Posted on 04/30/2021 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The Mystery Writers of America announced the winners for the annual Edgar Allan Poe awards, which honor the best mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television, yesterday.
Previously, authors Jeffery Deaver and Charlaine Harris were announced as recipients of the annual Grand Master Award, which honors significant contributions to the mystery genre.
Best novel: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, by Deepa Anappara
Best first novel by an American author: Please See Us, by Caitlin Mullen
Best paperback original: When No One is Watching, by Alyssa Cole
Best fact crime: Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic, by Eric Eyre
Best critical/biographical: Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock, by Christina Lane
Best short story: "Dust, Ash, Flight," by Maaza Mengiste
Best juvenile novel: Premeditated Myrtle, by Elizabeth C. Bunce
Best YA novel: The Companion, by Katie Alender
Best TV episode teleplay: “Episode 1, Photochemistry” from Dead Still, by John Morton
Robert L. Fish Memorial: "The Bite,” by Colette Bancroft
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne, by Elsa Hart
The G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award: Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery, by Rosalie Knecht
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