Best Novel:
• The Big Empty, by Robert Crais (Putnam)
• Fagin the Thief, by Allison Epstein (Doubleday)
• The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami (Pantheon)
• Wild Dark Shore, by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron)
• Hard Town, by Adam Plantinga (Grand Central)
• The Inheritance, by Trisha Sakhlecha (Pamela Dorman)
• Presumed Guilty, by Scott Turow (Grand Central)
Best First Novel by an American Author:
• Killer Potential, by Hannah Deitch (Morrow)
• All the Other Mothers Hate Me, by Sarah Harman (Putnam)
• Dead Money, by Jakob Kerr (Bantam)
• Johnny Careless, by Kevin Wade (Celadon)
• History Lessons, by Zoe B. Wallbrook (Soho Crime)
Best Paperback Original:
• Listen, by Sacha Bronwasser (Penguin)
• The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, by Holly Kennedy (Lake Union)
• Broke Road, by Matthew Spencer (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Backwater, by Vikki Wakefield (Poisoned Pen Press)
• One Death at a Time, by Abbi Waxman (Berkley)
Best Fact Crime:
• They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals, by Mariah Blake (Crown)
• Blood and the Badge: The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation, by Michael Cannell (Minotaur)
• Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers, by Caroline Fraser (Penguin Press)
• Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home, by Gregg Olsen (Thomas & Mercer)
• Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen, by Hallie Rubenhold (Dutton)
Best Critical/Biographical:
• V Is for Venom: Agatha Christie’s Chemicals of Death, by Kathryn
Harkup (Sigma)
• The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, by Andrew Klavan (Zondervan)
• Edgar Allan Poe: A Life, by Richard Kopley (University of
Virginia Press)
• Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard,
by C.M. Kushins (Mariner)
• Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train, by Stephen Rebello (Running Press)
Best Short Story:
• “Reading at Night,” by Graham Greene (The Strand Magazine,
August 2025)
• “The One That Got Away,” by Charlaine Harris (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], January-February 2025)
• “Orphan X: A Mysterious Profile,” by Gregg Hurwitz (Mysterious Press)
• “Lucky Heart,” by Tim Maleeny (from Blood on the Bayou: Case Closed, edited by Don Bruns; Down & Out)
• “The Kill Clause,” by Lisa Unger (Amazon Original Stories)
• “Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush,” by Dave Zeltserman (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, September-October 2025)
Best Juvenile:
• Montgomery Bonbon: Murder at the Museum, by Alasdair Beckett-King (Candlewick Press)
• What Happened Then, by Erin Soderberg Downing (Scholastic Press)
• A Study in Secrets, by Debbi Michiko Florence (Aladdin)
• Blood in the Water, by Tiffany D. Jackson (Scholastic Press)
• The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls, by Judith Rossell (Dial)
• Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave, by Ally Russell (Delacorte Press)
Best Young Adult:
• Under the Same Stars, by Libba Bray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Books for Young Readers)
• Catch Your Death, by Ravena Guron (Sourcebooks Fire)
• This Is Where We Die, by Cindy R.X. He (Sourcebooks Fire)
• The Scammer, by Tiffany D. Jackson (Quill Tree)
• Codebreaker, by Jay Martel (Wednesday)
Best Television Episode Teleplay:
• “End of the Line,” Ballard, written by Michael Alaimo and Kendall Sherwood (Amazon/Fabel)
• “Pilot,” Paradise, written by Dan Fogelman (Hulu)
• “Episode 101,” The Lowdown, written by Sterlin Harjo (FX on Hulu)
• “These Girls,” Long Bright River, written by Nikki Toscano and Liz Moore (Peacock)
• “Ye’iitsoh (Big Monster),” Dark Winds, written by John Wirth and Steven Paul Judd (AMC)
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ADDITIONAL AWARDSRobert L. Fish Memorial Award:
• “A Textbook Example,” by Luis Avalos (from Sacramento Noir, edited by John Freeman; Akashic)
• “How It Happened,” by Billie Kay Fern (EQMM, July-August 2025)
• “Baggage,” by Rick Marcou (EQMM, January-February 2025)
• “Bloodsurf,” by Tiffany D. Plunkett (from Hollywood Kills, edited by Adam Meyer and Alan Orloff; Level Short)
• “Grand Theft Auto in the Heart of Screenland,” by Robert Rotstein (from Hollywood Kills)
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award:
• Five Found Dead, by Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes, by Sandra Jackson-Opoku (Minotaur)
• No Comfort for the Dead, by R.P. O’Donnell (Crooked Lane)
• All This Could Be Yours, by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Minotaur)
• Last Dance Before Dawn, by Katharine Schellman (Minotaur)
The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award:
• Cold as Hell, by Kelley Armstrong (Minotaur)
• Rage, by Linda Castillo (Minotaur)
• Fallen Star, by Lee Goldberg (Thomas & Mercer)
• The Red Letter, by Daniel G. Miller (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Gone in the Night, by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur)
The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award:
• Mrs. Christie at the Mystery Guild Library, by Amandah
Chapman (Berkley)
• A Senior Citizen’s Guide to Life on the Run, by Gwen Florio
(Severn House)
• The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective, by Jo Nichols (Minotaur)
• Murder Two Doors Down, by Chuck Storla (Crooked Lane)
• Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man), by Jesse Q.
Sutanto (Berkley)
Authors Donna Andrews and Lee Child were previously named as this year’s Grand Master winners. The 2026 Raven Award will go to Corte Madera, California, bookshop and café Book Passage, while John Scognamiglio, the editor-in-chief of Kensington Books, has been chosen to receive the Ellery Queen Award.
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