EDGAR AWARDS 2024: Mystery Writers of America

I loved being able to "attend" the Edgar Awards this year. So good to see old and new friends. Great job, MWA, on the live-stream. Congratulations to all!

Mystery Writers of America announced the winners for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2023. The 78^th Annual Edgar® Awards were celebrated on May 1, 2024, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square and live-streamed on YouTube. 

 

BEST NOVEL

Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
 
The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry (Simon & Schuster – Atria Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
 
Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

(Penguin Random House - Berkley)

 

BEST FACT CRIME

Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

by Nathan Masters (Hachette Book Group – Hachette Books)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
 
Love Me Fierce in Danger: The Life of James Ellroy

by Steven Powell (Bloomsbury Publishing - Bloomsbury Academic)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Hallowed Ground," by Linda Castillo (Macmillan Publishers – Minotaur Books)

 

BEST JUVENILE

The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto by Adrianna Cuevas

(Macmillan Publishers – Farrar, Straus and Giroux BFYR)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
 
Girl Forgotten by April Henry (Hachette Book Group – LBYR – Christy Ottaviano Books)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

“Escape from Shit Mountain” – Poker Face,

Written by Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman (Peacock)

 

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ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

“The Body in Cell Two,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May-June 2023 by Kate Hohl

(Dell Magazines)

 

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
Presented on behalf of Simon & Schuster.

 

Play the Fool by Lina Chern (Penguin Random House - Bantam)

THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
Presented on behalf of G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

 

An Evil Heart by Linda Castillo (Macmillan Publishers – Minotaur Books)

 

THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD

Endowed by the estate of Lilian Jackson Braun.

 

Glory Be by Danielle Arceneaux (Pegasus Books – Pegasus Crime)

 

SPECIAL AWARDS

 

GRAND MASTER

 

Katherine Hall Page

R.L. Stine

 

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

 

Michaela Hamilton, Kensington Books