Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime, established in 1948, is presented to nonfiction hardcover, paperback, or electronic books about mystery. ^[1] The category includes both true crime books, as well as books "detailing how to solve actual crimes." ^[1]

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime winners are listed below.

Recipients

1940s

1940s Best Fact Crime winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1948	Edward D. Radin	Twelve Against the Law	Winner
1949	Marie Rodell (editor)	Regional Murder	Winner

1950s

1950s Best Fact Crime winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1950	Joseph Henry Jackson	Bad Company	Winner
1951	Edward D. Radin	Twelve Against Crime	Winner
	William T. Brannon	N/A [lower-alpha 1]	Shortlist
1952	St. Clair McKelway	True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality	Winner
	W. T. Brannon	Lady Killers	Shortlist
1953	Erle Stanley Gardner	Court of Last Resort	Winner
1954	John Bartlow Martin	Why Did They Kill?	Winner
1955	Charles Boswell and Lewis Thompson	The Girl with the Scarlet Brand	Winner
1956	Manly Wade Wellman	Dead and Gone	Winner
	Lillian de la Torre	The Truth About Belle Guness	Shortlist
	Robert J. Donovan	The Assassins	Shortlist
1957	Charles Samuels and Louise Samuels	Night Fell on Georgia	Winner
	William Bradford Huie	Ruby McCollum, The Woman in the Suwanne Jail	Shortlist
	Hugh Ross Williamson	Historical Whodunits	Shortlist
1958	Harold R. Danforth and James D. Horan	The D.A.'s Man	Winner
	Lenore Glen Offord and Joseph Henry Jackson	The Girl in the Belfry	Shortlist
	Henry Goddard, edited by Patrick Pringle	Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner	Shortlist
1959	Wenzell Brown	They Died in the Chair	Winner
	Edward D. Radin	The Deadly Reasons	Shortlist
	Sam Kollman as told to Hillel Black	The Royal Vultures	Shortlist
	Edgar Lustgarten	The Murder and the Trial	Shortlist
	Berton Donovan	The Incurable Wound	Shortlist

1960s

1960s Best Fact Crime winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1960	Thomas Gallagher	Fire at Sea	Winner
	Eugene B. Block	Great Train Robberies of the West	Shortlist
1961	Miriam Allen deFord	The Overbury Affair	Winner
	Sir Sydney Smith	Mostly Murder	Shortlist
	Christianna Brand	Heaven Knows Who	Shortlist
1962	Barrett Prettyman, Jr.	Death and the Supreme Court	Winner
	Paul Holmes	The Sheppard Murder Case	Shortlist
	Edward D. Radin	Lizzie Borden: The Untold Story	Shortlist
	George Waller	Kidnap	Shortlist
1963	Francis Russell	Tragedy in Dedham	Winner
1964	Gerold Frank	The Deed	Winner
	Brad Williams	Flight 967	Shortlist
	Peter Wyden	The Hired Killers	Shortlist
1965	Anthony Lewis	Gideon's Trumpet	Winner
	William Kunstler	The Minister and the Choir Singer	Shortlist
	Norman Lewis	The Honored Society	Shortlist
	Wayne G. Broehl, Jr.	The Molly Maguires	Shortlist
	Arthur H. Lewis	Lament for the Molly Maguires	Shortlist
1966	Truman Capote	In Cold Blood	Winner
	Harry Golden	A Little Girl is Dead	Shortlist
	Michael V. DiSalle with Lawrence G. Blochman	The Power of Life and Death	Shortlist
	Miriam Allen deFord	Murderers Sane and Mad	Shortlist
	Jürgen Thorwald	The Century of the Detective	Shortlist
1967	Gerold Frank	The Boston Strangler	Winner
	Julian Symons	Crime and Detection	Shortlist
	Elwyn Jones	The Last Two to Hang	Shortlist
1968	Victoria Lincoln	A Private Disgrace	Winner
	Margaret Kreig	Black Market Medicine	Shortlist
	Selwyn Raab	Justice in the Back Room	Shortlist
	Curt Gentry	Frame-Up	Shortlist
1969	John Walsh	Poe the Detective	Winner
	John Frasca	The Mulberry Tree	Shortlist
	Norman Zierold	Three Sisters in Black	Shortlist

