2019 Edgar Awards Nominations

• 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.