Each Spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. These awards recognize the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television in the past year.

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2012. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at the 67th Gala Banquet, May 2, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

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2012 Winners

BEST NOVEL
LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
THE EXPATS by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
THE LAST POLICEMAN by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)

BEST FACT CRIME
MIDNIGHT IN PEKING: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE SCIENTIFIC SHERLOCK HOLMES: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics, by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Unremarkable Heart" – MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS: VENGEANCE by Karin Slaughter (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)

BEST JUVENILE
THE QUICK FIX by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Abrams – Amulet Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Publishing Worldwide - Hyperion)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“A Scandal in Belgravia” – Sherlock, Teleplay by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD 
"When They Are Done With Us" – STATEN ISLAND NOIR by Patricia Smith (Akashic Books)

GRAND MASTER
Ken Follett
Margaret Maron

RAVEN AWARDS
Oline Cogdill
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego & Redondo Beach, CA

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Akashic Books

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD (Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, May 1, 2013)
THE OTHER WOMAN by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)

2012 Nominees

BEST NOVEL
THE LOST ONES by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
THE GODS OF GOTHAM by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
GONE GIRL by Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers)
POTBOILER by Jesse Kellerman (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
SUNSET by Al Lamanda (Gale Cengage Learning – Five Star)
LIVE BY NIGHT by Dennis Lehane (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
ALL I DID WAS SHOOT MY MAN by Walter Mosley (Penguin Group USA – Riverhead Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
THE MAP OF LOST MEMORIES by Kim Fay (Random House Publishing– Ballantine)
DON'T EVER GET OLD by Daniel Friedman (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)
MR. CHURCHILL'S SECRETARY by Susan Elia MacNeal (Random House Publishing– Bantam Books)
THE EXPATS by Chris Pavone (Crown Publishers)
THE 500 by Matthew Quirk (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Reagan Arthur)
BLACK FRIDAYS by Michael Sears (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
COMPLICATION by Isaac Adamson (Soft Skull Press)
WHIPLASH RIVER by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)
BLOODLAND by Alan Glynn (Picador)
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD by Malla Nunn (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books - Emily Bestler Books)
THE LAST POLICEMAN by Ben H. Winters (Quirk Books)

BEST FACT CRIME
MIDNIGHT IN PEKING: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)
DEVIL IN THE GROVE: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America,
by Gilbert King (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
MORE FORENSICS AND FICTION: Crime Writers’ Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered, by D.P. Lyle, MD (Medallion Press)
DOUBLE CROSS: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (Crown Publishers)
THE PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo – and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up, by Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar Straus & Giroux Originals)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
RAYMOND CHANDLER'S PHILIP MARLOWE: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed, by John Paul Athanasourelis (McFarland and Company)
BOOKS TO DIE FOR: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels, edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books – Emily Bestler Books)
THE SCIENTIFIC SHERLOCK HOLMES: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics, by James O’Brien (Oxford University Press)
IN PURSUIT OF SPENSER: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero, edited by Otto Penzler (Smart Pop)

BEST SHORT STORY
"Iphigenia in Aulis" – AN APPLE FOR THE CREATURE by Mike Carey (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)
"Hot Sugar Blues" – MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS: VENGEANCE by Steve Liskow (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)
"The Void it Often Brings With It” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Tom Piccirilli (Dell Magazines)
"The Unremarkable Heart" – MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA PRESENTS: VENGEANCE by Karin Slaughter (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company – Mulholland Books)
"Still Life No. 41" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Teresa Solana (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
FAKE MUSTACHE: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind, by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books)
13 HANGMEN by Art Corriveau (Abrams – Amulet Books)
THE QUICK FIX by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Abrams – Amulet Books)
SPY SCHOOL by Stuart Gibbs (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
THREE TIMES LUCKY by Sheila Turnage (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dial Books for Young Readers)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
EMILY'S DRESS AND OTHER MISSING THINGS by Kathryn Burak (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Brook Press)
THE EDGE OF NOWHERE by Elizabeth George (Penguin Young Readers Group – Viking)
CRUSHER by Niall Leonard (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte BFYR)
AMELIA ANNE IS DEAD AND GONE by Kat Rosenfield (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books)
CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein (Disney Publishing Worldwide - Hyperion)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Pilot” – Longmire, Teleplay by Hunt Baldwin & John Coveny (A&E/Warner Horizon Television)
“Child Predator” – elemeNtarY, Teleplay by Peter Blake (CBS Productions)
“Slaughterhouse” – Justified, Teleplay by Fred Golan (Sony Pictures Television/FX Productions)
“A Scandal in Belgravia” – Sherlock, Teleplay by Steven Moffat (BBC/Masterpiece)
“New Car Smell” – Homeland, Teleplay by Meredith Stiehm (Showtime/Fox21)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD 
"When They Are Done With Us" – STATEN ISLAND NOIR by Patricia Smith (Akashic Books)

GRAND MASTER
Ken Follett
Margaret Maron

RAVEN AWARDS
Oline Cogdill
Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, San Diego & Redondo Beach, CA

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Akashic Books

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD (Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, May 1, 2013)
DEAD SCARED by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
A CITY OF BROKEN GLASS by Rebecca Cantrell (Forge Books)
THE RECKONING by Jane Casey (Minotaur Books)
THE OTHER WOMAN by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)
SLEEPWALKER by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper)