Member Lori Rader-Day wins Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award

Announced last night at the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar® Awards, SMFS member Lori Rader-Day won the Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award for her novel Little Pretty Things:



The winner is selected by a Special MWA Committee for the book most closely written in the Mary Higgins Clark Tradition according to guidelines set forth by Mary Higgins Clark:

• The protagonist is a nice young woman whose life is suddenly invaded.
• She’s self-made and independent, with primarily good family relationships.
• She has an interesting job.
• She is not looking for trouble–she is doing exactly what she should be doing and something cuts across her bow.
• She solves her problem by her own courage and intelligence.
• The story has no on-scene violence
• The story has no strong profanity or explicit sex scenes.

Edgar® statuettes

Short story news from the Edgars®:

• Stephen King won Best Short Story for "Obits", appearing in Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Simon & Schuster - Scribner):
  
  


• Russell W. Johnson won the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for "Chung Ling Soo’s Greatest Trick", appearing in the January 2016 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine:
  
  
  
  The winner is selected by the Best Short Story committee for the best published mystery short story by a previously unpublished American author.

Congratulations to all.