2011 Edgar Award Nominees

• Caught by Harlan Coben (Penguin Group USA - Dutton)
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
• Faithful Place by Tana French (Penguin Group USA - Viking)
• The Queen of Patpong by Timothy Hallinan (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton (Minotaur/Thomas Dunne Books)
• I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins - William Morrow)

• Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva (Tom Doherty Associates - Forge Books)
• The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
• The Serialist: A Novel by David Gordon (Simon & Schuster)
• Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
• Snow Angels by James Thompson (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons)

• Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard (Random House - Bantam)
• The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn (Henry Holt)
• Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (Minotaur Books)
• Vienna Secrets by Frank Tallis (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
• Ten Little Herrings by L.C. Tyler (Felony & Mayhem Press)

• Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity by Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry (University of Nebraska Press - Bison Original)
• The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South by Alex Heard (HarperCollins)
• Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery by Sari Horwitz and Scott Higham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
• Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr and the International Hunt for his Assassin by Hampton Sides (Random House - Doubleday)
• The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science by Douglas Starr (Alfred A. Knopf)

• The Wire: Truth Be Told by Rafael Alvarez (Grove Atlantic - Grove Press)
• Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
• Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Steven Doyle and David A. Crowder (Wiley)
• Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendevouz with American History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton)
• Thrillers: 100 Must Reads edited by David Morrell and Hank Wagner (Oceanview Publishing)

• "The Scent of Lilacs" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
• "The Plot"- First Thrills by Jeffery Deaver (Tom Doherty - Forge Books)
• "A Good Safe Place" - Thin Ice by Judith Green (Level Best Books)
• "Monsieur Alice is Absent"- Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Stephen Ross (Dell Magazines)
• "The Creative Writing Murders" - Dark End of the Street by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)

• Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)
• The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy by Dori Hillestad Butler (Albert Whitman & Co.)
• The Haunting of Charles Dickens by Lewis Buzbee (Feiwel & Friends)
• Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol by Jiim Krieg (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)
• The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman by Ben H. Winters (HarperCollins Children's Books)

• The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King (Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf)
• 7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
• The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price (Farrar, Straus, Giroux Books for Young Readers)
• Dust City by Robert Paul Weston (Penguin Young Readers Group - Razorbill)

Labels: Crime, Edgar Awards, fiction, Mystery Awards, YA