I’m sorry, every year when the Edgar Awards are announced, I can’t help but use the headline above. But here are the winners on the books side, as announced last night at the Mystery Writers of America banquet:
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- Best Novel: Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
- Best First Novel (by an American): The Foreigner by Francie Lin
- Best Paperback Original: China Lake by Meg Gardiner
- Best Fact Crime: American Lightning by Howard Blum
- Best Critical/Biographical: Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Harry Lee Poe
- Best Young Adult: Paper Towns by John Green
- Best Juvenile: The Postcard by Tony Abbott
- Best Short Story: “Skinhead Central” by T. Jefferson Parker (in The Blue Religion)










Nice choices, from what I can tell: I liked The Foreigner a lot, and I know Jeff VanderMeer did too, and Paper Towns was definitely an in-house favorite here. See our full list of nominees and winners for this year and previous ones.
And, because I just can’t resist, here are the Edgar Winter Group in all their full ’70s glory. Man, they are just having a ball, and when Jackie Rogers Jr.–sorry, Edgar Winter–picks up the sax, and then suddenly appears at the drum set–all while still wearing that giant keyboard around his neck!–I just about lose it. “Bohemian Rhapsody”? Pfeh. Why is “Frankenstein” not recognized as the pinnacle of Western culture that it is? (The clip, by the way, is from The Old Grey Whistle Test, the BBC show collected in a fabulous set, of which I have to say this performance is the most fabulous.)
–Tom
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