Die Mystery Writers of America (MWA) haben die diesjährigen Edgar Allan Poe Awards verliehen. Den wichtigen Krimipreis gewannen:
Best Novel
Ordinary Grace, von William Kent Krueger (Atria)
nominiert
Sandrine’s Case, von Thomas H. Cook (The Mysterious Press)
The Humans, von Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster)
How the Light Gets In, von Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Standing in Another Man’s Grave (Mächengrab), von Ian Rankin (Reagan Arthur)
Until She Comes Home, von Lori Roy (Dutton)
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Best First Novel by an American Author
Red Sparrow, von Jason Matthews (Scribner)
nominiert
The Resurrectionist, von Matthew Guinn (Norton)
Ghostman (Ghostman), von Roger Hobbs (Knopf)
Rage Against the Dying, von Becky Masterman (Minotaur)
Reconstructing Amelia, von Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins)
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Best Paperback Original
The Wicked Girls, von Alex Marwood (Penguin)
nominiert
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)
Brilliance, von Marcus Sakey (Thomas & Mercer)
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Best Fact Crime
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War, von Daniel Stashower (Minotaur)
nominiert
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)
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Best Critical/Biographical
America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture, von Erik Dussere (Oxford University Press)
nominiert
Maigret, Simenon, and France: Social Dimensions of the Novels and Stories, von Bill Alder (McFarland & Company)
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 Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository, von John Connolly (The Mysterious Press)
nominiert
The Terminal, von Reed Farrel Coleman (aus „Kwik Krimes“, herausgegeben von Otto Penzler; Thomas & Mercer)
So Long, Chief, von Max Allan Collins und Mickey Spillane (The Strand Magazine, February-May 2013)
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
One Came Home, von Amy Timberlake (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
nominiert
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)
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Best Young Adult
Ketchup Clouds, von Amanda Pitcher (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
nominiert
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)
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Best Television Episode Teleplay
“Episode 1”–The Fall, Drehbuch von Allan Cubitt (Netflix)
nominiert
“Episode 3”–Luther, Drehbuch von Neil Cross (BBC)
“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 (aus „The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble“, 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
Cover of Snow, von Jenny Milchman (Ballantine)
nominiert
There Was an Old Woman, von Hallie Ephron (Morrow)
Fear of Beauty, von Susan Froetschel (Seventh Street)
The Money Kill, von Katia Lief (Harper)
The Sixth Station, von Linda Stasi (Forge)
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Gewinner und Nominierten.
Denn allein schon die Nominierung ist ein heißer Lesetipp.
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