Patti Abbott will be gathering of links again next Friday, after returning from the MWA convention in NYC, and has an interview with Dana King posted on her blog this morning. As always it's a pleasure to put these lists together; please let me know in comments if I've missed yours or someone else's.
Todd Mason
Edgar Awards:
Best Short Story
Sergio Angelini: Big Bad City by "Ed McBain' (Evan Hunter); The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter
Frank Babics: The Fiction Desk: issue 9 "Grey Beard and Glittering Eye" edited by Robert Redman
Mark Baker: St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson
Joe Barone: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (after Patti Abbott)
Les Blatt: The Father Hunt by Rex Stout
John Boston: Amazing Stories: Fact and Science Fiction, May 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith
Alice Chang: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Colman: "Wee Danny" by Gerard Brennan
David Cramner: Backgammon: “The Cruelest Game” in Film and Literature
Bill Crider: Norstrillia by "Cordwainer Smith" (Paul Linebarger); The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout
Scott A. Cupp: Stop This Man! by Peter Rabe
William F. Deeck: Treasure by Post and Planning for Murder by David Williams
Martin Edwards: The Dead Man's Knock by John Dickson Carr
Will Errickson: Women of Darkness edited by Kathryn Ptacek
Jeff Flugel: The Hanging Stones by Manly Wade Wellman
Elizabeth Foxwell: reviewing
Paul Fraser: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1976, edited by Edward Ferman
Barry Gardner: Big Town by Doug J. Swanson; Criminal Conversations by Evan Hunter
John Grant: The A26 by Pascal Garnier (translated by Melanie Florence)
Rich Horton: Big Planet and Slaves of the Klau by Jack Vance; The Reign of Wizardry by Jack Williamson
Jerry House: Mary Worth by Allen Saunders and Ken Ernst; Astro Boy, Book 2 by Osamu Tezuka
Tracy K: Wall of Glass by Walter Satterthwait
George Kelley: Just the Way It Is and Blonde's Requiem by "James Hadley Chase" (Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond)
Joe Kenney: The Lady Lost Her Head by Manning Lee Stokes
Margot Kinberg: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Rob Kitchin: Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman
Richard Krauss: "The Nightmare Face" by Walter Snow
B. V. Lawson: The Edgar Winners edited by Bill Pronzini
Evan Lewis: For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
Steve Lewis: Honey in His Mouth by Lester Dent; The Universe Against Her by James H. Schmitz; Rio Desperado and Voice of the Gun by Gordon D. Shirreffs; "A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime" by Charlie Jane Anders
Brian Lindenmuth: Comanche Vengeance by Richard Jessup
Todd Mason: Fantastic Stories: Tales of the Weird and Wondrous edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Patrick L. Price; The Best Fantasy Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction edited by Edward L. Ferman; Tales of Terror edited by Eleanor Sullivan (ghost-edited for Alfred Hitchcock), among other fiction-magazine best-ofs (redux)
BareBones Melvins: EC Comics, January 1953
Neer: A Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
John ONeill: Famous Fantastic Mysteries edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg
Matt Paust: The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
Mildred Perkins: The Keeper by Sarah Langan
Bill Pronzini: The Tiger Among Us by Leigh Brackett
James Reasoner: "Horde of Hated Men" by Phil Richards
Richard Robinson: Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs
Gerard Saylor: Little Heaven by "Nick Cutter" (Craig Davidson)
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic, May 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith
Kerrie Smith: The Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
Kevin Tipple: A Time for Hanging by Bill Crider
"TomKat": Except for One Thing by John Russell Fearn (as by Hugo Blayn)
"Samuel Wilson": Barbed Wire by Elmer Kelton
Todd Mason
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| William Hjortsberg, 1941-2017 |
**winner
Best Novel
The Ex by Alafair Burke (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
**Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)
Best First Novel
**Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)
Dodgers by Bill Beverly (Crown Publishing Group)
IQ by Joe Ide (Little, Brown & Company – Mulholland Books)
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright (Penguin Random House –Marian Wood Book/Putnam)
The Lost Girls by Heather Young (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Best Paperback Original
Shot in Detroit by Patricia Abbott (Polis Books)
Come Twilight by Tyler Dilts (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
The 7th Canon by Robert Dugoni (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
**Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
A Brilliant Death by Robin Yocum (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
Heart of Stone by James W. Ziskin (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
Best Fact Crime
Morgue: A Life in Death by Dr. Vincent DiMaio & Ron Franscell (St. Martin's Press)
The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan
by Laurence Leamer (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder That Shocked Victorian England
by Paul Thomas Murphy (Pegasus Books)
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders (Penguin Random House – Viking Books)
**The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
by Kate Summerscale (Penguin Random House – Penguin Press)
Best Critical/Biographical
Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Random House – Nan A. Talese)
Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967 by Mitzi M. Brunsdale (McFarland & Company)
**Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (W.W. Norton – Liveright)
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula by David J. Skal (W.W. Norton – Liveright)
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| See BV Lawson's selection below |
"Oxford Girl" – Mississippi Noir – by Megan Abbott (Akashic Books)
"A Paler Shade of Death" – St. Louis Noir – by Laura Benedict (Akashic Books)
