2022 Edgar Awards Nominations
The Mystery Writers of America (MWA) announced the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television,” with numerous authors and works of genre interest.
- The Venice Sketchbook, Rhys Bowen (Lake Union)
- Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
- No One Will Miss Her, Kat Rosenfield (Morrow)
Best First Novel By An American Author
- Never Saw Me Coming, Vera Kurian (Park Row)
Best Paperback Original
- Kill All Your Darlings, David Bell (Berkley)
- The Lighthouse Witches, C.J. Cooke (Berkley)
- The Album of Dr. Moreau, Daryl Gregory (Tordotcom)
- Starr Sign, C.S. O’Cinneide (Dundurn)
- The Shape of Darkness, Laura Purcell (Penguin)
Best Critical/Biographical
- The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene, Richard Greene (Norton)
- The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science, John Tresch (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
Best Short Story
- “Blindsided”, Michael Bracken & James A. Hearn (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine)
- “Lucky Thirteen”, Tracy Clark (Midnight Hour)
- “The Road to Hana”, R.T. Lawton (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine)
- “The Locked Room Library”, Gigi Pandian (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
Best Juvenile
- Cold-Blooded Myrtle, Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin)
- Concealed, Christina Diaz Gonzalez (Scholastic)
- Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden, Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra)
- Kidnap on the California Comet: Adventures on Trains #2, M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman (Feiwel & Friends)
- Rescue, Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic)
Best Young Adult
- The Girls I’ve Been, Tess Sharpe (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award
- “Analogue”, Rob Osler (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine)
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
- The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet, Katherine Cowley (Tule Mystery)
- Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)
The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award
- Runner, Tracy Clark (Kensington)
- Family Business, S.J. Rozan (Pegasus Crime)
As previously announced, Laurie R. King was named MWA Grand Master. The awards will be presented April 28, 2022. For more information, including the full list of nominees, see their official website.
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