The 2016 Edgar Award nominees have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America. The awards will be presented April 28 in New York.

BEST NOVEL

• The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• The Lady From Zagreb by Philip Kerr (Penguin Random House – A Marian Wood Book)
• Life or Death by Michael Robotham (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books)
• Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House – Dutton)
• Canary by Duane Swierczynski (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books)
• Night Life by David C. Taylor (Forge Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
• Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm (Penguin Random House – Viking)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
• Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
• The Daughter by Jane Shemilt (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

BEST FACT CRIME

• Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
• Where The Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T.J. English (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
• Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
• American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple (Rowman & Littlefield – Lyons Press)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

• The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers – HarperCollins)
• The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan (Arcade Publishing)
• Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica by Matthew Parker (Pegasus Books)
• The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward (Bloomsbury Publishing – Bloomsbury USA)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “The Little Men” – Mysterious Bookshop by Megan Abbott (Mysterious Bookshop)
• “On Borrowed Time” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mat Coward (Dell Magazines)
• “The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday” – Providence Noir by Peter Farrelly (Akashic Books)
• “Family Treasures” – Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson (Random House)
• “Obits” – Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
• “Every Seven Years” – Mysterious Bookshop by Denise Mina (Mysterious Bookshop)

BEST JUVENILE

• Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi (Algonquin Young Readers – Workman)
• If You Find This by Matthew Baker (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver & H.C.Chester (HarperCollins Publishers – HarperCollins Children’s Books)
• Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands (Simon & Schuster – Aladdin)
• Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

• Endangered by Lamar Giles (HarperCollins Children’s Books – HarperTeen)
• A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers – Katherine Tegen Books)
• The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury (Scholastic – Scholastic Press)
• The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin Young Readers – Workman)
• Ask the Dark by Henry Turner (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Clarion Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

• “Episode 7,” – Broadchurch, Teleplay by Chris Chibnall (BBC America)
• “Gently with the Women” – George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)
• “Elise – The Final Mystery” – Foyle’s War, Teleplay by Anthony Horowitz (Acorn TV)
• “Terra Incognita” – Person of Interest, Teleplay by Erik Mountain & Melissa Scrivner Love (CBS/Warner Brothers)
• “The Beating of her Wings” – Ripper Street, Teleplay by Richard Warlow (BBC America)

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

• A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody (Minotaur Books – A Thomas Dunne Book)
• The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (Llewellyn Worldwide – Midnight Ink)
• Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

[Via Nick Mamatas.]