Laura Purcell’s “darkly addictive, utterly compelling” novel The Shape of Darkness has been nominated for Best Paperback Original at this year’s Edgar Awards.

The 76th annual Edgar Awards will celebrate the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television from 2021. Winners will be announced on April 28th 2022 in New York.

The Shape of Darkness follows Agnes, a struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath, who seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers.

Nominees for BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL:

Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke (Penguin Random House – Berkley)
The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory (Tom Doherty Associates – Tordotcom)
Starr Sign by C.S. O’Cinneide (Dundurn Press)
Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks (Europa Editions – World Noir)
The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell (Penguin Random House – Penguin Books)