The Edgars Each Spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. Visit the official Edgars Award Home Page for more information. 2024 Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke 2023 Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka 2022 Five Decembers by James Kestrel 2021 Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara 2020 The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths 2019 Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley 2018 Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke 2017 Before the Fall by Noah Hawley 2016 Let Me Die in His Footsteps by Lori Roy 2015 Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King 2014 Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger 2013 Live by Night by Dennis Lehane 2012 Gone by Mo Hayder 2011 The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton 2010 The Last Child by John Hart 2009 Â Blue Heaven by C.J. Box 2008 Down River by John Hart 2007 The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin 2006 Citizen Vince by Jess Walter 2005 California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker 2004 Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin 2003 Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan 2002 Silent Joe by T. Jefferson Parker 2001 The Bottoms by Joe R. Lansdale 2000 Bones by Jan Burke 1999 Mr. White's Confession by Robert Clark 1998 Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke 1997 The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook 1996 Come to Grief by Dick Francis 1995 The Red Scream by Mary Willis Walker 1994 The Sculptress by Minette Walters 1993 Bootlegger's Daughterby Margaret Maron 1992 A Dance at the Slaughterhouse by Lawrence Block 1991 New Orleans Mourningby Julie Smith 1990 Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke 1989 A Cold Red Sunrise by Stuart M. Kaminsky 1988 Old Bones by Aaron Elkins 1987 A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine 1986 The Suspect by L.R. Wright 1985 Briar Patch by Ross Thomas 1984 La Brava by Elmore Leonard 1983 Billingsgate Shoal by Rick Boyer 1982 Peregrine by William Bayer 1981 Whip Hand by Dick Francis 1980 The Rheingold Route by Arthur Maling 1979 The Eye of the Needleby Ken Follett 1978 Catch Me: Kill Me by William H. Hallahan 1977 Promised Land by Robert B. Parker 1976 Hopscotch by Brian Garfield 1975 Peter's Pence by Jon Cleary 1974 Dance Hall of the Deadby Tony Hillerman 1973 The Lingala Code by Warren Kiefer 1972 The Day of the Jackalby Frederick Forsyth 1971 The Laughing Policemanby Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo 1970 Forfeit by Dick Francis 1969 A Case of Need by Jeffery Hudson 1968 God Save the Mark by Donald E. Westlake 1967 The King of the Rainy Country by Nicolas Freeling 1966 The Quiller Memorandum by Adam Hall 1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre 1964 The Light of Day by Eric Ambler 1963 Death and the Joyful Woman by Ellis Peters 1962 Gideon's Fire by J.J. Marric 1961 The Progress of a Crimeby Julian Symons 1960 The Hours Before Dawnby Celia Fremlin 1959 The Eighth Circle by Stanley Ellin 1958 Room to Swing by Ed Lacy 1957 A Dram of Poison by Charlotte Armstrong 1956 Beast in View by Margaret Millar 1955 The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 1954 Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay