Edgar Awards

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, popularly called the Edgars, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), a pioneer in the genre, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

Categories

Current:

• Best Novel (since 1954)
• Best First Novel by an American author (since 1946)
• Best Paperback Original (since 1970)
• Best Short Story (since 1951)
• Best Fact Crime (since 1948)
• Best Critical/Biographical Work (since 1977)
• Best Young Adult (since 1989)
• Best Juvenile (since 1961)
• Best Episode in a TV Series (since 1952)
• Raven Award (since 1953) for "outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside of the realm of creative writing."
• Ellery Queen Award (since 1983) "to honor outstanding writing teams and outstanding people in the mystery-publishing industry."
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for first mystery short story (since 1984)
• Mary Higgins Clark Award (since 2001)
• Sue Grafton Memorial Award (since 2019) "honoring the best novel in a series featuring a female protagonist."
• Grand Master Award (since 1955)

Discontinued:

• Best TV feature or miniseries (1972–2007)
• Best play (since 1950, irregular)
• Best motion picture screenplay (1946–2009)
• Best radio drama (1946–1960)
• Best foreign film (1949–1966)
• Best book jacket (1955–1975)
• Outstanding mystery criticism (1946–1967)
• Special Award (since 1949, irregular)

Best Novel award winners

Winners and, where known, shortlisted titles for each year:

1950s

Year	Author	Nominated Work	Result	Ref
1954	Charlotte Jay	Beat Not the Bones	Won
1955	Raymond Chandler	The Long Goodbye	Won
1956	Margaret Millar	Beast in View	Won
	The Gordons	The Case of the Talking Bug	Nominated
	Patricia Highsmith	The Talented Mr. Ripley
1957	Charlotte Armstrong	A Dram of Poison	Won
	Margot Bennett	The Man Who Didn't Fly	Nominated
	Charles Samuels and Louise Samuels	Night Fell on Georgia
1958	Ed Lacy	Room to Swing	Won
	Bill Ballinger	The Longest Second	Nominated
	Marjorie Carleton	The Night of the Good Children
	Arthur Upfield	The Bushman Who Came Back
1959	Stanley Ellin	The Eighth Circle	Won
	David Alexander	The Madhouse in Washington Square	Nominated
	Lee Blackstock	The Woman in the Woods (Miss Fenny as Charity Blackstock)
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis	A Gentleman Called

1960s

Year	Author	Nominated Work	Result	Ref
1960	Celia Fremlin	The Hours Before Dawn	Won
	Philip MacDonald	The List of Adrian Messenger	Nominated
1961	Julian Symons	The Progress of a Crime	Won
	Herbert Brean	The Traces of Brillhart	Nominated
	Peter Curtis	The Devil's Own
	Geoffrey Household	Watcher in the Shadows
1962	J. J. Marric	Gideon's Fire	Won
	Anne Blaisdell	Nightmare	Nominated
	Suzanne Blanc	The Green Stone
	Lionel Davidson	The Night of Wenceslas
	Ross Macdonald	The Wycherly Woman
1963	Ellis Peters	Death and the Joyful Woman	Won
	Ross Macdonald	The Zebra-Striped Hearse	Nominated
	Mark McShane	Seance
	Jean Potts	The Evil Wish
	Dell Shannon	Knave of Hearts
	Shelley Smith	The Ballad of the Running Man
1964	Eric Ambler	The Light of Day	Won
	Elizabeth Fenwick	The Make-Believe Man
	Stanton Forbes	Grieve for the Past	Nominated
	Dorothy B. Hughes	The Expendable Man
	Ellery Queen	The Player on the Other Side
1965	John le Carré	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	Won
	Hans Hellmut Kirst	The Night of the Generals
	Margaret Millar	The Fiend	Nominated
	Mary Stewart	This Rough Magic
1966	Adam Hall	The Quiller Memorandum	Won
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis	The Pale Betrayer	Nominated
	Len Deighton	Funeral in Berlin
	H. R. F. Keating	The Perfect Murder
	Ross Macdonald	The Far Side of the Dollar
	Mary Stewart	Airs Above the Ground
1967	Nicolas Freeling	King of the Rainy Country	Won
	Dick Francis	Odds Against	Nominated
	Ngaio Marsh	Killer Dolphin
	Donald E. Westlake	The Busy Body
1968	Donald E. Westlake	God Save the Mark	Won
	Charlotte Armstrong	The Gift Shop	Nominated
	Charlotte Armstrong	Lemon in the Basket
	George Baxt	A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures
	Dick Francis	Flying Finish
	Ira Levin	Rosemary's Baby
	Victoria Lincoln	A Private Disgrace
1969	Michael Crichton	A Case of Need	Won
	Heron Carvic	Picture Miss Seeton	Nominated
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross	God Speed the Night
	Peter Dickinson	A Glass-Sided Ants' Nest
	Stanley Ellin	The Valentine Estate
	Dick Francis	Blood Sport

