2010 Edgar Award Winners Announced

• 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)