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2026 WINNERS
Best Hardcover Novel
The Black Wolf by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Best Short Story
"AITA for Using My Husband's Hobby to Teach Him A Lesson" by Mindy Carlson in Myopic Duplicity: Do the Ends Ever Justify the Means? (Leonardo Audio)
Best First Novel
Mask of the Deer Woman by Laurie L. Dove (Berkley Books)
Best Paperback Original/E-Book/Audiobook Original Novel
Edge by Tracy Clark (Thomas & Mercer)
Best Juvenile/YA Novel
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala (Delacorte Press)
Best Critical Non-fiction Work
Vacations Can Be Murder: A True Crime Lover's Travel Guide to New England by Dawn M. Barclay (Level Tru)
Best Anthology or Collection
On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology edited by Curtis Ippolito (Rock and a Hard Place Press)
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