Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel

The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel was established in 1946.

Only debut novels written by authors with United States citizenship are eligible and may be published in hardcover, paperback, or e-book. If an American author has published a novel of any genre or under any name previously, they are ineligible for the award, unless the novel was self-published. Authors ineligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel may be eligible for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel or the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Paperback Original. ^[1]

Winners for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel are listed below.

Recipients

1940s

1940s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1946	Julius Fast	Watchful at Night	Winner
1947	Helen Eustis	The Horizontal Man	Winner
1948	Fredric Brown	The Fabulous Clipjoint	Winner
1949	Mildred B. Davis	The Room Upstairs	Winner
	Herbert Brean	Wilders Walk Away	Finalist
	Richard Ellington	Shoot the Works	Finalist

1950s

1950s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1950	Alan Green	What A Body	Winner
	Geoffrey Holiday Hall	The End Is Known	Finalist
	William Krasner	Walk the Dark Streets	Finalist
	G. G. Lobell and N. D. Lobell	The Shadow and the Blot	Finalist
	Evelyn Piper	The Innocent	Finalist
	Bart Spicer	The Dark Light	Finalist
1951	Thomas Walsh	Nightmare in Manhattan	Winner
	Patricia Highsmith	Strangers on a Train	Finalist
	Thaddeus O'Finn	Happy Holiday!	Finalist
	Thomas Sterling	The House Without a Door	Finalist
1952	Mary McMullen	Strangle Hold	Winner
	Lee Herrington	Carry My Coffin Slowly	Finalist
	David William Meredith	The Christmas Card Murders	Finalist
	Thurston Scott	Cure It with Honey (I’ll Get Mine)	Finalist
	Robert B. Sinclair	The Eleventh Hour	Finalist
1953	William Campbell Gault	Don't Cry for Me	Winner
	Peggy Bacon	The Inward Eye	Finalist
1954	Ira Levin	A Kiss Before Dying	Winner
1955	Jean Potts	Go, Lovely Rose	Winner
1956	Lane Kauffman	The Perfectionist	Winner
	Harold R. Daniels	In His Blood	Finalist
	Fred Levon	Much Ado About Murder	Finalist
1957	Donald McNutt Douglass	Rebecca's Pride	Winner
1958	William Rawle Weeks	Knock and Wait a While	Winner
	Warren Carrier	Bay of the Damned	Finalist
	James Cross	Root of Evil	Finalist
1959	Richard Martin Stern	The Bright Road to Fear	Winner
	Edgar Bohle	The Man Who Disappeared	Finalist
	Frances Duncombe	Death of a Spinster	Finalist
	Harry Olesker	Now Will You Try for Murder?	Finalist

1960s

1960s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1960	Henry Slesar	The Grey Flannel Shroud	Winner
	Mary O. Rank	A Dream of Falling	Finalist
1961	John Holbrooke Vance	The Man in the Cage	Winner	[3]
	William Johnston	The Marriage Cage	Finalist
	David McCarthy	The Killing at Big Tree	Finalist
	Dell Shannon	Case Pending	Finalist
	Donald E. Westlake	The Mercenaries	Finalist
1962	Suzanne Blanc	The Green Stone	Winner
	Malcolm Braly	Felony Tank	Finalist
	Olivia Dwight	Close His Eyes	Finalist
	Alex Gordon	The Cipher	Finalist
	Brèni James	Night of the Kill	Finalist
	Winfred Van Atta	Shock Treatment	Finalist
1963	Robert L. Fish	The Fugitive	Winner
	Daniel Broun	Counterweight	Finalist
	Richard Unekis	The Chase	Finalist
1964	Cornelius Hirschberg	Florentine Finish	Winner
	M. Fagyas	The Fifth Woman	Finalist
	Frances Rickett	The Prowler	Finalist
	James Michael Ullman	The Neon Haystack	Finalist
1965	Harry Kemelman	Friday the Rabbi Slept Late	Winner
	Amanda Cross	In the Last Analysis	Finalist
	Rubin Weber	The Grave-Maker’s House	Finalist
1966	John Ball	In the Heat of the Night	Winner
	Jack D. Hunter	The Expendable Spy	Finalist
	Vincent McConnor	The French Doll	Finalist
	Alexandra Roudybush	Before the Ball Was Over	Finalist
1967	Ross Thomas	The Cold War Swap	Winner
	Babs Deal	Fancy’s Knell	Finalist
	Robert Elegant	A Kind of Treason	Finalist
	George Lanning	The Pedestal	Finalist
1968	Michael Collins	Act of Fear	Winner
	James Dawson	Hell Gate	Finalist
	P. E. H. Dunston	Mortissimo	Finalist
	Charles Early	The Tigers Are Hungry	Finalist
	John Redgate	The Killing Season	Finalist
1969	E. Richard Johnson	Tie: Silver Street	Winner
	Dorothy Uhnak	The Bait	Winner
	Lawrence Kamarck	The Dinosaur	Finalist

