2026 Edgar Award Winners Announced
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Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners for the 2026 Edgar Awards as follows:
Best Novel: THE BIG EMPTY, by Robert Crais (Putnam)
Best First Novel: DEAD MONEY, by Jakob Kerr (Bantam Books)
Best Paperback Original: THE BACKWATER, by Vikki Wakefield (Poisoned Pen Press)
Best Fact Crime: MURDERLAND, by Caroline Fraser (Penguin Press)
Best Critical/Biographical: EDGAR ALLAN POE: A LIFE, by Richard Kopley (Univ. of Virginia Press)
Best Short Story: “Julius Katz Draws a Straight Flush,” by Dave Zeltserman (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Sep/Oct 2025)
Best Juvenile: BLOOD IN THE WATER, by Tiffany D. Jackson (Scholastic Press)
Best Young Adult: UNDER THE SAME STARS, by Libba Bray (Farrar, Strause and Giroux)
Best Televisiton Episode Teleplay: “Pilot,” written by Dan Fogelman (in Paradise; Hulu)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: “How It Happened,” by Billie Kay Fem (Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, July/Aug 2025)
Mary Higgins Clark Award: ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS, by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Minotaur Books)
Sue Grafton Memorial Award: GONE IN THE NIGHT, by Joanna Schaffhausen (Minotaur Books)
Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award: A SENIOR CITIZEN’S GUIDE TO LIFE ON THE RUN, by Gwen Florio (Severn House)
TWQ Grand Master Award Recipients: Donna Andrews and Lee Child
Raven Award Recipient: Book Passage, Bookstore & Cafe, in Corte Madera, California
Ellery Queen Award: John Scognamiglio, Editor-in-Chief at Kensington Books
The Edgar Award winners were announced at the Edgar Awards Ceremony held on Wednesday, April 29 at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City.