The Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners of the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The winners were announced last night at a Gala Banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City. Steve Hamilton won the Best Novel award for his novel,
The Lock Artist.
Here is the complete list of book winners:
- Best Novel: The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur Books)
- Best First Novel by an American Author: Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)
- Best Paperback Original: Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
- Best Fact Crime: Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press – Bison Original)
- Best Critical/Biographical: Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvouz with American
History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
- Best Short Story: "The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
- Best Juvenile: The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
- Best Young Adult: Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
You can find the complete list of winners in all categories
here (PDF file)
