Check Out The Finalists for the 2025 Edgar Awards
‘Tis the season for all of the book award announcements. This week the Edgar Awards announced the nominees for best mystery fiction and nonfiction across over a dozen different categories. It’s the 79th year for the Edgar Awards, and winners will be announced at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City on May 1, 2025.
The judging panels for the Edgar Awards are comprised of members throughout the Mystery Writers Association and represent every region of the country, each subcategory of the genre being judged, and from every demographic to ensure as much representation as possible. Despite this, the majority of nominees in each category for this year are books by white authors.
Here are the nominees in several of the Edgar Award categories this year.
Best Novel
- The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
- Things Don’t Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins
- My Favorite Scar by Nicolás Ferraro
- The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
- Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
- The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell
Best First Novel by an American Author
- Twice the Trouble by Ash Clifton
- Cold to the Touch by Kerri Hakoda
- The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee
- A Jewel in the Crown by David Lewis
- The President’s Lawyer by Lawrence Robbins
- Holy City by Henry Wise
Best Fact Crime
- Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi
- The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective 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: Unraveling the Lies, Secrets, and Conspiracy that Let a Killer Go Free 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 Young Adult
- Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell
- The Bitter End by Alexa Donne
- A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
- Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson
- 49 Miles Alone by Natalie D. Richards
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award
- The Rose Arbor by Rhys Bowen
- The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle Chouinard
- The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
- Return to Wyldcliffe Heights by Carol Goodman
- Death in the Details by Katie Tietjen
Check out the full slate of categories and finalists at the Edgar Awards website.
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