2020 Edgar Award Winner - Best Novel

Each spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre.

Here are the 2020 Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel and the other nominees.

Winner:

The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Nominees and runners up:

Fake Like Me by Barbara Bourland (Hachette Book Group – Grand Central Publishing)

The River by Peter Heller (Penguin Random House – Alfred A. Knopf)

Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee (Pegasus Books)

Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)