the 2016 Edgar Nominations -- how many have you read?

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Here you go:


BEST NOVEL
The Strangler Vine by M.J. Carter
The Lady From Zagreb by Philip Kerr
Life or Death by Michael Robotham
Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
Canary by Duane Swierczynski
Night Life by David C. Taylor


BEST FIRST NOVEL
Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton
Where All Light Tends to Go by David Joy
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Unbecoming by Rebecca Scherm


BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter by Malcolm Mackay
What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan
Woman with a Blue Pencil by Gordon McAlpine
Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty
The Daughter by Jane Shemilt


BEST FACT CRIME
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian
Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him by T.J. English
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic by John Temple


BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue by Frederick Forsyth
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs and Tom Nolan
Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica by Matthew Parker
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward


BEST SHORT STORY
“The Little Men” – Mysterious Bookshop by Megan Abbott
“On Borrowed Time” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mat Coward
“The Saturday Night Before Easter Sunday” – Providence Noir by Peter Farrelly
“Family Treasures” – Let Me Tell You by Shirley Jackson
“Obits” – Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
“Every Seven Years”– Mysterious Bookshop by Denise Mina


BEST JUVENILE
Catch You Later, Traitor by Avi
If You Find This by Matthew Baker
Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver and H.C. Chester
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy by Susan Vaught

BEST YOUNG ADULT
Endangered by Lamar Giles
A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
The Sin Eater's Daughter by Melinda Salisbury
The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma
Ask the Dark by Henry Turner


BEST TV EPISODE/TELEPLAY
“Episode 7” – Broadchurch, Teleplay by Chris Chibnall
“Gently with the Women” – George Gently, Teleplay by Peter Flannery
“Elise – The Final Mystery” – Foyle's War, Teleplay by Anthony Horowitz
“Terra Incognita” – Person of Interest, Teleplay by Erik Mountain and Melissa Scrivner Love
“The Beating of her Wings” – Ripper Street by Richard Warlow

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

“Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick”–Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
by Russell W. Johnson

MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
A Woman Unknown by Frances Brody
The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins
Night Night, Sleep Tight by Hallie Ephron
The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson
Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I read The Sympathizer -- NOT a crime novel. Sheesh.

[Thomas]

I read Catch You Later, Traitor and am reading The Sympathizer
Some of the others are on my tbr list.

[Deborah]

I've read Luckiest Girl Alive (not particularly impressed) and am currently reading The Sympathizer. Yes, Nancy, I'm not sure why anyone would characterize The Sympathizer as "crime," although crimes certainly do occur in it.

[Jan C]

I'm reading The Golden Age of Murder. It goes well with a new group I'm in - Reading the Detectives - where we focus on the golden age of mystery writers. https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Jan C wrote: "I'm reading The Golden Age of Murder. It goes well with a new group I'm in - Reading the Detectives - where we focus on the golden age of mystery writers. https://www.goodreads.com/..."

I have that book and really want to read it, but it will be a while. If you want any recommendations for golden age writers, feel free to send a message. I have shelves and shelves filled with their books.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Deborah wrote: "I've read Luckiest Girl Alive (not particularly impressed) and am currently reading The Sympathizer. Yes, Nancy, I'm not sure why anyone would characterize The Sympathizer as "crime," although crim..."

I absolutely could not stand Luckiest Girl Alive. I have NO idea how it got on that list, unless it was because Reese Witherspoon endorsed it.

re The Sympathizer: it's a wonderful novel. I'm just not a person who thinks that just because a crime or two is committed in a novel that it needs to be labeled crime fiction. The same thing happened with J.M. Lee's The Investigation: a murder happens, it's investigated, but it's certainly not a crime fiction novel. Sometimes I think books can be mislabeled in someone's zeal to pigeonhole them.

[Natalie]

I tried to read Life or Death (twice) but I couldn't get into the story, which surprised me because (a) Michael Robotham is one of my all time favorite authors, and (b) everyone raves about this book - I'll have another go one day...

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

I used to read Michael Robotham, but I haven't in a very long time.

[Natalie]

His last one was terrific: Close Your Eyes

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Natalie wrote: "His last one was terrific: Close Your Eyes"

I can't even remember the last novel I read. I noticed that his books were starting to stack up on the shelves in my house and figured I'd never get to them, so I gave them away. That seems to happen a lot with me -- my tastes and interests change from time to time.