Midnight in Peking up for an Edgar

Apologies, a self promoting post I’m afraid. However, Midnight in Peking has been nominated for an Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award that “honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television, published or produced in 2012.” Apparently it’s the 204th anniversary of the birth of Poe this year – I have no idea if 204 is auspicious or not.

I’ve been nominated in the rather oddly titled ‘Best Fact Crime’ category…and here’s the competition:

BEST FACT CRIME 2012

Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French (Penguin Group USA – Penguin Books)
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)
More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers’ Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered by D.P. Lyle, MD (Medallion Press)
Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre (Crown Publishers)
The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo – and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up by Richard Lloyd Parry (Farrar Straus & Giroux Originals)

They’re announced on May 2nd so we’ll see if a trophy is forthcoming – if not prepare for one of those “it was great simply to be nominated” blog posts

You can see all the categories and nominees here