• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register
Publishers Lunch logo Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
Login Sign Up
  • Personnel
  • AI
  • Compensation
  • Unions
  • Book Bans
  • New Releases
  • Earnings
  • The Trial
  • Archives
Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

January 22, 2025By Katy Hershberger

Edgar Award Nominees

January 22, 2025By Katy Hershberger

The Mystery Writers of America announced finalists for the Edgar awards, to be presented May 1. The full list is here.

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 Paperback Original
The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle
The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass
Shell Games by Bonnie Kistler
A Forgotten Kill by Isabella Maldonado
The Road to Heaven by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson

Filed Under: Awards

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login

Forgot Password Quick Pass User Login
Get Full Access
The Publishing Industry’s Essential Daily Read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • 'Murder Bimbo' Galleys Landed Close To Charlie Kirk's Death. Here's how S&S responded. February 11, 2026 NYT
  • Women's Prize Announces Nonfiction Longlist February 11, 2026 Award Website
  • How Transit Books Weathered The Turbulent Landscape of the Past Few Years February 10, 2026 Washington Post
  • Walter Dean Myers Award Winners February 10, 2026 Award Site
  • Becca Rothfeld on the Death of Wapo's Book World February 10, 2026 The New Yorker
  • James Patterson and Bookshop.org Prize Longlist February 9, 2026 Bookshop
  • The UK's Nonfiction Sales Crisis February 9, 2026 The Times
  • "AI Evangelist" Coral Hart Used Chatbots to Create "Dozens of Novels" February 9, 2026 NYT
  • Zando Announces Residency at New York's Salmagundi Club February 6, 2026 Press Release
  • Publishers Respond to Google's Opposition in Class Action Infringement Suit February 6, 2026 AAP
Publishers Marketplace logo

Contact Us

News

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Report News
  • Discuss
  • Classifieds
  • Rights Offerings

Deals

  • Report A Deal

Books

  • Buzz Books

Jobs

  • Job Board
  • Privacy Policy Terms of Use