Mystery Writers of America today announced the winners of the 75th annual Edgar
Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2020.

BEST NOVEL

• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Penguin Random House – Random House)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• Please See Us by Caitlin Mullen (Simon & Schuster – Gallery Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

BEST FACT CRIME

• Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

• Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane (Chicago Review Press)

BEST SHORT STORY

•  “Dust, Ash, Flight,” Addis Ababa Noir by Maaza Mengiste (Akashic Books)

BEST JUVENILE

• Premeditated Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Workman Publishing – Algonquin Young Readers)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

• The Companion by Katie Alender (Penguin Young Readers – G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

•  “Episode 1, Photochemistry” – Dead Still, Written by John Morton (Acorn TV)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

• “The Bite,” Tampa Bay Noir by Colette Bancroft (Akashic Books)

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THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

• The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart (Minotaur Books)

THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD

• Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht (Tin House Books)

SPECIAL AWARDS

GRAND MASTER

• Jeffery Deaver
• Charlaine Harris

RAVEN AWARD

• Malice Domestic

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

• Reagan Arthur, Publisher – Alfred A. Knopf