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

Awards List

2023

Or Else
(Winner)
Joe Hart

Quarry's Blood
(Nominee)
Max Allan Collins

Cleopatra's Dagger
(Nominee)
Carole Lawrence

On a Quiet Street
(Nominee)
Seraphina Nova Glass

A Familiar Stranger
(Nominee)
A.R. Torre

2022

Bobby March Will Live Forever
(Winner)
Alan Parks

Starr Sign
(Nominee)
C.S. O'Cinneide

The Album of Dr. Moreau
(Nominee)
Daryl Gregory

The Shape of Darkness
(Nominee)
Laura Purcell

Kill All Your Darlings
(Nominee)
David Bell

The Lighthouse Witches
(Nominee)
C.J. Cooke

2021

When No One Is Watching
(Winner)
Alyssa Cole

East of Hounslow
(Nominee)
Khurrum Rahman

The Deep, Deep Snow
(Nominee)
Brian Freeman

Unspeakable Things
(Nominee)
Jess Lourey

The Keeper
(Nominee)
Jessica Moor

2020

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

2019

If I Die Tonight
(Winner)
Alison Gaylin

The Perfect Nanny
(Nominee)
Leila Slimani

Hiroshima Boy
(Nominee)
Naomi Hirahara

Under a Dark Sky
(Nominee)
Lori Rader-Day

Under My Skin
(Nominee)
Lisa Unger

2018

The Unseeing
(Winner)
Anna Mazzola

The Rules of Backyard Cricket
(Nominee)
Jock Serong

Black Fall
(Nominee)
Andrew Mayne

In Farleigh Field
(Nominee)
Rhys Bowen

Penance
(Nominee)
Kanae Minato

Ragged Lake
(Nominee)
Ron Corbett

2017

Rain Dogs
(Winner)
Adrian McKinty

A Brilliant Death
(Nominee)
Robin Yocum

Heart of Stone
(Nominee)
James W. Ziskin

Shot in Detroit
(Nominee)
Patricia Abbott

Come Twilight
(Nominee)
Tyler Dilts

The 7th Canon
(Nominee)
Robert Dugoni

2016

The Long and Faraway Gone
(Winner)
Lou Berney

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter
(Nominee)
Malcolm MacKay

