Winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Announced

Posted on May 5, 2014

The winners of the 2014 Edgar Allan Poe awards have been announced. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger was named Best Novel. The winners were announced at the Mystery Writers of America gala banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Here is a list of the winners:

• Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria Books)
• Best First Novel by an American Author: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews (Scribner)
• Best Paperback Original: The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin Books)
• Best Fact Crime: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)
• Best Critical/Biographical: America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik Dussere (Oxford University Press)
• Best Short Story: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" - Bibliomysteries by John Connolly (Mysterious Bookshop)
• Best Juvenile: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake (Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)
• Best Young Adult: Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - The Fall, teleplay by Allan Cubitt (Netflix)
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Wentworth Letter" - Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional By Jeff Soloway (St. Martin's Press)
• Grand Master: Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart
• Raven Awards: Aunt Agatha's Bookstore, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman (Ballantine Books)

You can find out more about the annual Edgar Awards at theedgars.com.

Photo: Simon & Schuster