2025 Edgar Allen Poe Awards

Edgar Allan Poe Award (aka The Edgars) honors the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024. 

BEST NOVEL

The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Holy City by Henry Wise

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

BEST FACT CRIME

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

BEST JUVENILE

Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key by Margaret Peterson Haddix

BEST YOUNG ADULT

49 Miles Alone by Natalie D. Richards

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD

The Comfort of Ghosts by Jacqueline Winspear

THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD

The Murders in Great Diddling by Katarina Bivald