The Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2023 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and TV.:
Best Novel: Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka (William Morrow)
Best First Novel by an American Author: Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
Best Paperback Original: Or Else by Joe Hart (Thomas & Mercer)
Best Fact Crime: Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse (Flatiron Books)
Best Critical/Biographical: The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators by Martin Edwards (Collins Crime Club)
Best Short Story: "Red Flag," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by Gregory Fallis (Dell Magazines)
Best Juvenile: Aggie Morton Mystery Queen: The Seaside Corpse by Marthe Jocelyn (PRH Canada/Tundra Books)
Best Young Adult: The Red Palace by June Hur (Macmillan Children's Books/Feiwel & Friends)
Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Episode 1"--Magpie Murders, written by Anthony Horowitz (Masterpiece/PBS)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "Dogs in the Canyon," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Mark Harrison (Dell Magazines)
The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award: A Dreadful Splendor by B.R. Myers (William Morrow)
The G.P. Putnam's Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award: Hideout by Louisa Luna (Doubleday)
The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award: Buried in a Good Book by Tamara Berry (Sourcebooks/Poisoned Pen Press)
Special awards included:
Grand Master: Michael Connelly; Joanne Fluke
Raven Award: Crime Writers of Color; Eddie Muller for Noir Alley and The Film Noir Foundation
Ellery Queen Award: The Strand Magazine