Edgar Award (Best Novel) — Complete Winners List

20 years of winners · Mystery Writers of America · Since 1946 · ← Back to award page


2025	The In Crowd	Charlotte Vassell	Doubleday
2024	Flags on the Bayou	James Lee Burke	Atlantic Monthly Press
2023	Notes on an Execution	Danya Kukafka	William Morrow
2022	Five Decembers	James Kestrel	Hard Case Crime
2021	Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line	Deepa Anappara	Random House
2020	The Stranger Diaries	Elly Griffiths	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2019	Down the River Unto the Sea	Walter Mosley	Mulholland Books
2018	Bluebird, Bluebird	Attica Locke	Mulholland Books
2017	Before the Fall	Noah Hawley	Grand Central Publishing
2016	Let Me Die in His Footsteps	Lori Roy	Dutton
2015	Mr. Mercedes	Stephen King	Scribner
2014	Ordinary Grace	William Kent Krueger	Atria Books
2013	Live by Night	Dennis Lehane	William Morrow
2012	Gone	Mo Hayder	Atlantic Monthly Press
2011	The Lock Artist	Steve Hamilton	Minotaur Books
2010	The Last Child	John Hart	Minotaur Books
2009	Blue Heaven	C. J. Box	St. Martin's Minotaur
2008	Down River	John Hart	St. Martin's Press
2007	The Janissary Tree	Jason Goodwin	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2006	Citizen Vince	Jess Walter	ReganBooks