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

Awards List

2023

Notes on an Execution
(Winner)
Danya Kukafka

Devil House
(Nominee)
John Darnielle

The Maid
(Nominee)
Nita Prose

Like a Sister
(Nominee)
Kellye Garrett

The Devil Takes You Home
(Nominee)
Gabino Iglesias

Gangland
(Nominee)
Chuck Hogan

2022

Five Decembers
(Winner)
James Kestrel

The Venice Sketchbook
(Nominee)
Rhys Bowen

How Lucky
(Nominee)
Will Leitch

Razorblade Tears
(Nominee)
S.A. Cosby

No One Will Miss Her
(Nominee)
Kat Rosenfield

2021

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
(Winner)
Deepa Anappara

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

2020

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

2019

Down the River Unto the Sea
(Winner)
Walter Mosley

A Treacherous Curse
(Nominee)
Deanna Raybourn

House Witness
(Nominee)
Mike Lawson

A Gambler's Jury
(Nominee)
Victor Methos

The Liar's Girl
(Nominee)
Catherine Ryan Howard

Only to Sleep
(Nominee)
Lawrence Osborne

2018

Bluebird, Bluebird
(Winner)
Attica Locke

The Dime
(Nominee)
Kathleen Kent

Prussian Blue
(Nominee)
Philip Kerr

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
(Nominee)
Hannah Tinti

A Rising Man
(Nominee)
Abir Mukherjee

2017

Before the Fall
(Winner)
Noah Hawley

Where It Hurts
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

The Ex
(Nominee)
Alafair Burke

What Remains of Me
(Nominee)
Alison Gaylin

Jane Steele
(Nominee)
Lyndsay Faye

2016

Let Me Die in His Footsteps
(Winner)
Lori Roy

Canary
(Nominee)
Duane Swierczynski

Life or Death
(Nominee)
Michael Robotham

Night Life
(Nominee)
David C. Taylor

The Lady from Zagreb
(Nominee)
Philip Kerr

The Strangler Vine
(Nominee)
M.J. Carter

2015

Mr. Mercedes
(Winner)
Stephen King

Saints of the Shadow Bible
(Nominee)
Ian Rankin

This Dark Road to Mercy
(Nominee)
Wiley Cash

Wolf
(Nominee)
Mo Hayder

Cop Town
(Nominee)
Karin Slaughter

Mr. Mercedes
(Nominee)
Stephen King

The Final Silence
(Nominee)
Stuart Neville

2014

Ordinary Grace
(Winner)
William Kent Krueger

Standing in Another Man's Grave
(Nominee)
Ian Rankin

Until She Comes Home
(Nominee)
Lori Roy

The Humans
(Nominee)
Matt Haig

Sandrine's Case
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

How the Light Gets in
(Nominee)
Louise Penny

2013

Live by Night
(Winner)
Dennis Lehane

All I Did Was Shoot My Man
(Nominee)
Walter Mosley

The Gods of Gotham
(Nominee)
Lyndsay Faye

Gone Girl
(Nominee)
Gillian Flynn

The Lost Ones
(Nominee)
Ace Atkins

Sunset
(Nominee)
Al Lamanda

Potboiler
(Nominee)
Jesse Kellerman

2012

Gone
(Winner)
Mo Hayder

The Devotion of Suspect X
(Nominee)
Keigo Higashino

Field Gray
(Nominee)
Philip Kerr

The Ranger
(Nominee)
Ace Atkins

1222
(Nominee)
Anne Holt

2011

The Lock Artist
(Winner)
Steve Hamilton

Caught
(Nominee)
Harlan Coben

Faithful Place
(Nominee)
Tana French

I'd Know You Anywhere
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

The Queen of Patpong
(Nominee)
Timothy Hallinan

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
(Nominee)
Tom Franklin

2010

The Last Child
(Winner)
John Hart

Nemesis
(Nominee)
Jo Nesbo
  • / Police Procedural

A Beautiful Place to Die
(Nominee)
Malla Nunn

The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death
(Nominee)
Charlie Huston

The Missing
(Nominee)
Tim Gautreaux

The Odds
(Nominee)
Kathleen George

2009

Blue Heaven
(Winner)
C.J. Box

Missing
(Nominee)
Karin Alvtegen

Sins of the Assassin
(Nominee)
Robert Ferrigno

Curse of the Spellmans
(Nominee)
Lisa Lutz

The Night Following
(Nominee)
Morag Joss

The Price of Blood // The Dying Breed
(Nominee)
Declan Hughes

2008

Down River
(Winner)
John Hart

Christine Falls
(Nominee)
Benjamin Black

Priest
(Nominee)
Ken Bruen

Soul Patch
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

The Yiddish Policemen's Union
(Nominee)
Michael Chabon

2007

The Janissary Tree
(Winner)
Jason Goodwin

Gentlemen and Players
(Nominee)
Joanne Harris

The Virgin of Small Plains
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

The Pale Blue Eye
(Nominee)
Louis Bayard

The Dead Hour
(Nominee)
Denise Mina

Liberation Movements
(Nominee)
Olen Steinhauer

2006

Citizen Vince
(Winner)
Jess Walter

Drama City
(Nominee)
George P. Pelecanos

Red Leaves
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

Vanish
(Nominee)
Tess Gerritsen

The Lincoln Lawyer
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

2005

California Girl
(Winner)
T. Jefferson Parker

Evan's Gate
(Nominee)
Rhys Bowen

Out of the Deep I Cry
(Nominee)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

