Edgar Winners

And the Winners Are...

BEST NOVEL

California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Country of Origin by Don Lee (W.W. Norton & Company)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Confession by Domenic Stansberry (Hard Case Crime)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories edited by Leslie S. Klinger (W.W. Norton & Company)

BEST FACT CRIME

Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice by Leonard Levitt (Regan Books)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Something About a Scar" – Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You by Laurie Lynn Drummond (HarperCollins)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

In Darkness, Death by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler (Philomel Books)

BEST JUVENILE

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)

BEST PLAY

Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It) by Neal Bell (Playwrights Horizons)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

Law & Order: Criminal Intent – “Want”, Teleplay by Elizabeth Benjamin. Story by René Balcer & Elizabeth Benjamin

BEST TELEVISION FEATURE OR MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY

State of Play by Paul Abbott (BBC America)

BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY

A Very Long Engagement - Screenplay by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, based on the Novel by Sébastien Japrisot (2003 Productions)