Mystery Writers of America Announces Edgar Winners

Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honor the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, television and film published or produced in 2004. T. Jefferson Parker won in the Best Novel category and the Book Blog has more about this here. A complete list of nominees and winners can be found here on the MWA website. Here is a list of some of the winners this year:

  • Best Novel: California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)
  • Best First Novel: Country of Origin by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • Best Paperback Original: The Confession by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)
  • Best Critical/Biographical: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton)
  • Best Fact Crime: Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)
  • Best Young Adult: In Darkness, Death by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)
  • Best Juvenile: Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
  • Best Television Episode Teleplay: Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "Want", Teleplay by Elizabeth Benjamin. Story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin
  • Best Television Feature: State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)
  • Best Motion Picture Screenplay: A Very Long Engagement - Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the Novel by Sébastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)


    Posted on April 28, 2005





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