2016 Edgar Award Winners
Best Novel: Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
Best First Novel by an American Author: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Best Paperback Original: Whipping Boy: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
Best Fact Crime: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil
Best Critical/Biographical: The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
Best Short Story: “Obits” (found in the Bazaar of Bad Dreams collection) by Stephen King
Best Juvenile: Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught
Best Young Adult: A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
Best Television Episode Teleplay: “Gently with the Women” (from the George Gently teleplay) by Peter Flannery
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: “Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick” (from the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by Russell W. Johnson
Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award: Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day