2026 EDGAR AWARD CELEBRATION

The Edgar Awards are extremely prestigious awards given annually to the best new novels and short stories in the mystery genre. Books of Wonder is so excited to be hosting a panel of some of this year's amazing nominees. Nominated for best young adult fiction, we're thrilled to welcome , author of , and , author of . Nominated for best juvenile fiction, we're delighted to be hosting , author of . These are intricately crafted, propulsive reads, written by masters at their craft. Join us as we celebrate them!
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In this propulsive historical mystery, three timelines converge to unveil the truth behind the disappearance of two young women during World War II.

It was said that if you wrote to the Bridegroom’s Oak, the love of your life would answer back. In 1940s Germany, Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor. Meanwhile, her best friend, Hanna, is sending messages too—but not to find love. As World War II unfolds in their small town of Kleinwald, the oak may hold the key to resistance against the Nazis.

In 1980s West Germany, American teen transplant Jenny feels suffocated by her strict parents and is struggling to fit in. Until she finds herself falling for Lena, a punk-rock girl hell-bent on tearing down the wall separating West Germany from East Germany, and meeting Frau Hermann, a kind old lady with secrets of her own.

In Spring 2020, New York City, best friends Miles and Chloe are slogging through the last few months of senior year when an unexpected package from Chloe’s grandmother leads them to investigate a cold case about two unidentified teenagers who went missing under the Bridegroom’s Oak eighty years ago. Ages 12 to 18
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Mia Hayes has peaceful plans for the summer—find a part-time job at a coffee shop and work on her college applications. Those plans are shattered one night when government agents arrive unannounced at her home seeking something they believe her father has taken. When the dust settles, her mother is dead and her father is gone, a fugitive on the run.

Three weeks later, Mia spends her seventeenth birthday at a protest in the heart of D.C., where she meets Logan, a charming hacker. Just as she’s enjoying her first happy moment since her world exploded, a voicemail from her father arrives to upend everything she believed about her family, her past, and what really happened that night. Even more, the voicemail hides another encoded message inside which, once Mia solves it, sets her and Logan off on a mission from her sleepy suburb straight into the heart of the federal government.

With the same agents now hot on their trail, Mia and Logan must navigate their way through American history’s most iconic sites and uncover its most well-hidden secrets to reveal the truth about her family and stop a deadly attack. Ages 12 to 18
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Avery is a firecracker. Her cousin, Jax, is a wall flower. They seem to be the only ones who don’t know what happened years ago when their family shattered and went off in different directions.

Now, their beloved Aunt Robbie has summoned the large, estranged family together for a gathering at their broken-down family cabin on Crooked Lake. But instead of getting the answer, Aunt Robbie delivers some devastating news. Avery and Jax learn that by the end of the summer, the island that’s been a part of their family for generations is going up for sale.

Forced to stay on the island with their estranged family to get it into shape to sell, Avery and Jax begin to dig through the history of the long-abandoned house and its contents… including a sprinkling of diary pages that were hidden around the island decades ago, the summer their family was torn apart.

If they're going to have any chance of gluing their broken family back together, they’ll have to first figure out what happened then. Ages 8 to 12
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