The 2016 Edgar Award Winners have been announced!

Best Novel

Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House – Dutton)

Best First Novel
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)

Best Paperback Original
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollin Publishers – William Morrow)

Best Fact Crime
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)

Best Juvenile
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)

Best Young Adult
A Madness So Discreet by by Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Publishers – Katherine Tegen Books)

Best Short Story
“Obits” – Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)

TV Episode Teleplay
“Gently with the Women” – George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)

Robert L. Fish Memorial
“Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Russell W. Johnson (Dell Magazines)

Mary Higgins Clark
Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)

Grand Master
Walter Mosley

Raven Awards
Margaret Kinsman, Sisters in Crime

Ellery Queen Award
Janet Rudolph, Founder of Mystery Readers International