

GRAND MASTER

Martha Grimes

RAVEN AWARDS

M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, California

Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries