2009 Edgar Award Winners

The winners of the 2009 Edgar Awards - annual awards given by Mystery Writers of America - have been announced. Here's the list of winners.

• Best Novel: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
• Best First Novel (by an American): The Foreigner by Francie Lin
• Best Paperback Original: China Lake: An Evan Delaney Novel by Meg Gardiner
• Best Fact Crime: American Lightning by Howard Blum
• Best Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Harry Lee Poe
• Best Young Adult: Paper Towns by John Green
• Best Juvenile: The Postcard by Tony Abbott
• Best Short Story: "Skinhead Central" by T. Jefferson Parker (in The Blue Religion)

The 2009 Grandmasters are authors James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton. You can see the list of nominees here.