Not only have I not read any of these, I had not heard of them either. Have you read any What’s good
Edgar Winners
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam Dell Publishing – Delta Books)
BEST FACT CRIME
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson
(HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear
by E.J. Wagner (John Wiley & Sons)
BEST SHORT STORY
“The Home Front” – Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai
(Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
BEST JUVENILE
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Penguin YR – Dutton Children’s Books)
BEST PLAY
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz (Arizona Theatre Company)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Life on Mars – Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham (BBC America)
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY
The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William F. Zorzi (Home Box Office)
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan (Warner Bros. Pictures)
I haven’t read any of these either…heard of a couple…hope to see The Deaprted very soon. It’s supposed to be just about perfect.
Oh wait…I see that the Wire was a winner. The Wire is the BEST show on tv…if you like crime and urban drama…check it out on dvd. If even a fraction of their storylines and politics are true no wonder the world is crazy.
Nope… not heard of them. I think I am going to the bookstore this weekend so maybe I’ll see one of them and look a little closer.
Haven’t read any of the winning books. I’ll have to take the list to my mystery group and maybe it’ll help us with our selections for the rest of the year.
I haven’t read any of those either, Nancy, though I have read a few novels by some of the folk who contributed towards the scriptwriting of The Wire.
When do we get to see some pictures from your new camera? I’m eagerly waiting!
oops. I didn’t see yesterday’s post, Nancy. Nice bag for your camera!
The only one I’ve heard of is Lehane (love his books)–and I didn’t even know he wrote for TV. I guess I’ll have to put The Wire in my Netflix queue.
havent read any or heard of any of the forementioned books. Let us know if you read any good ones. BTW-beautiful sunset!
Besides the Wire, I have never heard of any of these either.