And the Edgar goes to:

Here are the winners for this year's Edgar Awards:

Best Novel

• Missing by Karin Alvtegen (Felony & Mayhem Press)
• Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
• The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Night Following by Morag Joss (Random House – Delacorte Press)
• Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)

Best First Novel By an American Author

• The Kind One by Tom Epperson (Five Star, div of Cengage)
• Sweetsmoke by David Fuller (Hyperion)
• The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)
• Calumet City by Charlie Newton (Simon & Schuster - Touchstone)
• A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock (Random House - Doubleday)

Best Paperback Original

• The Prince of Bagram by Alex Carr (Random House Trade)
• Money Shot by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
• Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney (Random House - Dell)
• China Lake by Meg Gardiner (New American Library – Obsidian Mysteries)
• The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli (Random House - Bantam)

Best Critical/Biographical

• African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland & Company)
• Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto (Columbia University Press)
• Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin (McFarland & Company)
• The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley (Greenwood Publishing – Praeger)
• Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Sterling Publishing – Metro Books)

Best Fact Crime

• For The Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz (HarperCollins)
• American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum (Crown Publishers)
• Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It To The Revolution by T.J. English (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez (Harcourt)
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Walker & Company)

Best Short Story

• "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" - Hardcore Hardboiled by Sean Chercover (Kensington Publishing)
• "Skin and Bones" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by David Edgerley Gates (Dell Magazines)
• "Scratch a Woman" - Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• "La Vie en Rose" - Paris Noir by Dominique Mainard (Akashic Books
• "Skinhead Central" - The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)

Best Young Adult

• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (Random House Children’s Books – David Fickling Books)
• The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Harry N. Abrams Books – Amulet Books)
• Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books)
• Getting the Girl by Susan Juby (HarperCollins Children’s Books - HarperTeen)
• Torn to Pieces by Margo McDonnell (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Books for Young Readers)

Best Juvenile

• The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House Children’s Books – Wendy Lamb Books)
• The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie (Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books)
• Cemetary Street by Brenda Seabrooke (Holiday House)

Best Play

• The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza (Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the story by Robert Lewis Stevenson (Arizona Theatre Company)
• Cell by Judy Klass (International Mystery Writers’ Festival)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• “Streetwise” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Paul Grellong (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
• “Prayer of the Bone” – Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (BBC America)
• “Signature” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Judith McCreary (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
• “You May Now Kill the Bride” – CSI: Miami, Teleplay by Barry O’Brien (CBS)
• “Burn Card” – Law & Order, Teleplay by David Wilcox (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)

Best Motion Picture Screenplay

• The Bank Job, Screenplay by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (Lionsgate)
• Burn After Reading, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (Focus Features)
• In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh (Focus Features)
• Tell No One, Screenplay by Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lefebvre, based on the book by Harlan Coben (Music Box Films)
• Transsiberian, Screenplay by Brad Anderson & Will Conroy (First Look International)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

• "Buckner's Error" - Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli (Akashic Books)

Mary Higgins Clark Award

• Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer (Random House - Doubleday)
• A Song for You by Betsy Thornton (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• The Fault Tree by Louise Ure (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Grand Master

• James Lee Burke
• Sue Grafton

Raven Awards

• Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland
• Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

Congratulations to all the winners as well as nominees.

Goodbye, Barbara Parker

Barbara Parker, NYT best selling author of numerous thrillers, died Saturday at the age of 62.

Mitch Kaplan, owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL, called Parker a "a unifying figure to the writing community."

In lieu of flowers, the family prefers donations to help writers. Donations can be sent to the Author Sponsorship Fund, Mystery Writers of America, 1140 Broadway, New York, NY 10001.

Quoth the Raven: "Happy Birthday!"

It has been 200 years since the birth of Edgar Allan Poe and in honor of that, there are two new books (books make great gifts by they way) out now.

The first is On a Raven's Wing, an anthology released by The Mystery Writers of America. It features new tales in honor Mr. Poe and his work. Contributors include Stuart M. Kaminsky (who also edited), Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, Don Winslow, John Lutz and the late Edward D. Hoch.

The other book (also from Mystery Writers of America) is a new collection of some of Poe's work titled In the Shadow of the Master. The stories are followed by essays by some of today's top writers such as Stephen King, Jeffrey Deaver, Lisa Scottoline, Sue Grafton, Michael Connelly and Tess Gerritsen.

