2014 Edgar Award Winners Announced

Mystery Writers of America (an organization for mystery writers, those in the crime writing field and those who are devoted to the genre) recently announces the winners of their 2014 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery writing. The winners are:

Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Best Novel
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Best First Novel
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
Best Paperback Original
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
Best Fact Crime

Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.

Best First Novel: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.

Best Paperback Original: The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
How well can you know anyone? When her investigation into a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists leads to an interview with a carnival cleaner, reporter Kirsty Lindsay is reunited with a woman whom she shares a wicked secret.

Best Fact Crime: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
by Daniel Stashower
Presents the true story of the "Baltimore Plot" conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War, tracing the efforts of detective Allan Pinkerton and private eye Kate Warne to identify and stop the would-be killers.

To learn more about these awards and to see the full list of winners and nominees click here.

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