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WORD: Edgar Award nominees for fiction announced

The Mystery Writers of America announced its nominees for the 2005 Edgar Allen Poe Awards, which honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2003. The MWA will present the Edgar Award winners at its 59th Gala Banquet on April 28 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.

Best Novel nominees are as follows: Evan's Gate by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's Minotaur), By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman (William Morrow), Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney (Atria Books), California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow), and Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur).

In its Best First Novel By An American Author category, nominees include Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (Hard Case Crime), Relative Danger by Charles Benoit (Poisoned Pen Press), Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan (Delacorte Press), Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta (St. Martin's Minotaur) Country of Origin by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company), and Bahamarama by Bob Morris (St. Martin's Minotaur).

 

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