Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2016 Edgar Award Winners

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 Footstepsby 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
byAllen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The Golden Age of Murderby 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 Crazyby Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

A Madness So Discreetby Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers Katherine Tegen Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

"Gently with the Women" - George Gently, Teleplay byPeter 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 Thingsby Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books Seventh Street Books)

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SOURCE Mystery Writers of America