Edgar Award

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, known as the Edgars, are presented by the Mystery Writers of America. Named for the American writer who invented the modern detecti…

Mystery, crime, or suspense fiction published in English in the US during the award year.

2024

• Flags on the Bayou — winner
• All the Sinners Bleed — nominee
• The River We Remember — nominee
• Crook Manifesto — nominee
• Bright Young Women — nominee

2023

• Notes on an Execution — winner
• Gangland — nominee
• The Maid — nominee
• Devil House — nominee
• Like a Sister — nominee
• The Devil Takes You Home — nominee

2022

• Five Decembers — winner
• The Venice Sketchbook — nominee
• No One Will Miss Her — nominee
• How Lucky — nominee
• Razorblade Tears — nominee

2021

• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — winner
• These Women — nominee
• The Distant Dead — nominee
• Before She Was Helen — nominee
• The Thursday Murder Club — nominee

2020

• The Stranger Diaries — winner
• The River — nominee
• Good Girl, Bad Girl — nominee
• Smoke and Ashes — nominee
• Fake Like Me — nominee

2019

• Down the River Unto the Sea — winner
• A Treacherous Curse — nominee
• Only to Sleep — nominee
• House Witness — nominee
• The Liar’s Girl — nominee
• A Gambler's Jury — nominee

2018

• Bluebird, Bluebird — winner
• A Rising Man — nominee
• The Dime — nominee
• The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley — nominee
• Prussian Blue — nominee

2017

• Before the Fall — winner
• What Remains of Me — nominee
• The Ex — nominee
• Jane Steele — nominee
• Where It Hurts — nominee

2016

• Let Me Die In His Footsteps — winner
• The Lady from Zagreb — nominee
• Canary — nominee
• Life or Death — nominee
• Night Life — nominee

2015

• Mr. Mercedes — winner
• The Final Silence — nominee
• This Dark Road to Mercy — nominee
• Wolf — nominee
• Saints of the Shadow Bible — nominee

2014

• Ordinary Grace — winner
• The Humans — nominee
• Standing in Another Man's Grave — nominee
• Until She Comes Home — nominee
• How the Light Gets In — nominee
• Sandrine's Case — nominee

2013

• Live by Night — winner
• The Lost Ones — nominee
• The Gods of Gotham — nominee
• All I Did Was Shoot My Man — nominee
• Sunset — nominee
• Potboiler — nominee

2012

• Gone — winner
• 1222 — nominee
• Field Gray — nominee
• The Devotion of Suspect X — nominee
• The Ranger — nominee

2011

• The Lock Artist — winner
• Caught — nominee
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter — nominee
• I'd Know You Anywhere — nominee
• Faithful Place — nominee
• The Queen of Patpong — nominee

2010

• The Last Child — winner
• The Odds — nominee
• The Missing — nominee

2009

• Blue Heaven — winner
• Curse of the Spellmans — nominee
• Sins of the Assassin — nominee
• The Night Following — nominee
• The Price of Blood — nominee

2008

• Christine Falls — nominee
• The Yiddish Policemen's Union — nominee
• Priest — nominee

2007

• The Janissary Tree — winner
• The Pale Blue Eye — nominee
• The Virgin of Small Plains — nominee
• Liberation Movements — nominee
• The Dead Hour — nominee

2006

• Citizen Vince — winner
• Vanish — nominee
• Red Leaves — nominee
• The Lincoln Lawyer — nominee

2005

• California Girl — winner
• Out of the Deep I Cry — nominee
• Remembering Sarah — nominee
• By a Spider's Thread — nominee

2004

• Resurrection Men — winner
• Out — nominee
• Lost Light — nominee
• The Guards — nominee
• Maisie Dobbs — nominee

2003

• Winter and Night — winner
• Savannah Blues — nominee
• No Good Deed — nominee
• City of Bones — nominee
• Jolie Blon's Bounce — nominee

2002

• Silent Joe — winner
• Tell No One — nominee
• Reflecting the Sky — nominee
• Money, Money, Money — nominee
• The Judgment — nominee

2001

• The Whole Truth — nominee
• A Place of Execution — nominee
• Red Light — nominee

2000

• Bones — winner
• In a Dry Season — nominee
• Strawberry Sunday — nominee
• L.A. Requiem — nominee
• River of Darkness — nominee

1999

• Mr. White's Confession — winner
• A Likeness in Stone — nominee
• Blood Work — nominee
• The Last Days of Il Duce — nominee

1998

• Cimarron Rose — winner
• Black and Blue — nominee
• A Wasteland Of Strangers — nominee
• Dreaming of the Bones — nominee

1997

• The Chatham School Affair — winner
• Mean Streak — nominee
• With Child — nominee
• Pentecost Alley — nominee
• Hearts and Bones — nominee