1970s

Year	Author	Nominated Work	Result	Ref
1970	Dick Francis	Forfeit	Won
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis	Where the Dark Streets Go	Nominated
	Peter Dickinson	The Old English Peep Show
	Shaun Herron	Miro
	Chester Himes	Blind Man with a Pistol
	Emma Lathen	When in Greece
1971	Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö	The Laughing Policeman	Won
	Shaun Herron	The Hound and the Fox and the Harper	Nominated
	Margaret Millar	Beyond this Point Are Monsters
	Patricia Moyes	Many Deadly Returns
	Pat Stadley	Autumn of a Hunter
	Donald E. Westlake	The Hot Rock
1972	Frederick Forsyth	The Day of the Jackal	Won
	G. F. Newman	Sir, You Bastard	Nominated
	Tony Hillerman	The Fly on the Wall
	P. D. James	Shroud for a Nightingale
	Arthur Wise	Who Killed Enoch Powell?
1973	Warren Kiefer	The Lingala Code	Won
	John Ball	Five Pieces of Jade	Nominated
	Ngaio Marsh	Tied Up in Tinsel
	Hugh C. Rae	The Shooting Gallery
	Martin Cruz Smith	Canto for a Gypsy
1974	Tony Hillerman	Dance Hall of the Dead	Won
	Victor Canning	The Rainbird Pattern	Nominated
	Francis Clifford	Amigo, Amigo
	P. D. James	An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
	Jean Stubbs	Dear Laura
1975	Jon Cleary	Peter's Pence	Won
	Malcolm Bosse	The Man Who Loved Zoos	Nominated
	Francis Clifford	Goodbye and Amen
	Paul Erdman	The Silver Bears
	Andrew Garve	The Lester Affair
1976	Brian Garfield	Hopscotch	Won
	Marvin Albert	The Gargoyle Conspiracy	Nominated
	Maggie Rennert	Operation Alcestic
	Gerald Seymour	Harry's Game
	Ross Thomas	The Money Harvest
1977	Robert B. Parker	Promised Land	Won
	Thomas Gifford	The Cavanaugh Quest	Nominated
	Richard Neely	A Madness of the Heart
	Gerald Seymour	The Glory Boys
	Trevanian	The Main
1978	William H. Hallahan	Catch Me: Kill Me	Won
	William McIlvanney	Laidlaw	Nominated
	Martin Cruz Smith	Nightwing
1979	Ken Follett	Eye of the Needle	Won
	John Godey	The Snake	Nominated
	Tony Hillerman	Listening Woman
	Ruth Rendell	A Sleeping Life
	Jack S. Scott	The Shallow Grave

1980s

1980 Arthur Maling, The Rheingold Route

• C. P. Snow, A Coat of Varnish
• Robert Barnard, Death of a Mystery Writer
• Frank Parrish, Fire in the Barley
• Ruth Rendell, Make Death Love Me

1981 Dick Francis, Whip Hand

• B. M. Gill, Death Drop
• Robert Barnard, Death of a Literary Widow
• A. J. Quinnell, Man on Fire
• Reginald Hill, The Spy's Wife

