Edgar Nominations

The Mystery Writers of America announced their nominees for the Edgar Award, the highest honor in the mystery-writing field.  I’d especially like to congratulation my friends Rhys Bowen, DP Lyle, Jerrilyn Farmer, TJ Parker, Max Allan Collins, Gerry Conway and Hy Conrad on their well-deserved nominations.

BEST NOVEL

Evan’s Gate by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
By a
Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
Remembering Sarah by Chris
Mooney (Atria Books)
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)

Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Little Girl Lost by
Richard Aleas (Hard Case Crime)
Relative Danger by Charles Benoit (Poisoned
Pen Press)
Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan (Delacorte Press)
Tonight I Said
Goodbye by Michael Koryta (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
Country of Origin by Don
Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
Bahamarama by Bob Morris (St. Martin’s
Minotaur)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Librarian by Larry
Beinhart (Nation Books)
Into the Web by Thomas H. Cook (Bantam)
Dead Men
Rise Up Never by Ron Faust (Dell)
Twelve-Step Fandango by Chris Haslam (Dark
Alley)
The Confession by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)

BEST
CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete
Short Stories
edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton)
Latin American
Mystery Writers: An A-to-Z Guide by Daniel B. Lockhart (Greenwood Press)

Booze and the Private Eye: Alcohol in the Hard-Boiled Novel
by Rita
Elizabeth Rippetoe (McFarland & Co.)
The Life of Graham Greene, Vol. 3:
1956-1991 by Norman Sherry (Viking Books)

BEST FACT CRIME

Ready
for the People: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor by Marissa N. Batt (Arcade
Publishing)
Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a
Detective’s Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)

Forensics for Dummies by D.P. Lyle, MD (Wiley Publishing – For Dummies)

Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates by Suzanne
O’Malley (Simon & Schuster)
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story
of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting
Detectives, and Broken Hearts by Julian Rubinstein (Little, Brown)
Green
River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer – America’s
Deadliest Serial Murderer by Ann Rule (Free Press)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Something About a Scar" – Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against
You by Laurie Lynn Drummond (HarperCollins)
"The Widow of Slane" by Terence
Faherty (EQMM – March/April 2004)
"The Book Signing" – Brooklyn Noir by Pete
Hamill (Akashic Books)
"Adventure of the Missing Detective" – Sherlock
Holmes: The Hidden Years by Gary Lovisi (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
"Imitate the
Sun" by Luke Sholer (EQMM – November 2004)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Story Time by Edward Bloor (Harcourt Children’s Books)
In Darkness,
Death by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)
Jude by Kate
Morgenroth (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
The Book of Dead
Days by Marcus Sedgwick (Wendy Lamb Books)
Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly
(David Fickling Books)

BEST JUVENILE

Chasing Vermeer by Blue
Balliett (Scholastic Press)
Assassin: The Lady Grace Mysteries by Patricia
Finney (Delacorte Books for Young Readers)
Abduction! by Peg Kehret (Dutton
Children’s Books)
Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater (HarperCollins
Children’s Books)
The Unseen by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Delacorte Books for
Young Readers)

BEST PLAY

Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away
With It) by Neal Bell (Playwrights Horizons)
Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life
by Max Allan Collins (The Art House)
An Evening of Murder and the Like by
Edward Musto (Barrow Group Studio Theatre)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE
TELEPLAY

Law & Order: Criminal Intent – "Want", Teleplay by
Elizabeth Benjamin. Story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin
Law &
Order: Criminal Intent – "Conscience", Teleplay by Gerry Conway. Story by René
Balcer & Gerry Conway
Law & Order: Criminal Intent – "Consumed",
Teleplay by Warren Leight. Story by René Balcer & Warren Leight
Law
& Order: Criminal Intent – "Pas De Deux", Teleplay by Warren Leight. Story
by René Balcer & Warren Leight
Monk – "Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried
Wolf", Teleplay by Hy Conrad

BEST TELEVISION FEATURE OR MINI-SERIES
TELEPLAY

State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)
Prime Suspect 6:
The Last Witness by Peter Berry (Granada TV & WGBH Boston)
Death in Holy
Orders by Robert Jones, based on the novel by P.D. James (BBC Worldwide)

Amnesia by Chris Lang (BBC America)
"The Darkness of Light" – Wire in
the Blood by Alan Whiting (Coastal Productions)

BEST MOTION PICTURE
SCREENPLAY

A Very Long Engagement – Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet,
based on the Novel by Sebastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)
The Bourne
Supremacy – Screenplay by Tony Gilroy, based on the Novel by Robert Ludlam. (The
Kennedy/Marshall Company, Universal Pictures, Hypnotic)
Collateral by Stuart
Beattie (DreamWorks SKG)
I’m Not Scared – Screenplay by Francesca Marciano,
based on the Novel by Niccolo Ammaniti. (Miramax Films)
Maria Full of Grace
– Screenplay by Joshua Marston (HBO Films)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

Thomas Morrissey
"Can’t Catch Me" – Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Books)

GRAND MASTER

Marcia Muller

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Carolyn Marino, Vice President/Executive Editor, HarperCollins

RAVEN AWARDS

Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre (founded by Steve
Oney)
DorothyL listserv (founded by Diane Kovacs and Kara Robinson

Murder by the Book, Houston, TX (Martha Farrington, Owner)

SPECIAL
EDGAR AWARDS

David Chase (writer/producer – The Sopranos, The Rockford
Files,
Kolchak: The Night Stalker and many other breakthrough TV shows)

Tom Fontana (writer/producer – Homicide: Life on the Street, Oz, and The
Jury and many other breakthrough TV shows)

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER-MARY
HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

Perfect Sax by Jerrilyn Farmer (William Morrow/Avon)

The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman (Ballantine Books)
Scent of a Killer
by Christiane Heggan (MIRA Books)
Grave Endings by Rochelle Krich
(Ballantine Books)
Murder in a Mill Town by P.B. Ryan (Berkley Prime Crime)

7 thoughts on “Edgar Nominations”

  1. I liked CHASING a hell of a lot (reviewed it in my October column, IIRC) and I think it’s a better book than THE CONFESSION — although that may be due to the fact that the PBO was written a few years ago and CHASING is a more recent endeavor…

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  2. I would like to know how one goes about being considered for a nomination for the Edgar award. My novel has just been listed with the Borders Group. Title, “STRINGER”. it would be considered a crime mystery thriller. thanks.

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  3. John,
    It’s not that hard — just visit the MWA website (www.mysterywriters.org) and look at the eligibility requirements for submission. That said, since you didn’t mention a publisher but said your book is “listed with the Borders Group,” I’m assuming your novel is self-published, which would make it ineligible for Edgar consideration.
    Lee

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