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The MWA 2005 Edgar Winners
in Red!!
Congratulations to all of the nominees for this year's Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2004.  For additional categories and more information, visit MWA at http://www.mysterywriters.org

**BEST NOVEL**

• Evan's Gate by Rhys Bowen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
• Remembering Sarah by Chris Mooney (Atria Books)
• California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)
• Out of the Deep I Cry by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)
   

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas (Hard Case Crime)
• Relative Danger by Charles Benoit(Poisoned Pen Press)
• Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan (Delacorte Press)
• Tonight I Said Goodbye by Michael Koryta (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Country of Origin by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Bahamarama by Bob Morris (St. Martin's Minotaur)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• The Librarian by Larry Beinhart (Nation Books)
• Into the Web by Thomas H. Cook (Bantam)
• Dead Men Rise Up Never by Ron Faust (Dell)
• Twelve-Step Fandango by Chris Haslam (Dark Alley)
• The Confession by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)

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