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Whoduzzn't love a good mystery? I know I do! This genre probably tops my list for preferred recreational reading.

The Mystery Writers of America recently announced the Edgar Awards for 2009, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2008. And the Edgar goes to . . .

BEST NOVEL

Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

China Lake by Meg Gardiner (New American Library - Obsidian Mysteries)

BEST FACT CRIME American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum (Crown Publishers)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Metro Books)

BEST SHORT STORY

“Skinhead Central” - The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker (Hachette Book Group - Little, Brown and Company)

BEST JUVENILE

The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin Young Readers Group - Dutton Children’s Books)

BEST PLAY

The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza (Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

“Prayer of the Bone” - Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (BBC America)

BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY

In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh (Focus Features)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

“Buckner’s Error” - Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli (Akashic Books)

GRAND MASTER

James Lee Burke

Sue Grafton

RAVEN AWARDS

Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland

Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

The Killer’s Wife by Bill Floyd (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Any of your favorites on the list?