1970s

1970s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1970	Joe Gores	A Time of Predators	Winner	[4]
	Naomi Hintze	You’ll Like My Mother	Finalist
	Myrick Land	Quicksand	Finalist
1971	Lawrence Sanders	The Anderson Tapes	Winner
	J. E. Brown	Incident at 125th Street	Finalist
	Stanley Cohen	Taking Gary Feldman	Finalist
	Tony Hillerman	The Blessing Way	Finalist
	Sidney Sheldon	The Naked Face	Finalist
1972	A. H. Z. Carr	Finding Maubee	Winner
	Hildegarde Dolson	To Spite Her Face	Finalist
	Michael Lewin	Ask the Right Question	Finalist
	Bill Pronzini	The Stalker	Finalist
	Martin Cruz Smith	Gypsy in Amber	Finalist
1973	R. H. Shimer	Squaw Point	Winner
	Arthur Goldstein	A Person Shouldn’t Die Like That	Finalist
	William H. Hallahan	The Dead of Winter	Finalist
	Frank Leonard	Box 100	Finalist
	Thomas A. Roberts	The Heart of the Dog	Finalist
1974	Paul Erdman	The Billion Dollar Sure Thing	Winner
	Clarence Jackson	Kicked to Death by a Camel	Finalist
	Charles Larson	Someone’s Death	Finalist
	Justin Scott	Many Happy Returns	Finalist
	Michael Wolfe	Man on a String	Finalist
1975	Gregory Mcdonald	Fletch	Winner
	Dominic Koski and Virgil Scott	The Kreutzman Formula	Finalist
	Brown Meggs	Saturday Games	Finalist
	Nicholas Meyer	Target Practice	Finalist
	Vern E. Smith	The Jones Man	Finalist
1976	Rex Burns	The Alvarez Journal	Winner
	Max Crawford	Waltz Across Texas	Finalist
	Thomas Klop	Harmattan	Finalist
	Lynn Meyer	Paperback Thriller	Finalist
	A. J. Russell	The Devalino Caper	Finalist
1977	James Patterson	The Thomas Berryman Number	Winner	[5]
	Alan Furst	Your Day in the Barrel	Finalist
	Steve Knickmeyer	Straight	Finalist
	Janice Law	The Big Payoff	Finalist
	Marie R. Reno	Final Proof	Finalist
1978	Robert Ross	A French Finish	Winner
	Charles A. Goodrum	Dewey Decimated	Finalist
	Bob Randall	The Fan	Finalist
1979	William L. DeAndrea	Killed in the Ratings	Winner
	Thomas L. Dunne	The Scourge	Finalist
	William Hjortsberg	Falling Angel	Finalist
	Craig Jones	Blood Secrets	Finalist
	Donald A. Stanwood	The Memory of Eva Ryker	Finalist

