Edgar Award Winners Announced

Mystery Writers of America have announced the winners for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2022. The 77th Annual Edgar® Awards were celebrated on April 27, 2023, at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square and livestreamed on YouTube. BEST NOVEL Notes on an Execution  by Danya Kukafka (HarperCollins – William Morrow) BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR Don’t Know Tough  by Eli Cranor (Soho Press – Soho Crime) BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Or Else  by Joe Hart (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)   BEST FACT CRIME Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation  by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books) BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators  by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins – Collins Crime Club)   BEST SHORT STORY " Red Flag ," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine  by Gregory Fallis (Dell Magazines) BEST JUVENILE Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse  by Marthe Jocelyn (Penguin Random House Canada - Tundra Books) BEST YOUNG ADULT The Red Palace  by June Hur (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends) BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY “ Episode 1 ” – Magpie Murders , Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)  ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD " Dogs in the Canyon ," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine  by Mark Harrison (Dell Magazines)   THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD A Dreadful Splendor  by B.R. Myers (HarperCollins – William Morrow) THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD Hideout  by Louisa Luna (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – Doubleday) THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD Buried in a Good Book  by Tamara Berry (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press) SPECIAL AWARDS GRAND MASTER Michael Connelly Joanne Fluke   RAVEN AWARD Crime Writers of Color Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Noir Foundation   ELLERY QUEEN AWARD  The Strand Magazine