Edgar Award Winners

The Edgar Awards are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. The awards honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

Updated April 29, 2024
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Helter skelter: the true story of the Manson murders
Bugliosi, Vincent.
A national bestseller--over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."--The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth...
The spy who came in from the cold
Le Carré, John
A new hardcover edition of the book Graham Greene called " the best spy story I have ever read." On its publication in 1964, John le Carré ' s "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" forever changed the landscape of spy fiction. Le Carré combined the inside knowledge of his years in British intelligence...
On Conan Doyle, or, The whole art of storytelling
Dirda, Michael.
From Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda, a delightful introduction to the creator of Sherlock Holmes A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous...
Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
Grann, David
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, "one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."--New...
Remembering Babylon
Malouf, David
David Malouf's novel--shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize--is a masterpiece. In the mid-1840s, a thirteen year old boy is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans, men and...
The sympathizer
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Now an HBO Limited Series from Executive Producers Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr., Streaming Exclusively on Max Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First Novel Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her
Rehak, Melanie.
Aplucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American girlhood. As beloved by girls today as...
The wicked boy : the mystery of a Victorian child murderer
Summerscale, Kate
Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Book!  From the internationally bestselling author, a deeply researched and atmospheric murder mystery of late Victorian-era London In the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age 13) and his brother Nattie (age 12)...

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