There is no excuse for being so late in adding the 2009 Edgars (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) >>> I'm sorry it has taken me so long. But, better today than not at all!
2009 Edgar Nominees:
Best Novel:
Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (Winner)
Missing by Karin Alvtegen
Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno
The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes
The Night Following by Morag Joss
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
Best First Novel:
The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Winner)
The Kind One by Tom Epperson
Sweetsmoke by David Fuller
Calumet City by Charlie Newton
A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock
Best Paperback Original:
China Lake by Meg Gardiner (Winner)
The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr
Money Shot by Christa Faust
Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney
The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
Best Short Story:
Skinhead Central by T. Jefferson Parker (Winner)
A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover
Skin and Bones by David Edgerley Gates
Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman
La Vie en Rose by Dominique Mainard
Best Fact Crime:
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum (Winner)
For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
Best Critical/Biographical:
Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Winner)
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto
Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin
The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley
Best Juvenile:
The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Winner)
Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie
Cemetery Street by Brenda Seabrooke
Best Young Adult:
Paper Towns by John Green (Winner)
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
Getting the Girl by Susan Juby
Torn to Pieces by Margot McDonnell
Best Play:
The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza, Goodman Theatre, Chicago (Winner)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arizona Theatre Company
Cell by Judy Klass, International Mystery Writers' Festival
Best Television Episode Teleplay:
Prayer of the Bone… Patrick Harbinson, Wire in the Blood (Winner)
Streetwise… Paul Grellong, Law & Order: SVU
Signature… Judith McCreary, Law & Order: SVU
You May Now Kill the Bride… Barry O'Brien, CSI: Miami
Burn Card… Ed Zuckerman & David Wilcox, Law & Order
Best Motion Picture Screen Play:
In Bruges… Martin McDonagh, Focus Features (Winner)
The Bank Job… Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, Lionsgate
Burn After Reading… Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features
Tell No One… Guillaume Canet & Phillipe Lefebvre, based on the book by Harlan Coben, Music Box Films
Transsiberian… Brad Anderson & Will Conroy, First Look International
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:
Buckner's Error by Joseph Guglielmelli, Queen's Noir, Akashic Books
Raven Awards:
Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland
The Simon & Schuster – Mary Higgins Clark Award:
The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd (Winner)
Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer
A Song for You by Betsy Thornton
The Fault Tree by Louise Ure
Grand Masters:
♦For more Mystery Book Awards, see main page.♦
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I have a few of the authors and books on Mt Git'r'Read or on the Wanton Book List.
Me, too!