1970s

1970s Best Fact Crime winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1970	Herbert B. Ehrmann	The Case that Will Not Die	Winner
	Don T. Block	Scottsboro	Shortlist
	Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth Gross	The Victims	Shortlist
	Fred C. Shapiro	Whitmore	Shortlist
1971	Mildred Savage	A Great Fall	Winner
	Girard Chester	The Ninth Juror	Shortlist
	Ramsey Clark	Crime in America	Shortlist
1972	Sandor Frankel	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	Winner
	Robert Sullivan	The Disappearance of Dr. Parkman	Shortlist
	William A. Clark	The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor	Shortlist
1973	Stephen Fay , Lewis Chester, and Magnus Linkletter	Hoax	Winner
	A. C. Greene	The Santa Claus Bank Robbery	Shortlist
	Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts	Shipwreck	Shortlist
	T. P. Slattery	They Got to Find Me Guilty Yet	Shortlist
1974	Barbara Levy	Legacy of Death	Winner
	Louis Nizer	The Implosion Conspiracy	Shortlist
	Paulette Cooper	The Medical Detectives	Shortlist
	John Pearson	The Profession of Violence	Shortlist
	Ed Cray	Burden of Proof	Shortlist
1975	Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry	Helter Skelter	Winner
	Gerald Meyer	The Memphis Murders	Shortlist
	Ernest Tidyman	Dummy	Shortlist
1976	Tom Wicker	A Time to Die	Winner
	Gene Miller	Invitation to a Lynching	Shortlist
	Isser Harel	The House on Garibaldi Street	Shortlist
1977	Thomas Thompson	Blood and Money	Winner
	Edward Keyes	The Michigan Murders	Shortlist
	Margaret Anne Barnes	Murder in Coweta County	Shortlist
1978	George Jonas and Barbara Amiel	By Persons Unknown	Winner
	Lacey Fosburgh	Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder	Shortlist
	Clark Howard	Six Against the Rock	Shortlist
	Vin McLellan and Paul Avery	The Voice of Guns	Shortlist
	Roberta S. Feuerlicht	Justice Crucified	Shortlist
1979	Vincent Bugliosi and Ken Hurwitz	Til Death Do Us Part	Winner
	Jack W. Baugh and Jefferson Morgan	Why Have They Taken Our Children?	Shortlist
	Charles Silberman	Criminal Violence	Shortlist
	Alan Weinstein	Perjury	Shortlist

1980s

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1980	Herbert B. Ehrmann	The Case that Will Not Die	Winner
	Don T. Block	Scottsboro	Shortlist
	Bernard Lefkowitz and Kenneth Gross	The Victims	Shortlist
	Fred C. Shapiro	Whitmore	Shortlist
1981	Mildred Savage	A Great Fall	Winner
	Girard Chester	The Ninth Juror	Shortlist
	Ramsey Clark	Crime in America	Shortlist
1982	Sandor Frankel	Beyond a Reasonable Doubt	Winner
	Robert Sullivan	The Disappearance of Dr. Parkman	Shortlist
	William A. Clark	The Girl on the Volkswagen Floor	Shortlist
1983	Stephen Fay , Lewis Chester, and Magnus Linkletter	Hoax	Winner
	A. C. Greene	The Santa Claus Bank Robbery	Shortlist
	Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts	Shipwreck	Shortlist
	T. P. Slattery	They Got to Find Me Guilty Yet	Shortlist
1984	Barbara Levy	Legacy of Death	Winner
	Louis Nizer	The Implosion Conspiracy	Shortlist
	Paulette Cooper	The Medical Detectives	Shortlist
	John Pearson	The Profession of Violence	Shortlist
	Ed Cray	Burden of Proof	Shortlist
1985	Mike Weiss	Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings	Winner
	John Cornwell	Earth to Earth	Shortlist
	Jim Atkinson and John Bloom	Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs	Shortlist
	David Black	Murder at the Met	Shortlist
	Jane Pejsa	The Molineux Affair	Shortlist
1986	Tom Wicker	A Time to Die	Winner
	Gene Miller	Invitation to a Lynching	Shortlist
	Isser Harel	The House on Garibaldi Street	Shortlist
1987	Thomas Thompson	Blood and Money	Winner
	Edward Keyes	The Michigan Murders	Shortlist
	Margaret Anne Barnes	Murder in Coweta County	Shortlist
1988	George Jonas and Barbara Amiel	By Persons Unknown	Winner
	Lacey Fosburgh	Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder	Shortlist
	Clark Howard	Six Against the Rock	Shortlist
	Vin McLellan and Paul Avery	The Voice of Guns	Shortlist
	Roberta S. Feuerlicht	Justice Crucified	Shortlist
1989	Vincent Bugliosi and Ken Hurwitz	Til Death Do Us Part	Winner
	Jack W. Baugh and Jefferson Morgan	Why Have They Taken Our Children?	Shortlist
	Charles Silberman	Criminal Violence	Shortlist
	Alan Weinstein	Perjury	Shortlist

