Edgar Award Nominees Have Been Announced

Each year, in honor of Edgar Allen Poe's birthday, Mystery Writers of America presents its prestigious Edgar Awards to the best mystery fiction books, nonfiction books, and television productions. The winners will be announced April 26. Among this year's nominees are: 

Best Novel

• The Ranger by Ace Atkins
• Gone by Mo Hayder
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
• 1222 by Anne Holt
• Field Gray by Philip Kerr

Best First Novel

• Red on Red by Edward Conlon
• Last to Fold by David Duffy
• All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
• Bent Road by Lori Roy
• Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder

Best Fact Crime

• The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins
• The Savage City by T.J. English
• Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
• Girl, Wanted by Steve Miller
• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit by Mark Seal

Young Adult

• Shelter by Harlan Coben
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson 
• The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall 
• The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines 
• Kill You Last by Todd Strasser

To see all the nominees in all fifteen categories, visit TheEdgars.com.
Winners will be announced on April 26 at a banquet in New York.