Edgar Award 2008 - Vencedores

Dia 1 de maio foi divulgada a lista dos vencedores de um dos prêmios mais importantes da literatura policial do mundo, o Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularmente chamado de Edgars.

A premiação foi criada em 1954 pela Mystery Writers of America e desde então, todo ano são premiados não só os melhores livros de mistério, tanto ficção quanto não ficção, como também filmes, episódios de tv e etc..


As categorias presentes na premiação são:

* Best novel
* Best first novel by an American author
* Best paperback original
* Best critical / biographical
* Best fact crime
* Best short story
* Best young adult
* Best juvenile
* Best television episode teleplay
* Best motion picture screenplay
* Best play

Os indicados e vencedores(*) de 2008 para cada categoria são:

Best Novel Nominees

* Down River, John Hart
Christine Falls, Benjamin Black.
Priest, Ken Bruen.
The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Michael Chabon.
Soul Patch, Reed Farrel Coleman.


Best First Novel By An American Author

* In the Woods, Tana French.
Missing Witness, Gordon Campbell.
Snitch Jacket, Christopher Goffard.
Head Games, Craig McDonald.
Pyres, Derek Nikitas.


Best Paperback Original

* Queenpin, Megan Abbott.
Blood of Paradise, David Corbett.
Cruel Poetry, Vicki Hendricks.
Robbie's Wife, Russell Hill.
Who is Conrad Hirst?, Kevin Wignall.


Best Critical/Biographical

* Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley.
The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction, Patrick Anderson.
A Counter-History of Crime Fiction: Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational, Maurizio Ascari
Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction, Christiana Gregoriou.
Chester Gould: A Daughter's Biography of the Creator of Dick Tracy, Jean Gould O'Connell.


Best Fact Crime

* Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Vincent Bugliosi.
The Birthday Party by Stanley Alpert.
Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit, Kerry Max Cook.
Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit, Kevin Flynn.
Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind, Bruce Watson.


Best Short Story

* "The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir, Susan Straight.
"The Catch" - Still Waters, Mark Ammons.
"Blue Note" - Chicago Blues, Stuart M. Kaminsky.
"Hardly Knew Her" - Dead Man's Hand, Laura Lippman.
"Uncle" - A Hell of a Woman, Daniel Woodrell.


Best Young Adult

* Rat Life, Tedd Arnold.
Diamonds in the Shadow, Caroline B. Cooney.
Touching Snow, M. Sindy Felin.
Blood Brothers, S.A. Harazin.
Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston.


Best Juvenile

* The Night Tourist, Katherine Marsh.
The Name of This Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch.
Shadows on Society Hill, Evelyn Coleman.
Deep and Dark and Dangerous, Mary Downing Hahn.
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things, Wendelin Van Draanen.


Best Play

* Panic, Joseph Goodrich (International Mystery Writers' Festival).
If/Then, David Foley (International Mystery Writers' Festival).
Books, Stuart M. Kaminsky (International Mystery Writers' Festival).


Best Television Episode Teleplay

* "Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay, Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios).
"It's Alive" - Dexter, Teleplay, Daniel Cerone (Showtime).
"Yahrzeit" - Waking the Dead, Teleplay, Declan Croghan (BBC America).
"Pie-Lette" - Pushing Daisies, Teleplay, Bryan Fuller (ABC/Warner Bros Television.
"Senseless" - Law & Order, Teleplay, Julie Martin & Siobhan Byrne O'Connor (Wolf Films/NBC Universal).


Best Motion Picture Screen Play

* Michael Clayton, Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros. Pictures).
Eastern Promises, Screenplay by Steven Knight (Focus Features).
The Lookout, Screenplay by Scott Frank (Miramax).
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).


Boas leituras