The Daughter
(Nominee)
Jane Shemilt

Gun Street Girl
(Nominee)
Adrian McKinty

Woman with a Blue Pencil
(Nominee)
Gordon McAlpine

What She Knew
(Nominee)
Gilly MacMillan

2015

The Secret History of Las Vegas
(Winner)
Chris Abani

The Secret History of Las Vegas
(Nominee)
Chris Abani

The Barkeep
(Nominee)
William Lashner

The Day She Died
(Nominee)
Catriona McPherson

Stay with Me
(Nominee)
Alison Gaylin

The Gone Dead Train
(Nominee)
Lisa Turner

World of Trouble
(Nominee)
Ben H. Winters

2014

The Wicked Girls
(Winner)
Alex Marwood

The Guilty One
(Nominee)
Lisa Ballantyne

Almost Criminal
(Nominee)
E.R. Brown

Joyland
(Nominee)
Stephen King

Brilliance
(Nominee)
Marcus Sakey

Joe Victim
(Nominee)
Paul Cleave

2013

The Last Policeman
(Winner)
Ben H. Winters

Bloodland
(Nominee)
Alan Glynn

Complication
(Nominee)
Isaac Adamson

Blessed Are the Dead
(Nominee)
Malla Nunn

Whiplash River
(Nominee)
Lou Berney

2012

The Company Man
(Winner)
Robert Jackson Bennett

The Dog Sox
(Nominee)
Russell Hill

Vienna Twilight
(Nominee)
Frank Tallis

Death of the Mantis
(Nominee)
Michael Stanley

The Faces of Angels
(Nominee)
Lucretia Grindle

2011

Long Time Coming
(Winner)
Robert Goddard

Vienna Secrets
(Nominee)
Frank Tallis

Expiration Date
(Nominee)
Duane Swierczynski

The News Where You Are
(Nominee)
Catherine O'Flynn

Ten Little Herrings
(Nominee)
L.C. Tyler

2010

Body Blows
(Winner)
Marc Strange

Havana Lunar
(Nominee)
Robert Arellano

The Herring-Seller's Apprentice
(Nominee)
L.C. Tyler

The Lord God Bird
(Nominee)
Russell Hill

Bury Me Deep
(Nominee)
Megan Abbott

2009

China Lake
(Winner)
Meg Gardiner

Money Shot
(Nominee)
Christa Faust

Enemy Combatant
(Nominee)
Ed Gaffney

The Prince of Bagram Prison
(Nominee)
Alex Carr

The Cold Spot
(Nominee)
Tom Piccirilli

2008

Queenpin
(Winner)
Megan Abbott

Blood of Paradise
(Nominee)
David Corbett

Robbie's Wife
(Nominee)
Russell Hill

Cruel Poetry
(Nominee)
Vicki Hendricks

Who is Conrad Hirst?
(Nominee)
Kevin Wignall

2007

Snakeskin Shamisen
(Winner)
Naomi Hirahara

City of Tiny Lights
(Nominee)
Patrick Neate

The Deep Blue Alibi
(Nominee)
Paul Levine

The Goodbye Kiss
(Nominee)
Massimo Carlotto

The Open Curtain
(Nominee)
Brian Evenson

2006

The Girl in the Glass
(Winner)
Jeffrey Ford

The James Deans
(Nominee)
Reed Farrel Coleman

Homicide My Own
(Nominee)
Anne Argula

Kiss Her Goodbye
(Nominee)
Allan Guthrie

Six Bad Things
(Nominee)
Charlie Huston

2005

The Confession
(Winner)
Domenic Stansberry

Twelve-Step Fandango
(Nominee)
Chris Haslam

Dead Men Rise Up Never
(Nominee)
Ron Faust

Into the Web
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

The Librarian
(Nominee)
Larry Beinhart

2004

Find Me Again
(Winner)
Sylvia Maultash Warsh

Wisdom of the Bones
(Nominee)
