The 2009 Edgar Awards, which are given to the best mystery and crime stories of the year, were presented last night in New York. Here were the winners in the main book categories
Best Novel:
Blue Heaven by C.J. Box
Best First Novel by an American Author:
The Foreigner by Francie Lin
Best Paperback Original
China Lake by Meg Gardiner
You can see the rest of the winners and the nominees at the Edgar's Website
I'm happy to see Meg Gardiner picking up an award here, I've read two of her books, China Lake and Crosscut, and both of them were quite good. She's an American ex-pat living in England who has published a number of books in the UK but only "recently" got American distro when Stephen King read one of her galleys and plugged her as a crime prodigy in his Entertainment Weekly column. (By recently I mean about a year and a half ago).
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