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Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2016 Edgar Award Winners

Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2016 Edgar Award Winners

NEW YORK, April 29, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2015. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our 70(th) Gala Banquet, April 28, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL


Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House - Dutton)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR


The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic - Grove Press)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers - William Morrow)

BEST FACT CRIME


Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
by Allen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers - HarperCollins)

BEST SHORT STORY


"Obits" - Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)

BEST JUVENILE

Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster - Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT


A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers - Katherine Tegen Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY


"Gently with the Women" - George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

"Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Russell W. Johnson (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER

Walter Mosley

RAVEN AWARDS

Margaret Kinsman
Sisters in Crime

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Janet Rudolph, Founder of Mystery Readers International

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books - Seventh Street Books)

The EDGAR (and logo) are Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.



SOURCE Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America

CONTACT: MWA - Margery Flax - 212-888-8171; or Meryl Zegarek Public Relations - 917-493-3601

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


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