2019 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Bearskin
(Winner)
James A. McLaughlin

The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
(Nominee)
Nova Jacobs

The Captives
(Nominee)
Debra Jo Immergut

Where the Crawdads Sing
(Nominee)
Delia Owens

A Knife in the Fog
(Nominee)
Bradley Harper

Juvenile

Otherwood
(Winner)
Pete Hautman

Winterhouse
(Nominee)
Ben Guterson

Zap!
(Nominee)
Martha Freeman

Charlie and Frog
(Nominee)
Karen Kane

Denis Ever After
(Nominee)
Tony Abbott

Ra the Mighty: Cat Detective of Pharaoh's Court
(Nominee)
A.B. Greenfield

Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground
(Nominee)
T.R. Simon

Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Widows of Malabar Hill
(Winner)
Sujata Massey

A Death of No Importance
(Nominee)
Mariah Fredericks

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
(Nominee)
Dianne Freeman

Bone on Bone
(Nominee)
Julia Keller

A Borrowing of Bones
(Nominee)
Paula Munier

Novel

Down the River Unto the Sea
(Winner)
Walter Mosley

A Treacherous Curse
(Nominee)
Deanna Raybourn

House Witness
(Nominee)
Mike Lawson

A Gambler's Jury
(Nominee)
Victor Methos

The Liar's Girl
(Nominee)
Catherine Ryan Howard

Only to Sleep
(Nominee)
Lawrence Osborne

Paperback Original

If I Die Tonight
(Winner)
Alison Gaylin

The Perfect Nanny
(Nominee)
Leila Slimani

Hiroshima Boy
(Nominee)
Naomi Hirahara

Under a Dark Sky
(Nominee)
Lori Rader-Day

Under My Skin
(Nominee)
Lisa Unger

Short Story

Rabid: A Novella
(Nominee)
Paul Doiron

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

Shell Game
(Winner)
Sara Paretsky

Perish
(Nominee)
Lisa Black

To Die but Once
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Winspear

A Forgotten Place
(Nominee)
Charles Todd

City of Secrets
(Nominee)
Victoria Thompson

Young Adult

Sadie
(Winner)
Courtney Summers

Blink
(Nominee)
Sasha Dawn

Contagion
(Nominee)
Erin Bowman

A Room Away from the Wolves
(Nominee)
Nova Ren Suma

After the Fire
(Nominee)
Will Hill

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

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