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Mystery Award Winners

Mystery awards celebrate excellence in crime, suspense, and detective fiction across various formats, including novels, short stories, and nonfiction. Some of the most prominent awards include The Edgars, Crime Writers of Canada Awards, Anthony Awards, The Dagger Awards and the Macavity awards. Here are some of the most recent winners and nominees.

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  • 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for best novel.
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, 2024. — Vasse bk.2
  • 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for best paperback original
    Book, 2024Toronto, ON : Park Row Books, 2024. — Belle
  • The Infernal Machine

    a True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

    Johnson, Steven, 1968-
    2025 Edgar Allan Poe Award winner for best fact crime.
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, 2024. — 335.83 Johns 2024
  • 2024 Anthony Award winner and Macavity Award winner.
    Book, 2023New York : Flatiron Books, 2023. — Cosby
  • 2024 Anthony Award, Barry Award and Macavity Award winner for best first mystery or crime novel.
    Book, 2023New York : Atria Books, 2023. — Berry
  • A Fever in the Heartland

    the Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

    Egan, Timothy,
    2024 Anthony Award winner for best critical nonfiction work.
    Book, 2023New York : Viking, 2023. — 322.42 Egan 2023
  • 2024 Barry Award winner for best mystery or crime novel.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Harper, 2023. — Lehan
  • 2024 Barry Award winner for best thriller.
    Book, 2023New York : Soho Crime, 2023. — Herro
  • 2025 nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards for best crime novel.
    Book, 2024Toronto, ON : McClelland & Stewart, 2024. — Barre
  • 2025 nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards for best crime novel.
    Book, 2024Toronto, ON : Strange Light, 2024. — Kerr
  • 2025 nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards for best crime novel.
    Book, 2024Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, 2024. — Gray
  • 2025 nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards for best crime novel.
    Book, 2024New York : Minotaur Books, 2024. — Penny bk.19
  • 2024 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award winner.
    Book, 2023New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — Harpe
  • 2024 Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger Award winner.
    Book, 2023New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. — Ventu
  • 2024 Non-fiction Dagger Award winner.
    Book, 2024New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — BIO Flemi 2023