Mystery Writers of America Announces Edgar Award Winners

NEW YORK, May 2, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2013. The Edgar Awards were presented to the winners at our 68 th Gala Banquet, May 1, 2014 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Simon & Schuster Atria Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Simon & Schuster Scribner)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Group USA Penguin Books)

BEST FACT CRIME

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
by Erik Dussere (Oxford University Press)

BEST SHORT STORY

"The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" Bibliomysteries
by John Connolly (Mysterious Bookshop)

BEST JUVENILE

One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (Random House Children's Books Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher (Hachette Book Group Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

"Episode 1" The Fall, Teleplay by Allan Cubitt (Netflix)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

"The Wentworth Letter" Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional
By Jeff Soloway (St. Martin's Press)

GRAND MASTER

Robert Crais
Carolyn Hart

RAVEN AWARDS

Aunt Agatha's Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA's Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 30, 2014)

Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (Random House Publishing Group Ballantine Books)

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SOURCE Mystery Writers of America