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