1980s

1980s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1980	Richard North Patterson	The Lasko Tangent	Winner
	Peter Heath Fine	Night Trains	Finalist
	John Logue	Follow the Leader	Finalist
1981	K. Nolte Smith	The Watcher	Winner
	Betsy Aswad	Winds of the Old Days	Finalist
	Oliver Banks	The Rembrandt Panel	Finalist
	David Carkeet	Double Negative	Finalist
	Susanne Jaffe	The Other Ann Fletcher	Finalist
1982	Stuart Woods	Chiefs	Winner
	Tom Hyman	Giant Killer	Finalist
	Ernest Larsen	Not a Through Street	Finalist
	Geoffrey Miller	The Black Glove	Finalist
	Anthony Olcott	Murder at the Red October	Finalist
1983	Thomas Perry	The Butcher's Boy	Winner
	S. F. X. Dean	By Frequent Anguish	Finalist
	Richard Hughes	Unholy Communion	Finalist
	John Katzenbach	In the Heat of the Summer	Finalist
	Ernest Savage	Two If By Sea	Finalist
1984	Will Harriss	The Bay Psalm Book Murder	Winner
	Herbert Resnicow	The Gold Solution	Finalist
	Mark Schorr	Red Diamond, Private Eye	Finalist
	Andrew Taylor	Caroline Minuscule	Finalist
	Carolyn Wheat	Dead Man’s Thoughts	Finalist
1985	R. D. Rosen	Strike Three, You're Dead	Winner
	Jack Early	A Creative Kind of Killer	Finalist
	Doug Hornig	Foul Shot	Finalist
	Orania Papazoglou	Sweet, Savage Death	Finalist
	Alison Smith	Someone Else’s Grave	Finalist
1986	Jonathan Kellerman	When the Bough Breaks	Winner
	Tony Fennelly	The Glory Hole Murders	Finalist
	Dick Lochte	Sleeping Dog	Finalist
	Daniel Stashower	The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man	Finalist
1987	Larry Beinhart	No One Rides for Free	Winner
	Gary Devon	Lost	Finalist
	Richard Hyer	Riceburner	Finalist
	Joseph Koenig	Floater	Finalist
	Mike Lupica	Dead Air	Finalist
1988	Deidre S. Laiken	Death Among Strangers	Winner
	Parnell Hall	Detective	Finalist
	John Lantigua	Heat Lightning	Finalist
	Dallas Murphy	Lover Man	Finalist
	Domenic Stansberry	The Spoiler	Finalist
1989	David Stout	Carolina Skeletons	Winner
	Mary Lou Bennett	Murder Once Done	Finalist
	J. Madison Davis	The Murder of Frau Schutz	Finalist
	Elizabeth George	A Great Deliverance	Finalist
	Shelly Reuben	Julian Solo	Finalist

1990s

1990s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
1990	Susan Wolfe	The Last Billable Hour	Winner
	Barry Berg	Hide and Seek	Finalist
	Susan Taylor Chehak	The Story of Annie D.	Finalist
	Melodie Johnson Howe	The Mother Shadow	Finalist
	Bruce Zimmerman	Blood Under the Bridge	Finalist
1991	Patricia Cornwell	Postmortem	Winner
	Gary Amo	Come Nightfall	Finalist
	W. Edward Blain	Passion Play	Finalist
	Edna Buchanan	Nobody Lives Forever	Finalist
	Walter Mosley	Devil in a Blue Dress	Finalist
1992	Peter Blauner	Slow Motion Riot	Winner	[6]
	Terence Faherty	Deadstick	Finalist
	Marcy Heidish	Deadline	Finalist
	Mary Willis Walker	Zero at the Bone	Finalist
	Don Winslow	A Cool Breeze on the Underground	Finalist
1993	Michael Connelly	The Black Echo	Winner
	Christine Andreae	Trail of Murder	Finalist
	Jane Stanton Hitchcock	Trick of the Eye	Finalist
	Craig Smith	Ladystinger	Finalist
1994	Laurie R. King	A Grave Talent	Winner
	Mark Frost	The List of Seven	Finalist
	Darian North	Criminal Seduction	Finalist
	Manuel Ramos	The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz	Finalist
	David Rosenbaum	Zaddik	Finalist
1995	George Dawes Green	The Caveman's Valentine	Winner
	Janet Evanovich	One for the Money	Finalist
	Carol O'Connell	Mallory’s Oracle	Finalist
	Barbara Parker	Suspicion of Innocence	Finalist
	Doug J. Swanson	Big Town	Finalist
1996	David Housewright	Penance	Winner
	Kevin Allman	Tight Shot	Finalist
	Martha C. Lawrence	Murder in Scorpio	Finalist
	Allan Pedrazas	The Harry Chronicles	Finalist
	David J. Walker	Fixed in His Folly	Finalist
1997	John Morgan Wilson	Simple Justice	Winner
	Margaret Moseley	Bonita Faye	Finalist
	Sharon Kay Penman	The Queen’s Man	Finalist
	Charles Todd	A Test of Wills	Finalist
	Michael C. White	A Brother’s Blood	Finalist
1998	Joseph Kanon	Los Alamos	Winner
	Suzanne Berne	A Crime in the Neighborhood	Finalist
	Philip Reed	Bird Dog	Finalist
	Lisa See	Flower Net	Finalist
	K. J. A. Wishnia	23 Shades of Black	Finalist
1999	Steve Hamilton	A Cold Day in Paradise	Winner
	Ira Genberg	Reckless Homicide	Finalist
	Christopher Reich	Numbered Account	Finalist
	Jen Sacks	Nice	Finalist
	D. R. Schanker	A Criminal Appeal	Finalist

