The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2010 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The Awards will be presented to the winners at the Gala Banquet, April 29, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
You can view the entire list of titles in all nine categories on the MWA website.
The six nominees in the Best Novel category are: The Missing by Tim Gautreaux; The Odds by Kathleen George; The Last Child by John Hart; The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston; Nemesis by Jo Nesbo; A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn.
The nominees for this year’s Mary Higgins Clark Award were also announced and the list includesNever Tell a Lie by Hallie Ephron, who will be joining us for Murder 203 in April.
Never Tell a Lie has been described as a “supremely suspenseful and consistently surprising story of a yard sale gone terribly wrong” and the Boston Globe raved "Suburban noir has rarely been done with such psychological insight or plot-twisting suspense."
We will have several mystery award nominees and winners with us in April. Check our website for a complete list of attending authors.
Hank Phillippi Ryan, who won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel for her first Charlotte McNally title, Prime Time, has been getting rave reviews for the latest (fourth) title in the series, Drive Time. Library Journal said “Her book catapults the reader into the fast lane and doesn’t stop until the story careens to a stop.” Sounds like another winner for Hank.
Fellow Agatha winner Robin Hathaway, author of the Jo Banks and Andrew Fenimore series will also be joining us, as will Jonathan Santlofer, winner of the Nero Award for Anatomy of Fear, the first title in his Nate Rodriguez series.
Nate Rodriguez is a NYPD police sketch artist who appears to have psychic abilities when it comes to visualizing perpetrators. When Nate sketches, the drawings, done by the author -- who is a highly respected artist -- are reproduced in the text.
David Handler won an Edgar nomination and an Edgar Award for two titles in his Stewart Hoag series. He also writes the Berger & Mitry series, which is set in Connecticut.
