2025 Edgar Awards Winners To Read On Your Holidays

Winners of 2025 Edgar Awards

Holidays are approaching and there's nothing better than some gripping murder mystery to relax with. There are so many of them published every month but everyone is looking for the best to read. So why not try the winners of 79th Annual Edgar® Awards celebrated just a month ago?

The 2025 Edgars or Edgar Allan Poe Awards are honoring the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024. Here are the winners:

Best novel

The In Crowd by Charlotte Vassell

Best first novel by an American author

Holy City by Henry Wise

Best paperback original

The Paris Widow by Kimberly Belle

Best fact crime

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

Best Critical/Biographical

James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by Nathan Ashman

Best short story

“Eat My Moose,” Conjunctions: 82, Works & Days by Erika Krouse

Best juvenile

Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Best young adult

49 Miles Alone by Natalie D. Richards

See other and all award winners here.