1982 William Bayer, Peregrine

• Patrick McGinley, Bogmail
• Robert Barnard, Death in a Cold Climate
• Liza Cody, Dupe
• Robert Littell, The Amateur
• Ted Allbeury, The Other Side of Silence

1983 Rick Boyer, Billingsgate Shoal

• Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die
• Donald E. Westlake, Kahawa
• Elmore Leonard, Split Images
• Seymour Shubin, The Captain

1984 Elmore Leonard, La Brava

• Christopher Leach, Texas Station
• John Le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl
• Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
• William McIlvanney, The Papers of Tony Veitch

1985 Ross Thomas, Briarpatch

• William Pearson, Chessplayer
• Jane Langton, Emily Dickinson Is Dead
• Michael Gilbert, The Black Seraphim
• B. M. Gill, The Twelfth Juror

1986 L. R. Wright, The Suspect

• Simon Brett, A Shock to the System
• Ruth Rendell, An Unkindness of Ravens
• Paul Auster, City of Glass: The New York Trilogy, Part 1
• Ruth Rendell, The Tree of Hands

1987 Barbara Vine, A Dark-Adapted Eye

• P. D. James, A Taste for Death
• Joe Gores, Come Morning
• Brian Freemantle, The Blind Run (originally published in the United Kingdom as Charlie Muffin and Russia Rose)
• Roger L. Simon, The Straight Man

1988 Aaron Elkins, Old Bones

• Linda Barnes, A Trouble of Fools
• B. M. Gill, Nursery Crimes
• Peter Lovesey, Rough Cider
• Charlotte MacLeod, The Corpse in Oozak's Pond

1989 Stuart M. Kaminsky, A Cold Red Sunrise

• Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time
• David L. Lindsey, In the Lake of the Moon
• K. C. Constantine, Joey's Case
• Thomas H. Cook, Sacrificial Ground

1990s

1990 James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues

1991 Julie Smith, New Orleans Mourning

1992 Lawrence Block, A Dance at the Slaughterhouse

1993 Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter

1994 Minette Walters, The Sculptress

1995 Mary Willis Walker, The Red Scream

1996 Dick Francis, Come to Grief

1997 Thomas H. Cook, The Chatham School Affair

1998 James Lee Burke, Cimarron Rose

1999 Robert Clark, Mr. White's Confession

2000s

Year	Author	Nominated Work	Result	Ref
2000	Jan Burke	Bones	Won
	Rennie Airth	River of Darkness	Nominated
	Robert Crais	L.A. Requiem
	Stephen Greenleaf	Strawberry Sunday
	Peter Robinson	In a Dry Season
2001	Joe R. Lansdale	The Bottoms	Won
	Val McDermid	A Place of Execution	Nominated
	T. Jefferson Parker	Red Light
	Nancy Pickard	The Whole Truth
	Kristine Kathryn Rusch	A Dangerous Road
2002	T. Jefferson Parker	Silent Joe	Won
	D.W. Buffa	The Judgment	Nominated
	Harlan Coben	Tell No One
	Evan Hunter	Money, Money, Money
	S. J. Rozan	Reflecting the Sky
2003	S. J. Rozan	Winter and Night	Won
	Mary Kay Andrews	Savannah Blues	Nominated
	James Lee Burke	Jolie Blon's Bounce
	Michael Connelly	City of Bones
	Manda Scott	No Good Deed
2004	Ian Rankin	Resurrection Men	Won
	Ken Bruen	The Guards	Nominated
	Michael Connelly	Lost Light
	Natsuo Kirino	Out
	Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs
2005	T. Jefferson Parker	California Girl	Won
	Laura Lippman	By a Spider's Thread	Nominated
	Chris Mooney	Remembering Sarah
	Janet Quin-Harkin	Evan's Gate
	Julia Spencer-Fleming	Out of the Deep I Cry
2006	Jess Walter	Citizen Vince	Won
	Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer	Nominated
	Thomas H. Cook	Red Leaves
	Tess Gerritsen	Vanish
	George Pelecanos	Drama City
2007	Jason Goodwin	The Janissary Tree	Won
	Louis Bayard	The Pale Blue Eye	Nominated
	Joanne Harris	Gentlemen & Players
	Denise Mina	The Dead Hour: Time Only Matters When It's Running Out
	Nancy Pickard	The Virgin of Small Plains
	Olen Steinhauer	Liberation Movements
2008	John Hart	Down River	Won
	John Banville	Christine Falls	Nominated
	Ken Bruen	Priest
	Michael Chabon	The Yiddish Policemen's Union
	Reed Coleman	Soul Patch
2009	C. J. Box	Blue Heaven	Won
	Karin Alvtegen	Missing	Nominated
	Robert Ferrigno	Sins of the Assassin
	Declan Hughes	The Price of Blood
	Morag Joss	The Night Following
	Lisa Lutz	Curse of the Spellmans

