Let’s Hear It for the Edgars!

Thanks to the Mystery Writers of America’s Twitter page, we can now bring you the winners of this year’s Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

Best Novel: Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka (Morrow)

Also nominated: Devil House, by John Darnielle (MCD); Like a Sister, by Kellye Garrett (Mulholland); Gangland, by Chuck Hogan (Grand Central); The Devil Takes You Home, by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland); and The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)

Best First Novel by an American Author: Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)

Also nominated: Jackal, by Erin E. Adams (Bantam); Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime); More Than You’ll Ever Know, by Katie Gutierrez (Morrow); and Portrait of a Thief, by Grace D. Li (Tiny Reparations)

Best Paperback Original: Or Else, by Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer)

Also nominated: Quarry’s Blood, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime); On a Quiet Street, by Seraphina Nova Glass (Graydon House); Cleopatra’s Dagger, by Carole Lawrence (Thomas & Mercer); and A Familiar Stranger, by A.R. Torre (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Short Story: “Red Flag,” by Gregory Fallis (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine [AHMM], March/April 2022)

Also nominated: “Backstory,” by Charles John Harper (AHMM, January/February); “Locked-In,” by William Burton McCormick (AHMM, January/February); “The Amnesty Box,” by Tim McLoughlin (from Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, by Tim McLoughlin; Akashic Press); and “First You Dream, Then You Die,” by Donna Moore (from Black Is the Night, edited by Maxim Jakubowski; Titan)

Best Fact Crime: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, by Erika Krouse (Flatiron)

Also nominated: Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls, by Kathleen Hale (Grove Press); Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders, by Kathryn Miles (Algonquin); American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C., by Shahan Mufti (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper, by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur)

Best Critical/Biographical: The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)

Also nominated: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, by Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic); The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations, by David Geherin (McFarland); The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story, by Andrew Neiderman (Gallery); and Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)

Best Young Adult: The Red Palace, by June Hur (Feiwel & Friends)

Also nominated: Pretty Dead Queens, by Alexa Donne (Crown Books for Young Readers); Frightmares, by Eva V. Gibson (Underlined); The Black Girls Left Standing, by Juliana Goodman (Feiwel & Friends); and Lock the Doors, by Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks Fire)

Best Juvenile: Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra)

Also nominated: The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef, by Michael D. Beil (Pixel+Ink); The Area 51 Files, by Julie Buxbaum (Delacorte Press); Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star, by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman (Feiwel & Friends); and Chester Keene Cracks the Code, by Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb)

Best Television Episode Teleplay: “Episode 1,” Magpie Murders, written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)

Also nominated: “One Mighty and Strong,” Under the Banner of Heaven, written by Brandon Boyce (Hulu/FX); “Episode 1,” Karen Pirie, written by Emer Kenny (BritBox); “When Harry Met Fergus,” Harry Wild, written by David Logan (Acorn TV); “The Reagan Way,” Blue Bloods, written by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS); and “Eighteen Wheels a Predator,” Law & Order: SVU, written by Brianna Yellen and Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal)

Robert L. Fish Memorial Award:
“Dogs in the Canyon,” by Mark Harrison (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September/October 2022)

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: A Dreadful Splendor, by B.R. Myers (Morrow)

Also nominated: Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Amanda Flower (Berkley); The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press); The Disinvited Guest, by Carol Goodman (Morrow); and Never Name the Dead, by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane)

The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award: Hideout, by Louisa Luna (Doubleday)

Also nominated: Secret Lives, by Mark de Castrique (Poisoned Pen Press); An Unforgiving Place, by Claire Kells (Crooked Lane); Behind the Lie, by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane); and Secrets Typed in Blood, by Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)

The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award: Buried in a Good Book, by Tamara Berry (Poisoned Pen Press)

Also nominated: The Shadow of Memory, by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane); Smile Beach Murder, by Alicia Bessette (Berkley); Desert Getaway, by Michael Craft (Brash); and The Marlow Murder Club, by Robert Thorogood (Poisoned Pen Press)

MWA Grand Master:
Michael Connelly
Joanne Fluke

Raven Award:
Crime Writers of Color
Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Noir Foundation

Ellery Queen Award:
The Strand Magazine

(Above) The 2023 Edgar Awards YouTube livestream.

READ MORE: “The State of the Crime Novel: A Roundtable Discussion with the Edgar Nominees,” Part 1 and Part II, by Molly Odintz (CrimeReads); “A Trip to Remember,” by Martin Edwards (‘Do You Write Under Your Own Name?’).