2012 Edgar Award Nominees Announced

January 19, 2012

Via Publishers Weekly: "Mystery Writers of America has announced the nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allen Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction and non-fiction. The winners will be announced at a gala banquet on April 26 in New York."

Best Juvenile: Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger (Abrams – Amulet Books); It Happened on a Train by Mac Barnett (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers); Vanished by Sheela Chari (Disney Book Group – Disney Hyperion); Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press); The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (Egmont USA).

Best Young Adult: Shelter by Harlan Coben (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons); The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson (Penguin Young Readers Group – G.P. Putnam’s Sons); The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall (Random House Children’s Books – Knopf BFYR); The Girl is Murder by Kathryn Miller Haines (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group – Roaring Creek Press); Kill You Last by Todd Strasser (Egmont USA).