Edgar Award Winners Announced, Including Best Novel: "Gone"

In Mo Hayder's Gone, a carjacking is actually a kidnapping, potential clues lurk inside a tunnel, and almost nothing turns out to be what it seems to be. That's what the keepers of the Edgar Allen Poe spirit must be looking for each year when they (the Mystery Writers of America), in honor of Poe's birthday, dole out the prestigious Edgar Awards. Hayden's sinister and suspenseful Gone won the best novel award, and more than a dozen other winners were announced Thursday in New York, in such categories as best paperback original, best critical biographical, best short story, and best TV episode.

The full list of winners and nominees can be found here. Among them: 

Best Novel

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

Best First Novel

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

Best Fact Crime

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

Young Adult

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

Best Critical Biography

• On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (*winner)
• The Tattooed Girl by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg
• Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran
• Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates
• Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick

To see winners and nominees in all fifteen categories, visit TheEdgars.com.