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Die Mystery Writers of America (MWA) haben die diesjährigen Nominierungen für den Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preis bekannt gegeben:

Best Novel

• Sandrine’s Case, von Thomas H. Cook (The Mysterious Press)

• The Humans, von Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)

• Ordinary Grace, von William Kent Krueger (Atria)

• How the Light Gets In, von Louise Penny (Minotaur)

• Standing in Another Man’s Grave (Mädchengrab), von Ian Rankin (Reagan Arthur)

• Until She Comes Home, von Lori Roy (Dutton)

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Best First Novel

• The Resurrectionist, von Matthew Guinn (Norton)

• Ghostman (Ghostman), von Roger Hobbs (Knopf)

• Rage Against the Dying, von Becky Masterman (Minotaur)

• Red Sparrow, von Jason Matthews (Scribner)

• Reconstructing Amelia, von Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins)

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Best Paperback Original

• The Guilty One, von Lisa Ballantyne (Morrow)

• Almost Criminal, von E. R. Brown (Dundurn)

• Joe Victim, von Paul Cleave (Atria)

• Joyland (Joyland), von Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)

• The Wicked Girls, von Alex Marwood (Penguin)

• Brilliance, von Marcus Sakey (Thomas & Mercer)

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Best Fact Crime

• Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery, von Paul Collins (Crown)

• Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal, von Michael D’Antonio (Thomas Dunne)

• The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder, von Charles Graeber (Twelve)

• The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines, von Cate Lineberry (Little, Brown)

• The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War, von Daniel Stashower (Minotaur)

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Best Critical/Biographical

• Maigret, Simenon, and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories, von Bill Alder (McFarland & Company)

• America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture, von Erik Dussere (Oxford University Press)

• Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing, von Justin Gifford (Temple University Press)

• Ian Fleming, von Andrew Lycett (St. Martin’s Press)

• Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction, von Melissa Schaub (Palgrave Macmillan)

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Best Short Story

• “The Terminal,” von Reed Farrel Coleman (aus Kwik Krimes, herausgeben von Otto Penzler; Thomas & Mercer)

• “So Long, Chief,” von Max Allan Collins und Mickey Spillane (The Strand Magazine, February-May 2013)

• “The Caston Private Lending Library & Book Depository,” von John Connolly (The Mysterious Press)

• “There Are Roads In the Water,” von Trina Corey (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], January 2013)

• “Where That Morning Sun Goes Down,” von Tim L. Williams (EQMM, August 2013)

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Best Juvenile

• Strike Three, You’re Dead, von Josh Berk (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

• Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking, von Erin Dionne (Dial)

• P.K. Pinkerton and the Petrified Man, von Caroline Lawrence (Putnam Juvenile)

• Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming Staircase, von Jonathan Stroud (Disney-Hyperion)

• One Came Home, von Amy Timberlake (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

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Best Young Adult

• All the Truth That’s In Me, von Julie Berry (Viking Juvenile)

• Far Far Away, von Tom McNeal (Knopf Books for Young Readers)

• Criminal, von Terra Elan McVoy (Simon Pulse)

• How to Lead a Life of Crime, von Kirsten Miller (Razorbill)

• Ketchup Clouds, von Amanda Pitcher (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

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Best Television Episode Teleplay

• “Episode 3” —Luther, Drehbuch von Neil Cross (BBC)

• “Episode 1”–The Fall, Drehbuch von Allan Cubitt (Netflix)

• “Legitimate Rape”–Law & Order: SVU, Drehbuch von Kevin Fox und Peter Blauner (NBC)

• “Variations Under Domestication”–Orphan Black, Drehbuch von Will Pascoe (BBC)

• “Pilot”–The Following, Drehbuch von Kevin Williamson (Fox/Warner Bros. Television)

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Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

“That Wentworth Letter,” von Jeff Soloway (from Criminal Element’s Malfeasance Occasional, herausgegeben von Clare Toohey (St. Martin’s Press)

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Grand Master

Robert Crais

Carolyn Hart

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Raven Award

Aunt Agatha’s Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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The Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award

• There Was an Old Woman, von Hallie Ephron (Morrow)

• Fear of Beauty, von Susan Froetschel (Seventh Street)

• The Money Kill, von Katia Lief (Harper)

• Cover of Snow, von Jenny Milchman (Ballantine)

• The Sixth Station, von Linda Stasi (Forge)

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Die Edgar-Preisverleihung ist am Donnerstag, den 1. Mai, im Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

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Wie immer bei den Edgars: viele, viele Lesetipps und etliche alte Bekannte. Hoffentlich werden einige der Romane übersetzt.

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