Edgar Allan Poe Award (aka The Edgars) honors the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2025.
BEST NOVEL
The Big Empty by Robert Crais
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
Dead Money by Jakob Kerr
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Backwater by Vikki Wakefield
BEST FACT CRIME
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser
BEST JUVENILE
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Under the Same Stars by Libba Bray
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan
THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
Gone in the Night by Joanna Schaffhausen
THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD
A Senior Citizen’s Guide to Life on the Run by Gwen Florio