Remembering Sarah
(Nominee)
Chris Mooney

By a Spider's Thread
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

2004

Resurrection Men
(Winner)
Ian Rankin

The Guards
(Nominee)
Ken Bruen

Maisie Dobbs
(Nominee)
Jacqueline Winspear

Out
(Nominee)
Natsuo Kirino

2003

Winter and Night
(Winner)
S.J. Rozan

Savannah Blues
(Nominee)
Mary Kay Andrews

City of Bones
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

No Good Deed
(Nominee)
Manda Scott / M.C. Scott

Jolie Blon's Bounce
(Nominee)
James Lee Burke

2002

Silent Joe
(Winner)
T. Jefferson Parker

Reflecting the Sky
(Nominee)
S.J. Rozan

The Judgment
(Nominee)
D.W. Buffa

Tell No One
(Nominee)
Harlan Coben

Money, Money, Money
(Nominee)
Ed McBain

2001

The Bottoms
(Winner)
Joe R. Lansdale

The Whole Truth
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

Red Light
(Nominee)
T. Jefferson Parker

A Dangerous Road
(Nominee)
Kris Nelscott

A Place of Execution
(Nominee)
Val McDermid

2000

Bones
(Winner)
Jan Burke

Strawberry Sunday
(Nominee)
Stephen Greenleaf

In a Dry Season
(Nominee)
Peter Robinson

L.A. Requiem
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

River of Darkness
(Nominee)
Rennie Airth

1999

Mr. White's Confession
(Winner)
Robert Clark

The Last Days of Il Duce
(Nominee)
Domenic Stansberry

A Likeness in Stone
(Nominee)
J. Wallis Martin

Blood Work
(Nominee)
Michael Connelly

Beyond Recall
(Nominee)
Robert Goddard

1998

Cimarron Rose
(Winner)
James Lee Burke

The Purification Ceremony
(Nominee)
Mark T. Sullivan

A Wasteland of Strangers
(Nominee)
Bill Pronzini

Black and Blue
(Nominee)
Ian Rankin

Dreaming of the Bones
(Nominee)
Deborah Crombie

1997

The Chatham School Affair
(Winner)
Thomas H. Cook

With Child
(Nominee)
Laurie R. King

Pentecost Alley
(Nominee)
Anne Perry

Mean Streak
(Nominee)
Carolyn Wheat

Hearts and Bones
(Nominee)
Margaret Lawrence

1996

Come to Grief
(Winner)
Dick Francis

The Bookman's Wake
(Nominee)
John Dunning

The Shadow Man
(Nominee)
John Katzenbach

The Roaring Boy
(Nominee)
Edward Marston

The Summons
(Nominee)
Peter Lovesey

1995

The Red Scream
(Winner)
Mary Willis Walker

Wednesday's Child
(Nominee)
Peter Robinson
  • / Police Procedural

Miami, It's Murder
(Nominee)
Edna Buchanan

Lights Out
(Nominee)
Peter Abrahams

A Long Line of Dead Men
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block

