The Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of their prestigious Edgar Awards for the best crime and mystery writing at a banquet in New York City on Thursday night. Edgars went to John Hart, right, for his novel “The Last Child” and Stefanie Pintoff, whose “In the Shadow of Gotham” won best first novel by an American author. In nonfiction, “The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives,” edited by Otto Penzler, won in the critical-biographical category, and Dave Cullen took the prize for best “fact crime” for “Columbine,” his account of the 1999 shootings at that Colorado high school. Dorothy Gilman was named this year’s grand master. A complete list of winners is at theedgars.com.
Other best novel nominees - winner in red:
- The Missing by Tim Gautreaux (Random House - Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Odds by Kathleen George (Minotaur Books)
- The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books)
- Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Random House - Ballantine Books)
- Nemesis by Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett (HarperCollins)
- A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn (Simon & Schuster - Atria Books)
