2021 Edgar Award Winners

Here, by category, are the works receiving 2021 Edgar Awards:

PLEASE SEE US by Caitlin Mullen (Simon & Schuster — Gallery Books)

WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING by Alyssa Cole (HarperCollins Publishers – William Morrow)

DEATH IN MUD LICK: A COAL COUNTRY FIGHT AGAINST THE DRUG COMPANIES THAT DELIVERED THE OPIOD EPIDEMIC by Eric Eyre (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)

PHANTOM LADY: HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER JOAN HARRISON, THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN BEHIND HITCHCOCK by Christina Lane (Chicago Review Press)

“Dust, Ash, Flight,” by Maaza Mengiste, ADDIS ABABA NOIR (Akashic Books)

PREMEDITATED MYRTLE by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Workman Publishing – Algonquin Young Readers)

THE COMPANION by Katie Alender (Penguin Young Readers — G. P. Putnam’s Sons BFYR)

“Episode 1, Photochemistry” — Dead Still, written by John Morton (Acorn TV)

“The Bite,” TAMPA BAY NOIR by Colette Bancroft

THE CABINETS OF BARNABY MAYNE by Elsa Hart (Minotaur Books)

VERA KELLY IS NOT A MYSTERY by Rosalie Knecht (Tin House Books)

The following awards were previously announced:

This is given to non-writers who have contributed to the mystery genre. This year it was given to Malice Domestic, a mystery conference, founded in 1989 and held every spring since.

This is the highest honor bestowed by the MWA and recognizes a lifetime of achievement and consistent quality. The first recipient was Agatha  Christie. This year’s recipients are Jeffrey Deaver and Charlaine Harris.

Ellery Queen Award

Reagan Arthur, Publisher, Alfred A. Knopf

About the MWA

The MWA was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, a mystery writer and editor and amateur magician; Anthony Boucher, an author, editor and critic who write several classic mysteries; Lawrence Treat, a lawyer who pioneered the genre of police procedurals; and Brett Halliday, a mystery and western writer.

You may also want to review the full list of nominees for the 2021 Edgar Awards.