2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

The Sympathizer
(Winner)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Unbecoming
(Nominee)
Rebecca Scherm

Past Crimes
(Nominee)
Glen Erik Hamilton

Where All Light Tends to Go
(Nominee)
David Joy

Luckiest Girl Alive
(Nominee)
Jessica Knoll

Juvenile

Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy
(Winner)
Susan Vaught

Catch You Later, Traitor
(Nominee)
Avi

If You Find This
(Nominee)
Matthew Baker

The Blackthorn Key
(Nominee)
Kevin Sands

The Screaming Statue
(Nominee)
Lauren Oliver; H.C. Chester

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Little Pretty Things
(Winner)
Lori Rader-Day

A Woman Unknown
(Nominee)
Frances Brody

Night Night, Sleep Tight
(Nominee)
Hallie Ephron

The Masque of a Murderer
(Nominee)
Susanna Calkins

The Child Garden
(Nominee)
Catriona McPherson

Novel

Let Me Die in His Footsteps
(Winner)
Lori Roy

Canary
(Nominee)
Duane Swierczynski

Life or Death
(Nominee)
Michael Robotham

Night Life
(Nominee)
David C. Taylor

The Lady from Zagreb
(Nominee)
Philip Kerr

The Strangler Vine
(Nominee)
M.J. Carter

Paperback Original

The Long and Faraway Gone
(Winner)
Lou Berney

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
(Nominee)
Malcolm MacKay

The Daughter
(Nominee)
Jane Shemilt

Gun Street Girl
(Nominee)
Adrian McKinty

Woman with a Blue Pencil
(Nominee)
Gordon McAlpine

What She Knew
(Nominee)
Gilly MacMillan

Short Story

The Little Men
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

Every Seven Years
(Nominee)
Denise Mina

Young Adult

A Madness So Discreet
(Winner)
Mindy McGinnis

The Sin Eater's Daughter
(Nominee)
Melinda Salisbury

The Walls Around Us
(Nominee)
Nova Ren Suma

Ask the Dark
(Nominee)
Henry Turner Jr.

Endangered
(Nominee)
Lamar Giles

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

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