Edgar Award Winners 2019!

The Edgar Award Winners and Nominees 2019 has been released. Congrats to all the Nominees & Winners!!

Best Novel

               

The Liar’s Girl by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone Publishing)
House Witness by Mike Lawson (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
A Gambler’s Jury by Victor Methos (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland)
Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne(Penguin Random House – Hogarth)
A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn (Penguin Random House – Berkley)

Winner: Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley (Hachette Book Group – Mulholland)

Best First Novel

        

A Knife in the Fog by Bradley Harper (Seventh Street Books)
The Captives by Debra Jo Immergut (HarperCollins Publishers – Ecco)
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs (Simon & Schuster – Touchstone)
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin (HarperCollins Publishers – Ecco)

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

Winner: Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin (HarperCollins Publishers – Ecco)

Best Paperback Original

        

If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
Hiroshima Boy by Naomi Hirahara (Prospect Park Books)
Under a Dark Sky by Lori Rader-Day (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani(Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)

Under My Skin by Lisa Unger (Harlequin – Park Row Books

Winner: If I Die Tonight by Alison Gaylin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Best Fact Crime

          

Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
by Robert W. Fieseler (W.W. Norton & Company – Liveright)
Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayalby Jonathan Green (W.W. Norton & Company)
The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure
by Carl Hoffman (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson (Penguin Random House – Viking)
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killerby Michelle McNamara (HarperCollins Publishers – Harper)

The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World’s Most Powerful Mafia
by Alex Perry (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

Winner: Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation

Best Critical/Biographical

        

The Metaphysical Mysteries of G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study of the Father Brown Stories and Other Detective Fiction
by Laird R. Blackwell (McFarland Publishing)
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
by Alice Bolin (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow Paperbacks)
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s 
by Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus Books)
Mark X: Who Killed Huck Finn’s Father? by Yasuhiro Takeuchi (Taylor & Francis – Routledge)
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson (Pegasus Books)

Winner: Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s 

Mary Higgins Clark

        

A Death of No Importance by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur Books)

A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne Freeman (Kensington Publishing)
Bone on Bone by Julia Keller (Minotaur Books)
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Press – Soho Crime)A Borrowing of Bones by Paula Munier(Minotaur Books)

Winner: The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Press – Soho Crime)

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