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2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners
Browse the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award winners and nominees by category. Each category starts with the winner, followed by nominees and other recognized titles.
First Novel
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award First Novel category.
Nominee
Cold to the Touch
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A Jewel in the Crown
Nominee
The Mechanics of Memory
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The President's Lawyer
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Twice the Trouble
Juvenile
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Juvenile category.
Winner
The Stolen Key
Nominee
The Beanstalk Murder
Nominee
Find Her
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The Mystery of Mystic Mountain
Nominee
The Spindle of Fate
Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award category.
Nominee
Booked for Murder
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Death and Fromage
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Murder on Devil's Pond
Nominee
The Treasure Hunters Club
Mary Higgins Clark Award
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Mary Higgins Clark Award category.
Winner
The Mystery Writer
Nominee
Death in the Details
Nominee
Return to Wyldcliffe Heights
Nominee
The Rose Arbor
Novel
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Novel category.
Winner
The In Crowd
Nominee
The God of the Woods
Nominee
Listen for the Lie
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My Favorite Scar
Nominee
Rough Trade
Nominee
The Tainted Cup
Nominee
Things Don't Break on Their Own
Paperback Original
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Paperback Original category.
Winner
The Paris Widow
Nominee
A Forgotten Kill
Nominee
The Road to Heaven
Nominee
Shell Games
Nominee
The Vacancy in Room 10
Short Story
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Short Story category.
Winner
Eat My Moose
Nominee
The Art of Cruel Embroidery
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Barriers to Entry
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Cut and Thirst
Nominee
Everywhere You Look
Sue Grafton Memorial Award
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Sue Grafton Memorial Award category.
Winner
The Comfort of Ghosts
Nominee
All the Way Gone
Nominee
Disturbing the Dead
Nominee
A Game of Lies
Nominee
Proof
Nominee
A World of Hurt
Young Adult
Winner and nominees for the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award Young Adult category.
Winner
49 Miles Alone
Nominee
The Bitter End
Nominee
A Crane Among Wolves
Nominee
Death at Morning House
Nominee
Looking for Smoke
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The Robert L Fish Memorial Award
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