The Edgar® Awards - Nominees and Winners


2012 Edgar Nominees

Best Novel Nominees

  • The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  • Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press)
  • The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
  • 1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
  • Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons - Marion Wood Books)

Best First Novel By An American Author

  • Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group - Spiegel & Grau)
  • Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
  • All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
  • Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
  • Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)

Best Paperback Original

  • The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group - Orbit Books)
  • The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mahyem Press)
  • The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio - Caravel Mystery Books)
  • Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper Paperbacks)
  • Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

Best Fact Crime

  • The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
  • The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
  • Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House - Doubleday)
  • Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA - Berkley)
  • The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA - Viking)

Best Critical/Biographical

  • The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin's Griffin)
  • Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
  • On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
  • Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
  • Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)

Best Short Story

  • "Marley's Revolution" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
  • "Tomorrow's Dead" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Delle Magazines)
  • "The Adakian Eagle" - Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
  • "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" - Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
  • "The Case of Death and Honey" - A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group - Bantam Books)
  • "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train," - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile

  • Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams - Amulet Books)
  • It Happend on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
  • Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group - Disney Hyperion)
  • Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
  • The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)

Best Young Adult

  • Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  • The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  • The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children's Books - Knopf Books for Young Readers)
  • The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children's Publishing Group - Roaring Creek Press)
  • Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)

Best Play

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club by Jeffrey Hatcher (Arizona Theatre Company)
  • The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig (Cleveland Playhouse)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

  • "Innocence" - Blue Bloods, Teleplay by Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (CBS Productions)
  • "The Life Inside" - Justified, Teleplay by Benjamin Cavell (FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television)
  • "Part 1" - Whitechapel, Teleplay by Ben Court & Caroline Ip (BBC America)
  • "Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
  • "Mask" - Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Speed Weed (Wolf Films/Universal Media Studios)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

  • "A Good Man for Business" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram (Dell Magazines)

Raven Awards

  • M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA
  • Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries

Ellery Queen Award

  • Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

Grand Master

  • Martha Grimes

The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award

  • Now you See Me by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
  • Come and Fine Me by Hallie Ephron (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
  • Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick (Minotaur Books)
  • Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown Publishing Group)
  • Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)