The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , the Edgars, are named after Edgar Allan Poe the legendary mystery writer. They are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. They honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film and theatre published or produced in the past year. Full lists of past winners at official site:
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2008 Edgar Winners
BEST NOVEL Down River by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group – Viking)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
BEST FACT CRIME
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F.Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
BEST SHORT STORY
“The Golden Gopher” – Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books
BEST JUVENILE The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin – Dial Books for Young Readers)
BEST PLAY 'Panic' by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers’ Festival)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Pilot” – Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY 'Michael Clayton', Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures).
2008 Nominees (Books)
- Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt and Company)
- Priest by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
- Winner The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
- Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
- Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur) - WINNER
Best First Novel By An American Author
- Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
- Winner: In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking) -
- Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard (The Rookery Press)
- Head Games by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
- Pyres by Derek Nikitas (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Best Paperback Original
- Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster) - WINNER
- Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Random House - Mortalis)
- Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks (Serpent's Tail)
- Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
- Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)
Best Critical/Biographical
- The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson (Random House)
- A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational by Maurizio Ascari (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Winner: Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press) - WINNER
- Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell (McFarland & Company)
Best Fact Crime
- The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- Winner: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company - WINNER
- Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
- Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
- Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson (Penguin Group - Viking)
Best Short Story
- "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
- "Blue Note" - Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Bleak House Books)
- "Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman (Harcourt Trade Publishers)
- "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books) - WINNER
- "Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell (Busted Flush Press)
Best Young Adult
- Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers) - WINNER
- Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
- Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
- Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Simon Pulse)
Best Juvenile
- The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
- Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
- The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers) - WINNER
- Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf)
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