Die Edgar-Gewinner 2024

Mai 3, 2024

Wow, James Lee Burke, Grandmaster seit 2009, hat seinen dritten Edgar erhalten.

Die 78. Edgar-Verleihung war am 1. Mai in New York City. Die Edgars, bzw. genaugenommen die Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preise, werden seit 1946 von den Mystery Writers of America (MWA) verliehen und sie sind der wichtigste Krimipreis.

Die diesjährigen Gewinner sind

Best Novel

Flags on the Bayou, von James Lee Burke (Atlantic Monthly Press)

nominiert

All the Sinners Bleed (Der letzte Wolf), von S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)

The Madwomen of Paris, von Jennifer Cody Epstein (Ballantine)

Bright Young Women, von Jessica Knoll (S&S/Marysue Rucci)

An Honest Man, von Michael Koryta (Mulholland)

The River We Remember, von William Kent Krueger (Atria)

Crook Manifesto, von Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Best First Novel by an American Author

The Peacock and the Sparrow, von I.S. Berry (Atria)

nominiert

The Golden Gate, von Amy Chua (Minotaur)

Small Town Sins, von Ken Jaworowski (Henry Holt)

The Last Russian Doll, von Kristen Loesch (Berkley)

Murder by Degrees, von Ritu Mukerji (Simon & Schuster)

Best Paperback Original

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, von Jesse Q. Sutanto (Berkley)

nominiert

Boomtown, von A.F. Carter (Mysterious Press)

Hide, von Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)

The Taken Ones, von Jess Lourey (Thomas & Mercer)

Lowdown Road, von Scott Von Doviak (Hard Case Crime)

Best Fact Crime

Crooked: The Roaring ’20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal, von Nathan Masters (Hachette)

nominiert

In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America’s Child, von Kim Cross (Grand Central)

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall, von Zeke Faux (‎Crown Currency)

Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders, von John Glatt (St. Martin’s Press)

I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever, von Barbara Rae-Venter (Ballantine)

The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy, von Joe Sexton (Scribner)

Best Critical/Biographical

Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy, von Steven Powell (Bloomsbury)

nominiert

Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder, von David Bordwell (Columbia University Press)

Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction, von Max Allan Collins und James L. Traylor (Mysterious Press)

A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, von Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s Press)

Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, von Robert Morgan (LSU Press)

Best Short Story

Hallowed Ground,” von Linda Castillo (Minotaur)

nominiert

Thriller,” von Heather Graham (Blackstone)

Miss Direction,” von Rob Osler (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2023)

The Rise,” von Ian Rankin (Amazon Original Stories)

Pigeon Tony’s Last Stand,” von Lisa Scottoline (Amazon Original Stories)

Best Juvenile

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto, von Adrianna Cuevas (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)

nominiert

Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity, von Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)

Epic Ellisons: Cosmos Camp, von Lamar Giles (Versify)

The Jules Verne Prophecy, von Larry Schwarz und Iva-Marie Palmer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

What Happened to Rachel Riley? von Claire Swinarski (Quill Tree)

Best Young Adult

Girl Forgotten, von April Henry (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

nominiert

Star Splitter, von Matthew J. Kirby (Dutton Books for Young Readers)

The Sharp Edge of Silence, von Cameron Kelly Rosenblum (Quill Tree)

My Flawless Life, von Yvonne Woon (Katherine Tegen)

Just Do This One Thing for Me, von Laura Zimmerman (Dutton Books for Young Readers)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

Escape from Shit Mountain,” Poker Face, geschrieben von Nora Zuckerman und Lilla Zuckerman (Peacock)

nominiert

Time of the Monkey,” Poker Face, geschrieben von Wyatt Cain und Charlie Peppers (Peacock)

I’m a Pretty Observant Guy,” Will Trent, geschrieben von Liz Heldens (ABC)

Dead Man’s Hand,” Poker Face, geschrieben von Rian Johnson (Peacock)

