The 2010 Edgar Award Winners

Best novel: The Odds by Kathleen George (Minotaur)
Best first novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur)
Best paperback original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press/Castle Street Mysteries)
Best critical/biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler (Little, Brown)
Best fact crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen (Twelve)
Best short story: "Amapola" by Luis Alberto Urrea in Phoenix Noir (Akashic)
Best young adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperTeen)
Best juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Books)
Best TV episode teleplay: "Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Dreadful Day" by Dan Warthman in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
S&S/Mary Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur)
Grand Master: Dorothy Gilman
Raven Award: Mystery Writers' Festival
Ellery Queen Award: Poisoned Pen Press (Barbara Peters & Robert Rosenwald)