News and Notes
We are officially in the month of May, which is Mystery Month, but we want to update our readers on a few book awards announced last month.
2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Winners of the Agatha Awards are selected by members of Malice Domestic. These novels are “traditional mysteries,” similar in nature to novels written by Agatha Christie.
(View all Agatha Award nominees and winners)
Agatha winners available at the library:
Best Historical Novel
Dreaming Spies by Laurie King
Best Nonfiction
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
The Edgar Awards were announced by the Mystery Writers of America on April 28, 2016.
(View all Edgar Award Nominees)
Edgar winners available at the library:
Best Novel
Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
Best First Novel By An American Author
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Best Paperback Original
The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
Best Fact Crime
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
by Allen Kurzweil
Best Critical/Biographical
The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards