Edgar Award Winners

April 30, 2026By Katy Hershberger

Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The full list of winners is here.

Best Novel
The Big Empty
by Robert Crais

Best First Novel By An American Author
Dead Money
by Jakob Kerr

Best Paperback Original
The Backwater
by Vikki Wakefield

Cover for Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Best Fact Crime
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
by Caroline Fraser

Best Critical/Biographical
Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
by Richard Kopley

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