The Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners of the 2001 Edgar Awards for crime fiction, America’s most prestigious awards in the genre.
The winners were: Best Novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Deepa Anappara; Best First Novel by an American Author, Please See Us, Caitlin Mullen; Best Paperback Original, When No One is Watching, Alyssa Cole; Best Fact Crime, Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic, Eric Eyre; Best Critical/Biographical, Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, Christina Lane; Best Short Story, Dust, Ash, Flight, Maaza Mengiste (Addis Ababa Noir); Best Juvenile, Premeditated Myrtle, Elizabeth C Bunce; Best YA, The Companion, Katie Alender.
Other awards given included the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins…
