Gone for Best Novel

The Mystery Writers of America chose their winners for this years Edgars in Apirl. I think they had especially tough choices this year since so many of the nominees were excellent. Take a look at some of their picks.

Best Novel (winners starred in red)
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
Gone by Mo Hayder***
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
1222 by Anne Holt (reviewed by me here)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr 

Best First Novel 
Red on Red by Edward Conlon
Last to Fold by David Duffy
All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen
Bent Road by Lori Roy***
Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder 

Best Paperback Original
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett***
The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle
The Dog Sox by Russell Hill
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis 

The other categories can be seen here. I've read a few of these - was hoping Anne Holt's 1222 would win - and will be adding the others to my holds' list. What do you think? Did they get them right?