Awards & Winners

2005 Edgar Award

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2005 Edgar Awards

Edgar Award for Best Novel

T. Jefferson Parker

Honored for : California Girl

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
T. Jefferson Parker California Girl
Laura Lippman By a Spider's Thread
Janet Quin-Harkin Evan's Gate
Julia Spencer-Fleming Out of the Deep I Cry
Chris Mooney Remembering Sarah
Edgar Grand Master Award
Edgar Award for Best Young Adult

Thomas Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler

Honored for : In Darkness, Death

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Nominee Nominated Work
Thomas Hoobler In Darkness, Death
Dorothy Hoobler In Darkness, Death
Kate Morgenroth Jude
Lee Weatherly Missing Abby
Edward Bloor Story Time
Marcus Sedgwick The Book of Dead Days
Edgar Award for Best Juvenile

Blue Balliett

Honored for : Chasing Vermeer

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Nominee Nominated Work
Blue Balliett Chasing Vermeer
Peg Kehret Abduction!
Patricia Finney Assassin
The Lady Grace Mysteries
Daniel Pinkwater Looking for Bobowicz
Zilpha Keatley Snyder The Unseen
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Don Lee

Honored for : Country of Origin

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Nominee Nominated Work
Don Lee Country of Origin
Robert Morris Bahamarama
Liam Callanan Cloud Atlas
Charles Ardai Little Girl Lost
Charles Benoit Relative Danger
Michael Koryta Tonight I Said Goodbye
The Ellery Queen Award

Carolyn Marino

(Vice President/Executive Editor, HarperCollins)
Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original

Domenic Stansberry

Honored for : The Confession

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Nominee Nominated Work
Domenic Stansberry The Confession
Ron Faust Dead Men Rise Up Never
Thomas H. Cook Into the Web
Larry Beinhart The Librarian
Chris Haslam Twelve Step Fandango
Edgar Award for Best Short Story

Laurie Lynn Drummond

Honored for : Something About a Scar
(Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Laurie Lynn Drummond Something About a Scar
Anthology: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You
Gary Lovisi Adventure of the Missing Detective
Anthology: Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years
Luke Sholer Imitate the Sun
Volume: November 2004
Pete Hamill The Book Signing
Anthology: Brooklyn Noir
Terence Faherty The Widow of Slane
Volume: March/April 2004
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Leonard Levitt

Honored for : Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder
(A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Leonard Levitt Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder
A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice
Suzanne O'Malley Are You There Alone?
The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates
Julian Rubinstein Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
D. P. Lyle, MD Forensics for Dummies
Ann Rule Green River, Running Red
The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer
Marissa N. Batt Ready for the People
My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor
Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical

Leslie S. Klinger

Honored for : The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories

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Nominee Nominated Work
Leslie S. Klinger The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe Booze and the Private Eye
Darrell B. Lockhart Latin American Mystery Writers: An A to Z Guide
Norman Sherry The Life of Graham Greene: Volume III, 1955-1991
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

Thomas Morrissey

Honored for : Can't Catch Me
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Honored for : A Very Long Engagement
(based on the Novel by Sebastien Japrisot)

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Nominee Nominated Work
Jean-Pierre Jeunet A Very Long Engagement
based on the Novel by Sebastien Japrisot
Stuart Beattie Collateral
Joshua Marston Maria Full of Grace
Francesca Marciano I'm Not Scared
based on the Novel by Niccolò Ammaniti
Tony Gilroy The Bourne Supremacy
based on the Novel by Robert Ludlam
Mary Higgins Clark Award

Rochelle Majer Krich

Honored for : Grave Endings

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Nominee Nominated Work
Rochelle Majer Krich Grave Endings
Patricia Burford Ryan Murder in a mill town
Jerrilyn Farmer Perfect sax
Christiane Heggan Scent of a Killer
Carol Goodman The Drowning Tree
Edgar Award for Best Television Episode Teleplay

René Balcer, Elizabeth Benjamin

Honored for : Want
(Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent)

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Nominee Nominated Work
René Balcer Want
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Elizabeth Benjamin Want
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
René Balcer Conscience
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Gerry Conway Conscience
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
René Balcer Consumed
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Warren Leight Consumed
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Hy Conrad Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf
Series: Monk
René Balcer Pas de Deux
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Warren Leight Pas de Deux
Series: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Edgar Awards for Best Television Feature/Mini-Series Teleplay

Paul Abbott

Honored for : State of Play

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Nominee Nominated Work
Chris Lang Amnesia
Paul Abbott State of Play
Peter Berry Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (1)
Alan Whiting The Darkness of Light
Robert Jones P.D. James: Death in Holy Orders
Edgar Award for Best Play

Neal Bell

Honored for : Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Max Allan Collins Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life
Edward Musto An Evening of Murder and the Like
Neal Bell Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)
Special Edgars Award
Special Edgars Award
Raven Award

Steven Thomas Oney

(Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theatre)
Raven Award

Diane K. Kovacs, Kara Robinson

(DorothyL listserv co-founder)
Raven Award

Martha Farrington

(Murder by the Book)