The Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2022. The 77th Annual Edgar® Awards were celebrated on April 27, 2023, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square and livestreamed on MWA’s YouTube channel. The Edgar Awards, or “Edgars,” as they are commonly known, are named after MWA’s patron saint Edgar Allan Poe and are presented to authors of distinguished work in various categories.
Winners in bold. Congratulations to all the winners and nominees.
BEST NOVEL
Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Devil House, by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux – MCD)
Like a Sister, by Kellye Garrett (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
Gangland, by Chuck Hogan (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)
The Devil Takes You Home, by Gabino Iglesias (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
The Maid by Nita Prose, (Penguin Random House – Ballantine Books)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams (Penguin Random House – Bantam)
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
More Than You’ll Ever Know, by Katie Gutierrez (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Portrait of a Thief, by Grace D. Li (Penguin Random House – Tiny Reparations Books)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Or Else, by Joe Hart (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Quarry’s Blood, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
On a Quiet Street, by Seraphina Nova Glass (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Graydon House
Cleopatra’s Dagger, by Carole Lawrence (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
A Familiar Stranger, by A.R. Torre (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
BEST FACT CRIME
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books)
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls, by Kathleen Hale (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders, by Kathryn Miles (Hachette Book Group – Workman Publishing – Algonquin Books)
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)
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper, by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins – Collins Crime Club)
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury – 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 (Simon & Schuster – Gallery Books)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Books – Pegasus Crime)
BEST SHORT STORY
“Red Flag,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, by Gregory Fallis (Dell Magazines)
“Backstory,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, by Charles John Harper (Dell Magazines)
“Locked-In,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, by William Burton McCormick (Dell Magazines)
“The Amnesty Box,” Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, by Tim McLoughlin (Akashic Books)
“First You Dream, Then You Die,” Black is the Night, by Donna Moore (Titan Books)
BEST JUVENILE
Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, by Marthe Jocelyn (Penguin Random House Canada – Tundra Books)
The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef, by Michael D. Beil (Pixel+Ink)
The Area 51 Files, by Julie Buxbaum (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, by Marthe Jocelyn (Penguin Random House Canada – Tundra Books)
Chester Keene Cracks the Code, by Kekla Magoon (Random House Children’s Books – Wendy Lamb Books)
BEST YOUNG ADULT
The Red Palace, by June Hur (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends)
Pretty Dead Queens, by Alexa Donne (Random House Children’s Books – Crown BFYR)
Frightmares, by Eva V. Gibson (Random House Children’s Books – Underlined)
The Black Girls Left Standing, by Juliana Goodman (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends)
Lock the Doors, by Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks – Fire)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Episode 1” – Magpie Murders, Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)
“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)
“Eighteen Wheels A Predator” – Law & Order: SVU, Written by Brianna Yellen, Kathy Dobie & Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
“Dogs in the Canyon” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, by Mark Harrison (Dell Magazines)
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
A Dreadful Splendor, by B.R. Myers (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Amanda Flower (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
The Disinvited Guest, by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
Never Name the Dead, by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane Books)
THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
Hideout, by Louisa Luna (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – Doubleday)
Secret Lives, by Mark de Castrique (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
An Unforgiving Place, by Claire Kells (Crooked Lane Books)
Behind the Lie, by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane Books)
Secrets Typed in Blood, by Stephen Spotswood (Knopf Doubleday Publishing – Doubleday)
THE LILLIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD
Buried in a Good Book, by Tamara Berry (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
The Shadow of Memory, by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane Books)
Smile Beach Murder, by Alicia Bessette (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
Desert Getaway, by Michael Craft (Brash Books)
The Marlow Murder Club, by Robert Thorogood (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
GRAND MASTER
Michael Connelly
Joanne Fluke
RAVEN AWARD
Crime Writers of Color Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Film Noir Foundation
ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
The Strand Magazine
