The Mystery Writers of America organization has announced the winners of the Edgar Awards for outstanding mystery books.

You can see the winners and nominees in all catagories here.

The winner of the Young Adult Award is:

The Interrogation of Gabriel James by Charlie Price

An eyewitness to two killings, 14-year-old Gabriel James relates the shocking story behind the murders in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks. Step by step, this Montana teenager traces the link between a troubled classmate’s disturbing home life and an outbreak of crime.

The nominees are:

The River by Mary Jane Beaufrand

Teenager Ronnie’s life is transformed by the murder of a ten-year-old neighbor for whom she babysat, and who had helped Ronnie adjust to living at a country inn on the banks of the Santiam River in Hoodoo, Oregon.

 

Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King

When her best friend, whom she secretly loves, betrays her and then dies under mysterious circumstances, high school senior Vera Dietz struggles with secrets that could help clear his name.

 

7 Souls by Barnabas Miller and Jordan Orlando

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

 

Dust City by Robert Paul Weston

Henry Whelp, son of the Big Bad Wolf, investigates what happened to the fairies that used to protect humans and animalia, and what role the corporation that manufactures synthetic fairy dust played in his father’s crime.