2010s

Year	Author	Nominated Work	Result	Ref
2010	John Hart	The Last Child	Won
	Tim Gautreaux	The Missing	Nominated
	Kathleen George	The Odds
	Charlie Huston	The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
	Jo Nesbø	Nemesis
	Malla Nunn	A Beautiful Place to Die
2011	Steve Hamilton	The Lock Artist	Won
	Harlan Coben	Caught	Nominated
	Tom Franklin	Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
	Tana French	Faithful Place
	Timothy Hallinan	The Queen of Patpong
	Laura Lippman	I'd Know You Anywhere
2012	Mo Hayder	Gone	Won
	Ace Atkins	The Ranger	Nominated
	Keigo Higashino	The Devotion of Suspect X
	Anne Holt	1222
	Philip Kerr	Field Gray
2013	Dennis Lehane	Live by Night	Won
	Ace Atkins	The Lost Ones	Nominated
	Lyndsay Fay	The Gods of Gotham
	Gillian Flynn	Gone Girl
	Jesse Kellerman	Potboiler
	Al Lamanda	Sunset
	Walter Mosley	All I Did Was Shoot My Man
2014	William Kent Krueger	Ordinary Grace	Won
	Thomas H. Cook	Sandrine’s Case	Nominated
	Matt Haig	The Humans
	Louise Penny	How the Light Gets In
	Ian Rankin	Standing in Another Man’s Grave
	Lori Roy	Until She Comes Home
2015	Stephen King	Mr. Mercedes	Won
	Wiley Cash	This Dark Road to Mercy	Nominated
	Mo Hayder	Wolf
	Stuart Neville	The Final Silence
	Ian Rankin	Saints of the Shadow Bible
	Karin Slaughter	Coptown
2016	Lori Roy	Let Me Die in His Footsteps	Won
	M.J. Carter	The Strangler Vine	Nominated
	Philip Kerr	The Lady From Zagreb
	Michael Robotham	Life or Death
	Duane Swierczynski	Canary
	David C. Taylor	Night Life
2017	Noah Hawley	Before the Fall	Won
	Alafair Burke	The Ex	Nominated
	Reed Farrel Coleman	Where It Hurts
	Lyndsay Fay	Jane Steele
	Alison Gaylin	What Remains of Me
2018	Attica Locke	Bluebird, Bluebird	Won
	Kathleen Kent	The Dime	Nominated
	Philip Kerr	Prussian Blue
	Abir Mukherjee	A Rising Man
	Hannah Tinti	The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
2019	Walter Mosley	Down the River Unto the Sea	Won
	Catherine Ryan Howard	The Liar’s Girl	Nominated
	Mike Lawson	House Witness
	Victor Methos	A Gambler’s Jury
	Lawrence Osborne	Only to Sleep
	Deanna Raybourn	A Treacherous Curse

2020s

Year	Author	Nominated Work	Result	Ref
2020	Elly Griffiths	The Stranger Diaries	Won
	Barbara Bourland	Fake Like Me	Nominated
	Peter Heller	The River
	Abir Mukherjee	Smoke and Ashes
	Michael Robotham	Good Girl, Bad Girl
2021	Deepa Anappara	Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line	Won
	Caroline B. Cooney	Before She Was Helen	Nominated
	Richard Osman	The Thursday Murder Club
	Ivy Pochoda	These Women
	Kwei Quartey	The Missing American
	Heather Young	The Distant Dead
2022	James Kestrel	Five Decembers	Won
	Rhys Bowen	The Venice Sketchbook	Nominated
	S.A. Cosby	Razorblade Tears
	Will Leitch	How Lucky
	Kat Rosenfield	No One Will Miss Her