1994

The Sculptress
(Winner)
Minette Walters

The Journeyman Tailor
(Nominee)
Gerald Seymour

Wolf in the Shadows
(Nominee)
Marcia Muller
  • / Private Investigator

Free Fall
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

Smilla's Sense of Snow
(Nominee)
Peter Hoeg

1993

Bootlegger's Daughter
(Winner)
Margaret Maron

Backhand
(Nominee)
Liza Cody

Pomona Queen
(Nominee)
Kem Nunn

White Butterfly
(Nominee)
Walter Mosley

32 Cadillacs
(Nominee)
Joe Gores

1992

A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
(Winner)
Lawrence Block

Palindrome
(Nominee)
Stuart Woods

Prior Convictions
(Nominee)
Lia Matera

Don't Say a Word
(Nominee)
Andrew Klavan

I.O.U.
(Nominee)
Nancy Pickard

1991

New Orleans Mourning
(Winner)
Julie Smith

Bones and Silence
(Nominee)
Reginald Hill

Deadfall in Berlin
(Nominee)
R.D. Zimmerman

Whiskey River
(Nominee)
Loren D. Estleman

Fade the Heat
(Nominee)
Jay Brandon

1990

Black Cherry Blues
(Winner)
James Lee Burke

The Booster
(Nominee)
Eugene Izzi

Goldilocks
(Nominee)
Andrew Coburn

The Death of a Joyce Scholar
(Nominee)
Bartholomew Gill

A Question of Guilt
(Nominee)
Frances Fyfield

1989

A Cold Red Sunrise
(Winner)
Stuart M. Kaminsky

Sacrificial Ground
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

Joey's Case
(Nominee)
K.C. Constantine

In the Lake of the Moon
(Nominee)
David L. Lindsey

A Thief of Time
(Nominee)
Tony Hillerman

1988

Old Bones
(Winner)
Aaron Elkins
  • / Law Enforcement

The Corpse in Oozak's Pond
(Nominee)
Charlotte MacLeod

Nursery Crimes
(Nominee)
B.M. Gill

Rough Cider
(Nominee)
Peter Lovesey

A Trouble of Fools
(Nominee)
Linda Barnes

1987

A Dark-Adapted Eye
(Winner)
Barbara Vine

The Straight Man
(Nominee)
Roger L. Simon
  • / Private Investigator

Come Morning
(Nominee)
Joe Gores

Charlie Muffin and the Russian Rose // The Blind Run
(Nominee)
Brian Freemantle

1986

The Suspect
(Winner)
Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

The Tree of Hands
(Nominee)
Ruth Rendell

A Shock to the System
(Nominee)
Simon Brett

An Unkindness of Ravens
(Nominee)
Ruth Rendell

City of Glass
(Nominee)
Paul Auster

1985

Briarpatch
(Winner)
Ross Thomas

The Black Seraphim
(Nominee)
Michael Gilbert

Emily Dickinson Is Dead
(Nominee)
Jane Langton

Chessplayer
(Nominee)
William Pearson

The Twelfth Juror
(Nominee)
B.M. Gill

1984

LaBrava
(Winner)
Elmore Leonard

The Papers of Tony Veitch
(Nominee)
William McIlvanney
  • / Police Procedural

The Little Drummer Girl
(Nominee)
John Le Carre

Texas Station
(Nominee)
Christopher Leach

The Name of the Rose
(Nominee)
Umberto Eco

1983

Billingsgate Shoal
(Winner)
Rick Boyer
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Kahawa
(Nominee)
Donald E. Westlake

Split Images
(Nominee)
Elmore Leonard

Eight Million Ways to Die
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block
  • / Private Investigator

The Captain
(Nominee)
Seymour Shubin

1982

Peregrine
(Winner)
William Bayer

Death in a Cold Climate
(Nominee)
Robert Barnard

The Amateur
(Nominee)
Robert Littell

Bogmail
(Nominee)
Patrick McGinley

The Other Side of Silence
(Nominee)
Ted Allbeury

Dupe
(Nominee)
Liza Cody

1981

Whip Hand
(Winner)
Dick Francis

Death Drop
(Nominee)
B.M. Gill

Man on Fire
(Nominee)
A.J. Quinnell

The Spy's Wife
(Nominee)
Reginald Hill

Death of a Literary Widow
(Nominee)
Robert Barnard

1980

The Rheingold Route
(Winner)
Arthur Maling

Fire in the Barley
(Nominee)
Frank Parrish
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Make Death Love Me
(Nominee)
Ruth Rendell

Death of a Mystery Writer
(Nominee)
Robert Barnard

A Coat of Varnish
(Nominee)
C.P. Snow / Charles Percy Snow

1979

The Eye of the Needle
(Winner)
Ken Follett

Listening Woman
(Nominee)
Tony Hillerman
  • / Police Procedural

The Shallow Grave
(Nominee)
Jack S. Scott

A Sleeping Life
(Nominee)
Ruth Rendell
  • / Law Enforcement

The Snake
(Nominee)
John Godey

1978

Catch Me: Kill Me
(Winner)
William H. Hallahan

Laidlaw
(Nominee)
William McIlvanney
  • / Police Procedural

Nightwing
(Nominee)
Martin Cruz Smith

1977

Promised Land
(Winner)
Robert B. Parker

The Glory Boys
(Nominee)
Gerald Seymour

The Cavanaugh Quest
(Nominee)
Thomas Gifford

The Main
(Nominee)
Trevanian

1976

Hopscotch
(Winner)
Brian Garfield

Harry's Game
(Nominee)
Gerald Seymour

The Gargoyle Conspiracy
(Nominee)
Marvin Albert

The Money Harvest
(Nominee)
Ross Thomas

1975

Peter's Pence
(Winner)
Jon Cleary

The Silver Bears
(Nominee)
Paul E. Erdman

1974

Dance Hall of the Dead
(Winner)
Tony Hillerman
  • / Police Procedural

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
(Nominee)
P.D. James
  • / Private Investigator

