2009 Edgar Awards…

There is no excuse for being so late in adding the 2009 Edgars (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) >>> I’m sorry it has taken me so long. But, better today than not at all!

 2009 Edgar Nominees:

Best Novel: 

Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (Winner)

Missing by Karin Alvtegen

Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno

The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes

The Night Following by Morag Joss

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz

 Best First Novel:

The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Winner)

The Kind One by Tom Epperson

Sweetsmoke by David Fuller

Calumet City by Charlie Newton

A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock

Best Paperback Original:

China Lake by Meg Gardiner (Winner)

The Prince of Bagram Prison by Alex Carr

Money Shot by Christa Faust

Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney

The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli

Best Short Story:

Skinhead Central by T. Jefferson Parker  (Winner)

A Sleep Not Unlike Death by Sean Chercover

Skin and Bones by David Edgerley Gates

Scratch a Woman by Laura Lippman

La Vie en Rose by Dominique Mainard

Best Fact Crime:

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum  (Winner)

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder That Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English

The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale

Best Critical/Biographical:

Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to his Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Winner)

African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto

Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin

The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley

Best Juvenile:

The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Winner)

Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base 

Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie

Cemetery Street by Brenda Seabrooke

Best Young Adult:

Paper Towns by John Green  (Winner)

Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd

The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo

Getting the Girl by Susan Juby

Torn to Pieces by Margot McDonnell

Best Play:

The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza, Goodman Theatre, Chicago (Winner)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Arizona Theatre Company

Cell by Judy Klass, International Mystery Writers’ Festival

Best Television Episode Teleplay:

Prayer of the Bone… Patrick Harbinson, Wire in the Blood  (Winner)

Streetwise… Paul Grellong, Law & Order: SVU

Signature… Judith McCreary, Law & Order: SVU

You May Now Kill the Bride… Barry O’Brien, CSI: Miami

Burn Card… Ed Zuckerman & David Wilcox, Law & Order

Best Motion Picture Screen Play:

In Bruges… Martin McDonagh, Focus Features (Winner)

The Bank Job… Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais, Lionsgate

Burn After Reading… Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features

Tell No One… Guillaume Canet & Phillipe Lefebvre, based on the book by Harlan Coben, Music Box Films

Transsiberian… Brad Anderson & Will Conroy, First Look International

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:

Buckner’s Error by Joseph Guglielmelli, Queen’s Noir, Akashic Books

Raven Awards:

Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland

Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

The Simon & Schuster – Mary Higgins Clark Award:

The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (Winner)

Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton

Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer

A Song for You by Betsy Thornton

The Fault Tree by Louise Ure

Grand Masters:

James Lee Burke

Sue Grafton

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