The winners of the 2012 Edgar Awards were announced last night. They are:
Best Novel- Gone by Mo Hayder
Best First Novel- Bent Road by Lori Roy
Best Paperback Original- Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Best Short Story- The Man Who Took His Hat Off To The Driver Of The Train by Peter Turnbull (as appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Best True Crime- Destiny Of The Republic by Candice Millard
Best Critical/Biographical Work- On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
Best Young Adult Mystery-The Silence Of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackey
Best Juvenile Mystery-Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
This year’s Grand Master was Martha Grimes
