2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Miracle Creek
(Winner)
Angie Kim

American Spy
(Nominee)
Lauren Wilkinson

The Good Detective
(Nominee)
John McMahon

My Lovely Wife
(Nominee)
Samantha Downing

The Secrets We Kept
(Nominee)
Lara Prescott

Three-Fifths
(Nominee)
John Vercher

Juvenile

Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse
(Winner)
Susan Vaught

The Whispers
(Nominee)
Greg Howard

Eventown
(Nominee)
Corey Ann Haydu

All the Greys on Greene Street
(Nominee)
Laura Tucker

The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster
(Nominee)
Cary Fagan

Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Night Visitors
(Winner)
Carol Goodman

Where the Missing Go
(Nominee)
Emma Rowley

The Murder List
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

One Night Gone
(Nominee)
Tara Laskowski

Strangers at the Gate
(Nominee)
Catriona McPherson

Novel

The Stranger Diaries
(Winner)
Elly Griffiths

The River
(Nominee)
Peter Heller

Smoke and Ashes
(Nominee)
Abir Mukherjee

Fake Like Me
(Nominee)
Barbara Bourland

Good Girl, Bad Girl
(Nominee)
Michael Robotham

Paperback Original

The Hotel Neversink
(Winner)
Adam O'Fallon Price

Freedom Road
(Nominee)
William Lashner

February's Son
(Nominee)
Alan Parks

Blood Relations
(Nominee)
Jonathan Moore

The Bird Boys
(Nominee)
Lisa Sandlin

Dread of Winter
(Nominee)
Susan Alice Bickford

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

Borrowed Time
(Winner)
Tracy Clark

The Alchemist's Illusion
(Nominee)
Gigi Pandian

The Satapur Moonstone
(Nominee)
Sujata Massey

Girl Gone Missing
(Nominee)
Marcie R. Rendon

Shamed
(Nominee)
Linda Castillo

The Missing Ones
(Nominee)
Edwin Hill

Young Adult

Catfishing on CatNet
(Winner)
Naomi Kritzer

The Deceivers
(Nominee)
Kristen Simmons

Killing November
(Nominee)
Adriana Mather

Patron Saints of Nothing
(Nominee)
Randy Ribay

Wild and Crooked
(Nominee)
Leah Thomas

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

Award Years

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