2000s

2000s Best First Novel winners ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2000	Eliot Pattison	The Skull Mantra	Winner
	Arthur W. Bahr	Certifiably Insane	Finalist
	Dave Barry	Big Trouble	Finalist
	Boston Teran	God Is a Bullet	Finalist
	Paula L. Woods	Inner City Blues	Finalist
2001	David Liss	A Conspiracy of Paper	Winner
	Scott Phillips	The Ice Harvest	Finalist
	Qiu Xiaolong	Death of a Red Heroine	Finalist
	Marcia Simpson	Crow in Stolen Colors	Finalist
	Peter Moore Smith	Raveling	Finalist
2002	David Ellis	Line of Vision	Winner
	C. J. Box	Open Season	Finalist
	Gabriel Cohen	Red Hook	Finalist
	Victor Gischler	Gun Monkeys	Finalist
	Denise Hamilton	The Jasmine Trade	Finalist
2003	Jonathon King	The Blue Edge of Midnight	Winner
	Stephen J. Clark	Southern Latitudes	Finalist
	Kam Majd	High Wire	Finalist
	Ben Rehder	Buck Fever	Finalist
	David Rosenfelt	Open and Shut	Finalist
2004	Rebecca Pawel	Death of a Nationalist	Winner
	Martha Conway	12 Bliss Street	Finalist
	Robert Heilbrun	Offer of Proof	Finalist
	James Hime	The Night of the Dance	Finalist
	Olen Steinhauer	The Bridge of Sighs	Finalist
2005	Don Lee	Country of Origin	Winner
	Richard Aleas	Little Girl Lost	Finalist
	Charles Benoit	Relative Danger	Finalist
	Liam Callanan	The Cloud Atlas	Finalist
	Michael Koryta	Tonight I Said Goodbye	Finalist
	Bob Morris	Bahamarama	Finalist
2006	Theresa Schwegel	Officer Down	Winner	[7]
	Megan Abbott	Die a Little	Finalist
	Brian Freeman	Immoral	Finalist
	Scott Frost	Run the Risk	Finalist
	Alison Gaylin	Hide Your Eyes	Finalist
2007	Alex Berenson	The Faithful Spy	Winner	[8] [9]
	Gillian Flynn	Sharp Objects	Finalist
	John Hart	King of Lies	Finalist
	Steve Hockensmith	Holmes on the Range	Finalist
	Cornelia Read	A Field of Darkness	Finalist
2008	Tana French	In the Woods	Winner	[10]
	Gordon Campbell	Missing Witness	Finalist	[11]
	Christopher Goffard	Snitch Jacket	Finalist	[11]
	Craig McDonald	Head Games	Finalist	[11]
	Derek Nikitas	Pyres	Finalist	[11]
2009	Francie Lin	The Foreigner	Winner	[12]
	Tom Epperson	The Kind One	Finalist
	David Fuller	Sweetsmoke	Finalist
	Charlie Newton	Calumet City	Finalist
	Justin Peacock	A Cure for Night	Finalist

