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2008 Edgar® Nominees

 •  Novel  •  First Novel  •  Paperback Original  •  Critical/Biographical  •  Fact Crime  •  Short Story
 •  Young Adult  •  Juvenile  •  Play  •  TV Episode  •  Motion Picture
 •  Robert L. Fish Memorial •  Mary Higgins Clark  •  Grand Master  •  Raven


Best Fact Crime

Best Fact Crime

  • The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  • Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company
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  • Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit by Kerry Max Cook (HarperCollins - William Morrow)
  • Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit by Kevin Flynn (Penguin Group - G.P. Putnam's Sons)
  • Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson (Penguin Group - Viking)
Best Short Story

Best Short Story

  • "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)
  • "Blue Note" - Chicago Blues by Stuart M. Kaminsky (Bleak House Books)
  • "Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand by Laura Lippman (Harcourt Trade Publishers)
  • "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books
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  • "Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman by Daniel Woodrell (Busted Flush Press)
Best Young Adult

Best Young Adult

  • Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)
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  • Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
  • Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
  • Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Random House Children's Books - Delacorte Press)
  • Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing - Simon Pulse)
Best Juvenile

Best Juvenile

  • The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
  • Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
  • The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
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  • Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children's Books - Alfred A. Knopf)

Best Play

  • If/Then by David Foley (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
  • Panic by Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
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  • Books by Stuart M. Kaminsky (International Mystery Writers' Festival)
best TV episode teleplay

Best Television Episode Teleplay

  • "It's Alive" - Dexter, Teleplay by Daniel Cerone (Showtime)
  • "Yahrzeit" - Waking the Dead, Teleplay by Declan Croghan (BBC America)
  • "Pie-Lette" - Pushing Daisies, Teleplay by Bryan Fuller (ABC/Warner Bros Television
  • "Senseless" - Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Story by Warren Leight & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor, Teleplay by Julie Martin & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (Wolf Films/NBC Universal)
  • "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)
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best motion picture screen play

Best Motion Picture Screen Play

  • Eastern Promises, Screenplay by Steven Knight (Focus Features)
  • The Lookout, Screenplay by Scott Frank (Miramax)
  • Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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  • No Country for Old Men, Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, based on the book by Cormac McCarthy (Miramax)
  • Zodiac, Screenplay by James Vanderbilt, based on the book by Robert Graysmith (Warner Bros. Pictures)


Robert L. Fish Memorial Award

  • "The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)


The Simon & Schuster -
Mary Higgins Clark Award

  • In Cold Pursuit by Sarah Andrews (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  • Wild Indigo by Sandi Ault (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
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  • Inferno by Karen Harper (Harlequin - MIRA Books)
  • The First Stone by Judith Kelman (Penguin Group - Berkley Prime Crime)
  • Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella (St. Martin's Minotaur)