2025 Edgar Awards Shortlist Announced

By: Brandon Williams, February 3rd, 2025 3:02 am.

The nominees are out for 2025 Edgar Awards, which are one of the most prestigious awards in the literary field.

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the 2025 Edgar Awards for the categories of Best Mystery Novel, Best First Novel, Best Paperback Original, Best Fact Crime, Best Critical/Biographical, Best Short Story, Best Juvenile, Best Young Adult, Best Young Adult, the Mary Higgins Clark Award, the Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award, and the Sue Grafton Memorial Award, as well as the Grand Masters and the Raven Award.

The nominees are as follows:

Best Mystery Novel

Best First Novel

Best Paperback Original

Best Fact Crime

  • Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi
  • The Infernal Machine by Steven Johnson
  • A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton by Deb Miller Landau
  • The Amish Wife by Gregg Olsen
  • Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America’s Second Slavery by Earl Swift
  • The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich

Best Critical/Biographical Work

  • James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Nathan Ashman
  • Organized Crime on Page and Screen by David Geherin
  • American Noir Film: From The Maltese Falcon to Gone Girl by M. Keith Booker
  • On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Leigh Brackett by Ashley Lawson

Best Short Story

Best Juvenile

Best Young Adult

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

Congratulations to the nominees!

In addition to these, the 2025 Raven Award went to Face in a Book Bookstore & Gifts, Peter Wolverton of St. Martin’s Publishing Group got the Ellery Queen Award, and Laura Lippman and John Sandford were named Grand Masters.

The awards will be presented on May 1st, 2025 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City. For more information, please visit the Edgar Awards website.

For the full history of the Edgar Awards, click here.

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