Award
Edgar Awards
81 years tracked (1946–2026), 730 entries total.
The Edgar Awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, based in New York City. Named after American writer Edgar Allan Poe, the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.
2026
"How It Happened" - EQMM July-August 2025
"Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush" - AHMM September-October
A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run
All This Could Be Yours
Blood in the Water
Dead Money
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
Gone in the Night
How It Happened
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
The Backwater
The Big Empty
Under the Same Stars
2025
49 Miles Alone
Eat My Moose
Holy City
James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key
Shohei Ohtani
The Comfort of Ghosts
The In Crowd
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
The Jews on Elm Street
The Murders in Great Diddling
The Mystery Writers
The Paris Widow
2024
An Evil Heart
Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
Flags on the Bayou
Girl Forgotten
Glory Be
Hallowed Ground
Love Me Fierce In Danger - The Life of James Ellroy
Play the Fool
The Body in Cell Two
The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto
The Peacock and the Sparrow
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
2023
A Dreadful Splendor
Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse
Buried in a Good Book
Dogs in the Canyon
Don't Know Tough
Hideout
Notes on an Execution
Or Else
Red Flag
Shohei Ohtani
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
The Red Palace
2022
Analogue
Bobby March Will Live Forever
Clark and Division
Concealed
Deer Season
Firekeeper's Daughter
Five Decembers
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York
Runner
The Road to Hana
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
2021
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
Dust, Ash, Flight
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
Please See Us
Premeditated Myrtle
The Bite
The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne
The Companion
Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery
When No One is Watching
2020
Borrowed Time
Catfishing on CatNet
Hitchcock and the Censors
Marcell Ozuna
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse
Miracle Creek
One of These Nights
The Hotel Neversink
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
The Night Visitors
The Stranger Diaries
There’s a Riot Goin' On
My Lovely Wife
The Secrets We Kept
2019
Bearskin
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
Down the River Unto the Sea
English 398: Fiction Workshop
How Does He Die This Time?
If I Die Tonight
Otherwood
Sadie
Shell Game
The Widows of Malabar
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
A Treacherous Curse
Contagion
Where the Crawdads Sing
2018
Bluebird, Bluebird
Chester B. Himes: A Biography
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Long Way Down
She Rides Shotgun
Spring Break
The Queen of Secrets
The Unseeing
The Widow's House
Vanished!
In Farleigh Field
The Assassin's Curse
The Hate U Give
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
2017
Other
Autumn at the Automat
OCDaniel
Rain Dogs
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
The Shattered Tree
The Truth of the Moment
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
Under the Harrow
Best Juvenile
Framed!
Best Paperback Original
The 7th Canon
Best First Novel by an American Author
The Lost Girls
2016
A Madness So Discreet
Chung Ling Soo's Greatest Trick
Footer Davis Probably is Crazy
Let Me Die in His Footsteps
Little Pretty Things
Obits
The Golden Age of Murder
The Long and Faraway Gone
The Sympathizer
Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
The Blackthorn Key
The Sin Eater's Daughter
2015
Other
Dry Bones in the Valley
Getaway Girl
Greenglass House
Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe
The Art of Secrets
The Secret History of Las Vegas
The Stranger You Know
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
What Do You Do?
