Congratulations to the Edgar and Agatha Award Winners!

Announced every spring, the Edgar and Agatha Awards are given to the year's best mysteries.

Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre. Here are the winners announced at the end of April:

Best Novel
Gone by Mo Hayder

Best First Novel
Bent Road by Lori Roy

Best Paperback Original
The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett

Best Fact Crime
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

Best Critical Biographical
On Conan Doyle: Or, the Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda

Young Adult
The Silence of Murder by Dandi Daley Mackall

The Agatha Award is named after Agatha Christie and honors the best of traditional mysteries. Here are the winners announced at the beginning of May:

Best Novel
Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron

Best First Novel
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry

Best Non-Fiction
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz

Best Historical
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen