2010 Edgar Award Winners Announced

The 2010 Edgar Award winners have been announced by the Mystery Writers of America. The Best Novel award went to John Hart for The Last Child. You can see the list of winners below the list of both winners and nominees here.

• Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books)
• Best First Novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books)
• Best Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press – Castle Street Mysteries)
• Best Fact Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen (Hachette Book Group - Twelve)
• Best Critical/Biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
• Best Short Story: "Amapola" – Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea (Akashic Books)
• Best Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Books)
• Best Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins Children's Books – HarperTeen)
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: “Place of Execution,” Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Dreadful Day" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Dan Warthman (Dell Magazines)
• Grand Master: Dorothy Gilman
• Raven Awards: Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, Pennsylvania and Zev Buffman, International Mystery Writers’ Festival
• Ellery Queen Award: Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)
• The Simon & Schuster - Marry Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)