And the Edgar Awards went to…

Best Novel

• The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books)

Best First Novel By An American Author

• In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books)

Best Paperback Original

• Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press – Castle Street Mysteries)

Best Critical/Biographical

• The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)

Best Fact Crime

• Columbine by Dave Cullen (Hachette Book Group – Twelve)

Best Short Story

• Amapola – Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea (Akashic Books)

Best Young Adult

• Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins Children’s Books – HarperTeen)

Best Juvenile

• Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s Books)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• Place of Execution, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)