Vencedores dos Edgar Awards 2012

Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce the winners of the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2011. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at our 66^th Gala Banquet, April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

Best Novel

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• The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic - Atlantic Monthly Press)
• The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
• 1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
• Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons - Marion Wood Books)

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Best First Novel

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• Red on Red by Edward Conlon (Random House Publishing Group - Spiegel & Grau)
• Last to Fold by David Duffy (Thomas Dunne Books)
• All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen (The Permanent Press)
• Bent Road by Lori Roy (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
• Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder (Minotaur Books - Thomas Dunne Books)

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Best Paperback Original

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• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett (Hachette Book Group - Orbit Books)
• The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle (Felony & Mayhem Press)
• The Dog Sox by Russell Hill (Pleasure Boat Studio - Caravel Mystery Books)
• Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley (HarperCollins Publishers - Harper Paperbacks)
• Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)

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Best Fact Crime

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• The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins (Crown Publishing)
• The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge by T.J. English (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard (Random House - Doubleday)
• Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender by Steve Miller (Penguin Group USA - Berkley)
• The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter by Mark Seal (Penguin Group USA - Viking)

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Best Critical Biographical

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• The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of our Time by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer & John-Henri Holmberg (St. Martin's Griffin)
• Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
• On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
• Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film by Philippa Gates (SUNY Press)
• Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck and Walter Srebnick (University of Illinois Press)

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Best Short Story

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• "Marley's Revolution" - Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
• "Tomorrow's Dead" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
• "The Adakian Eagle" - Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
• "Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" - Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA - Ace Books)
• "The Case of Death and Honey" - A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group - Bantam Books)
• "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)

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Best Juvenile

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• Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams - Amulet Books)
• It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
• Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group - Disney Hyperion)
• Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
• The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA)

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Young Adult

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• Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children's Books - Knopf BFYR)
• The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children's Publishing Group - Roaring Creek Press)
• Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA)