Mystery Writers Celebrate 60th Edgar Awards

Mystery Writers Celebrate 60th Edgar Awards

NEW YORK, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Janet Evanovich and Reed Farrel Coleman, President and Vp of the Mystery Writers of America, say writers of crime fiction and mysteries aren't really as macabre as their fans would think. "We look more like crime victims than detectives, we think Jack The Ripper is unfairly treated in the press and Murder, She Wrote is high Art," they tease.

To mark the 60th Edgar Awards, authors will celebrate in Manhattan with a public book-signing at Borders Books Park Avenue at Noon April 26, a symposium and a black-tie banquet where Mayor Bloomberg's office is scheduled to present a proclamation to the organization.

Linda Fairstein, Manhattan sex-crimes-prosecutor-turned-novelist notes the women writers hope George Clooney will attend with Stephen Gaghan who is nominated for his best screenplay Syriana along with Woody Allen's Match Point and Richard Russo & Robert Benton for The Ice Harvest.

The burning question: will BBC America trounce CSI and Law & Order in the TV category?

Novel Nominees:
The Lincoln -- Lawyer Michael Connelly
Red Leaves -- Thomas H. Cook
Vanish -- Tess Gerritsen
Drama City -- George Pelecanos
Citizen Vince -- Jess Walter

First Novel -- American Author
Die A Little -- Megan Abbott
Immoral -- Brian Freeman
Run the Risk -- Scott Frost
Hide Your Eyes -- Alison Gaylin
Officer Down -- Theresa Schwegel

Paperback Original
Homicide My Own -- Anne Argula
The James Deans -- Reed Farrel Coleman
Girl in The Glass -- Jeffrey Ford
Kiss Her Goodbye -- Allan Guthrie
Six Bad Things -- Charlie Huston

Television Episode Teleplay
CSI -- "A Bullet Runs Through It" -- Richard Catalani & Carol Mendelsohn
CSI -- "Grave Danger" -- Anthony Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Naren Shankar,
Quentin Tarantino
Law & Order: S V U -- "911" -- Patrick Harbinson
Sea of Souls -- "Amulet" -- Ed Whitmore
Wire in the Blood -- "Redemption" -- Guy Burt

Motion Picture Screen Play
Crash -- Paul Haggis, Bob Moresco
A History of Violence -- Josh Olson
The Ice Harvest -- Richard Russo & Robert Benton
Match Point -- Woody Allen
Syriana -- Stephen Gaghan

Grand Master
Stuart Kaminsky

Ellery Queen
Brian Skupin & Kate Stine -- Mystery Scene Magazine

Raven
Black Orchid Bookshop -- Bonnie Claeson & Joe Guglielmelli
Men of Mystery Conference -- Joan Hansen

Named awards and categories to be honored are: Best Fact Crime, Short Story, Juvenile, Young Adult, Critical/Biographical, Simon & Schuster -- Mary Higgins Clark Award, Robert L. Fish Memorial Award.

Source: Mystery Writers of America

CONTACT: Gail Parenteau, +1-212-532-3934, for Mystery Writers of
America

Web site: http://www.mysterywriters.org/

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