Last week, the Mystery Writers of America announced the
winners of the 2021 Edgar Awards, one of the mystery world’s premier
honors. This year marks the 75th annual presentation of the awards.
BEST NOVEL
Nominees:
Djinn
Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara WINNER
Before
She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney
Thursday
Murder Club by Richard Osman
These
Women by Ivy Pochoda
The
Missing American by Kwei Quartey
The
Distant Dead by Heather Young
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN
AUTHOR
Nominees:
Murder
in Old Bombay by Nev March
Please
See Us by Caitlin Mullen WINNER
Catherine
House by Elisabeth Thomas
Winter
Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Darling
Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Nominees:
When
No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole WINNER
The
Deep, Deep Snow by Brian Freeman
Unspeakable
Things by Jess Lourey
The
Keeper by Jessica Moor
East
of Hounslow by Khurrum Rahman
BEST TRUE CRIME
Nominees:
Blood
Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of
America by Mark A. Bradley
The
Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma
Copley Eisenberg
Death
in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the
Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre WINNER
Yellow
Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by
Sierra Crane Murdoch
Veritas:
A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife by
Ariel Sabar
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
Nominees:
Howdunit:
A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club edited
by Martin Edwards
Phantom
Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by
Christina Lane WINNER
Ian
Rankin: A Companion to the Mystery & Fiction by Erin E. MacDonald
Guilt
Rules All: Irish Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction by
Elizabeth Mannion & Brian Cliff
This
Time Next Year We’ll be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear
BEST JUVENILE
Nominees:
Premeditated
Myrtle by Elizabeth C. Bunce WINNER
Me
and Banksy by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
From
the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
Ikenga by
Nnedi Okorafor
Nessie
Quest by Melissa Savage
Coop
Knows the Scoop by Taryn Souders
BEST YOUNG ADULT
Nominees:
The
Companion by Katie Alender WINNER
The
Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
They
Went Left by Monica Hesse
Silence
of Bones by June Hur
The
Cousins by Karen M. McManus
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY
Nominees:
“Episode 1, The Stranger” – Harlan Coben’s The Stranger, Written
by Danny Brocklehurst (Netflix)
“Episode 1, Open Water” – The
Sounds, Written by Sarah-Kate Lynch (Acorn TV)
“Episode 1, Photochemistry” – Dead
Still, Written by John Morton (Acorn TV) WINNER
“Episode 1” – Des,
Written by Luke Neal (Sundance Now)
“What I Know” – The
Boys, Written by Rebecca Sonnenshine, based on the comic by Garth Ennis and
Darick Robertson (Amazon)
ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
“The Bite,” Tampa
Bay Noir by Colette Bancroft
THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
Nominees:
Death
of an American Beauty by Mariah Fredericks
The
Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart WINNER
The
Lucky One by Lori Rader-Day
The
First to Lie by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Cold
Wind by Paige Shelton
THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE
GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
Nominees:
The
Burn by Kathleen Kent
Riviera
Gold by Laurie R. King
Vera
Kelly Is Not a Mystery by Rosalie Knecht WINNER
Dead
Land by Sara Paretsky
The
Sleeping Nymph by Ilaria Tuti
Turn
to Stone by James W. Ziskin
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