2007 winners

Nominees:

2008 winners

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2009 winners

Nominees:

2010 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart
• Best First Novel by an American Author: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff
• Best Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange
• Best Fact Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen
• Best Critical/Biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives edited by Otto Penzler
• Best Short Story: "Amapola" – Phoenix Noir by Luis Alberto Urrea
• Best Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn
• Best Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson

The Robert L. Fish Memorial Award was presented to "A Dreadful Day" – Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine by Dan Warthman (Dell Magazines).

2011 winners

Nominees:

2012 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Gone by Mo Hayder
• Best First Novel: Bent Road by Lori Roy
• Best Paperback Original: The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
• Best Fact Crime: Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard
• Best Critical/Biographical: On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
• Best Short Story: "The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull
• Best Juvenile: Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
• Best Young Adult: The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Pilot" - Homeland, Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff
• Best Play: The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig
• Robert L. Fish Memorial: "A Good Man of Business" - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Ingram
• Mary Higgins Clark: Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
• Grand Master: Martha Grimes
• Raven: M is for Mystery Bookstore, San Mateo, CA / Molly Weston, Meritorious Mysteries
• Ellery Queen Award: Joe Meyers of the Connecticut Post/Hearst Media News Group

2013 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
• Best First Novel by an American Author: The Expats by Chris Pavone
• Best Paperback Original: The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
• Best Fact Crime: Midnight in Peking by Paul French
• Best Critical/Biographical: The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O'Brien
• Best Short Story: "The Unremarkable Heart" - Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance by Karin Slaughter
• Best Juvenile: The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo
• Best Young Adult: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Scandal in Belgravia" - Sherlock, teleplay by Steven Moffat
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "When They Are Done With Us" - Staten Island Noir by Patricia Smith
• Grand Master: Ken Follett and Margaret Maron
• Raven Awards: Oline Cogdill, Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore San Diego and Redondo Beach, CA
• Ellery Queen Award: Akashic Books
• The Simon & Schuster-Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan

2014 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• Best First Novel by an American Author: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
• Best Paperback Original: The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
• Best Fact Crime: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
• Best Critical/Biographical: America Is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture by Erik Dussere
• Best Short Story: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" - Bibliomysteries by John Connolly
• Best Juvenile: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
• Best Young Adult: Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - The Fall, teleplay by Allan Cubitt
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Wentworth Letter" - Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional by Jeff Soloway
• Grand Master: Robert Crais and Carolyn Hart
• Raven Awards: Aunt Agatha's in Ann Arbor, Michigan

2015 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
• Best First Novel: Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
• Best Paperback Original: The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
• Best Fact Crime: Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann
• Best Critical/Biographical: Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker
• Best Short Story: "What Do You Do?"- Rogues by Gillian Flynn
• Best Juvenile: Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Best Young Adult: The Art of Secrets by James Klise
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1" - Happy Valley by Sally Wainwright
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Getaway Girl" - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by Zoe Z. Bell
• Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
• Grand Master: Lois Duncan and James Ellroy
• Raven Award: Ruth and Jon Jordan, Crimespree Magazine, and Kathryn Kennison, Magna Cum Murder
• Ellery Queen Award: Charles Ardai

2016 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy
• Best First Novel: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Best Paperback Original: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
• Best Fact Crime: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully by Allen Kurzweil
• Best Critical/Biographical: The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards
• Best Short Story: "Obits" – from the collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
• Best Juvenile: Footer Davis Probably Is Crazy by Susan Vaught
• Best Young Adult: A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Gently with the Women" - George Gently by Peter Flannery
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick" – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by Russell W. Johnson
• Mary Higgins Clark Award: Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day
• Grand Master: Walter Mosley
• Raven Award: Margaret Kinsman and Sisters in Crime
• Ellery Queen Award: Janet Rudolph

