Edgar Award Winners 2017

Mystery Writers of America announced the Winners of the 2017 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honouring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2016.

Best Novel
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)

Best First Novel by an American Author 
Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)

Best Paperback Original
Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

Best Fact Crime
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale (Penguin Random House – Penguin Press)

Best Critical /Biographical 
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (W.W. Norton - Liveright)

Best Short Story
"Autumn at the Automat” – In Sunlight or in Shadow by Lawrence Block (Pegasus Books)

Best Juvenile 
OCDaniel by Wesley King (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)

Best Young Adult
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown BFYR)

Best Television Episode Teleplay 
"A Blade of Grass" – Penny Dreadful, Teleplay by John Logan (Showtime)

Robert L Fish Memorial Award
"The Truth of the Moment" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine  by E. Gabriel Flores (Dell Magazines)

GRAND MASTER
Max Allan Collins
Ellen Hart

RAVEN AWARD
Dru Ann Love

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD 
Neil Nyren

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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at the 71st Gala Banquet, on 27 April, 2017 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City. Congratulations to all!