2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Awarded by Mystery Writers of America)

Awards List

First Novel

Please See Us
(Winner)
Caitlin Mullen

Juvenile

Premeditated Myrtle
(Winner)
Elizabeth C. Bunce

Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne
(Winner)
Elsa Hart

Novel

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
(Winner)
Deepa Anappara

Paperback Original

When No One Is Watching
(Winner)
Alyssa Cole

Short Story

Addis Ababa Noir
(Winner)
Maaza Mengiste

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery
(Winner)
Rosalie Knecht

Young Adult

The Companion
(Winner)
Katie Alender

First Novel

Darling Rose Gold
(Nominee)
Stephanie Wrobel

Catherine House
(Nominee)
Elisabeth Thomas

Winter Counts
(Nominee)
David Heska; Wanbli Weiden

Murder in Old Bombay
(Nominee)
Nev March

Juvenile

From the Desk of Zoe Washington
(Nominee)
Janae Marks

Me and Banksy
(Nominee)
Tanya Lloyd Kyi

Nessie Quest
(Nominee)
Melissa Savage

Coop Knows the Scoop
(Nominee)
Taryn Souders

Ikenga
(Nominee)
Nnedi Okorafor

Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Lucky One
(Nominee)
Lori Rader-Day

Death of an American Beauty
(Nominee)
Mariah Fredericks

The First to Lie
(Nominee)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

Cold Wind
(Nominee)
Paige Shelton

Novel

The Missing American
(Nominee)
Kwei Quartey

These Women
(Nominee)
Ivy Pochoda

The Distant Dead
(Nominee)
Heather Young

Before She Was Helen
(Nominee)
Caroline B. Cooney

The Thursday Murder Club
(Nominee)
Richard Osman

Paperback Original

East of Hounslow
(Nominee)
Khurrum Rahman

The Deep, Deep Snow
(Nominee)
Brian Freeman

Unspeakable Things
(Nominee)
Jess Lourey

The Keeper
(Nominee)
Jessica Moor

Short Story

Etta at the End of the World
(Nominee)
Joseph S. Walker

The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay
(Nominee)
Leslie Elman

The 25 Year Engagement
(Nominee)
James W. Ziskin
in In League with Sherlock Holmes

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

Turn to Stone
(Nominee)
James W. Ziskin

The Burn
(Nominee)
Kathleen Kent

Dead Land
(Nominee)
Sara Paretsky

Riviera Gold
(Nominee)
Laurie R. King

The Sleeping Nymph
(Nominee)
Ilaria Tuti

Young Adult

The Silence of Bones
(Nominee)
June Hur

They Went Left
(Nominee)
Monica Hesse

The Inheritance Games
(Nominee)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Cousins
(Nominee)
Karen M. McManus

Award Categories

Critical/Biographical

First Novel

Juvenile

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Motion Picture

Novel

Paperback Original

Short Story

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

The Robert L Fish Memorial Award

Young Adult

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