1990s

1990s Best Fact Crime winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1990	Jack Olsen	Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell	Winner
	Joseph Wambaugh	The Blooding: The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders	Shortlist
	Linda Wolfe	Wasted: The Preppie Murder	Shortlist
	Peter Elkind	The Death Shift: The True Story of Nurse Genene Jones and the Texas Baby Murders	Shortlist
	Darcy O'Brien	Murder in Little Egypt	Shortlist
1991	Peter Maas	In a Child's Name	Winner
	John Cummings and Ernest Volkman	Goombata	Shortlist
	Ken Englade	Beyond Reason	Shortlist
	Barry Siegel	A Death in White Bear Lake	Shortlist
1992	David Simon	Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets	Winner
	Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover	Witnesses from the Grace: The Stories Bones Tell	Shortlist
	Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins	Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Pauk Castellano	Shortlist
	James B. Stewart	Den of Thieves	Shortlist
	Charles C. Thompson II and James P. Cole	Death of Elvis: What Really Happened	Shortlist
1993	Harry Farrell	Swift Justice	Winner
	Jana Bommersbach	The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd	Shortlist
	Thomas H. Cook	Blood Echoes	Shortlist
	Ann Rule	Everything She Ever Wanted	Shortlist
	Jim Schutze	My Husband's Trying to Kill Me	Shortlist
1994	Bella Stumbo	Until the Twelfth of Never	Winner
	Noel Behn	Lindbergh: The Crime	Shortlist
	Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith	Final Justice	Shortlist
	Jack Olsen	The Misbegotten Son	Shortlist
	David Protess and Rob Warden	Gone in the Night	Shortlist
1995	Joe Domanick	To Protect and to Serve	Winner
	Jerry Bledsoe	Before He Wakes	Shortlist
	Edward Humes	Mississippi Mud	Shortlist
	Dennis McDougal	In the Best of Families	Shortlist
	Eileen McNamara	Breakdown	Shortlist
1996	Pete Earley	Circumstantial Evidence	Winner
	John Douglas and Mark Olshaker	Mindhunter	Shortlist
	T. J. English	Born to Kill	Shortlist
	James Neff	Unfinished Murder	Shortlist
	Jim Schutze	By Two and Two	Shortlist
1997	Darcy O'Brien	Power to Hurt	Winner
1998	Carlton Stowers	To the Last Breath	Winner
	Jerry Bledsoe	Death Sentence	Shortlist
	Rich Cohen	Tough Jews	Shortlist
	Timothy Dumas	Greentown	Shortlist
	Richard A. Serrano	One of Ours	Shortlist
1999	Richard Firstman	The Death of Innocents	Winner
	Bernard Lefkowitz	Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb	Shortlist
	Ben MacIntyre	The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief	Shortlist
	Ann Rule	Bitter Harvest: A Woman's Fury, a Mother's Sacrifice	Shortlist
	John C. Tucker	May God Have Mercy: A True Story of Crime and Punishment	Shortlist

2000s

2000s Best Fact Crime winners and shortlists

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2005	Edward Dolnick	Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder: A Reporter and a Detective's Twenty-Year Search for Justice	Winner
	Suzanne O'Malley	Are You There Alone?: The Unspeakable Crime of Andrea Yates	Shortlist
	Julian Rubinstein	Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts	Shortlist
	D.P. Lyle	Forensics for Dummies	Shortlist
	Ann Rule	Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer -- America's Deadliest Serial Murderer	Shortlist
	Marissa N. Batt	Ready for the People: My Most Chilling Cases as Prosecutor	Shortlist
2006	Edward Dolnick	Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece	Winner
	Jed Horne	Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans	Shortlist
	John Emsley	The Elements of Murder: The History of Poison	Shortlist
	Michael Finkel	True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa	Shortlist
	Diane Fanning	Written in Blood	Shortlist
2007	James L. Swanson	Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer	Winner	[3]
	Sebastian Junger	A Death in Belmont	Shortlist
	Kate Clark Flora Joseph K. Loughlin	Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine	Shortlist
	Robin Odell	Ripperology: A Study of the World's First Serial Killer	Shortlist
	Terri Jentz	Strange Piece of Paradise	Shortlist
	Daniel Stashower	The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder	Shortlist
2008	Vincent Bugliosi	The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy	Winner	[4]
	Kevin Flynn	Relentless Pursuit: A True Story of Family, Murder, and the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Quit	Shortlist
	Bruce Watson	Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind	Shortlist
	Stanley Alpert	The Birthday Party	Shortlist
2009	Howard Blum	American Lightning: Terror, Mystery and the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century	Winner	[5]
	Simon Baatz	For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb and the Murder that Shocked Chicago	Shortlist
	T.J. English	Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost it to the Revolution	Shortlist
	Jonathan Lopez	The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Hans van Meegeren	Shortlist
	Kate Summerscale	The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher	Shortlist

