2023 Edgar Awards Nominations

Several authors and works of genre interest are among the Mystery Writers of America (MWA) 2023 Edgar Awards finalists.

Best Paperback Original

• Quarry’s Blood, Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
• Or Else, Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer)

Best Critical/Biographical

• The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story, Andrew Neiderman (Gallery)

Best Short Story

• “Locked-In”, William Burton McCormick (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine 1-2/22)

Best Juvenile

• The Area 51 Files, Julie Buxbaum (Delacorte)
• Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, Martha Jocelyn (Tundra)
• Chester Keene Cracks the Code, Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb)

Best Young Adult

• Pretty Dead Queens, Alexa Gonne (Crown)
• The Black Girls Left Standing, Juliana Goodman (Feiwel & Friends)

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award

• The Disinvited Guest, Carol Goodman (William Morrow)

The Lilian Jackson Bruan Memorial Award

• Buried in a Good Book, Tamara Berry (Poisoned Pen)

Michael Connelly and Joanne Fluke have been named MWA Grand Masters.

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards, “honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television,” will be presented April 27, 2023. For more information, including the full list of nominees, see their official website.

While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. We rely on reader donations to keep the magazine and site going, and would like to keep the site paywall free, but WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT to continue quality coverage of the science fiction and fantasy field.

©Locus Magazine. Copyrighted material may not be republished without permission of LSFF.