Eddie and Aggie sittin' in a tree . . .

We've had a couple of major award banquets this week - The Edgars and The Agathas.

I listed all the nominees a few weeks ago - today I offer my congratulations to all the nominees again, 

Today, I'm honored to announce the winners - - - 

The Edgars^® were announced at the 65th Gala Banquet in New York City on April 28th, 2011 

Grand Master - Sara Paretsky

 

Best Novel -

The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)

Best First Novel -

 Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books)

Best Paperback Original

Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)

Best Fact Crime

Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press - Bison Original)

Best Critical Biographical

Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)

Best Short Story

"The Scent of Lilacs" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)

Best Juvenile

The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)

Young Adult

The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)

Play

The Psychic by Sam Bobrick (Falcon Theatre - Burbank, CA)

TV Episode

"Episode 1" - Luther, Teleplay by Neil Cross (BBC America)

Robert L. Fish Memorial

"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Evan Lewis (Dell Magazines) 

Mary Higgins Clark

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Raven 

Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore, Chicago, IL
Once Upon a Crime Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN  

 

The Agathas were announced at the Malice Domestic banquet in Bethesda, MD on April 30, 2010

Guest of Honor - Carole Nelson Douglas 

Best Novel -  

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny. (This was Louise's fourth Agatha in a row)

Best Nonfiction -  

Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran

Best Children's/Young Adult -  

The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith

Best First Mystery Novel -  

The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames

Best Short Story - "So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Sept./Oct. 2010
 

Poirot Award - Janet Rudolph of Mystery Readers' International

CONGRATULATIONS, EVERYONE!!!!