2017 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
• Best First Novel: Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
• Best Paperback Original: Rain Dogs by Adrian McKinty
• Best Fact Crime: The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
• Best Critical/Biographical: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
• Best Short Story: "Autumn at the Automat" – from the collection In Sunlight or in Shadow by Lawrence Block
• Best Juvenile: OCDaniel by Wesley King
• Best Young Adult: Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "A Blade of Grass" - Penny Dreadful by John Logan
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Truth of the Moment" – Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine by E. Gabriel Flores
• Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Shattered Tree by Charles Todd
• Grand Master: Max Allan Collins, Ellen Hart
• Raven Award: Dru Ann Love
• Ellery Queen Award: Neil Nyren

2018 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
• Best First Novel by an American Author: She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
• Best Paperback Original: The Unseeing by Anna Mazzola
• Best Fact Crime: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Best Critical/Biographical: Chester B. Himes: A Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson
• Best Short Story: “Spring Break” by John Crowley
• Best Juvenile: Vanished! by James Ponti
• Best Young Adult: Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: “Somebody to Love” – Fargo, Teleplay by Noah Hawley
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: “The Queen of Secrets” by Lisa D. Gray

2019 winners

Nominees:

• Best Novel: Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley
• Best First Novel by an American Author: Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
• Best Paperback Original: If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin
• Best Fact Crime: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler
• Best Critical/Biographical: Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger
• Best Short Story: “English 398: Fiction Workshop” by Art Taylor
• Best Juvenile: Otherwood by Pete Hautman
• Best Young Adult: Sadie by Courtney Summers
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: “The One That Holds Everything” – The Romanoffs, Teleplay by Matthew Weiner & Donald Joh
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: “How Does He Die This Time?” by Nancy Novick

2020 winners

Winners:

• Best Novel: The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
• Best First Novel by an American Author: Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• Best Paperback Original: The Hotel Neversink by Adam O’Fallon Price
• Best Fact Crime: The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton
• Best Critical/Biographical: Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
• Best Short Story: "One of These Nights" by Livia Llewellyn from Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers
• Best Juvenile: Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught
• Best Young Adult: Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: Season 5, Episode 4 – Line of Duty by Jed Mercurio
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "There’s a Riot Goin' On," from Milwaukee Noir by Derrick Harriell

2021 winners

Winners:

• Best Novel: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
• Best First Novel by an American Author: Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen
• Best Paperback Original: When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
• Best Fact Crime: Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre
• Best Critical/Biographical: Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane
• Best Short Story: "Dust, Ash, Flight," by Maaza Mengiste from Addis Ababa Noir
• Best Young Adult: The Companion by Katie Alender
• Best Juvenile: Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: Episode 1, Photochemistry – Dead Still, written by John Morton
• Raven Award: Malice Domestic
• The Ellery Queen Award: Reagan Arthur
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "The Bite" (from Tampa Bay Noir) by Colette Bancroft
• Mary Higgins Clark: The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart
• Sue Grafton Memorial Award: Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht
• Grand Master: Charlaine Harris, Jeffery Deaver

2022 winners

Winners:

• Best Novel: Five Decembers by James Kestrel
• Best First Novel by an American Author: Deer Season by Erin Flanagan
• Best Paperback Original: Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
• Best Fact Crime: Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
• Best Critical/Biographical: The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
• Best Short Story: "The Road to Hana," by R.T. Lawton from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
• Best Juvenile: Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
• Best Young Adult: Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Boots on the Ground” – Narcos: Mexico, by Iturri Sosa
• Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: “Analogue” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine) by Rob Osler
• Mary Higgins Clark Award: Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara
• Sue Grafton Memorial Award: Runner by Tracy Clark
• Raven Award: Lesa Holstine – Lesa’s Book Critiques
• Ellery Queen Award: Juliet Grames – Soho Press – Soho Crime
• Grand Master: Laurie R. King

See also

• Edogawa Rampo Prize

External links

• Mystery Writers of America
• The official website of Edgar Awards (includes nominees)
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards at IMDb