2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCEMENT
(エドガー賞候補作発表)

Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2023 Edgar Awards as follows:

BEST NOVEL:
Devil House, by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/MCD)
Like a Sister, by Kellye Garrett (Mulholland Books)
Gangland, by Chuck Hogan (Grand Central)
The Devil Takes You Home, by Gabino Iglesias (Mulholland Books)
Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka (William Morrow)
The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine Books)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR:
Jackal, by Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
Don’t Know Tough, by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
More Than You’ll Ever Know, by Katie Gutierrez (William Morrow)


Portrait of a Thief, by Grace D. Li (Tiny Reparations Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:
Quarry’s Blood, by Max Allan Collins (Hard Case Crime)
On a Quiet Street, by Seraphina Nova Glass (Graydon House)
Or Else, by Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer)
Cleopatra’s Dagger, by Carole Lawrence (Thomas & Mercer)
A Familiar Stranger, by A.R. Torre (Thomas & Mercer)

BEST FACT CRIME:
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls, by Kathleen Hale (Grove Press)
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books)
Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders, by Kathryn Miles (Algonquin Books)
American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C., by Shahan Mufti (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America’s Jack the Ripper, by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL:
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, by Mary Anna Evans & J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Crime World of Michael Connelly: A Study of His Works and Their Adaptations, by David Geherin (McFarland)
The Woman Beyond the Attic: The V.C. Andrews Story, by Andrew Neiderman (Gallery Books)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)

BEST SHORT STORY:
“Red Flag,” by Gregory Fallis (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2022)
“Backstory,” by Charles John Harper (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2022)
“Locked-In,” by William Burton McCormick (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, January/February 2022)
“The Amnesty Box,” by Tim McLoughlin (in Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; Akashic Books)
“First You Dream, Then You Die,” by Donna Moore (in Black is the Night; Titan Books)

BEST JUVENILE:
The Swallowtail Legacy: Wreck at Ada’s Reef, by Michael D. Beil (Holiday House/Pixel+Ink)
The Area 51 Files, by Julie Buxbaum (Delacorte Press)
Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse, by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra Books)
Adventures on Trains: Murder on the Safari Star, by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman (Feiwel & Friends)
Chester Keene Cracks the Code, by Kekla Magoon (Wendy Lamb Books)

BEST YOUNG ADULT:
Pretty Dead Queens, by Alexa Donne (Crown BFYR)
Frightmares, by Eva V. Gibson (Underlined)
The Black Girls Left Standing, by Juliana Goodman (Feiwel & Friends)
The Red Palace, by June Hur (Feiwel & Friends)
Lock the Doors, by Vincent Ralph (Sourcebooks/Fire)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY:
“One Mighty and Strong”Under the Banner of Heaven, Written by Brandon Boyce (Hulu/FX)
“Episode 1”Magpie Murders, Written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)
“Episode 1” Karen Pirie, Written by Emer Kenny (BritBox)
“When Harry Met Fergus”Harry Wild, Written by David Logan (Acorn TV)
“The Reagan Way”Blue Bloods, Written by Siobhan Byrne O’Connor (CBS)
“Eighteen Wheels A Predator”Law & Order: SVU, Written by Brianna Yellen & Monet Hurst-Mendoza (NBC Universal)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD Recipient:
“Dogs in the Canyon,” by Mark Harrison (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, September/October 2022)

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD:
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Amanda Flower (Berkley)
The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill (Poisoned Pen Press)
The Disinvited Guest, by Carol Goodman (William Morrow)
A Dreadful Splendor, by B.R. Myers (William Morrow)
Never Name the Dead, by D.M. Rowell (Crooked Lane Books)

THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD:
Secret Lives, by Mark de Castrique (Poisoned Pen Press)
An Unforgiving Place, by Claire Kells (Crooked Lane Books)
Hideout, by Louisa Luna (Doubleday)
Behind the Lie, by Emilya Naymark (Crooked Lane Books)
Secrets Typed in Blood, by Stephen Spotswood (Doubleday)

THE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN MEMORIAL AWARD:
The Shadow of Memory, by Connie Berry (Crooked Lane Books)
Buried in a Good Book, by Tamara Berry (Poisoned Pen Press)
Smile Beach Murder, by Alicia Bessette (Berkley)
Desert Getaway, by Michael Craft (Brash Books)
The Marlow Murder Club, by Robert Thorogood (Poisoned Pen Press)

Two Grand Master Award Recipients:
Michael Connelly
Joanne Fluke

Two Raven Award Recipients:
Crime Writers of Color (CWoC)
Eddie Muller, for Noir Alley and The Noir Foundation

Ellery Queen Award Recipient:
The Strand Magazine

The winners will be announced at the Edgar Awards Banquet at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square on Thursday, April 27.
(受賞作の発表は4月27日)