Divulgadas as indicações para o prêmio Edgar Awards 2019

A Mystery Writers of America divulgou nesta terça, 22, a lista de indicados para o Edgar Awards 2019. A maioria dos livros ainda não foi publicado no Brasil. As exceções ficam por conta de Eu terei dormido na escuridão, de Michelle McNamara (Editora Vestígio) e Canção de Ninar, de Leila Slimani (Editora Tusquets).

Um dos principais prêmios da literatura policial, de suspense e mistério nos Estados Unidos, ele será entregue dia 25 de abril de 2019, no Grand Hyatt Hotel, em Nova York.

 

Confira os indicados

 

MELHOR ROMANCE

The Liar’s Girl, Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone Publishing)
House Witness, Mike Lawson (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
A Gambler’s Jury, Victor Methos (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland)
Only to Sleep, Lawrence Osborne (Penguin Random House – Hogarth)
A Treacherous Curse, Deanna Raybourn (Penguin Random House – Berkley)

 

MELHOR ROMANCE DE ESTREIA DE UM AUTOR NORTE-AMERICANO

A Knife in the Fog, Bradley Harper (Seventh Street Books)
The Captives, Debra Jo Immergut (HarperCollins Publishers – Ecco)
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy, Nova Jacobs (Simon & Schuster – Touchstone)
Bearskin, James A. McLaughlin (HarperCollins Publishers – Ecco)
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

 

MELHOR ORIGINAL EM PAPERBACK

If I Die Tonight, Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Hiroshima Boy, Naomi Hirahara (Prospect Park Books)
Under a Dark Sky, Lori Rader-Day (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
The Perfect Nanny, Leila Slimani (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)
Under My Skin, Lisa Unger (Harlequin – Park Row Books)

 

MELHOR TEXTO SOBRE UM CRIME REAL

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, Robert W. Fieseler (W.W. Norton & Company – Liveright)
Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal, Jonathan Green (W.W. Norton & Company)
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure, Carl Hoffman (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, Kirk Wallace Johnson (Penguin Random House – Viking)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, Michelle McNamara (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia, Alex Perry (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

 

MELHOR CRÍTICA/BIOGRAFIA

The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction, Laird R. Blackwell (McFarland Publishing)
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession, Alice Bolin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus Books)
Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father?, Yasuhiro Takeuchi (Taylor & Francis – Routledge)
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life, Laura Thompson (Pegasus Books)

 

MELHOR CONTO

“Rabid – A Mike Bowditch Short Story”, Paul Doiron (Minotaur Books)
“Paranoid Enough for Two” – The Honorable Traitors, John Lutz (Kensington Publishing)
“Ancient and Modern” – Bloody Scotland, Val McDermid (Pegasus Books)
“English 398: Fiction Workshop” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Art Taylor (Dell Magazines)
“The Sleep Tight Motel” – Dark Corners Collection, Lisa Unger (Amazon Publishing)

 

MELHOR LIVRO JUVENIL

Denis Ever After, Tony Abbott (HarperCollins Children’s Books – Katherine Tegen Books)
Zap!, Martha Freeman (Simon & Schuster – Paula Wiseman Books)
Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective, A.B. Greenfield (Holiday House)
Winterhouse,Ben Guterson (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Company – Henry Holt BFYR)
Otherwood, Pete Hautman (Candlewick Press)
Charlie & Frog: A Mystery, Karen Kane (Disney Publishing Worldwide – Disney Hyperion)
Zora & Me: The Cursed Ground, T.R. Simon (Candlewick Press)

 

MELHOR LIVRO JOVEM-ADULTO

Contagion, Erin Bowman (HarperCollins Children’s Books – HarperCollins)
Blink, Sasha Dawn (Lerner Publishing Group – Carolrhoda Lab)
After the Fire, Will Hill (Sourcebooks – Sourcebooks Fire)
A Room Away From the Wolves, Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin Young Readers)
Sadie, Courtney Summers (Wednesday Books)

 

MELHOR ROTEIRO DE EPISÓDIO DE TV

“The Box” – Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Teleplay, Luke Del Tredici (NBC/Universal TV)
“Season 2, Episode 1” – Jack Irish, Teleplay, Andrew Knight (Acorn TV)
“Episode 1” – Mystery Road, Teleplay, Michaeley O’Brien (Acorn TV)
“My Aim is True” – Blue Bloods, Teleplay, Kevin Wade (CBS Eye Productions)
“The One That Holds Everything” – The Romanoffs, Teleplay, Matthew Weiner & Donald Joh (Amazon Prime Video)

 

PRÊMIO ROBERTO L. FISH

“How Does He Die This Time?” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nancy Novick (Dell Magazines)

 

PRÊMIO SIMON & SCHUSTER-MARY HIGGINS CLARK

A Death of No Importance, Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur Books)
A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder, Dianne Freeman (Kensington Publishing)
Bone on Bone, Julia Keller (Minotaur Books)
The Widows of Malabar Hill, Sujata Massey (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
A Borrowing of Bones, Paula Munier (Minotaur Books)