Award-winning mysteries: The 2013 Edgar Awards

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The Edgar Awards are bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America, so you know the winners have some serious street cred. The Edgars honor the year's best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television. This year's batch includes the titles below. I've included their call numbers here at the library and whether they are also in our ebook library:

Best Novel
Live By Night
By Dennis Lehane
FIC LEHANE | AD FIC LEHANE | ebook

Best First Novel
The Expats
By Chris Pavone
FIC PAVONE | AD FIC PAVONE | ebook

Best Fact (Nonfction) Crime
Midnight in Peking: How the murder of a young Englishwoman haunted the last days of Old China
By Paul French
364.1523092 FRENCH

Best Juvenile
The Quick Fix (sequel to The Big Splash)
By Jack D. Ferraiolo
J MYS FERRAIOL

Best Young Adult
Code Name Verity
By Elizabeth Wein
YP FIC WEIN | AD YP FIC WEIN

Best Paperback Original
The Last Policeman
By Ben H. Winters
MYS WINTERS | ebook

Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Other Woman
By Hank Phillippi Ryan
FIC RYAN

Best Television Episode Teleplay
"A Scandal in Belgravia" from the BBC TV Show "Sherlock," Episode 1 Season 2
Teleplay by Steven Moffat
DVD SHERLOCK