Hózhó Náhásdlii (Beauty Is Restored),” Dark Winds, geschrieben von Graham Roland und John Wirth (AMC)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

The Body in Cell Two,” von Kate Hohl (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], May/June 2023)

nominiert

Errand for a Neighbor,” von Bill Bassman (EQMM, January/February 2023)

The Soiled Dove of Shallow Hollow,” von Sean McCluskey (EQMM, January/February 2023)

It’s Half Your Fault,” von Meghan Leigh Paulk (EQMM, July-August 2023)

Two Hours West of Nothing,” von Gabriela Stiteler (EQMM, September/October 2023)

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award

Play the Fool, von Lina Chern (Bantam)

nominiert

The Bones of the Story, von Carol Goodman (Morrow)

Of Manners and Murder, von Anastasia Hastings (Minotaur)

The Three Deaths of Willa Stannard, von Kate Robards (Crooked Lane)

Murder in Postscript, von Mary Winters (Berkley)

The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award

An Evil Heart, von Linda Castillo (Minotaur)

nominiert

Hard Rain, von Samantha Jayne Allen (Minotaur)

Bad, Bad Seymour Brown, von Susan Isaacs (Atlantic Monthly Press)

Past Lying, von Val McDermid (Atlantic Monthly Press)

A Stolen Child, von Sarah Stewart Taylor (Minotaur)

The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Glory Be, von Danielle Arceneaux (Pegasus Crime)

nominiert

Misfortune Cookie, von Vivien Chien (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)

Hot Pot Murder, von Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley)

Murder of an Amish Bridegroom, von Patricia Johns (Crooked Lane)

The Body in the Back Garden, von Mark Waddell (Crooked Lane)

Grand Master

Katherine Hall Page

R. L. Stine

Ellery Queen Award

Michaela Hamilton, executive editor at Kensington Publishing

Der Livestream der Veranstaltung kann (demnächst) hier angesehen werden.

(via The Rap Sheet)


Die Edgar-Nominierungen 2023

Februar 1, 2023

Schon vor einigen Tagen haben die Mystery Writers of America (MWA) die Nominierungen für die diesjährigen Edgar Allan Poe Awards veröffentlicht:

Best Novel:

Devil House, von John Darnielle (MCD)

Like a Sister, von Kellye Garrett (Mulholland)

Gangland, von Chuck Hogan (Grand Central)

The Devil Takes You Home, von Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland)

Notes on an Execution, von Danya Kukafka (Morrow)

The Maid, von Nita Prose (Ballantine)

Best First Novel by an American Author:

Jackal, von Erin E. Adams (Bantam)

Don’t Know Tough, von Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)

Shutter, von Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)

More Than You’ll Ever Know, von Katie Gutierrez (Morrow)

Portrait of a Thief, von Grace D. Li (Tiny Reparations)

Best Paperback Original:

Quarry’s Blood, von Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)

On a Quiet Street, von Seraphina Nova Glass (Graydon House)

Or Else, von Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer)

Cleopatra’s Dagger, von Carole Lawrence (Thomas & Mercer)

A Familiar Stranger, von A.R. Torre (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Fact Crime:

Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls, von Kathleen Hale (Grove Press)

Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, von Erika Krouse (Flatiron)

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders, von Kathryn Miles (Algonquin)

American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C., von Shahan Mufti (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper, von Daniel Stashower (Minotaur)

Best Critical/Biographical:

The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, von Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, von Mary Anna Evans und J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)

The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations, von David Geherin (McFarland)

The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story, von Andrew Neiderman (Gallery)

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, von Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)

Best Short Story:

• “Red Flag,” von Gregory Fallis (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [AHMM], March/April)

• “Backstory,” von Charles John Harper (AHMM, January/February)

• “Locked-In,” von William Burton McCormick (AHMM, January/February)

• “The Amnesty Box,” von Tim McLoughlin (aus Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, von Tim McLoughlin; Akashic Press)

• “First You Dream, Then You Die,” von Donna Moore (aus Black Is the Night, herausgegeben von Maxim Jakubowski; Titan)

