Gentill among 2025 Edgar Award winners

Australian crime writer Sulari Gentill has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award for her novel The Mystery Writer (Ultimo) at the 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards.

In 2023, Gentill was also shortlisted in this award category for her novel The Woman in the Library (Ultimo).

Announced in New York by the Mystery Writers of America, the 2025 Edgar Awards honour ‘the best in mystery fiction, nonfiction and television published or produced in 2024’.

The winners in each category are:

Best Novel

• The In Crowd (Charlotte Vassell, Faber)

Best First Novel by an American Author

• Holy City (Henry Wise, No Exit Press)

Best Paperback Original

• The Paris Widow (Kimberly Belle, HQ Fiction)

Best Fact Crime

• The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective (Steven Johnson, Crown)

Best Critical/Biography

• James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (Nathan Ashman, McFarland and Company)

Best Short Story

• ‘Eat My Moose’ in Conjunctions #82: Works & Days (Erika Krouse, Bard College)

Best Juvenile

• Mysteries of Trash and Treasure: The Stolen Key (Margaret Peterson Haddix, Katherine Tegen Books)

Best Young Adult

• 49 Miles Alone (Natalie D Richards, Sourcebooks Fire)

Best Television Episode Teleplay

• Monsieur Spade, season 1, episode 1 (Tom Fontana & Scott Frank, AMC)

Robert L Fish Memorial Award

• ‘The Jews on Elm Street’ in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September–October 2024 (Anna Stolley Persky, Dell Magazines)

Mary Higgins Clark Award

• The Mystery Writer (Sulari Gentill, Ultimo)

Sue Grafton Memorial Award

• The Comfort of Ghosts (Jacqueline Winspear, Allison & Busby)

Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award (worth US$2000, A$3097)

• The Murders in Great Diddling (Katarina Bivald, Poisoned Pen Press)

Grand Master

• Laura Lippman
• John Sandford

Raven Award

• Face in a Book Bookstore & Gifts, El Dorado Hills, California

Ellery Queen Award 

• Peter Wolverton at St Martin’s Press.

More information about the awards is available on the Edgar Awards website.

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