2023 Edgar Nominees and Winners

1) Notes on An Execution: a Novel

Author

Kukafka, Danya

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Best Novel Winner

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In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life-from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow. Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't...

2) Don't Know Tough

Author

Cranor, Eli

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Best First Novel by an American Author Winner

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WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD
WINNER OF THE PETER LOVESEY FIRST CRIME NOVEL CONTEST

Friday Night Lights gone dark with Southern Gothic; Eli Cranor delivers a powerful noir that will appeal to fans of Wiley Cash and Megan Abbott.

In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running...

3) Tell me everything: the story of a private investigation

Author

Krouse, Erika

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Best Fact Crime Winner

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"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes...

4) The life of crime: detecting the history of mysteries and their creators

Author

Edwards, Martin

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Best Critical/Biographical Winner

5) red palace

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6) A Dreadful Splendor: A Novel

Author

Myers, B. R

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The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner

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In this spectacularly imaginative and ghoulishly fun Gothic murder mystery brimming with romance, betrayals, and chills, a fake spiritualist is summoned to hold a séance for a bride who died on the eve before her wedding, but as nefarious secrets are revealed, the line between hoax and haunting blurs. Every house has its secrets... The Bride ~ The Groom ~ The Doctor ~ The Ward ~ The Lawyer ~ The Housekeeper ~ The Maid London, 1852. Genevieve Timmons...

7) Hideout

Author

Luna, Louisa

Series

Alice Vega novels volume 3

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G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Winner

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""Alice Vega is sensational-I want to see lots more of her."-Lee Child A powerful new thriller from Louisa Luna. Alice Vega and Max Caplan return, uncovering a network of white supremacists in their search for a long-lost counter-culture hero. Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing for thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford...

8) Buried in a good book

Author

Berry, Tamara

Series

By the book mysteries volume 1

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Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award Winner

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Book - Paperback, eBook

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"Don't miss the first book in a brand-new gripping and hilarious bookish cozy mystery series by author Tamara Berry! Put your sleuthing hat on. A thriller writer who knows way more than anyone should about death and dismemberment; her young daughter who's more intrigued by dead bodies than she probably should be, an isolated cabin in the woods that's probably-definitely-hiding something and the tiny mountain town that seems less than troubled by a...

9) Devil house

Author

Darnielle, John

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Best Novel Nominee

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"Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him when he was a child. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success--and a movie adaptation--to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic...

10) Like a sister

Author

Garrett, Kellye

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Best Novel Nominee

11) Gang land

Author

Hogan, Chuck

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Best Novel Nominee

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"In the late 1970s, The Outfit has the entire city of Chicago in its hands. Tony Accardo is its fearless leader. Nicky Passero is his loyal soldier, though no one knows he has a direct line in to the boss of bosses. When the Christmas gift Accardo got for his wife, an inscribed bracelet with gold and diamond inlay, is stolen along with other items in a jewelry heist, Nicky is charged with tracking down and returning all of the items-by whatever means...

12) The devil takes you home: a barrio novel

Author

Iglesias, Gabino

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Best Novel Nominee

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This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family—even if it means a descent into violence.
Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees

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13) The Maid : a Novel

Author

Prose, Nita

Series

Maid novels volume 1

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Best Novel Nominee

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Book, Book - Hardback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Paperback

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"A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed, turning her once orderly world upside down--and inspiring a motley crew of unexpected allies to band together to solve the mystery--in this utterly original debut. Molly Dunn is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and interprets people literally. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since...

14) Jackal: a novel

Author

Adams, Erin E

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Best First Novel by an American Author Nominee

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Book, Book - Hardback, Large Print - Hardback

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"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first--and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...

15) Shutter

Author

Emerson, Ramona

Series

Rita Todacheene novels volume 1

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Best First Novel by an American Author Nominee

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Book - Hardback, Book - Paperback, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print - Hardback

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"Rita Todacheene is a forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force. Her excellent photography skills have cracked many cases-she is almost supernaturally good at capturing details. In fact, Rita has been hiding a secret: she sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues that other investigators overlook. As a lone portal back to the living for traumatized spirits, Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't let...

16) More than you'll ever know: a novel

Author

Gutierrez, Katie

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Best First Novel by an American Author Nominee

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

"Fantastic . . . A sweeping novel, unflinching and evocative in its engrossing study of love, motherhood, sex, Mexico, journalism and more." — WASHINGTON POST

"Masterful . . . Elegance, darkness, even fear are deftly intertwined . . . A wonderful read." — LUIS ALBERTO URREA, Pulitzer Prize finalist

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17) Portrait of a thief: a novel

Author

Li, Grace D

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Best First Novel by an American Author Nominee

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"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity"--

18) quarrys blood

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19) On a Quiet Street

Author

Nova Glass, Seraphina

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Best Paperback Original Nominee

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A New York Times Book Review Summer Read and Edgar Award nominee! Don't miss this unputdownable psychological thriller! Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware!
When you really start to look beyond the airy open floor plans and marble counters, Brighton Hills is filled with secrets. Some big, some little, some deadly. And one by one, they're about to be revealed... "A writer to watch." —Publishers Weekly...

20) Cleopatra's dagger

Author

Lawrence, Carole

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Best Paperback Original Nominee

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Book, Book - Paperback