Mystery Writers of America today announced the nominees for the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in 2022. The 77th Annual Edgar® Awards will be celebrated on April 27, 2023.

BEST NOVEL

• Devil House by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux – MCD)
• Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
• Gangland by Chuck Hogan (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)
• The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown & Co./Mulholland Books)
• Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Maid by Nita Prose (Penguin Random House – Ballantine Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

• Jackal by Erin E. Adams (Penguin Random House – Bantam)
• Don’t Know Tough by Eli Cranor (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
• Shutter by Ramona Emerson (Soho Press – Soho Crime)
• More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li (Penguin Random House – Tiny Reparations Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• Quarry’s Blood by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
• On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass (Harlequin Trade Publishing – Graydon House
• Or Else by Joe Hart (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
• Cleopatra’s Dagger by Carole Lawrence (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
• A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)

BEST FACT CRIME

• Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen Hale (Grove Atlantic – Grove Press)
• Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books)
• Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles (Hachette Book Group – Workman Publishing – Algonquin Books)
• American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C. by Shahan Mufti (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

• The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins – Collins Crime Club)
• The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury – Bloomsbury Academic)
• The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations by David Geherin (McFarland)
• The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story by Andrew Neiderman (Simon & Schuster – Gallery Books)
• Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Books – Pegasus Crime)

 BEST SHORT STORY

• “Red Flag,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Gregory Fallis (Dell Magazines)
• “Backstory,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Charles John Harper (Dell Magazines)
• “Locked-In,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by William Burton McCormick (Dell Magazines)
• “The Amnesty Box,” Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms by Tim McLoughlin (Akashic Books)
• “First You Dream, Then You Die,” Black is the Night by Donna Moore (Titan Books)

BEST JUVENILE

• The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef by Michael D. Beil (Holiday House – Pixel+Ink)
• The Area 51 Files by Julie Buxbaum (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
• Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn (Penguin Random House Canada – Tundra Books)
• Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman (Macmillan Children’s Publishing – Feiwel & Friends)
• Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon (Random House Children’s Books – Wendy Lamb Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

• Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne (Random House Children’s Books – Crown BFYR)
• Frightmares by Eva V. Gibson (Random House Children’s Books – Underlined)
• The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends)
• The Red Palace by June Hur (Macmillan Children’s Books – Feiwel & Friends)
• Lock the Doors by Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks – Fire)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

• “One Mighty and Strong” – Under the Banner of Heaven, Written by Brandon Boyce (Hulu/FX)
• “Episode 1” – Magpie Murders, Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)
• “Episode 1″ – Karen Pirie, Written by Emer Kenny (BritBox)
• “When Harry Met Fergus” – Harry Wild, Written by David Logan (Acorn TV)
• “The Reagan Way” – Blue Bloods, Written by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS)
• “Eighteen Wheels A Predator” – Law & Order: SVU, Written by Brianna Yellen & Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal)

 ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

• “Dogs in the Canyon” – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mark Harrison (Dell Magazines)

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 THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

• Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Amanda Flower (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
• The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
• The Disinvited Guest by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• A Dreadful Splendor by B.R. Myers (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane Books)

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

• Secret Lives by Mark de Castrique (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
• An Unforgiving Place by Claire Kells (Crooked Lane Books)
• Hideout by Louisa Luna (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group – Doubleday)
• Behind the Lie by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane Books)
• Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood (Knopf Doubleday Publishing – Doubleday)

THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD

• The Shadow of Memory by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane Books)
• Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)
• Smile Beach Murder by Alicia Bessette (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
• Desert Getaway by Michael Craft (Brash Books)
• The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (Sourcebooks – Poisoned Pen Press)

The following Special Awards were previously announced:

SPECIAL AWARDS

GRAND MASTER

• Michael Connelly
• Joanne Fluke

RAVEN AWARD

• Crime Writers of Color
• Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Film Noir Foundation

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

• The Strand Magazine