Each spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. Search the Edgars Database for all award winners & nominees.
2014 Winners
Best Novel
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
Best First Novel
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Best Paperback Original
The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
Best Fact Crime
The Hour of Peril : the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
Best Critical/Biographical Work
America is Elsewhere : the noir tradition in the age of consumer culture by Erik Dussere
Best Young Adult
Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher
Best Juvenile
One Came Home by Amy Timberlake
Best episode of a TV series
The Fall, Episode 1 / teleplay by Allan Cubitt
Grand Masters:
Robert Crais, Carolyn Hart
Mary Higgins Clark Award
Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman
2013 Winners
Best Novel
Live by night by Dennis Lehane
Best First Novel
The Expats by Chris Pavone
Best Paperback Original
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters
Best Fact Crime
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
Best Critical/Biographical Work
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: cracking the case with science and forensics by James O'Brien
Best Young Adult
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Best Juvenile
The Quick Fix by Jack D. Ferraiolo
Best episode of a TV series
Sherlock: a scandal in Belgravia / teleplay by Steven Moffat
Grand Masters:
Ken Follett & Margaret Maron
Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan
2012 Winners
Best Novel
Gone by Mo Hayder
Best First Novel
Bent Road by Lori Roy
Best Paperback Original
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett
Best Fact Crime
Destiny of the Republic : a tale of madness, medicine and the murder of a president by Candice Millard
Best Critical/Biographical Work
On Conan Doyle, or, The whole art of storytelling by Michael Dirda
Best Short Story
The man who took off his hat off to the driver of the train by Peter Turnbull
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Mar./Apr. 2011
Best Young Adult
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall
Best Juvenile
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
Best Play
The Game's Afoot by Ken Ludwig
Best episode of a TV series
Homeland Pilot episode / Teleplay by Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff (Showtime)
Grand Master:
Martha Grimes
Mary Higgins Clark Award
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
