Edgar Award: novel

The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (more commonly known as the Edgars) are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America, an organization of mystery and crime writers founded in 1945. Named after writer, editor and critic Edgar Allan Poe (1808-1849), the awards honor the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction, television, film, and theater published or produced in the previous year.

2024: Flags on the Bayou, James Lee Burke

2023: Notes on an Execution, Danya Kukafka

2022: Five Decembers, James Kestrel

2021: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by Deepa Anappara

2020: The Stranger Diaries, by Elly Griffiths

2019: Down the River Unto the Sea, by Walter Mosley

2018: Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke

2017: Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley

2016: Let Me Die in His Footsteps, by Lori Roy

2015: Mr. Mercedes, by Stephen King

2014: Ordinary Grace, by William Kent Krueger

2013: Live by Night, by Dennis Lehane

2012: Gone, by Mo Hayder

2011: The Lock Artist, by Steve Hamilton

2010: The Last Child, by John Hart

2009: Blue Heaven, by C.J. Box

2008: Down River, by John Hart

2007: The Janissary Tree, by Jason Goodwin

2006: Citizen Vince, by Jesse Walter

2005: California Girl, by T. Jefferson Parker

2004: Resurrection Men, by Ian Rankin

2003: Winter and Night, by S.J. Roman

2002: Silent Joe, by T. Jefferson Parker

2001: The Bottoms, by Jan Burke

2000: Bones, by Jan Burke

1999: Mr. White’s Confession, by Robert Clark

1998: Cimarron Rose, by James Lee Burke

1997: The Chatham School Affair, by Thomas H. Cook

1996: Come to Grief, by Dick Francis

1995: The Red Scream, by Mary Willis Walker

1994: The Sculptress, by Minette Walters

1993: Bootlegger’s Daughter, by Margaret Maron

1992: A Dance at the Slaughterhouse, by Lawrence Block

1991: New Orleans Mourning, by Julie Smith

1990: Balck Cherry Blues, by James Lee Burke

1989: A Cold Red Sunrise, by Stuart M. Kaminsky

1988: Old Bones, by Aaron Elkins

1987: A Dark-Adapted Eye, by Barbara Vine

1986: The Suspect, by L.R. Wright

1985: Briarpatch, by Ross Thomas

1984: La Brava, by Elmore Leonard

1983: Billingsgate Shoal, by Rick Boyer

1982: Peregrine, by William Bayer

1981: Whip Hand, by Dick Francis

1980: The Rheingold Route, by Arthur Maling

1979: Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett

1978: Catch Me: Kill Me, by William Callahan

1977: Promised Land, by Robert Parker

1976: Hopscotch, by Brian Garfield

1975: Peter’s Pence, by Jon Cleary

1974: Dance Hall of the Dead, by Tony Hillerman

1973: The Lingala Code, by Warren Kiefer

1972: The Day of the Jackal, by  Frederick Forsyth

1971: The Laughing Policeman, by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö

1970: Forfeit, by Dick Francis

1969: A Case of Need, by “Jeffery Hudson” (Michael Crichton)

1968: God Save the Mark, by Donald E. Westlake

1967: King of the Rainy Country, by Nicolas Freeling

1966: The Quiller Memorandum, by Adam Hall

1965: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John le Carré

1964: The Light of Day, by Eric Ambler

1963: Death and the Joyful Woman, by Ellis Peters

1962: Gideon’s Fire, by J.J. Marric

1961: The Progress of a Crime, by Julian Symons

1960: The Hours Before Dawn, by Celia Fremlin

1959: The Eighth Circle, by Stanley Ellin

1958: Room to Swing, by Ed Lacy

1957: A Dram of Poison, by Charlotte Armstrong

1956: Beast in View, by Margaret Millar

1955: The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

1954: Beat Not the Bones, by Charlotte Jay