The Mystery Writers of America has announced the 2007 Edgar Allan Poe
Award nominees, "honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction,
television and film published or produced in 2006." The Edgar Awards
will be presented at a banquet on April 26 in New York City.

Nominees in the best juvenile category are:
Gilda Joyce: The Ladies of the Lake by Jennifer Allison
(Penguin-Sleuth/Dutton)
The Stolen Sapphire: A Samantha Mystery by Sarah Masters Buckey
(American Girl)
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster)
The Bloodwater Mysteries: Snatched by Pete Hautman & Mary Logue
(Penguin-Sleuth/Putnam)
The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery by Nancy
Springer (Penguin-Philomel/Sleuth).

Nominees in the best young adult category are:
The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks (Scholastic-The Chicken House
The Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson (Penguin YR-Sleuth/Viking)
Crunch Time by Mariah Fredericks (Simon & Schuster-Richard Jackson
Books/Atheneum)
Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Penguin YR-Dutton Children's Books)
The Night My Sister Went Missing by Carol Plum-Ucci (Harcourt).