*Courtesy Janet Rudolph <https://mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2023/01/edgar-award-nominations-mystery-writers.html>* https://mysterywriters.org/mwa-announces-2023-edgar-award-nominations/ *Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2022. The 77thAnnual Edgar® Awards will be celebrated on April 27, 2023, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square.* *BEST NOVEL* *Devil House* by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux - MCD) *Like a Sister* by Kellye Garrett (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books) *Gangland* by Chuck Hogan (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing) *The Devil Takes You Home* by Gabino Iglesias (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books) *Notes on an Execution* by Danya Kukafka (HarperCollins – William Morrow) *The Maid* by Nita Prose (Penguin Random House – Ballantine Books) *BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR* *Jackal* by Erin E. Adams (Penguin Random House - Bantam) *Don’t Know Tough *by Eli Cranor (Soho Press – Soho Crime) *Shutter* by Ramona Emerson (Soho Press – Soho Crime) *More Than You’ll Ever Know *by Katie Gutierrez (HarperCollins – William Morrow) *Portrait of a Thief* by Grace D. Li (Penguin Random House – Tiny Reparations Books) *BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL* *Quarry’s Blood *by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime) *On a Quiet Street* by Seraphina Nova Glass (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Graydon House *Or Else* by Joe Hart (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer) *Cleopatra’s Dagger* by Carole Lawrence (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer) *A Familiar Stranger* by A.R. Torre (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer) *BEST FACT CRIME* *Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls *by Kathleen Hale (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press) *Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation *by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books) *Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders *by Kathryn Miles (Hachette Book Group – Workman Publishing – Algonquin Books) *American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. *by Shahan Mufti (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) *American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper *by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books) *BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL* *The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators *by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins – Collins Crime Club) *The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie *by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury – Bloomsbury Academic) *The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations *by David Geherin (McFarland) *The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story *by Andrew Neiderman (Simon & Schuster – Gallery Books) *Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman *by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Books – Pegasus Crime) *BEST SHORT STORY* *"Red Flag," Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine *by Gregory Fallis (Dell Magazines) *"Backstory," Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine *by Charles John Harper (Dell Magazines) *"Locked-In," Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine *by William Burton McCormick (Dell Magazines) *“The Amnesty Box," in Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms *by Tim McLoughlin (Akashic Books) *“First You Dream, Then You Die," in Black is the Night *by Donna Moore (Titan Books) *BEST JUVENILE* *The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef* by Michael D. Beil (Holiday House – Pixel+Ink) *The Area 51 Files *by Julie Buxbaum (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press) *Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse* by Marthe Jocelyn (Penguin Random House Canada - Tundra Books) *Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star* by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman (Macmillan Children's Publishing - Feiwel & Friends) *Chester Keene Cracks the Code* by Kekla Magoon (Random House Children's Books - Wendy Lamb Books) *BEST YOUNG ADULT* *Pretty Dead Queens *by Alexa Donne (Random House Children’s Books – Crown BFYR) *Frightmares* by Eva V. Gibson (Random House Children’s Books - Underlined) *The Black Girls Left Standing* by Juliana Goodman (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends) *The Red Palace *by June Hur (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends) *Lock the Doors* by Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks - Fire) *BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY* *“One Mighty and Strong" - Under the Banner of Heaven,* Written by Brandon Boyce (Hulu/FX) *“Episode 1” – Magpie Murders, *Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS) *“Episode 1" - Karen Pirie,* Written by Emer Kenny (BritBox) *“When Harry Met Fergus" - Harry Wild*, Written by David Logan (Acorn TV) *“The Reagan Way" - Blue Bloods*, Written by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS) *"Eighteen Wheels A Predator" - Law & Order: SVU, *Written by Brianna Yellen & Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal) *ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD* *"Dogs in the Canyon," Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine *by Mark Harrison (Dell Magazines) * * * * * * *THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD* *Because I Could Not Stop for Death* by Amanda Flower (Penguin Random House - Berkley) *The Woman in the Library *by Sulari Gentill (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press) *The Disinvited Guest* by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins – William Morrow) *A Dreadful Splendor* by B.R. Myers (HarperCollins – William Morrow) *Never Name the Dead* by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane Books) *THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD* *Secret Lives* by Mark de Castrique (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press) *An Unforgiving Place* by Claire Kells (Crooked Lane Books) *Hideout* by Louisa Luna (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – Doubleday) *Behind the Lie* by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane Books) *Secrets Typed in Blood *by Stephen Spotswood (Knopf Doubleday Publishing – Doubleday) *THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD* *The Shadow of Memory* by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane Books) *Buried in a Good Book* by Tamara Berry (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press) *Smile Beach Murder* by Alicia Bessette (Penguin Random House – Berkley) *Desert Getaway* by Michael Craft (Brash Books) *The Marlow Murder Club* by Robert Thorogood (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press) *SPECIAL AWARDS* *GRAND MASTER* Michael Connelly Joanne Fluke *RAVEN AWARD* Crime Writers of Color Eddie Muller for* Noir Alley* and The Noir Foundation *ELLERY QUEEN AWARD* *The Strand Magazine* *fwd TM* https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/01/short-story-wednesday-links-to-reviews.html expanded https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-best-crime-fiction-of-year-annuals.html https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2022/09/2022-anthony-barry-and-macavity-awards.html https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2022/09/sswffb-stories-by-fritz-leiber-brian.html ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L