Here are the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees

The Mystery Writers of America announced the contenders for the annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards, which honor the best mystery fiction, nonfiction, and television, on Wednesday.

Below, we've shared a selection of the nominees (a complete list is available on the MWA website); the winners will be announced on April 28.

Best novel 

• The Venice Sketchbook, by Rhys Bowen.

• Razorblade Tears, by S.A. Cosby.

• Five Decembers, by James Kestrel.

• How Lucky, by Will Leitch.

• No One Will Miss Her, by Kat Rosenfield.

Best first novel by an American author 

• Deer Season, by Erin Flanagan.

• Never Saw Me Coming, by Vera Kurian.

• Suburban Dicks, by Fabian Nicieza.

• What Comes After, by JoAnne Tompkins.

• The Damage, by Caitlin Wahrer.

Best fact crime 

• The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History, by Margalit Fox.

• Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York, by Elon Green.

• Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away, by Ann Hagedorn.

• Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice, by Ellen McGarrahan.

• The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade, by Benjamin T. Smith.

• When Evil Lived in Laurel: The “White Knights” and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer, by Curtis Wilkie.

Best juvenile novel 

• Cold-Blooded Myrtle, by Elizabeth C. Bunce.

• Concealed, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez.

• Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: The Dead Man in the Garden, by Marthe Jocelyn.

• Kidnap on the California Comet: Adventures on Trains #2, by M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman.

• Rescue, by Jennifer A. Nielsen. 

Best YA novel 

• Ace of Spades, by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.

• Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley.

• When You Look Like Us, by Pamela N. Harris.

• The Forest of Stolen Girls, by June Hur.

• The Girls I’ve Been, by Tess Sharpe.