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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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SPECIAL AWARDS

MWA Grand Master:

Michael Connelly

Joanne Fluke

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Raven Award:

Crime Writers of Color

Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Noir Foundation

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Ellery Queen Award:

The Strand Magazine

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

(via The Rap Sheet)