Here are the winners of the 2015 Edgar Awards, who were honored Wednesday night at the Mystery Writers of America banquet in New York City:
Best novel: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Scribner)
Best first novel: Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman (Norton)
Best paperback original: The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani (Penguin)
Best critical/biographical: Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker (Countryman Press)
Best fact crime: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William Mann (Harper)
Best short story: "What Do You Do?"--Rogues by Gillian Flynn (Bantam)
Best young adult: The Art of Secrets by James Klise (Algonquin Young Readers)
Best juvenile: Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Clarion Books)
Best TV episode teleplay: "Episode 1" of Happy Valley, teleplay by Sally Wainwright (Netflix)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Getaway Girl"--Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Zoë Z. Dean (Dell Magazines)
Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey (Minotaur Books)
Grand Master: Lois Duncan; James Ellroy
Raven Awards: Ruth & Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine; Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder
Ellery Queen Award: Charles Ardai, editor & founder of Hard Case Crime
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Anand Gopal won the $10,000 Ridenhour Book Prize, sponsored by the Nation Institute and the Fertel Foundation and honoring "an outstanding work of social significance," for No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes.
The book awards committee said, "Even a decade and a half after we dispatched weapons, soldiers, and treasure to Afghanistan, most of us still don't have a real sense for what has happened there and the extent of the impact our intervention has had. And we never will until we come to see the conflict and its aftermath through the eyes of the Afghan people. Anand Gopal's achievement in No Good Men Among the Living is to accomplish just that. Through a blend of intrepid reporting and clear-eyed--even beautiful prose--we see and can begin to truly understand the violence and tragedy of our longest war."
