2019 Edgar Awards Nominations
Several authors and works of genre interest made the MWA (Mystery Writers of America) 2019 Edgar Awards shortlist, including:
Best Novel
- Down the River Unto the Sea, Walter Mosley (Mulholland)
- A Treacherous Curse, Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
Best Paperback Original
- Under My Skin, Lisa Unger (Park Row)
Best Critical/ Biographical
- The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton, Laird R. Blackwell (McFarland)
Best Short Story
- “Paranoid Enough for Two”, John Lutz (The Honorable Traitors)
- The Sleep Tight Motel, Lisa Unger (Amazon Original)
Best Juvenile
- Denis Ever After, Tony Abbott (Katherine Tegen)
- Zap!, Martha Freeman (Wiseman)
- Winterhouse, Ben Guterson (Henry Holt)
- Otherwood, Pete Hautman (Candlewick)
Best Young Adult
- Contagion, Erin Bowman (HarperTeen)
- After the Fire, Will Hill (Sourcebooks Fire)
- A Room Away From the Wolves, Nova Ren Suma (Algonquin Young Readers)
- Sadie, Courtney Summers (Wednesday)
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
- Bone on Bone, Julia Keller (Minotaur)
As previously announced, Martin Cruz Smith was named a 2019 Grand Master.
The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television,” will be presented at a gala banquet April 25, 2019 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. For more information, including the full list of nominees, see their official website.
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