Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809. He lives on not only through his own body of work, but also through the Edgar Awards, which are given out annually by the Mystery Writers of America. Here are the 2023 Edgar Award winners. Check one out to find your next page-turning read!
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Told through the women in his life--his mother, his sister-in-law, and the. detective who brought him to justice--this gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row as he awaits his execution in twelve hours |
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2023 Edgar Award - Best First Novel by an American Author The born-again Christian head coach of small-town Arkansas high school football team feels a divine calling to save his star running back whose dangerous aggression on the field stems from anger about his troubled home life. |
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Or else : a thriller
by Joe Hart 2023 Edgar Award - Best Paperback Original When novelist Andy Drake returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father, a reconnection with his childhood friend Rachel escalates into a secret love affair. For Rachel, struggling to maintain the facade of a picture-perfect life, it's an escape from an emotionally abusive marriage. Then Andy receives an anonymous note warning him to end the affair. Or else. Whoever's been watching is going to make Andy pay. Weeks later, Rachel's husband, David, is shot to death. Rachel and her two young sons vanish without a trace. One misstep, one careless reveal, and Andy could look as guilty as sin. Clue by clue, as his investigation into the mystery unfolds, Andy discovers that he and Rachel weren't the only ones keeping secrets. Nothing in this quiet neighborhood is as it seems. No one peeking from behind the curtains of their homes can be trusted. And the worst is yet to come. Because David isn't the only one who will die. |
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Tell me everything : the story of a private investigation by Erika Krouse 2023 Edgar Award - Best Fact Crime In this part memoir, part literary true crime, the author becomes consumed by a sexual assault investigation that grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case, and, when everything around her implodes, she must figure out how to win the case without losing herself. |
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The life of crime : detecting the history of mysteries and their creators
by Martin Edwards 2023 Edgar Award - Best Critical/Biographical In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world's most popular form of fiction. |
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The seaside corpse
by Marthe Jocelyn 2023 Edgar Award - Best Juvenile After an invigorating but not exactly restful trip to a Yorkshire spa during which she survived a near brush with death and foiled a murderer, aspiring writer Aggie Morton and her friend Hector are thrilled to have the opportunity to stay at a camp by the sea and watch real paleontologists at work...Tensions are running high throughout the camp, from the cook, to the collectors, to the Blenningham-Crewes themselves, and become downright dangerous after Aggie and Hector make a discovery of their own: a body on the beach. Not a fossil, but a human body. |
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The red palace
by June Hur 2023 Edgar Award - Best Young Adult In 1758 Joseon (Korea), 18-year-old palace nurse Hyeon works closely with a young police inspector to uncover the truth surrounding the murder of eight palace nurses when all the evidence points to the Crown Prince himself. |
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Hideout : an Alice Vega novel by Louisa Luna 2023 Edgar Award - The G. P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Alice Vega and Max Caplan re-open the cold case of a cult-hero football player who disappeared from a game in 1984 after they uncover a possible connection to white supremacists in the third novel of the series following The Janes. |
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Buried in a good book
by Tamara Berry 2023 Edgar Award - Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award When the start of their summer vacation is marred by murder, best-selling thriller writer Tess Harrow is thrust into the subsequent investigation, involving a big foot sighting and a handsome local sheriff, which puts so much more than her teenage daughter's summer plans at stake. |