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Mystery Writers of America Announces the 2008 Edgar Award Winners

Thu May 1, 2008 10:30pm EDT
 
NEW YORK, May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America is proud
to announce its Winners for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2008, honoring the best
in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in
2007.


BEST NOVEL
Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)

BEST FACT CRIME
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company)


BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Arthur Conan Doyle:  A Life in Letters 
by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)


BEST JUVENILE
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)

BEST PLAY
Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
"Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television
Studios)


BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)


The EDGAR (and logo) are Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by
the Mystery Writers of America, Inc.




SOURCE  Mystery Writers of America

Margery Flax of Mystery Writers of America, +1-212-888-8171; or Joannie
Danielides of Danielides Communications, +1-212-319-7566, for Mystery Writers
of America


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