Saturday, January 23, 2010

2010 Edgar Award Nominees

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Awards honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television published or produced in 2009. The Edgar Awards will be presented at a banquet on April 29, 2010, in New York City.
The nominees for Best Novel are:
The Missing by Tim Gautreaux;
The Last Child by John Hart;
The Odds by Kathleen George;
Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston;
Nemesis by Jo Nesbo;
Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn
The nominees for Best First Novel are:
The Girl She Used To Be by David Cristofano;
Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley;
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf;
A Bad Day for Sorry by Sophie Littlefield;
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke;
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stepfanie Pintoff
The nominees for Best Paperback Original are:
Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott;
Havana Lunar by Robert Arellano;
The Lord God Bird by Russell Hill;
Body Blows by Marc Strange;
The Herring-Seller's Apprentice by L. C. Tyler
A full list of the Edgar nominees can be found on the Mystery Writers of America website, www.mysterywriters.org

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