The Edgar® Award Winners

Mystery Writers of America announced the Winners for the 2019 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honouring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2018. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners at their 73rd Gala Banquet, held on 25 April 2019 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.

The winners are :-

Best NovelDown the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland)

Best First Novel by an American Author
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin (HarperCollins Publishers – Ecco)

Best Paperback Original
If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Best Fact CrimeTinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation by Robert W. Fieseler (W.W. Norton & Company – Liveright)

Best Critical/BiographicalClassic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s by Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus Books)

Best Short Story“English 398: Fiction Workshop” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Art Taylor (Dell Magazines)

Best JuvenileOtherwoodby Pete Hautman (Candlewick Press)

Best Young Adult
Sadieby Courtney Summers (Wednesday Books)

Best Television Episode Teleplay
“The One That Holds Everything” – The Romanoffs, Teleplay by Matthew Weiner & Donald Joh (Amazon Prime Video)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD“How Does He Die This Time?”– Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Nancy Novick (Dell Magazines)

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GRAND MASTER

Martin Cruz Smith

RAVEN AWARD

Marilyn Stasio, NY Times

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

Linda Landrigan, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARDThe Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Press – Soho Crime)

THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
Shell Game by Sara Paretsky (HarperCollins – William Morrow)

CHARLES TODD SERVICE AWARD

Frankie Y. Bailey, 

Congratulations to all the winners and the nominated authors.