The nominees for the 2012 Edgars have been announced.

The YA nominees are:

The Name of the Star, by Maureen Johnson:

Maureen Johnson does a great job of conveying the horror of the original (and the new) murders, while ALSO being understanding about peoples' fascination with them. The atmosphere around Rippermania is both bloodthirsty and fearful, which should be an oxymoron, but isn't: It's a combination that we've seen again and again, both portrayed in story (the Scream movies, for example) and played out in real life (the freaking nightly news). I'd like to say that her imagining of the Rippermania media blitz and commercialism bonanza was a brilliant satire on our desensitization to violence and so on, but... it actually felt too close to truthful to be entirely funny. Which, actually, might make it even more impressive, satire-wise.

The Girl is Murder, by Kathryn Miller Haines:

There are moments in The Girl is Murder that really shine—Iris’ description of the Harlem nightclub is a standout—and the character development is easily as engrossing as the plotting. In terms of straight prose, though, Judy Blundell’s writing is more capable of smoothly transporting the reader to another place and time.

The Silence of Murder, by Dandi Daley Mackall:

The Big Twist leapt out at me about 2/3s of the way in, so that reveal wasn't a shock for me, but I did like that it made the whole story even more of a tragedy than I'd expected it to be. (Why that pleased me, I don't know. Maybe because I don't run across Real Tragedy in murder mysteries all that often? Not counting, like, Scandinavian ones.) While the Twist wasn't a total surprise, I was surprised by the identity of the murderer, likewhoa.

Shelter, by Harlan Coben (I read this one, but never wrote about it—which is unfortunate, as I thought Coben did a great job. Ah, well. I guess I'll just have to re-read it so I can tell you why in detail...)
Amazon | Indiebound. 

Kill You Last, by Todd Strasser.
Amazon | Indiebound 

Are you rooting for any in particular? 

What about the other categories?