The Edgar Allan Poe Awards 1999
The Edgar Allan Poe awards (the "Edgars") are awarded by the Mystery Writers of America to authors of distinguished work in various categories of the mystery genre.  The following list is of print literature only.  The awards for television, motion pictures, and plays have been omitted.
Best Novel:
MR. WHITE'S CONFESSION, by Robert Clark

Nominated:
BLOOD WORK, by Michael Connelly (Little Brown)
BEYOND RECALL, by Robert Goddard (Henry Holt)
THE LAST DAYS OF IL DUCE, by Domenic Stansberry (Permanent Press)
A LIKENESS IN STONE, by J. Wallis Martin (St. Martin's Press)

Best First Novel:
A COLD DAY IN PARADISE, by Steve Hamilton (St. Martin's Press)

   Nominated:
   RECKLESS HOMICIDE, by Ira Genberg (St. Martin's Press)
   NUMBERED ACCOUNT, by Christopher Reich (Delacorte)
   NICE, by Jen Sacks (St. Martin's Press)
   A CRIMINAL APPEAL, by D.R. Schanker (St. Martin's Press)

Best Paperback Original:
THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP, by Rick Riordan (Bantam Books)

    Nominated:
    ATLANTA GRAVES, by Ruth Birmingham (Berkley Prime Crime)
    BUTCHER'S HILL, by Laura Lippman (Avon Books)
    ZEN ATTITUDE, by Sujata Massey (HarperPaperbacks)
    MURDER MANUAL, by Steven Womack (Ballantine Books)

Best Fact Crime:
THE DEATH OF INNOCENTS: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER, MEDICINE AND HIGH-STAKES RESEARCH, by Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan

    Nominated:
    OUR GUYS: THE GLEN RIDGE RAPE AND THE SECRET LIFE OF THE PERFECT SUBURB, by Bernard Lefowitz (University of California Press)
    THE NAPOLEAN OF CRIME: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ADAM WORTH, MASTER THIEF, by Ben MacIntyre (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
    BITTER HARVEST: A WOMAN'S FURY, A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE, by Ann Rule (Simon & Schuster)
    MAY GOD HAVE MERCY: A TRUE STORY OF CRIME & PUNISHMENT, by John C. Tucker (Norton)

Best Critical or Biographical Work:
MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE WRITERS: THE LITERATURE OF CRIME, DETECTION, AND ESPIONAGE, Edited by Robin Winks and Associate Editor Maureen Corrigan (Scribners)

    Nominated:
    THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS IN THE WORK OF DOROTHY SAYERS, by Janice Brown (Kent State University Press)
    CORDIALLY YOURS, BROTHER CADFAEL, by Anne Kaler (Bowling Green University Press)
    DARK CITY: THE LOST WORLD OF FILM NOIR, by Eddie Muller (St. Martin's Press)
    MIDNIGHT DREARY: THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by John Walsh (Rutgers University Press)

Best Short Story: "Poachers", by Tom Franklin (in The Texas Review, Fall-Winter, 1998).

    Nominated:
    "For Jeff", by Perry Michael Smith (in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Feb '98)
    "Looking for David", by Lawrence Block (in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Feb '98)
    "Sacrifice", by  L.L. Thrasher (in Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Summer/Fall '98)
    "The Halfway Woman", by Clark Howard (in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Feb '98)

Best Young Adult:
THE KILLER’S COUSIN, by Nancy Werlin (Delacorte Press)

    Nominated:
    FINN, by Katharine Jay Bacon (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster)
    THE MAZE, by Will Hobbs (Morrow Junior Books)
    PAPERQUAKE, by Kathryn Reiss (Harcourt Brace & Company)
    FOR MIKE, by Shelley Sykes (Delacorte Press)

Best Juvenile:
SAMMY KEYES AND THE HOTEL THIEF, by Wendelin Van Draanen (Knopf)

    Nominated:
    THE KIDNAPPERS, by Willo Davis Roberts (Atheneum)
    ALICE ROSE & SAM, by Kathryn Lasky (Hyperion)
    THE WRECKERS, by Iain Lawrence (Delacorte Press)
    HOLES, by Louis Sacher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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