Edgar nominees--have you read them?

I am so excited to post this year's Edgar nominees, as a writer I know through the blogging world is among them!  You've read my posts about Timothy Hallinan's great Thai novels, here and here.  And if you read my Sunday Foreign Post Roundups, you'll have seen many links to his interesting posts at the blog Murder is Everywhere.  (The latest post there, Gender is Murder, is going on this week's list.  Click here to read it now.)

Congratulations to all the nominees, but especially to Mr. Hallinan for his novel The Queen of Patpong.

Another one I must celebrate on the list is Tana French's Faithful Place.  As you know if you've been reading here long, I love French's work.  I have read all of her books, with The Likeness being my favorite.  She previously won the Edgar for Best First Novel for In the Woods--a fantastic novel of friendship, psychology, murder, and Irish society.

Congratulations to Ms. French on her latest nomination!

Here are the nominees:

Best Novel:

• Caught by Harlan Coben
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• Faithful Place by Tana French
• The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

Best First Novel (by an American author):

• Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
• The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron
• The Serialist by David Gordon
• Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
• Snow Angels by James Thompson

Best Paperback Original:

• Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
• The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn
• Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski
• Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis
• Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler

Best Fact Crime:

• Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry
• The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South by Alex Heard
• Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz
• Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides
• The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr

Best Critical/Biographical Work:

• The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez
• Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran
• Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder
• Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner

Best Young Adult:

• The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King
• 7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando
• The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price
• Dust City by Robert Paul Weston

Best Juvenile:

• Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
• Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler
• The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Louis Buzbee
• Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jim Krieg
• The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters

Grand Master:

• Sara Paretsky

Congratulations to ALL the nominees!  What an accomplishment!  The winners will be announced on April 28th.

What have you read from this list?  Any in your TBR pile?