1996

• Come To Grief — winner
• The Summons — nominee
• The Shadow Man — nominee

1995

• The Red Scream — winner
• Lights Out — nominee
• Wednesday's Child — nominee
• Miami, It's Murder — nominee

1994

• The Sculptress — winner
• Free Fall — nominee
• Smilla's Sense of Snow — nominee
• Wolf in the Shadows — nominee

1993

• Bootlegger's Daughter — winner
• Pomona Queen — nominee
• 32 Cadillacs — nominee
• Backhand — nominee
• White Butterfly — nominee

1992

• A Dance at the Slaughterhouse — winner
• Palindrome — nominee
• I.O.U. — nominee
• Prior Convictions — nominee
• Don't Say a Word — nominee

1991

• New Orleans Mourning — winner
• Fade the Heat — nominee
• Bones And Silence — nominee

1990

• Black Cherry Blues — winner
• A Question Of Guilt — nominee
• Goldilocks — nominee

1989

• A Cold Red Sunrise — winner
• Joey's Case — nominee

1988

• Rough Cider — nominee
• The Corpse in Oozak's Pond — nominee
• Nursery Crimes — nominee

1987

• Come Morning — nominee
• A Taste For Death — nominee
• The Straight Man — nominee

1986

• The Suspect — winner
• The Tree of Hands — nominee
• An Unkindness Of Ravens — nominee
• A Shock to the System — nominee

1985

• Briarpatch — winner
• 'Chessplayer' — nominee
• Emily Dickinson Is Dead — nominee

1984

• The Papers of Tony Veitch — nominee
• Texas Station — nominee
• The Name of the Rose — nominee

1983

• Billingsgate Shoal — winner
• SPLIT IMAGES. — nominee
• The Captain — nominee
• Kahawa — nominee

1982

• Peregrine — winner
• Death in a cold climate — nominee
• Bogmail — nominee
• Dupe — nominee
• The Amateur — nominee

1981

• Whip Hand — winner
• Man on Fire — nominee
• Death Drop — nominee
• THE SPY'S WIFE. — nominee

1980

• Make Death Love Me — nominee
• A Coat of Varnish — nominee

1979

• Eye Of The Needle — winner
• Listening Woman — nominee
• A sleeping life — nominee
• The Shallow Grave — nominee
• The Snake — nominee

1978

• Laidlaw — nominee
• Nightwing — nominee

1977

• Promised Land — winner
• The Cavanaugh Quest — nominee
• The glory boys — nominee

1976

• The Money Harvest — nominee
• Harry's Game — nominee

1975

• Peter's Pence — winner

1974

• Dance Hall of the Dead — winner
• Dear Laura — nominee
• An Unsuitable Job For A Woman — nominee
• Amigo, amigo — nominee

1973

• The Lingala Code — winner
• Tied Up In Tinsel — nominee
• The Shooting Gallery — nominee
• Canto for a Gypsy — nominee
• Five Pieces of Jade — nominee

1972

• The Day of the Jackal — winner
• Sir, you bastard — nominee
• Shroud For A Nightingale — nominee
• Who Killed Enoch Powell? — nominee
• The Fly on the Wall — nominee

1971

• Beyond This Point Are Monsters — nominee
• Autumn of a Hunter — nominee
• Many Deadly Returns — nominee

1970

• Forfeit — winner
• The Old English Peep Show — nominee
• Miro — nominee
• Blind Man with a Pistol — nominee
• Where the Dark Streets Go — nominee

1969

• A Case of Need — winner
• The Valentine estate — nominee
• God Speed The Night — nominee
• Picture Miss Seeton — nominee
• Blood Sport — nominee

1968

• God Save the Mark — winner
• A Private Disgrace — nominee
• Lemon in the Basket — nominee
• Flying Finish — nominee
• A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures — nominee
• The Gift Shop — nominee

1967

• The Busy Body — nominee
• Odds Against — nominee

1966

• The Quiller Memorandum — winner
• The Perfect Murder — nominee
• The Pale Betrayer — nominee
• Funeral in Berlin — nominee
• The far side of the dollar — nominee
• Airs Above the Ground — nominee

1965

• The Fiend — nominee
• The Night of the Generals — nominee
• This Rough Magic — nominee

1964

• The Expendable Man — nominee
• The Player on the Other Side — nominee

1963

• Knave of Hearts — nominee
• The Zebra-Striped Hearse — nominee
• The Ballad of the Running Man — nominee

1962

• Gideon's Fire — winner
• The Night of Wenceslas — nominee
• The Green Stone — nominee
• The Wycherly Woman — nominee

1961

• The Progress of a Crime — winner
• Watcher in the Shadows — nominee

1960

• The Hours Before Dawn — winner
• The List of Adrian Messenger — nominee

1959

• The Eighth Circle — winner
• The Madhouse in Washington Square — nominee

1958

• Room to Swing — winner

1956

• Beast In View — winner
• The Talented Mr. Ripley — nominee

1954

• Beat Not the Bones — winner