2023 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Don't Know Tough
(Winner)
Eli Cranor

Portrait of a Thief
(Nominee)
Grace D. Li

More Than You'll Ever Know
(Nominee)
Katie Gutierrez

Shutter
(Nominee)
Ramona Emerson

Jackal
(Nominee)
Erin E. Adams

Juvenile

The Seaside Corpse
(Winner)
Marthe Jocelyn

Murder on the Safari Star
(Nominee)
M.G. Leonard

Chester Keene Cracks the Code
(Nominee)
Kekla Magoon

The Area 51 Files
(Nominee)
Julie Buxbaum

Wreck at Ada's Reef
(Nominee)
Michael D. Beil

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

The Marlow Murder Club
(Nominee)
Robert Thorogood

Desert Getaway
(Nominee)
Michael Craft

Buried in a Good Book
(Winner)
Tamara Berry

The Shadow of Memory
(Nominee)
Connie Berry

Smile Beach Murder
(Nominee)
Alicia Bessette

Mary Higgins Clark Award

A Dreadful Splendor
(Winner)
B.R. Myers

The Woman in the Library
(Nominee)
Sulari Gentill

The Disinvited Guest
(Nominee)
Carol Goodman

Because I Could Not Stop for Death
(Nominee)
Amanda Flower

Never Name the Dead
(Nominee)
D.M. Rowell

Novel

Notes on an Execution
(Winner)
Danya Kukafka

Devil House
(Nominee)
John Darnielle

The Maid
(Nominee)
Nita Prose

Like a Sister
(Nominee)
Kellye Garrett

The Devil Takes You Home
(Nominee)
Gabino Iglesias

Gangland
(Nominee)
Chuck Hogan

Paperback Original

Or Else
(Winner)
Joe Hart

Quarry's Blood
(Nominee)
Max Allan Collins

Cleopatra's Dagger
(Nominee)
Carole Lawrence

On a Quiet Street
(Nominee)
Seraphina Nova Glass

A Familiar Stranger
(Nominee)
A.R. Torre

Short Story

Red Flag
(Winner)
Gregory Fallis

The Amnesty Box
(Nominee)
Tim McLoughlin

Backstory
(Nominee)
Charles John Harper

First You Dream, Then You Die
(Nominee)
Donna Moore

Locked-In
(Nominee)
William Burton McCormick

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

Hideout
(Winner)
Louisa Luna

Behind the Lie
(Nominee)
Emilya Naymark

Secret Lives
(Nominee)
Mark de Castrique

An Unforgiving Place
(Nominee)
Claire Kells

Secrets Typed in Blood
(Nominee)
Stephen Spotswood

Young Adult

The Red Palace
(Winner)
June Hur

Lock the Doors
(Nominee)
Vincent Ralph

The Black Girls Left Standing
(Nominee)
Juliana Goodman

Frightmares
(Nominee)
Eva V. Gibson

Pretty Dead Queens
(Nominee)
Alexa Donne

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

Award Years

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