Crime: 2013 Edgar Award nominees

It’s that time of year, and the Mystery Writers of America have announced their nominees for the 2013 Edgar Awards. However you feel about awards – winners, losers, what all that means – if you read crime fiction, the following titles/series are all worthy of your notice.

Best Mystery Novel:

• The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
• The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye
• Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
• Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman
• Sunset by Al Lamanda
• Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley

Best Young Adult Mystery Novel:

• Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak
• The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George
• Crusher by Niall Leonard
• Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Best Juvenile Mystery Novel:

• Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O’Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse (and Some Nerdy Kid) Saved the U.S. Presidential Election from a Mad Genius Criminal Mastermind by Tom Angleberger
• 13 Hangmen by Art Corriveau
• The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo
• Spy School by Stuart Gibbs
• Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

Best First Novel:

• The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
• Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman
• Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal
• The Expats by Chris Pavone
• The 500 by Matthew Quirk
• Black Fridays by Michael Sears

Best Paperback Original:

• Complication by Isaac Adamson
• Whiplash River by Lou Berney
• Bloodland by Alan Glynn
• Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn
• The Last Policeman: A Novel by Ben H. Winters

Best Fact Crime:

• Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
• More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers’ Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, MD
• Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
• The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo – and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry

Best Critical/Biographical:

• Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe: The Hard-Boiled Detective Transformed by John Paul Athanasourelis
• Books to Die For: The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels edited by John Connolly and Declan Burke
• The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien
• In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero edited by Otto Penzler

Winners will be announced on May 2. Want some skin in the game? Check them out now.