Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2004, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television and film published or produced in 2003. The Edgar Awards were presented at their 58th Gala Banquet, April 29, 2004 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York city.

Best First Novel by an American Author:

Winner:

• Death of a Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel

Nominees:

• 12 Bliss Street by Martha Conway
• Offer of Proof by Robert Heilbrun
• Night of the Dance by James Hime
• The Bridge of Sighs by Olen Steinhauer
  

Best Paperback Original:

Winner:

• Find Me Again by Sylvia Maultash Warsh

Nominees:

• Cut and Run by Jeff Abbott
• Wisdom of the Bones by Christopher Hyde
• The Last Witness by Joel Goldman

• Song of the Bones by M.K. Preston(December 2003)

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