2010s

2010s Best First Novel winners and finalists ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	Stefanie Pintoff	In the Shadow of Gotham	Winner	[13]
	David Cristofano	The Girl She Used To Be	Shortlist	[14]
	Bryan Gruley	Starvation Lake	Shortlist	[14]
	Heather Gudenkauf	The Weight of Silence	Shortlist	[14]
	Sophie Littlefield	A Bad Day for Sorry	Shortlist	[14]
	Attica Locke	Black Water Rising	Shortlist	[14]
2011	Bruce DeSilva	Rogue Island	Winner
	Paul Doiron	The Poacher’s Son	Shortlist	[15]
	David Gordon	The Serialist	Shortlist	[15]
	Nic Pizzolatto	Galveston	Shortlist	[15]
	James Thompson	Snow Angels	Shortlist	[15]
2012	Lori Roy	Bent Road	Winner	[16] [17]
	Edward Conlon	Red on Red	Shortlist	[17]
	David Duffy	Last to Fold	Shortlist	[17]
	Leonard Rosen	All Cry Chaos	Shortlist	[17]
	Steve Ulfelder	Purgatory Chasm	Shortlist	[17]
2013	Chris Pavone	The Expats	Winner
	Kim Fay	The Map of Lost Memories	Shortlist
	Daniel Friedman	Don’t Ever Get Old	Shortlist
	Susan Elia MacNeal	Mr. Churchill’s Secretary	Shortlist
	Matthew Quirk	The 500	Shortlist
	Michael Sears	Black Fridays	Shortlist
2014	Jason Matthews	Red Sparrow	Winner	[18]
	Matthew Guinn	The Resurrectionist	Shortlist	[19]
	Roger Hobbs	Ghostman	Shortlist	[19]
	Becky Masterman	Rage Against the Dying	Shortlist	[19]
	Kimberly McCreight	Reconstructing Amelia	Shortlist	[19]
2015	Tom Bouman	Dry Bones in the Valley	Winner	[20] [21]
	Julia Dahl	Invisible City	Shortlist	[21]
	Allen Eskens	The Life We Bury	Shortlist	[21]
	C. B. McKenzie	Bad Country	Shortlist	[21]
	Adam Sternbergh	Shovel Ready	Shortlist	[21]
	Ashley Weaver	Murder at the Brightwell	Shortlist	[21]
2016	Viet Thanh Nguyen	The Sympathizer	Winner	[22]
	Glen Erik Hamilton	Past Crimes	Shortlist
	David Joy	Where All Light Tends to Go	Shortlist
	Jessica Knoll	Luckiest Girl Alive	Shortlist
	Rebecca Scherm	Unbecoming	Shortlist
2017	Flynn Berry	Under the Harrow	Winner	[23]
	Bill Beverly	Dodgers	Shortlist
	Joe Ide	IQ	Shortlist
	Nicholas Petrie	The Drifter	Shortlist
	Lili Wright	Dancing with the Tiger	Shortlist
	Heather Young	The Lost Girls	Shortlist
2018	Jordan Harper	She Rides Shotgun	Winner	[24]
	Deborah E. Kennedy	Tornado Weather	Shortlist
	Winnie M Li	Dark Chapter	Shortlist
	Melissa Scrivner Love	Lola	Shortlist
	Emily Ruskovich	Idaho	Shortlist
2019	James A. McLaughlin	Bearskin	Winner	[25]
	Bradley Harper	A Knife in the Fog	Shortlist
	Debra Jo Immergut	The Captives	Shortlist
	Nova Jacobs	The Last Equation of Isaac Severy	Shortlist
	Delia Owens	Where the Crawdads Sing	Shortlist

2020s

2020s Best First Novel winners and finalists ^[2]

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Angie Kim	Miracle Creek	Winner	[26]
	Samantha Downing	My Lovely Wife	Shortlist
	John McMahon	The Good Detective	Shortlist
	Lara Prescott	The Secrets We Kept	Shortlist
	John Vercher	Three-Fifths	Shortlist
	Lauren Wilkinson	American Spy	Shortlist
2021	Caitlin Mullen	Please See Us	Winner	[27] [28] [29]
	Nev March	Murder in Old Bombay	Shortlist	[29]
	Elisabeth Thomas	Catherine House	Shortlist	[29]
	David Heska Wanbli Weiden	Winter Counts	Shortlist	[29]
	Stephanie Wrobel	Darling Rose Gold	Shortlist	[29]
2022	Erin Flanigan	Deer Season	Winner	[30] [31]
	Vera Kurian	Never Saw Me Coming	Shortlist	[32]
	Fabian Nicieza	Suburban Dicks	Shortlist	[32]
	JoAnne Tompkins	What Comes After	Shortlist	[32]
	Caitlin Wahrer	The Damage	Shortlist	[32]
2023	Eli Cranor	Don’t Know Tough	Winner	[33] [34]
	Erin E. Adams	Jackal	Shortlist	[35]
	Ramona Emerson	Shutter	Shortlist	[35]
	Katie Gutierrez	More Than You’ll Ever Know	Shortlist	[35]
	Grace D. Li	Portrait of a Thief	Shortlist	[35]
2024	I.S. Berry	The Peacock and the Sparrow	Winner	[36] [37]
	Amy Chua	The Golden Gate	Shortlist	[38] [39]
	Ken Jaworowski	Small Town Sins	Shortlist	[38] [39]
	Kristen Loesch	The Last Russian Doll	Shortlist	[38] [39]
	Ritu Mukerji	Murder by Degrees	Shortlist	[38] [39]

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External links

• The official website of Edgar Awards