Best Juvenile:

The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef. von Michael D. Beil (Pixel+Ink)

The Area 51 Files, von Julie Buxbaum (Delacorte Press)

Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, von Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra)

Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star, von M.G. Leonard und Sam Sedgman (Feiwel & Friends)

Chester Keene Cracks the Code, von Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb)

Best Young Adult:

Pretty Dead Queens, von Alexa Donne (Crown Books for Young Readers)

Frightmares, von Eva V. Gibson (Underlined)

The Black Girls Left Standing, von Juliana Goodman (Feiwel & Friends)

The Red Palace, von June Hur (Feiwel & Friends)

Lock the Doors, von Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks Fire)

Best Television Episode Teleplay:

• “One Mighty and Strong,” Under the Banner of Heaven, Drehbuch von Brandon Boyce (Hulu/FX)

• “Episode 1,” Magpie Murders, Drehbuch von Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)

• “Episode 1,” Karen Pirie, Drehbuch von Emer Kenny (BritBox)

• “When Harry Met Fergus,” Harry Wild, Drehbuch von David Logan (Acorn TV)

• “The Reagan Way,” Blue Bloods, Drehbuch von Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS)

• “Eighteen Wheels a Predator,” Law & Order: SVU, Drehbuch von Brianna Yellen und Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:

Dogs in the Canyon,” von Mark Harrison (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October)

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award:

Because I Could Not Stop for Death, von Amanda Flower (Berkley)

The Woman in the Library, von Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press)

The Disinvited Guest, von Carol Goodman (Morrow)

A Dreadful Splendor, von B.R. Myers (Morrow)

Never Name the Dead, von D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane)

The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award:

Secret Lives, von Mark de Castrique (Poisoned Pen Press)

An Unforgiving Place, von Claire Kells (Crooked Lane)

Hideout, von Louisa Luna (Doubleday)

Behind the Lie, von Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane)

Secrets Typed in Blood, von Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)

The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award:

The Shadow of Memory, von Connie Berry (Crooked Lane)

Buried in a Good Book, von Tamara Berry (Poisoned Pen Press)

Smile Beach Murder, von Alicia Bessette (Berkley)

Desert Getaway, von Michael Craft (Brash)

The Marlow Murder Club, von Robert Thorogood (Poisoned Pen Press)

SPECIAL AWARDS

MWA Grand Master:

Michael Connelly

Joanne Fluke

Raven Award:

Crime Writers of Color

Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Noir Foundation

Ellery Queen Award:

The Strand Magazine

Die 77. Edgar-Verleihung ist am 27. April 2023 in New York.

(via The Rap Sheet)


Die Edgars 2015

Mai 5, 2015

In New York City (die Stadt, nie niemals aufsteht, weil sie niemals schläft. Oder so.) verliehen die Mystery Writers of America die diesjährigen Edgar-Allan-Poe-Preise:
Best Novel
Mr. Mercedes (Mr. Mercedes), von Stephen King (Scribner)
nominiert
This Dark Road to Mercy, von Wiley Cash (Morrow)
Wolf, von Mo Hayder (Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Final Silence, von Stuart Neville (Soho Press)
Saints of the Shadow Bible (Schlafende Hunde), by Ian Rankin (Little, Brown)
Coptown, von Karin Slaughter (Ballantine)

Best First Novel by an American Author
Dry Bones in the Valley, von Tom Bouman (Norton)
nominiert
Invisible City, von Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
The Life We Bury, von Allen Eskens (Seventh Street)
Bad Country, von C.B. McKenzie (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne)
Shovel Ready, von Adam Sternbergh (Crown)
Murder at the Brightwell, von Ashley Weaver (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne)

Best Paperback Original
The Secret History of Las Vegas, von Chris Albani (Penguin)
nominiert
Stay With Me, von Alison Gaylin (Morrow)
The Barkeep, von William Lashner (Thomas & Mercer)
The Day She Died, von Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
The Gone Dead Train, von Lisa Turner (Morrow)
World of Trouble, von Ben H. Winters (Quirk)

