Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2015. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at the 70th Gala Banquet on April 28, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

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2016 Winners

BEST NOVEL
LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS by Lori Roy (Dutton)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE by Lou Berney (William Morrow)

BEST FACT CRIME
WHIPPING BOY: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)

BEST SHORT STORY
"Obits" – BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS by Stephen King (Scribner)

BEST JUVENILE
FOOTER DAVIS PROBABLY IS CRAZY by Susan Vaught (Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
A MADNESS SO DISCREET by Mindy McGinnis (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 (Seventh Street Books)

2016 Nominees

BEST NOVEL

• THE STRANGLER VINE by M.J. Carter (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• THE LADY FROM ZAGREB by Philip Kerr (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• LIFE OR DEATH by Michael Robotham (Mulholland Books)
• LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS by Lori Roy (Dutton)
• CANARY by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books)
• NIGHT LIFE by David C. Taylor (Forge Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• PAST CRIMES by Glen Erik Hamilton (William Morrow)
• WHERE ALL LIGHT TENDS TO GO by David Joy (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• LUCKIEST GIRL ALIVE by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)
• THE SYMPATHIZER by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
• UNBECOMING by Rebecca Scherm (Viking)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE by Lou Berney (William Morrow)
• THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER by Malcolm Mackay (Mulholland Books)
• WHAT SHE KNEW by Gilly Macmillan (William Morrow)
• WOMAN WITH A BLUE PENCIL by Gordon McAlpine (Seventh Street Books)
• GUN STREET GIRL by Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books)
• THE DAUGHTER by Jane Shemilt (William Morrow)

BEST FACT CRIME

• OPERATION NEMESIS: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the American Genocide, by Eric Bogosian (Little, Brown and Company)
• WHERE THE BODIES WERE BURIED: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him, by T.J. English (William Morrow)
• WHIPPING BOY: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully, by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)
• FORENSICS: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime, by Val McDermid (Grove Press)
• AMERICAN PAIN: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic, by John Temple (Lyons Press)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

• THE GOLDEN AGE OF MURDER by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
• THE OUTSIDER: My Life in Intrigue, by Frederick Forsyth (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• MEANWHILE THERE ARE LETTERS: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald, by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (Arcade Publishing)
• GOLDENEYE: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, by Matthew Parker (Pegasus Books)
• THE LOST DETECTIVE: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury USA)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “The Little Men” - Mysterious Bookshop by Megan Abbott (Mysterious Bookshop)
• "On Borrowed Time” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mat Coward (Dell Magazines)
• "The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday” – PROVIDENCE NOIR by Peter Farrelly (Akashic Books)
• "Family Treasures" – LET ME TELL YOU by Shirley Jackson (Random House)
• "Obits" – BAZAAR OF BAD DREAMS by Stephen King (Scribner)
• “Every Seven Years” – Mysterious Bookshop by Denise Mina (Mysterious Bookshop)

BEST JUVENILE

• CATCH YOU LATER, TRAITOR by Avi (Workman)
• IF YOU FIND THIS by Matthew Baker (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• CURIOSITY HOUSE: The Shrunken Head, by Lauren Oliver and H.C. Chester (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
• BLACKTHORN KEY by Kevin Sands (Aladdin)
• FOOTER DAVIS PROBABLY IS CRAZY by Susan Vaught (Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

• ENDANGERED by Lamar Giles (HarperTeen)
• A MADNESS SO DISCREET by Mindy McGinnis (Katherine Tegen Books)
• THE SIN EATER’S DAUGHTER by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic Press)
• THE WALLS AROUND US by Nova Ren Suma (Workman)
• ASK THE DARK by Henry Turner (Clarion Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

• "Episode 7," - "Broadchurch," Teleplay by Chris Chibnall (BBC America)
• "Gently with the Women" - "George Gently," Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)
• "Elise - The Final Mystery" - "Foyle's War," Teleplay by Anthony Horowitz (Acorn TV)
• "Terra Incognita" - "Person of Interest," Teleplay by Erik Mountain & Melissa Scrivner Love (CBS/Warner Brothers)
• "The Beating of her Wings" - "Ripper Street," Teleplay by Richard Warlow (BBC America)

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

• A WOMAN UNKNOWN by Frances Brody (Minotaur Books)
• MASQUE OF A MURDERER by Suzanne Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT by Hallie Ephron (William Morrow)
• THE CHILD GARDEN by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
• LITTLE PRETTY THINGS by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)