Die Mystery Writers of America haben den diesjährigen Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preis an folgende Werke verliehen:
Best Novel
Live by Night, von Dennis Lehane (Morrow)
nominiert
The Lost Ones, von Ace Atkins (Putnam)
The Gods of Gotham, von Lyndsay Faye (Putnam)
Gone Girl, von Gillian Flynn (Crown)
Potboiler, von Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)
Sunset, von Al Lamanda (Five Star)
All I Did Was Shoot My Man, von Walter Mosley (Riverhead)
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Best First Novel by an American Author
The Expats, von Chris Pavone (Crown)
nominiert
The Map of Lost Memories, von Kim Fay (Ballantine)
Don’t Ever Get Old, von Daniel Friedman (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne)
Mr. Churchill’s Secretary, von Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
The 500, von Matthew Quirk (Reagan Arthur)
Black Fridays, von Michael Sears (Putnam)
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Best Paperback Original
The Last Policeman, von Ben H. Winters (Quirk)
nominiert
Complication, von Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press)
Whiplash River, von Lou Berney (Morrow)
Bloodland, von Alan Glynn (Picador)
Blessed Are the Dead, von Malla Nunn (Emily Bestler)
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Best Fact Crime
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, von Paul French (Penguin)
nominiert
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, von Gilbert King (Harper)
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers’ Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered, von D.P. Lyle (Medallion)
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies, von Ben Macintyre (Crown)
The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo–and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, von Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
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Best Critical/Biographical
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics, von James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)
nominiert
Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-boiled Detective Transformed, von John Paul Athanasourelis (McFarland & Company)
Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels, herausgegeben von John Connolly und Declan Burke (Emily Bestler)
In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, herausgegeben von Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)
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Best Short Story
The Unremarkable Heart, von Karin Slaughter (in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance)
nominiert
Iphigenia in Aulis, von Mike Carey (in An Apple for the Creature, herausgegeben von Charlaine Harris und Toni L. P. Kelner; Ace)
Hot Sugar Blues, von Steve Liskow (in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance, herausgegeben von Lee Child; Mulholland)
The Void It Often Brings With It, von Tom Piccirilli (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], November 2012)
Still Life No. 41, von Teresa Solana (EQMM, March/April 2012)
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Best Juvenile
The Quick Fix, von Jack D. Ferraiolo (Amulet)
nominiert
Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind, von Tom Angleberger (Amulet)
13 Hangmen, von Art Corriveau (Amulet)
Spy School, von Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Three Times Lucky, von Sheila Turnage (Dial Books for Young Readers)
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Best Young Adult
Code Name Verity, von Elizabeth Wein (Hyperion)
nominiert
Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things, von Kathryn Burak (Roaring Brook Press)
The Edge of Nowhere, von Elizabeth George (Viking)
Crusher, von Niall Leonard (Delacorte BFYR)
Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone, von Kat Rosenfield (Dutton Children’s Books)
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Best Television Episode Teleplay
“A Scandal in Belgravia,” Sherlock, Drehbuch von Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)
nominiert
“Pilot, ” Longmire, Drehbuch von Hunt Baldwin und John Coveny (A&E)
“Child Predator,” Elementary, Drehbuch von Peter Blake (CBS)
“Slaughterhouse,” Justified, Drehbuch von Fred Golan (Sony/FX)
“New Car Smell,” Homeland, Drehbuch von Meredith Stiehm (Showtime/Fox21)
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Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
When They Are Done With Us, von Patricia Smith (in Staten Island Noir, herausgegeben von Patricia Smith; Akashic Books)
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Grand Master
Ken Follett
Margaret Maron
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Raven Awards
Oline Cogdill und Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego und Redondo Beach, California
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Ellery Queen Award
Johnny Temple, Akashic Books
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The Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Other Woman, von Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)
nominiert
Dead Scared, von S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)
A City of Broken Glass, von Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
The Reckoning, von Jane Casey (Minotaur)
Sleepwalker, von Wendy Corsi Staub (Harper)
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Einen herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Gewinner.
Einen Gesamtlesetipp an alle Kriminalakte-Leser: ich empfehle, bis zum Beweis des Gegenteils, auch ohne sie gelesen zu haben, alle nominierten und prämierten Bücher und Kurzgeschichten.
Und natürlich hoffe ich auf viele, viele, viele Übersetzungen.
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