Best Fact Crime
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, von William Mann (Harper)
nominiert
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, von Kevin Cook (Norton)
The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive Art, von Carl Hoffman (Morrow)
The Other Side, von Lacy M. Johnson (Tin House)
The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation, von Harold Schechter (New Harvest)

Best Critical/Biographical
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe, von J.W. Ocker (Countryman Press)
nominiert
The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis, von Charles Brownson (McFarland & Company)
James Ellroy: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, von Jim Mancall (McFarland & Company)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: Classic Film Noir, von Robert Miklitsch (University of Illinois Press)
Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film, von Francis M. Nevins (Perfect Crime)

Best Short Story
What Do You Do?, von Gillian Flynn (aus Rogues, herausgegeben von George R.R. Martin und Gardner Dozois; Ballantine)
nominiert
The Snow Angel, von Doug Allyn (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], January 2014)
200 Feet, von John Floyd (The Strand Magazine, February-May 2014)
Red Eye, von Dennis Lehane vs. Michael Connelly (aus FaceOff [FaceOff – Doppeltes Spiel], herausgegeben von David Baldacci; Simon & Schuster)
Teddy, von Brian Tobin (EQMM, May 2014)

Best Juvenile
Greenglass House, von Kate Milford (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)
nominiert
Absolutely Truly, von Heather Vogel Frederick (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Space Case, von Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove, von “Science Bob” Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith Quirk)
Saving Kabul Corner, von N.H. Senzai (Paula Wiseman)
Eddie Red, Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile, von Marcia Wells (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers)

Best Young Adult
The Art of Secrets, von James Klise (Algonquin Young Readers)
nominiert
The Doubt Factory, von Paolo Bacigalupi (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Nearly Gone, von Elle Cosimano (Penguin Young Readers Group/Kathy Dawson)
Fake ID, von Lamar Giles (HarperCollins Children’s Books/Amistad)
The Prince of Venice Beach, von Blake Nelson (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Best Television Episode Teleplay
Episode 1, Happy Valley, Drehbuch von Sally Wainwright (Netflix)
nominiert
The Empty Hearse (Der leere Sarg), Sherlock, Drehbuch von Mark Gatiss (Hartswood Films/Masterpiece)
Unfinished Business, Blue Bloods, Drehbuch von Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS)
Dream Baby Dream, The Killing, Drehbuch von Sean Whitesell (Netflix)
Episode 6, The Game, Drehbuch von Toby Whithouse (BBC America)

The Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Stranger You Know, von Jane Casey (Minotaur)
nominiert
A Dark and Twisted Tide, von Sharon Bolton (Minotaur)
Invisible City, von Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
Summer of the Dead, von Julia Keller (Minotaur)
The Black Hour, von Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
Getaway Girl, von Zoë Z. Dean (EQMM)

Grand Master
Lois Duncan
James Ellroy

Raven Awards
Ruth und Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine
Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder

Ellery Queen Award
Charles Ardai, Herausgeber und Gründer von Hard Case Crime

Herzliche Glückwunsch an alle nominierten und ausgezeichneten Autoren.
(via The Rap Sheet)


Die Edgar-Gewinner 2014

Mai 2, 2014

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Grand Master
Robert Crais
Carolyn Hart

Raven Award
Aunt Agatha’s Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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)

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle Gewinner und Nominierten.
Denn allein schon die Nominierung ist ein heißer Lesetipp.

(via The Rap Sheet)


Die Edgar-Gewinner 2013

Mai 6, 2013

 

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

When They Are Done With Us, von Patricia Smith (in Staten Island Noir, herausgegeben von Patricia Smith; Akashic Books)

Grand Master

Ken Follett

Margaret Maron

Raven Awards

Oline Cogdill und Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego und Redondo Beach, California

Ellery Queen Award

Johnny Temple, Akashic Books

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)

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.

(via The Rap Sheet)