Dear Laura
(Nominee)
Jean Stubbs
  • / Historical Mystery

The Rainbird Pattern
(Nominee)
Victor Canning

1973

The Lingala Code
(Winner)
Warren Kiefer

The Shooting Gallery
(Nominee)
Hugh C. Rae

Canto for a Gypsy
(Nominee)
Martin Cruz Smith
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Tied Up in Tinsel
(Nominee)
Ngaio Marsh
  • / Police Procedural

Five Pieces of Jade
(Nominee)
John Dudley Ball

1972

The Day of the Jackal
(Winner)
Frederick Forsyth

Sir, You Bastard
(Nominee)
G.F. Newman

Shroud for a Nightingale
(Nominee)
P.D. James
  • / Police Procedural

The Fly on the Wall
(Nominee)
Tony Hillerman

1971

The Laughing Policeman
(Winner)
Maj Sjowall; Per Wahloo
  • / Police Procedural

Many Deadly Returns // Who Saw Her Die?
(Nominee)
Patricia Moyes
  • / Law Enforcement

The Hot Rock
(Nominee)
Donald E. Westlake

Beyond This Point Are Monsters
(Nominee)
Margaret Millar

1970

Forfeit
(Winner)
Dick Francis

The Old English Peep Show
(Nominee)
Peter Dickinson

When in Greece
(Nominee)
Emma Lathen
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Where the Dark Streets Go
(Nominee)
Dorothy Salisbury Davis

Blind Man with a Pistol
(Nominee)
Chester Himes

1969

A Case of Need
(Winner)
Jeffrey Hudson

Blood Sport
(Nominee)
Dick Francis

Picture Miss Seeton
(Nominee)
Heron Carvic
  • / Amateur Sleuth

1968

God Save the Mark
(Winner)
Donald E. Westlake

Flying Finish
(Nominee)
Dick Francis

The Gift Shop
(Nominee)
Charlotte Armstrong

Lemon in the Basket
(Nominee)
Charlotte Armstrong

A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures
(Nominee)
George Baxt

Rosemary's Baby
(Nominee)
Ira Levin

1967

The King of the Rainy Country
(Winner)
Nicolas Freeling
  • / Law Enforcement

Odds Against
(Nominee)
Dick Francis
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Death at the Dolphin // Killer Dolphin
(Nominee)
Ngaio Marsh
  • / Police Procedural

Busy Body
(Nominee)
Donald E. Westlake

1966

The Berlin Memorandum // The Quiller Memorandum
(Winner)
Adam Hall

Funeral in Berlin
(Nominee)
Len Deighton

The Perfect Murder
(Nominee)
H.R.F. Keating
  • / Police Procedural

Airs Above the Ground
(Nominee)
Mary Stewart

The Far Side of the Dollar
(Nominee)
Ross MacDonald
  • / Private Investigator

The Pale Betrayer
(Nominee)
Dorothy Salisbury Davis

1965

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(Winner)
John Le Carre

The Fiend
(Nominee)
Margaret Millar
  • / Gothic

This Rough Magic
(Nominee)
Mary Stewart

The Night of the Generals
(Nominee)
Hans Hellmut Kirst

1964

The Light of Day
(Winner)
Eric Ambler

Player on the Other Side
(Nominee)
Ellery Queen

The Expendable Man
(Nominee)
Dorothy B. Hughes

1963

Death and the Joyful Woman
(Winner)
Ellis Peters
  • / Police Procedural

Knave of Hearts
(Nominee)
Dell Shannon
  • / Police Procedural

The Zebra-Striped Hearse
(Nominee)
Ross MacDonald
  • / Private Investigator

1962

Gideon's Fire
(Winner)
J.J. Marric
  • / Law Enforcement

The Green Stone
(Nominee)
Suzanne Blanc

The Wycherly Woman
(Nominee)
Ross MacDonald
  • / Private Investigator

1961

The Progress of a Crime
(Winner)
Julian Symons

Watcher in the Shadows
(Nominee)
Geoffrey Household

Traces of Brillhart
(Nominee)
Herbert Brean

1960

The Hours Before Dawn
(Winner)
Celia Fremlin

The List of Adrian Messenger
(Nominee)
Philip MacDonald

1959

The Eighth Circle
(Winner)
Stanley Ellin

A Gentleman Called
(Nominee)
Dorothy Salisbury Davis

1958

Room to Swing
(Winner)
Ed Lacy

1957

A Dram of Poison
(Winner)
Charlotte Armstrong

1956

Beast in View
(Winner)
Margaret Millar

The Talented Mr. Ripley
(Nominee)
Patricia Highsmith

1955

The Long Goodbye
(Winner)
Raymond Chandler
  • / Hard-Boiled

1954

Beat Not the Bones
(Winner)
Charlotte Jay

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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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