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In May the Mystery Writers of America announced the winners for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, the 78th Edgars, honouring the best in mystery fiction and nonfiction published in 2023. The winners were, Best Novel, Flags on the Bayou, James Lee Burke; Best First Novel by an American Author, The Peacock and the