Down River wins the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Novel

Last night, at an awards banquet in New York City, the Mystery Writers of America announced their 2008 Edgar Award winners. We were thrilled to see that John Hart took home the award for Best Novel for Down River, which made our Top 100 list of editors' picks for the Best Books of 2007. Among the other terrific reads (and in-house Amazon favorites) in the winners' circle are Tana French's remarkable debut In the Woods and Katherine Marsh's The Night Tourist. Check out the full list of winners and finalists below. --Anne

Best Novel:

· Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
· Priest by Ken Bruen
· The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
· Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman
· Down River by John Hart -- Winner!

Best First Novel by an American Author:
· Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell
· In the Woods by Tana French -- Winner!
· Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard
· Head Games by Craig McDonald
· Pyres by Derek Nikitas

Best Paperback Original:
· Queenpin by Megan Abbott -- Winner!
· Blood of Paradise by David Corbett
· Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks
· Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill
· Who Is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall  

Best Fact Crime:
· The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert
· Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi -- Winner!
· Chasing Justice by Kerry Max Cook
· Relentless Pursuit by Kevin Flynn
· Sacco & Vanzetti by Bruce Watson

Best Critical/Biographical Work:
· The Triumph of the Thriller by Patrick Anderson
· A Counter-History of Crime Fiction by Maurizio Ascari
· Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou
· Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley -- Winner!
· Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell

Best Young Adult:
· Rat Life by Tedd Arnold -- Winner!
· Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
· Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin
· Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin
· Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston  

Best Juvenile:
· The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch
· Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman
· Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn 
· The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh -- Winner!
· Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen  

Comments

[Isias on May 02, 2008 at 04:40 PM]

The link to Christine Falls is not working, it takes you to http:///

[Anne on May 04, 2008 at 09:54 AM]

Thanks for letting us know, I've fixed that. :)