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2016 Edgar Award Winners Announced

May 2, 2016

MWA Announces the 2016 Edgar® Award Winners

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2015. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our 70th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

  • BEST NOVEL
    Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House – Dutton)
  • BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
    The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
  • BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
    The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
  • BEST FACT CRIME
    Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
    by Allen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
  • BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
    The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers – HarperCollins)
  • BEST SHORT STORY
    “Obits” – Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
  • BEST JUVENILE
    Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)
  • BEST YOUNG ADULT
    A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers – Katherine Tegen Books)
  • BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
    “Gently with the Women” – George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)
  • THE SIMON & SCHUSTER – MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
    Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

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