The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners for the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2021.

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2022 Winners

BEST NOVEL
FIVE DECEMBERS by James Kestrel (Hard Case Crime)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
DEER SEASON by Erin Flanagan (University of Nebraska Press)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER by Alan Parks (World Noir)

BEST FACT CRIME
LAST CALL: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York, by Elon Green (Celadon Books)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL
THE TWELVE LIVES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense, by Edward White (W.W. Norton & Company)

BEST SHORT STORY
“The Road to Hana,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by R.T. Lawton (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE
CONCEALED by Christina Diaz Gonzalez (Scholastic Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT
FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Company BFYR)

BEST TV EPISODE TELEPLAY
“Boots on the Ground” – "Narcos: Mexico," written by Iturri Sosa (Netflix)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD
“Analogue,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Rob Osler (Dell Magazines)

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD
CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)

THE G.P. PUTNAM’S SONS SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD
RUNNER by Tracy Clark (Kensington Books)

GRAND MASTER
Laurie R. King

RAVEN AWARD
Lesa Holstine – Lesa’s Book Critiques; Library Journal Reviewer

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD
Juliet Grames – Soho Press – Soho Crime
 

2022 Nominees

BEST NOVEL

• THE VENICE SKETCHBOOK by Rhys Bowen (Lake Union Publishing)
• RAZORBLADE TEARS by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron Books)
• FIVE DECEMBERS by James Kestrel (Hard Case Crime)
• HOW LUCKY by Will Leitch (Harper)
• NO ONE WILL MISS HER by Kat Rosenfield (William Morrow)

BEST FIRST NOVEL

• DEER SEASON by Erin Flanagan (University of Nebraska Press)
• NEVER SAW ME COMING by Vera Kurian (Park Row)
• SUBURBAN DICKS by Fabian Nicieza (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• WHAT COMES AFTER by JoAnne Tompkins (Riverhead Books)
• THE DAMAGE by Caitlin Wahrer (Pamela Dorman Books)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

• KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGS by David Bell (Berkley)
• THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES by C.J. Cooke (Berkley)
• THE ALBUM OF DR. MOREAU by Daryl Gregory (Tordotcom)
• STARR SIGN by C.S. O’Cinneide (Dundurn Press)
• BOBBY MARCH WILL LIVE FOREVER by Alan Parks (World Noir)
• THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS by Laura Purcell (Penguin Books)

BEST FACT CRIME

• THE CONFIDENCE MEN: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History, by Margalit Fox (Random House)
• LAST CALL: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York, by Elon Green (Celadon Books)
• SLEEPER AGENT: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away, by Ann Hagedorn (Simon & Schuster)
• TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice, by Ellen McGarrahan (Random House)
• THE DOPE: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade, by Benjamin T. Smith (W.W. Norton & Company)
• WHEN EVIL LIVED IN LAUREL: The “White Knights” and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer, by Curtis Wilkie (W.W. Norton & Company)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

• AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: The Greatest Detective in the World, by Mark Aldridge (Harper360)
• THE UNQUIET ENGLISHMAN: A Life of Graham Greene, by Richard Greene (W.W. Norton & Company)
• TONY HILLERMAN: A Life, by James McGrath Morris (University of Oklahoma Press)
• THE REASON FOR THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science, by John Tresch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• THE TWELVE LIVES OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense, by Edward White (W.W. Norton & Company)

BEST SHORT STORY

• “Blindsided,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Michael Bracken & James A. Hearn (Dell Magazines)
• “The Vermeer Conspiracy,” MIDNIGHT HOUR by V.M. Burns (Crooked Lane Books)
• “Lucky Thirteen,” MIDNIGHT HOUR by Tracy Clark (Crooked Lane Books)
• “The Road to Hana,” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by R.T. Lawton (Dell Magazines)
• “The Locked Room Library,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Gigi Pandian (Dell Magazines)
• “The Dark Oblivion,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Cornell Woolrich (Dell Magazines)

BEST JUVENILE

• COLD-BLOODED MYRTLE by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin Young Readers)
• CONCEALED by Christina Diaz Gonzalez (Scholastic Press)
• AGGIE MORTON MYSTERY QUEEN: The Dead Man in the Garden, by Marthe Jocelyn (Tundra Books)
• KIDNAP ON THE CALIFORNIA COMET: Adventures on Trains #2, by M.G. Leonard & Sam Sedgman (Feiwel & Friends)
• RESCUE by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Scholastic Press)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

• ACE OF SPADES by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé (Feiwel & Friends)
• FIREKEEPER'S DAUGHTER by Angeline Boulley (Henry Holt and Company BFYR)
• WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE US by Pamela N. Harris (Quill Tree Books)
• THE FOREST OF STOLEN GIRLS by June Hur (Feiwel & Friends)
• THE GIRLS I'VE BEEN by Tess Sharpe (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR)

BEST TV EPISODE TELEPLAY

• “Dog Day Morning” – "The Brokenwood Mysteries," written by Tim Balme and Nic Sampson (Acorn TV)
• “Episode 1” – "The Beast Must Die," written by Gaby Chiappe (AMC+)
• “We Men Are Wretched Things” – "The North Water," written by Andrew Haigh (AMC+)
• “Happy Families” – "Midsomer Murders," written by Nicholas Hicks-Beach (Acorn TV)
• “Boots on the Ground” – "Narcos: Mexico," written by Iturri Sosa (Netflix)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

• “Analogue,” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Rob Osler (Dell Magazines)

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

• THE SECRET LIFE OF MISS MARY BENNET by Katherine Cowley (Tule Mystery)
• RUBY RED HERRING by Tracy Gardner (Crooked Lane Books)
• CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)
• THE SIGN OF DEATH by Callie Hutton (Crooked Lane Books)
• CHAPTER AND CURSE by Elizabeth Penney (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)

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

• DOUBLE TAKE by Elizabeth Breck (Crooked Lane Books)
• RUNNER by Tracy Clark (Kensington Books)
• SHADOW HILL by Thomas Kies (Poisoned Pen Press)
• SLEEP WELL, MY LADY by Kwei Quartey (Soho Crime)
• FAMILY BUSINESS by S.J. Rozan (Pegasus Crime)

GRAND MASTER

• Laurie R. King

RAVEN AWARD

• Lesa Holstine – Lesa’s Book Critiques; Library Journal Reviewer

ELLERY QUEEN AWARD

• Juliet Grames – Soho Press – Soho Crime