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)
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