Plus some overlooked candidates, as Susan Howard wraps up her category coverage for this year.

Read her prognostications (and objections) here.

Over the past few weeks we’ve taken a look at the Mystery Writers of America’s the 2026 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award nominees for Best Fact Crime. Now it’s time for prognostication (Edgar winners will be announced April 29), and musing over what true-crime books from last year should have been nominated!