**"Autumn at the Automat" – In Sunlight or in Shadow – by Lawrence Block (Pegasus Books)
"The Music Room" – In Sunlight or in Shadow – by Stephen King (Pegasus Books)
"The Crawl Space" – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine – by Joyce Carol Oates (Dell Magazines)
Best Juvenile
Summerlost by Ally Condie (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton BFYR)
**OCDaniel by Wesley King (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)
The Bad Kid by Sarah Lariviere by (Simon & Schuster – Simon & Schuster BFYR)
Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand (Simon & Schuster – Simon & Schuster BFYR)
Framed! by James Ponti (Simon & Schuster – Aladdin)
Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught(Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)
Young Adult
Three Truths and a Lie by Brent Hartinger (Simon & Schuster – Simon Pulse)
The Girl I Used to Be by April Henry (Christy Ottaviano Books/Macmillan)
**Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown BFYR)
My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier (Soho Press – Soho Teen)
Thieving Weasels by Billy Taylor (Penguin Random House –
Penguin Young Readers – Dial Books)
TV Episode Teleplay
"Episode 1 – From the Ashes of Tragedy" – The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Teleplay by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski (FX Network)
"The Abominable Bride" – Sherlock, Teleplay by Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat
(Hartswood Films/Masterpiece)
"Dark Road" – Vera,Teleplay by Martha Hillier (Acorn TV)
**"A Blade of Grass" – Penny Dreadful, Teleplay by John Logan (Showtime)
"Return 0" – Person of Interest, Teleplay by Jonathan Nolan & Denise The
(CBS/Warner Brothers)
"The Bicameral Mind" – Westworld, Teleplay by Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy
(HBO/Warner Bros. Television)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
"The Truth of the Moment" – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine – by E. Gabriel Flores (Dell Magazines)
Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Other Sister by Dianne Dixon (Sourcebooks – Sourcebooks Landmark)
Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson (Llewellyn Worldwide – Midnight Ink)
Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Tor/Forge Books – Forge Books)
Blue Moon by Wendy Corsi Staub (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
**The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Grand Masters
Max Allan Collins
Ellen Hart
Raven Award
Dru Ann Love
Ellery Queen Award
Neil Nyren
Frank Babics: The Fiction Desk: issue 9 "Grey Beard and Glittering Eye" edited by Robert Redman
Mark Baker: St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson
Joe Barone: Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger (after Patti Abbott)
Les Blatt: The Father Hunt by Rex Stout
John Boston: Amazing Stories: Fact and Science Fiction, May 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith
Alice Chang: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Colman: "Wee Danny" by Gerard Brennan
David Cramner: Backgammon: “The Cruelest Game” in Film and Literature
Bill Crider: Norstrillia by "Cordwainer Smith" (Paul Linebarger); The Golden Spiders by Rex Stout
Scott A. Cupp: Stop This Man! by Peter Rabe
William F. Deeck: Treasure by Post and Planning for Murder by David Williams
Martin Edwards: The Dead Man's Knock by John Dickson Carr
Will Errickson: Women of Darkness edited by Kathryn Ptacek
Jeff Flugel: The Hanging Stones by Manly Wade Wellman
Elizabeth Foxwell: reviewing
Paul Fraser: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1976, edited by Edward Ferman
Barry Gardner: Big Town by Doug J. Swanson; Criminal Conversations by Evan Hunter
John Grant: The A26 by Pascal Garnier (translated by Melanie Florence)
Rich Horton: Big Planet and Slaves of the Klau by Jack Vance; The Reign of Wizardry by Jack Williamson
Jerry House: Mary Worth by Allen Saunders and Ken Ernst; Astro Boy, Book 2 by Osamu Tezuka
Tracy K: Wall of Glass by Walter Satterthwait
George Kelley: Just the Way It Is and Blonde's Requiem by "James Hadley Chase" (Rene Lodge Brabazon Raymond)
Joe Kenney: The Lady Lost Her Head by Manning Lee Stokes
Margot Kinberg: Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey
Rob Kitchin: Whiskey River by Loren D. Estleman
Richard Krauss: "The Nightmare Face" by Walter Snow
B. V. Lawson: The Edgar Winners edited by Bill Pronzini
Evan Lewis: For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
Steve Lewis: Honey in His Mouth by Lester Dent; The Universe Against Her by James H. Schmitz; Rio Desperado and Voice of the Gun by Gordon D. Shirreffs; "A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime" by Charlie Jane Anders
Brian Lindenmuth: Comanche Vengeance by Richard Jessup
Todd Mason: Fantastic Stories: Tales of the Weird and Wondrous edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Patrick L. Price; The Best Fantasy Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction edited by Edward L. Ferman; Tales of Terror edited by Eleanor Sullivan (ghost-edited for Alfred Hitchcock), among other fiction-magazine best-ofs (redux)
BareBones Melvins: EC Comics, January 1953
Neer: A Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
John ONeill: Famous Fantastic Mysteries edited by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg
Matt Paust: The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon
Mildred Perkins: The Keeper by Sarah Langan
Bill Pronzini: The Tiger Among Us by Leigh Brackett
James Reasoner: "Horde of Hated Men" by Phil Richards
Richard Robinson: Deadly Nightshade by Cynthia Riggs
Gerard Saylor: Little Heaven by "Nick Cutter" (Craig Davidson)
Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic, May 1962, edited by Cele Goldsmith
Kerrie Smith: The Midnight Promise by Zane Lovitt
Kevin Tipple: A Time for Hanging by Bill Crider
"TomKat": Except for One Thing by John Russell Fearn (as by Hugo Blayn)
"Samuel Wilson": Barbed Wire by Elmer Kelton
4 comments:
Thanks, Todd.
Not at all. Thank you, Matt.
Thanks from the Melvins! That list of Edgar Awards is really cool.
Thanks! Not everyone I was pulling for won...but it's a fine set of nominees.
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