Edgar Awards

The Edgar Award winners have been announced and the Best Novel category, with its high percentage of "Euro Crime" authors, has been won by Mo Hayder for Gone:

Winner:

Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic - Atlantic  Monthly Press)

Other Nominees:

The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA -  G.P. Putnam's Sons)

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino  (Minotaur Books) tr. translated by  Alexander O Smith & Elye J Alexander

1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster -  Scribner) tr. Marlaine Delargy

Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA -  G.P. Putnam's Sons - Marion Wood Books)

The complete list of categories, nominees and winners can be found on the Edgars website.

British Success at the Edgars

The Edgar Award winners have been announced and British crime writers have won the best paperback original category, the Mary Higgins Clark Award and the best Television Episode Teleplay category.

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2010. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our 65th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam) - WINNER
The News Where You Are by Catherine O’Flynn (Henry Holt)
Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press)

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
(Presented at MWA’s Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 27, 2010)
Wild Penance by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group – Berkley Prime Crime)
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
Down River by Karen Harper (MIRA Books)
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - WINNER
Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins - Avon)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Episode 1” - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America) - WINNER
“Episode 4” – Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)
“Full Measure” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“No Mas” – Breaking Bad, Teleplay by Vince Gilligan (AMC/Sony)
“The Next One’s Gonna Go In Your Throat” – Damages, Teleplay by Todd A. Kessler,
Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman (FX Networks)

European Authors nominated for Edgar Awards

The nominees for the 2008 Edgar Awards were announced a few days ago. British/European interests are as follows:

Best Novel
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Priest by Ken Bruen

Best First Novel By An American Author
In the Woods by Tana French. (hands up who knew she was born in Vermont and not Ireland?)

Best Paperback Original
Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall

Best Television Episode Teleplay
"Yahrzeit" - Waking the Dead, Teleplay by Declan Croghan & Barbara Machin

The full list of nominees is here.