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Tana French, whose second novel is due with Hodder in August, has one an Edgar Allan Poe Award for her début In the Woods.
Organised by the Mystery Writers of America organisation, the awards honour the best in mystery fiction, non-fition, television and film, and French, who has lived in Dublin since 1990, took the Best First Novel by an American Author.
The other winners were (with their US publishers):
BEST NOVEL
Down River by John Hart (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
BEST FACT CRIME
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi (W.W. Norton and Company)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley (The Penguin Press)
BEST SHORT STORY
"The Golden Gopher" - Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight (Akashic Books)
BEST JUVENILE
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin - Dial Books for Young Readers)
BEST PLAY Panic by Joseph Goodrich
(International Mystery Writers' Festival)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
"Pilot" - Burn Notice, Teleplay by Matt Nix (USA Network/Fox Television Studios)
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY
"Michael Clayton", Screenplay by Tony Gilroy (Warner Bros)
ROBERT L FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
"The Catch" - Still Waters by Mark Ammons (Level Best Books)