Best Short Story
The Grownup
Best Juvenile
Absolutely Truly
Best Young Adult
Nearly Gone
Best First Novel
The Life We Bury
2014
Other
America is Elsewhere: The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer Culture
Cover of Snow
One Came Home
The Caxton Private Lending Library and Book Depository
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
The Wentworth Letter
Best Young Adult
Ketchup Clouds
All the Truth That's in Me
Far Far Away
How to Lead a Life of Crime
Best Novel
Ordinary Grace
How the Light Gets In
Standing in Another Man's Grave
The Humans
Best Juvenile
The Screaming Staircase
2013
Code Name Verity
Live by Night
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
The Expats
The Last Policeman
The Last Policeman: A Novel
The Other Woman
The Quick Fix
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics
The Unremarkable Heart
When They Are Done With Us
Gone Girl
Spy School
The Gods of Gotham
2012
A Good Man of Business
Bent Road
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Gone
Icefall
Learning to Swim
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling
The Company Man
The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train
The Silence of Murder
The Devotion of Suspect X
The Name of the Star
The Wizard of Dark Street
2011
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and this Rendezvous with American History
Long Time Coming
Rogue Island
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man
The Buddy Files: The Case of the Lost Boy
The Crossing Places
The Interrogation of Gabriel James
The Lock Artist
The Scent of Lilacs
Caught
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Faithful Place
Please Ignore Vera Dietz
2010
Other
A Dreadful Day
Amapola
Awakening
Body Blows
In the Shadow of Gotham
The Lineup: The Worlds Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives
Best Fact Crime
Columbine
Best Young Adult
Reality Check
2009
Other
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood and the Crime of the Century
Buckners Error
China Lake
Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories
Skinhead Central
The Foreigner
The Killer's Wife
The Postcard
Best Juvenile
Eleven
Best First Novel by an American Author
Sweetsmoke
2008
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
Down River
In the Woods
Queenpin
Rat Life
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
The Catch
The Golden Gopher
The Night Tourist
Wild Indigo
The Name of This Book Is Secret
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007
Other
Bloodline
Buried
Evening Gold
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Room One: A Mystery or Two
Snakeskin Shamisen
The Home Front
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear
Best First Novel by an American Author
The Faithful Spy
Best Novel
The Janissary Tree
Gentlemen and Players
The Pale Blue Eye
The Virgin of Small Plains
Best Fact Crime
Strange Piece of Paradise
Best Juvenile
The Case of the Missing Marquess
Best Paperback Original
The Goodbye Kiss
2006
Citizen Vince
Dark Angel
Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Home
Last Shot
Officer Down
Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
The Boys of San Joaquin
The Catch
The Girl in the Glass
Immoral
Red Leaves
The Lincoln Lawyer
Vanish
2005
California Girl
Can't Catch Me
Chasing Vermeer
Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder
Country of Origin
Grave Endings
In Darkness, Death
Something About a Scar
The Confession
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
Out of the Deep I Cry
2004
Acceleration
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry
Death of a Nationalist
Find Me Again
Resurrection Men
Song of the Bones
The Devil in the White City
The Grass is Always Greener
The Maids
Maisie Dobbs
Out
2003
Absolute Certainty
Fire Lover
Harriet Spies Again
Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction
Mexican Gatsby
Out of Sight
The Blue Edge of Midnight
The Wessex Papers, Vols. 1-3
War Can Be Murder
Winter and Night
City of Bones
Savannah Blues
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
Charm City
Cimarron Rose
G is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone
Ghost Canoe
If Thine Eye Offend Thee
Keller on the Spot
Los Alamos
Sparrows in the Scullery
The Death of Innocents
A Crime in the Neighborhood
Bitter Harvest
Black and Blue
1997
Fade Away
Power To Hurt
Prosecutor of DuPrey
Red Clay
Simple Justice
The Chatham School Affair
The Clearing
The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes
Twisted Summer
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
The Queen's Man
1996
1995
Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
Final Appeal
Me and Mr. Harry
The Absolutely True Story..How I Visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rubes
The Caveman's Valentine
The Dancing Bear
The Red Scream
To Protect and Serve
Toughing It
A Long Line of Dead Men
Mallory's Oracle
One for the Money
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Careless Whispers: The True Story of a Triple Murder and the Determined Lawman Who Wouldn't Give Up
Father to the Man
Here Lies: An Autobiography
No One Rides for Free
Rain in Pinton County
The Junkyard Dog
The Other Side of Dark
A Taste for Death
Wiseguy
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
Alone in Wolf Hollow
Deceit and Deadly Lies
Eye of the Needle
Killed in the Ratings
The Cloud Beneath The Eaves
The Eye of the Needle
The Mystery of Agatha Christie
Till Death Do Us Part
A Sleeping Life
Charnel House
Falling Angel
Listening Woman