2010s

2010s Best Fact Crime winners and shortlists ^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Dave Cullen	Columbine	Winner
	Jeff Guinn	Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde	Shortlist
	Laney Salisbury Aly Sujo	Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art	Shortlist
	Dick Lehr	The Fence: A Police Cover-Up Along Bostons Racial Divide	Shortlist
	R. A. Scotti	Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa	Shortlist
2011	Candice Millard	Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity	Winner
	Scott Higham Sari Horwitz	Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery	Shortlist
	Hampton Sides	Hellhound on his Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin	Shortlist
	Alex Heard	The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in Jim Crow South	Shortlist
	Douglas Starr	The Killer of Little Shepherds: A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science	Shortlist
2012	Candice Millard	Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President	Winner	[7] [8]
	Paul Collins	The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars	Shortlist	[9]
	T. J. English	The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge	Shortlist	[9]
	Steve Miller	Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender	Shortlist	[9]
	Mark Seal	The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter	Shortlist	[9]
2013	Paul French	Midnight in Peking	Winner	[10]
	Gilbert King	Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America	Shortlist
	Ben Macintyre	Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies	Shortlist
	P. D. Lyle	More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers' Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered	Shortlist
	Richard Lloyd Parry	The People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo - and the Evil that Swallowed Her Up	Shortlist
2014	Daniel Stashower	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War	Winner	[11]
	Paul Collins	Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery	Shortlist	[12]
	Michael D’Antonio	Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal	Shortlist	[12]
	Charles Graeber	The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder	Shortlist	[12]
	Cate Lineberry	The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and the Medics Behind Nazi Lines	Shortlist	[12]
2015	William J. Mann	Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood	Winner	[13] [14]
	Kevin Cook	Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America	Shortlist	[13]
	Carl Hoffman	The Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art	Shortlist	[13]
	Lacy M. Johnson	The Other Side: A Memoir	Shortlist	[13]
	Harold Schechter	The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation	Shortlist	[13]
2016	Allen Kurzweil	Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully	Winner	[15] [16]
	Eric Bogosian	Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide	Shortlist
	T. J. English	Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him	Shortlist
	Val McDermid	Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime	Shortlist
	John Temple	American Pain: How a Young Felon and his Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic	Shortlist
2017	Kate Summerscale	The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer	Winner	[17]
	Vincent diMaio Ron Franscell	Morgue: A Life in Death	Shortlist
	Laurence Leamer	The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle that Brought Down the Klan	Shortlist
	Paul Thomas Murphy	Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England	Shortlist
	Eli Sanders	While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness	Shortlist
2018	David Grann	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI	Winner	[18]
	Jeff Guinn	The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple	Shortlist
	Monica Hesse	American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land	Shortlist
	Bill James	The Man From the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery	Shortlist
	Brad Ricca	Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case that Captivated a Nation	Shortlist
2019	Robert W. Fieseler	Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation	Winner	[19]
	Jonathan Green	Sex Money Murder: A Story of Crack, Blood, and Betrayal	Shortlist
	Carl Hoffman	The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure	Shortlist
	Kirk Wallace Johnson	The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century	Shortlist
	Michelle McNamara	I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer	Shortlist
	Alex Perry	The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia	Shortlist

2020s

2020s Best Fact Crime winners and shortlists ^[6]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Axton Betz-Hamilton	The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity	Winner	[20] [21]
	Karen Abbott	The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America	Shortlist
	Maureen Callahan	American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century	Shortlist
	Peter Houlahan	Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History	Shortlist
	James Polchin	Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall	Shortlist
2021	Eric Eyre	Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies that Delivered the Opioid Epidemic	Winner	[22] [23]
	Mark A. Bradley	Blood Runs Coal: The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America	Shortlist	[23]
	Emma Copley Eisenberg	The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia	Shortlist	[23]
	Sierra Crane Murdoch	Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country	Shortlist	[23]
	Ariel Sabar	Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife	Shortlist	[23]
2022	Elon Green	Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York	Winner	[24]
	Margalit Fox	The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History	Shortlist
	Ann Hagedorn	Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away	Shortlist
	Ellen McGarrahan	Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice	Shortlist
	Benjamin T Smith	The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade	Shortlist
	Curtis Wilkie	When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer	Shortlist
2023	Erika Krouse	Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation	Winner	[25]
	Kathleen Hale	Slenderman	Shortlist	[26]
	Kathryn Miles	Trailed	Shortlist	[26]
	Shahan Mufti	American Caliph	Shortlist	[26]
	Daniel Stashower	American Demon	Shortlist	[26]
2024	Nathan Masters	Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal	Winner	[27] [28]
	Kim Cross	In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America’s Child	Shortlist	[29]
	Zeke Faux	Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall	Shortlist	[29]
	John Glatt	Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders	Shortlist	[29]
	Barbara Rae-Venter	I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever	Shortlist	[29]
	Joe Sexton	The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy	Shortlist	[29]

Notes

1. Brannon was nominated "for general excellence in fact crime writing".

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External links

• Category List – Best Fact Crime at Edgar Awards