Christopher Hyde

The Last Witness
(Nominee)
Joel Goldman

Cut and Run
(Nominee)
Jeff Abbott

Southland
(Nominee)
Nina Revoyr

2003

Out of Sight
(Winner)
T.J. MacGregor

Prison Blues
(Nominee)
Anna Salter

Trauma
(Nominee)
Graham Masterton

Black Jack Point
(Nominee)
Jeff Abbott

The Night Watcher
(Nominee)
John Lutz

2002

Adios Muchachos
(Winner)
Daniel Chavarria

Dead of Winter
(Nominee)
P.J. Parrish

The Mother Tongue
(Nominee)
Teri Holbrook

Straw Men
(Nominee)
Martin J. Smith

2001

The Black Maria
(Winner)
Mark Graham

Murder on St. Mark's Place
(Nominee)
Victoria Thompson

Pursuit and Persuasion
(Nominee)
Sally Wright

Killing Kin
(Nominee)
Chassie West

The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn
(Nominee)
Eric Wright

2000

Fulton County Blues
(Winner)
Ruth Birmingham

The Resurrectionist
(Nominee)
Mark Graham

In Big Trouble
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

Outcast
(Nominee)
Jose LaTour

Lucky Man
(Nominee)
Tony Dunbar

1999

The Widower's Two-Step
(Winner)
Rick Riordan

Murder Manual // A Manual of Murder
(Nominee)
Steven Womack

Atlanta Graves
(Nominee)
Ruth Birmingham

Zen Attitude
(Nominee)
Sujata Massey

Butchers Hill
(Nominee)
Laura Lippman

1998

Charm City
(Winner)
Laura Lippman

Sunset and Santiago
(Nominee)
Gloria White

Home Again, Home Again
(Nominee)
Susan Rogers Cooper

Tarnished Icons
(Nominee)
Stuart M. Kaminsky

The Prioress' Tale
(Nominee)
Margaret Frazer

1997

Fade Away
(Winner)
Harlan Coben

Tribe
(Nominee)
R.D. Zimmerman

Walking Rain
(Nominee)
Susan Wade

Silent Words
(Nominee)
Joan M. Drury

The Grass Widow
(Nominee)
Teri Holbrook

1996

Tarnished Blue
(Winner)
William Heffernan

Charged with Guilt
(Nominee)
Gloria White

Deal Breaker
(Nominee)
Harlan Coben

High Desert Malice
(Nominee)
Kirk Mitchell

Hard Frost
(Nominee)
R.D. Wingfield

1995

Final Appeal
(Winner)
Lisa Scottoline

Viper Quarry
(Nominee)
Dean Feldmeyer

Sunrise
(Nominee)
Chassie West

The Broken-Hearted Detective
(Nominee)
Milton R. Bass

Power of Attorney
(Nominee)
Walter Sorrells

1994

Dead Folks' Blues
(Winner)
Steven Womack

Tony's Justice
(Nominee)
Eugene Izzi
  • / General Fiction

The Servant's Tale
(Nominee)
Margaret Frazer

Everywhere That Mary Went
(Nominee)
Lisa Scottoline

1993

A Cold Day for Murder
(Winner)
Dana Stabenow

The Good Friday Murder
(Nominee)
Lee Harris

Principal Defense
(Nominee)
Gini Hartzmark

Night Cruise
(Nominee)
Billie Sue Mosiman

Shallow Graves
(Nominee)
William Jefferies

1992

Dark Maze
(Winner)
Thomas Adcock

Murder in the Dog Days
(Nominee)
P.M. Carlson

Cracking Up
(Nominee)
Ed Naha

Midtown North
(Nominee)
Christopher Newman

Fine Distinctions
(Nominee)
Deborah Valentine

1991

The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald
(Winner)
David Handler

