2009 Edgar Award Winners

The 2009 Edgar Award Winners were announced tonight, and are annually awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, for distinguished work in the mystery genre: novels, television, and motion pictures.

    
Best Novel – Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Best First Novel – The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)

Best Paperback Original – China Lake by Meg Gardiner (Obsidian Mysteries)

Best Fact Crime – American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum

Best Critical/Biographical – Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Metro Books)

Best Short Story – “Skinhead Central,” by T. Jefferson Parker (from The Blue Religion, edited by Michael Connelly; Little, Brown)

Best Juvenile – The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Best Young Adult- Paper Towns by John Green (Dutton Children’s Books)

Best Play – The Ballad of Emmett Till, by Ifa Bayeza (Goodman Theatre, Chicago)

Best Television Episode Teleplay – “Prayer of the Bone,” Wire in the Blood, teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (BBC America)

Best Motion Picture Screenplay – In Bruges, screenplay by Martin McDonagh (Focus Features)

    
BSC would like to congratulate the winners.

    
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