Mystery Award Winners

Last week I wrote about upcoming Mystery Awards. Here's an update:

The Agatha Award went to Louise Penny for Bury Your Dead.

The Edgar Award went to Steve Hamilton for The Lock Artist.

Both of these books are being purchased for the Library.

Congratulations to the winners! Now there are 2 more books on my TBR* pile!
*=To Be Read

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Mystery Awards

Library Journal informed me that April hosts two major mystery book awards. The Mystery Writers of America sponsor the Edgar Awards and Malice Domestic sponsors the Agatha Award. If you are a mystery reader, you've probably heard of these awards, and probably read most of the nominated titles.

According to their sites, the Edgar Award is awarded to the best fiction, non-fiction and television mystery, crime, suspense and intrigue works. Named after Agatha Christie, the Agatha Awards honor the best "traditional" mystery in a variety of categories.

Here are the nominees for the Edgar Award, Best Novel:

Caught by Harlan Coben
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan
The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

Here are the nominees for the Agatha Award, Best Novel:

Stork Raving Mad by Donna Andrews
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard
Drive Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber



Have you read these titles? What do you think? Care to predict a winner? Let us know your thoughts!

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