2014 Edgar Award Winners

Mystery, not sf, of course – but you might like to know anyway who won the 2014 Edgar Awards presented by the Mystery Writers of America on May 1.

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)

[Thanks to John King Tarpinian for the link.]

2 thoughts on “2014 Edgar Award Winners

  1. I don’t want to know who won the awards: I want to know who publicly resigned from the MWA, who accused whom of voting impropriety, or of politicizing the awards process. I come to File 770 for gossip and controversy, not for news!

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