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Award year

2026 Edgar Awards

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Best Novel

Also recognized

  • The Inheritance by Trisha SakhlechaFinalist

Best First Novel by an American Author

Best Paperback Original

Also recognized

  • The Sideways Life of Denny Voss by Holly KennedyFinalist

Best Fact Crime

Also recognized

  • Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home by Gregg OlsenFinalist

Best Juvenile

Also recognized

  • A Study in Secrets by Debbi Michiko FlorenceFinalist
  • Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave by Ally RussellFinalist
  • The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith RossellFinalist

Best Young Adult

Best Critical/Biographical Work

Also recognized

  • Criss-Cross: The Making of Hitchcock's Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train by Stephen RebelloFinalist
  • The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness by Andrew KlavanFinalist

Mary Higgins Clark Award

Also recognized

  • No Comfort for the Dead by R.P. O'DonnellFinalist

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