Edgar Award nominations announced

• Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland
• The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
• The River by Peter Heller
• Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee
• Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham

• My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
• Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
• The Good Detective by John McMahon
• The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
• Three-Fifths by John Vercher
• American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Best Paperback Original

• Dread of Winter by Susan Alice Bickford
• Freedom Road by William Lashner
• Blood Relations by Jonathan Moore
• February’s Son by Alan Parks
• The Hotel Neversink by Adam O’Fallon
• The Bird Boys by Lisa Sandlin

Best Fact Crime

• The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America by Karen Abbott
• The Less People Know About Us; A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton
• American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
• Norco ’80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan
• Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin

Best Critical / Biographical

• Hitchcock and the Censors by John Billheimer
• Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan by Ursula Buchan
• The Hooded Gunman: An Illustrated History of Collins Crime Club by John Curran
• Medieval Crime Fiction: A Critical Overview by Anne McKendry
• The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton

Best Short Story

• “Turistas,” from Paque Tu Lo Sepas by Hector Acosta
• “One of These Nights,” from Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers by Livia Llewellyn
• “The Passenger” from Sydney Noir by Kirsten Tranter
• “Home at Last” from Die Behind the Wheel: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Steely Dan by Sam Wiebe
• “Brother’s Keeper” from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Dave Zeltserman

• The Collected Works of Gretchen Oyster by Cary Fagan
• Eventown by Corey Ann Haydu
• The Whispers by Greg Howard
• All the Greys on Greene Street by Laura Tucker
• Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught

• Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer
• Killing November by Adriana Mather
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• The Deceivers by Kristen Simmons
• Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas

• “Line of Duty,” Season 5, Episode 3 by Jed Mercurio
• “Line of Duty,” Season 5, Episode 4 by Jed Mercurio
• “Dublin Murders,” Episode 1 by Sarah Phelps
• “Manhunt,” Episode 1 by Ed Whitmore
• “The Wisting,” Episode 1 by Katherine Valen Zeiner & Trygve Allister Diesen

• “There’s a Riot Goin’ On” from Milwaukee Noir by Derrick Harriell

• The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman
• One Night Gone by Tara Laskowski
• Strangers at the Gate by Catirona McPherson
• Where the Missing Go by Emma Rowley
• The Murder List by Hank Phillippi Ryan

• Shamed by Linda Castillo
• Borrowed Time by Tracy Clark
• The Missing Ones by Edwin Hill
• The Satapur Moonstone by Sujata Massey
• The Alchemist’s Illusion by Gigi Pandian
• Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon