2019 Edgar Awards Announced
The 2019 Edgar Awards were announced last night during the MWA’s seventy-third gala banquet at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Here at Booklist, we’re gearing up for our tenth annual Mystery Month celebration and Mystery Showcase issue, both of which are mere days away! (Next week, be sure to keep an eye out for our own list of the year’s best crime novels.) Below you’ll find all the book-length winners for this year’s Edgars, linked to their Booklist reviews when available.
Congrats to all the winners!
Best Novel
★ Down the River Unto the Sea, by Walter Mosley
Best First Novel
Bearskin, by James A. McLaughlin
Best Paperback Original
If I Die Tonight, by Alison Gaylin
Best Fact Crime
Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, by Robert W. Fieseler
Best Critical / Biographical
Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, by Leslie S. Klinger
Best Juvenile
Otherwood, by Pete Hautman
Best Young Adult
★ Sadie, by Courtney Summers
Mary Higgins Clark
★ The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey
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