The winner of the 2012 Edgar Award for outstanding mystery fiction will be announced tomorrow, April 26, at the Mystery Writers of America conference. Avid readers of great mysteries can hardly wait! In the meantime, here are the 5 nominees:
- The Ranger by Ace Atkins - Returning to what has become his violently corrupt hometown in Mississippi after a tour in Afghanistan, Army Ranger Quinn Colson investigates his uncle's alleged suicide and uncovers shocking personal secrets.
- Gone by Mo Hayder - Investigating a serial carjacker whose actual targets are young children in back seats, Jack Caffery teams up once again with police diver Sergeant Flea Marley, whose life is endangered by a discovery in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel.
- The Devotion of Suspect X - A clever mathematics teacher orchestrates a cover-up after a confrontation between a violent man and his terror-stricken ex-wife results in the man's accidental death.
- 1222 by Anne Holt - Follows the experiences of travelers in Norway whose train is derailed 1,222 meters above sea level. They are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest.
- Field Gray by Philip Kerr - In a historical suspense novel, chain-smoking, hard-drinking Bernie Gunther moves from riot-torn Berlin in 1931 to Adenauer's Germany in 1954--with a stop at a Russian prisoner-of-war camp along the way.
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