The 2024 Edgar Awards Shares Its Finalists For Best Mystery Titles

Best Novel Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

Two women fall under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris’s notorious women’s asylum in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland.

Best Novel Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

A darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and a time.

Best First Novel by an American Author Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.

Best First Novel by an American Author Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

Knives Out meets Kim’s Convenience in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.

Best Fact Crime Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history—the Golden State Killer crime spree—tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations.

Best Fact Crime Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

The harrowing, highly entertaining inside chronicle of how FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers convinced the world to send trillions of dollars of real money to buy useless virtual coins—from a Bloomberg Businessweek writer

Best Young Adult Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and sneaky suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears.

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

A cynical tarot card reader seeks to uncover the truth about her friend’s mysterious death in this delightfully clever whodunit, “a delicious blend of suspense and madcap humor” (Library Journal, starred review).

The Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

When one of her readers asks for advice following a suspected murder, Victorian countess Amelia Amesbury, who secretly pens the popular Lady Agony column, has no choice but to investigate in this first book in a charming new historical mystery series.

The Lillian Jackson Braun Memorial Award Finalist – 2024 Edgar Awards

Trouble is brewing for cousins Yale and Celine Yee after a hot pot dinner gets overheated and ends in murder in this second novel of the L.A. Night Market series by Jennifer J. Chow.