Also, in an earlier post I detailed some of the events hat would be going on in Baltimore as part of a year-long celebration of Poe called Nevermore 2009.

James Earl Jones reciting "The Raven"


Vincent Price performing "Tell-tale Heart" (Part 1)

2009 Edgars Nominees

Today the Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2009 Edgar Awards.

Best Novel

• Missing by Karin Alvtegen (Felony & Mayhem Press)
• Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)
• The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Night Following by Morag Joss (Random House – Delacorte Press)
• Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)

Best First Novel By an American Author

• The Kind One by Tom Epperson (Five Star, div of Cengage)
• Sweetsmoke by David Fuller (Hyperion)
• The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)
• Calumet City by Charlie Newton (Simon & Schuster - Touchstone)
• A Cure for Night by Justin Peacock (Random House - Doubleday)

Best Paperback Original

• The Prince of Bagram by Alex Carr (Random House Trade)
• Money Shot by Christa Faust (Hard Case Crime)
• Enemy Combatant by Ed Gaffney (Random House - Dell)
• China Lake by Meg Gardiner (New American Library – Obsidian Mysteries)
• The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli (Random House - Bantam)

Best Critical/Biographical

• African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland & Company)
• Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories by Leonard Cassuto (Columbia University Press)
• Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction by David Geherin (McFarland & Company)
• The Rise of True Crime by Jean Murley (Greenwood Publishing – Praeger)
• Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Sterling Publishing – Metro Books)

Best Fact Crime

• For The Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago by Simon Baatz (HarperCollins)
• American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum (Crown Publishers)
• Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It To The Revolution by T.J. English (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez (Harcourt)
• The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale (Walker & Company)

Best Short Story

• "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" - Hardcore Hardboiled by Sean Chercover (Kensington Publishing)
• "Skin and Bones" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by David Edgerley Gates (Dell Magazines)
• "Scratch a Woman" - Hardly Knew Her by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• "La Vie en Rose" - Paris Noir by Dominique Mainard (Akashic Books
• "Skinhead Central" - The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)

Best Young Adult

• Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd (Random House Children’s Books – David Fickling Books)
• The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo (Harry N. Abrams Books – Amulet Books)
• Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin Young Readers Group – Dutton Children’s Books)
• Getting the Girl by Susan Juby (HarperCollins Children’s Books - HarperTeen)
• Torn to Pieces by Margo McDonnell (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Books for Young Readers)

Best Juvenile

• The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Abrams Books for Young Readers)
• Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff (Random House Children’s Books – Wendy Lamb Books)
• The Witches of Dredmoore Hollow by Riford McKenzie (Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books)
• Cemetary Street by Brenda Seabrooke (Holiday House)

Best Play

• The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza (Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL)
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, based on the story by Robert Lewis Stevenson (Arizona Theatre Company)
• Cell by Judy Klass (International Mystery Writers’ Festival)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• “Streetwise” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Paul Grellong (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
• “Prayer of the Bone” – Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (BBC America)
• “Signature” – Law & Order: SVU, Teleplay by Judith McCreary (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
• “You May Now Kill the Bride” – CSI: Miami, Teleplay by Barry O’Brien (CBS)
• “Burn Card” – Law & Order, Teleplay by David Wilcox (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)

Best Motion Picture Screenplay

• The Bank Job, Screenplay by Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (Lionsgate)
• Burn After Reading, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (Focus Features)
• In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh (Focus Features)
• Tell No One, Screenplay by Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lefebvre, based on the book by Harlan Coben (Music Box Films)
• Transsiberian, Screenplay by Brad Anderson & Will Conroy (First Look International)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

• "Buckner's Error" - Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli (Akashic Books)

Mary Higgins Clark Award

• Sacrifice by S.J. Bolton (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer (Random House - Doubleday)
• A Song for You by Betsy Thornton (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• The Fault Tree by Louise Ure (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Grand Master

• James Lee Burke
• Sue Grafton

Raven Awards

• Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland
• Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

Congratulations to all who were nominated.

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!

And the Edgar goes to...

That's right, it's that time of year again. The Mystery Writers of America have officially announced the nominees for this year's Edgar Awards. The nominations were actually announced yesterday, but I thought it would be fitting that I list them on Edgar Allan Poe's birthday. Below is the complete list of nominees. Read more about the Edgar Award (the MWA's equivalent to the Oscar) here.

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 who were nominated.