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.
