Edgar nominations announced...

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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mystery Writers of America is proud to announce, as we celebrate the 207th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Nominees for the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2015. The Edgar® Awards will be presented to the winners at our 70th Gala Banquet, April 28, 2016 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

BEST NOVEL

• The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• The Lady From Zagreb by Philip Kerr (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Life or Death by Michael Robotham (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books)
• Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Penguin Random House - Dutton)
• Canary by Duane Swierczynski (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books)
• Night Life by David C. Taylor (Forge Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
• Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
• Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm (Penguin Random House - Viking)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland Books
• What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
• Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
• Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty (Prometheus Books – Seventh Street Books)
• The Daughter by Jane Shemilt (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

More nominations listed in the press release.