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Agatha Awards for Mystery

The Agatha Awards are obviously named after Agatha Christie ... a prolific myster writer in the 20th century.

The awards are given each year in April for books published in the US in the previous year. The awards presentation is at the Malice Domestic Convention - it was at Arlington, Virginia in 2008.

Agatha Awards are given in five categories. Requirements for the books are that they should be written as a traditional mystery ... like Agatha Christie would have written. Jim calls these books "cozies".

They should not have excessive violence or profanity or explicit sex. The stories usually feature an amateur detective rather than police officers or private detectives.


Here are the 2008 Nominees for Best Novel:

Donna AndrewsPenguin Who Knew Too Much


Rhys BowenHer Royal Spyness


Margaret MaronHard Row


Louise PennyA Fatal Grace Winner!


Elaine VietsMurder With Reservations


... and the 2008 Nominees for Best First Novel:

Charles FinchA Beautiful Blue Death


Beth GroundwaterA Real Basket Case


Deanne RayburnSilent In The Grave


Hank Phillippi RyanPrime Time Winner!



Here are the awards given for Best Novel since 1989:

Year Author Book
2008 Louise Penny Fatal Grace
2007 Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains
2006 Katherine Hall Page The Body in the Snowdrift
2005 Jacqueline Winspear Birds of a Feather
2004 Carolyn Hart Letter From Home
2003 Donna Andrews You've Got Murder
2002 Rhys Bowen Murphy's Law
2001 Margaret Maron Storm Track
2000 Earlene Fowler Mariner's Compass
1999 Laura Lippman Butchers Hill
1998 Kate Ross The Devil In Music
1997 Margaret Maron Up Jumps The Devil
1996 Sharyn McCrumb If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
1995 Sharyn McCrumb She Walks These Hills
1994 Carolyn Hart Dead Man's Island
1993 Margaret Maron Bootlegger's Daughter
1992 Nancy Pickard I.O.U.
1991 Nancy Pickard Bum Steer
1990 Elizabeth Peters Naked Once More
1989 Carolyn G. Hart Something Wicked


Here are the awards given for Best First Novel since 1989:

Year Author Book
2008 Hank Phillippi Ryan Prime Time
2007 Sandra Parshall The Heat of the Moon
2006 Laura Durham Better Off Wed
2005 Harley Jane Kozak Dating Dead Men
2004 Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs
2003 Julia Spencer-Fleming In the Bleak Midwinter
2002 Sarah Strohmeyer Bubbles Unbound
2001 Rosemary Stevens Death on a Silver Tray
2000 Donna Andrews Murder with Peacocks
1999 Robin Hathaway The Doctor Digs A Grave
1998 The Salaryman's Wife The Salaryman's Wife
1997 Anne George Murder On A Girl's Night Out
1996 Jeanne M. Dams The Body in the Transept
1995 Jeff Abbott Do Unto Others
1994 Nevada Barr Track Of The Cat
1993 Barbara Neely Blanche On The Lam
1992 Mary Willis Walker Zero At The Bone
1991 Katherine Hall Page The Body In The Belfry
1990 Jill Churchill Grime And Punishment
1989 Elizabeth George A Great Deliverance

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