Here are the winners of the 2016 Edgar Awards, who were honored last week at the Mystery Writers of America banquet in New York City:
Best novel: Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy (Dutton)
Best first novel: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove Press)
Best paperback original: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (Morrow)
Best critical/biographical: The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
Best fact crime: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil (Harper)
Best short story: "Obits" by Stephen King in Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Scribner)
Best young adult: A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis (Katherine Tegen Books)
Best juvenile: Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught (Paula Wiseman Books/S&S)
Best TV episode teleplay: "Gently with the Women" for George Gently, teleplay by Peter Flannery (Acorn TV)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" by Russell W. Johnson, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Dell Magazines)
Mary Higgins Clark Award: Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)
Grand Master: Walter Mosley
Raven Awards: Margaret Kinsman; Sisters in Crime
Ellery Queen Award: Janet Rudolph, founder of Mystery Readers International
