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Aaaand: The 2020 Edgar Award Nominees & Winners Have Also Been Announced!

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Here are the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe award nominees & Winners in the different mystery fiction areas:

The winner in each category has the Edgar Winner statue in its listing.

Edgar award winner

BEST NOVEL

Fake Like Me book cover  Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)
The Stranger Diaries book cover  The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Edgar award winner
The River  The River by Peter Heller (Penguin Random House – Alfred A. Knopf)
Smoke and Ashes Book Cover  Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus Books)
Good Girl Bad Girl book cover  Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

My Lovely Wife book cover  My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing (Penguin Random House - Berkley)
Miracle Creek book cover  Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (Farrar Straus and Giroux) Edgar award winner
The Good Detective book cover  The Good Detective by John McMahon (Penguin Random House – G.P. Putnam's Sons)
The Secrets We Kept book cover  The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott (Penguin Random House – Alfred A. Knopf)
Thre Fifiths  Three-Fifths by John Vercher (Polis Books – Agora Books)
American Spy book cover  American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson (Penguin Random House – Random House)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL 

Request Inter-Library Loan graphic  Dread of Winter by Susan Alice Bickford (Kensington Publishing)
Request Inter-Library Loan graphic  Freedom Road by William Lashner (Amazon Publishing – Thomas & Mercer)
Request Inter-Library Loan graphic  Blood Relations by Jonathan Moore (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – Mariner Books)
Request Inter-Library Loan graphic  February's Son by Alan Parks (Europa Editions – World Noir)
The Hotel Neversink graphic  The Hotel Neversink by Adam O'Fallon Price (Tin House Books) Edgar award winner
Bird Boys  The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin (Cinco Puntos Press)

BEST JUVENILE

The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster book cover  The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster by Cary Fagan (Penguin Random House Canada – Tundra Books)
Eventown book cover  Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu (HarperCollins Children's Books – Katherine Tegen Books)
The Whispers book cover  The Whispers by Greg Howard (Penguin Young Readers – G.P. Putnam's Sons BFYR)
Request thru ILL graphic  All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker (Penguin Young Readers – Viking BFYR)
Me & Sam-sam handle the apocalypse book cover  Edgar award winner   Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught (Simon & Schuster Children's Books – Paula Wiseman Books) 

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Request thru ILL graphic  Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer (Tom Doherty Associates – Tor Teen) Edgar award winner
Request thru ILL graphic  Killing November by Adriana Mather (Random House Children's Books – Alfred A. Knopf BFYR)
Patron Saints of Nothing book cover  Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Penguin Young Readers - Kokila)
Request thru ILL graphic  The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons (Tom Doherty Associates – Tor Teen)
Request thru ILL graphic  Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas (Bloomsbury Publishing)

* * * * * Special Awards * * * * *

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

The Night Visitors book cover  The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman (HarperCollins – William Morrow) Edgar award winner
One Night Gone book cover  One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski (Harlequin – Graydon House)
Strangers at the Gate book cover  Strangers at the Gate by Catriona McPherson   (Minotaur Books)
Request thru ILL graphic  Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley (Kensington Publishing)
The Murder List book vocover  The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Tom Doherty Associates – Forge Books)

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THE G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD

Shamed book cover  Shamed by Linda Castillo (Minotaur Books)
Borrowed Time book cover  Borrowed Time by Tracy Clark ( Kensington Publishing) Edgar award winner
The Missing Ones book cover  The Missing Ones by Edwin Hill (Kensington Publishing)
The Satapur Moonstone book cover  The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
The Alchemist's Illusion  The Alchemist's Illusion by Gigi Pandian (Midnight Ink)
On Order graphic  Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon (Cincos Puntos Press)

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