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Check Out The Finalists for the 2025 Edgar Awards

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‘Tis the season for all of the book award announcements. This week the Edgar Awards announced the nominees for best mystery fiction and nonfiction across over a dozen different categories. It’s the 79th year for the Edgar Awards, and winners will be announced at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City on May 1, 2025.

The judging panels for the Edgar Awards are comprised of members throughout the Mystery Writers Association and represent every region of the country, each subcategory of the genre being judged, and from every demographic to ensure as much representation as possible. Despite this, the majority of nominees in each category for this year are books by white authors.

Here are the nominees in several of the Edgar Award categories this year.

Best Novel