May I have the envelope please?

The Mystery Writers of America has announced 2008's winners of the Edgar Awards.

Best Novel

• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt and Company)

• Priest by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  
  
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
  
  
• Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
  
  
• Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Novel by an American Author

• Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (HarperCollins - William Morrow)

• In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group - Viking)
  
  
• Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard (The Rookery Press)
  
  
• Head Games by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
  
  
• Pyres by Derek Nikitas (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best Paperback Original

• Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)

• Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Random House - Mortalis)
  
  
• Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks (Serpent's Tail)
  
  
• Robbie's Wife by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
  
  
• Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)

Best Critical/Biographical

• The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson (Random House)

• A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational by Maurizio Ascari (Palgrave Macmillan)
  
  
• Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Christiana Gregoriou (Palgrave Macmillan)
  
  
• Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
  
  
• Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy by Jean Gould O'Connell (McFarland & Company)

Best Fact Crime

• The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)

• Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company)
  
  
• Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
  
  
• Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  
  
• Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson (Penguin Group - Viking)

Best Short Story

• "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)

• "Blue Note" - Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Bleak House Books)
  
  
• "Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman (Harcourt Trade Publishers)
  
  
• "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)
  
  
• "Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell (Busted Flush Press)
  

Best Young Adult

• Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)

• Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
  
  
• Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
  
  
• Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
  
  
• Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Simon Pulse)

Best Juvenile

• The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

• Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
  
  
• Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
  
  
• The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
  
  
• Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf)

Best Play

• If/Then by David Foley (International Mystery Writers' Festival)

• Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
  
  
• Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky (International Mystery Writers' Festival)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• "It's Alive" - Dexter, Teleplay by Daniel Cerone (Showtime)

• "Yahrzeit" - Waking the Dead, Teleplay by Declan Croghan & Barbara Machin (BBC America)
  
  
• "Pie-Lette" - Pushing Daisies, Teleplay by Bryan Fuller (ABC/Warner Bros Television
  
  
• "Senseless" - Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Teleplay by Julie Martin & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
  
  
• "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)

Best Motion Picture Screen Play

• Eastern Promises, Screenplay by Steven Knight (Focus Features)

• The Lookout, Screenplay by Scott Frank (Miramax)
  
  
• Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
  
  
• No Country for Old Men, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the book by Cormac McCarthy (Miramax)
  
  
• Zodiac, Screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

• "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)

Mary Higgins Clark Award

• In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews (St. Martin's Minotaur)

• Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
  
  
• Inferno by Karen Harper (Harlequin - MIRA Books)
  
  
• The First Stone by Judith Kelman (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
  
  
• Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Congratulations to all the winners as well as the nominees!