Dead in the Scrub
(Nominee)
B.J. Oliphant

Comeback
(Nominee)
L.L. Enger

SPQR // The King's Gambit
(Nominee)
John Maddox Roberts

Not a Creature Was Stirring
(Nominee)
Jane Haddam

1990

The Rain
(Winner)
Keith Peterson

King of the Hustlers
(Nominee)
Eugene Izzi
  • / General Fiction

Hot Wire
(Nominee)
Randy Russell

A Collector of Photographs
(Nominee)
Deborah Valentine

Manhattan Is My Beat
(Nominee)
Jeffery Deaver

1989

The Telling of Lies
(Winner)
Timothy Findley

The Trapdoor
(Nominee)
Keith Peterson

A Radical Departure
(Nominee)
Lia Matera

Preacher
(Nominee)
Ted Thackrey

Judgment by Fire
(Nominee)
Frederick D. Huebner

1988

Bimbos of the Death Sun
(Winner)
Sharyn McCrumb

Deadly Intrusion
(Nominee)
Walter Dillion

The Monkey's Raincoat
(Nominee)
Robert Crais

The Long Way to Die
(Nominee)
James N. Frey

Bullshot
(Nominee)
Gabrielle Kraft

1987

The Junkyard Dog
(Winner)
Robert Campbell

Shattered Moon
(Nominee)
Kate Green

The Cat Who Saw Red
(Nominee)
Lilian Jackson Braun

Hazzard
(Nominee)
R.D. Brown

Ronin
(Nominee)
Nick Christian

1986

Pigs Get Fat
(Winner)
Warren Murphy

Poverty Bay
(Nominee)
Earl Emerson
  • / Private Investigator

Broken Idols
(Nominee)
Sean Flannery

Blue Heron
(Nominee)
Philip Ross

Black Gravity
(Nominee)
Conall Ryan

1985

Grandmaster
(Winner)
Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

Black Knight in Red Square
(Nominee)
Stuart M. Kaminsky
  • / Law Enforcement

Words Can Kill
(Nominee)
Kenn Davis

The Keys to Billy Tillio
(Nominee)
Eric Blau

The Seventh Sacrament
(Nominee)
Roland Cutler

1984

Mrs. White
(Winner)
Margaret Tracy

The Kill Factor
(Nominee)
Richard Harper

Hunter
(Nominee)
Eric Sauter

Trace
(Nominee)
Warren Murphy

False Prophets
(Nominee)
Sean Flannery

1983

Triangle
(Winner)
Teri White

Clandestine
(Nominee)
James Ellroy

The Missing and the Dead
(Nominee)
Jack Lynch

Vital Signs
(Nominee)
Ralph Burrows M.D.

1982

The Old Dick
(Winner)
L.A. Morse

Dead Heat
(Nominee)
Raymond Obstfeld

Deadline
(Nominee)
John Dunning

The Unforgiven
(Nominee)
Patricia MacDonald

Pin
(Nominee)
Andrew Neiderman

1981

Public Murders
(Winner)
Bill Granger

Looking For Ginger North
(Nominee)
John Dunning

Tough Luck L.A.
(Nominee)
Murray Sinclair

Blood Innocents
(Nominee)
Thomas H. Cook

1980

The Hog Murders
(Winner)
William L. Deandrea

The Infernal Device
(Nominee)
Michael Kurland

Vortex
(Nominee)
David Heller

The Queen Is Dead
(Nominee)
Glenn Kezer

Kremlin Conspiracy
(Nominee)
Sean Flannery

1979

Deceit and Deadly Lies
(Winner)
Franklin Bandy

The Switch
(Nominee)
Elmore Leonard

Heartstone
(Nominee)
Phillip Margolin

Charnel House and Other Stories
(Nominee)
Graham Masterton

1978

The Quark Maneuver
(Winner)
Michael Jahn

The Terrorizers
(Nominee)
Donald Hamilton

Time to Murder and Create
(Nominee)
Lawrence Block
  • / Private Investigator

They've Killed Anna
(Nominee)
Marc Olden

1977

Confess, Fletch
(Winner)
Gregory McDonald
  • / Private Investigator

Freeze Frame
(Nominee)
Robert Irvine
  • / Amateur Sleuth

The Dark Side
(Nominee)
Kenn Davis
  • / Private Investigator

The Retaliators
(Nominee)
Donald Hamilton

1976

Autopsy
(Winner)
John R. Feegel

1975

The Corpse That Walked
(Winner)
Roy Winsor

Jump Cut
(Nominee)
Robert Irvine
  • / Amateur Sleuth

Who Killed Mr. Garland's Mistress?
(Nominee)
Richard Forrest

1974

Death of an Informer
(Winner)
Will Perry

The Big Fix
(Nominee)
Roger L. Simon
  • / Private Investigator

The Mediterranean Caper
(Nominee)
Clive Cussler

1973

The Invader
(Winner)
Richard Wormser

1972

For Murder I Charge More
(Winner)
Frank McAuliffe

Nor Spell Nor Charm
(Nominee)
Alicen White
  • / Gothic

Space for Hire
(Nominee)
William F. Nolan

And the Deep Blue Sea
(Nominee)
Charles Williams

1971

Flashpoint
(Winner)
Dan J. Marlowe

The Drowning
(Nominee)
Jack Ehrlich
  • / General Fiction

Grave Descend
(Nominee)
John Lange

After Things Fell Apart
(Nominee)
Ron Goulart

1970

The Dragon's Eye
(Winner)
Scott C.S. Stone

The Governess
(Nominee)
Elsie Cromwell
  • / Romantic Suspense

The Sour Lemon Score
(Nominee)
Richard Stark
  • / Action Adventure

A Plague of Spies
(Nominee)
Michael Kurland

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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