Agatha AwardFirst Novel

Given by Malice Domestic Ltd

178 Works 0 Books
The Agatha Awards are given for materials first published in the United States by a living author during the calendar year, either in hardcover, as a paperback original, or e-published by an show more e-publishing firm and are awarded in five categories: Best Novel Best First Novel Best Short Story Best Nonfiction Book Best Children's/Young Adult Novel The Agatha Awards honor the "traditional mystery." That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others. For these purposes, the genre is loosely defined as mysteries that: contain no explicit sex contain no excessive gore or gratuitous violence usually feature an amateur detective take place in a confined setting and contain characters who know one another Novels and stories featuring police officers and private detectives may qualify for the awards, but materials generally classified as "hard-boiled" are not appropriate. At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, show less
Stages:
All, Winner (140), Nominee (666)
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Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (6), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (5), 2018 (3), 2017 (5), 2016 (5), 2015 (5), 2014 (5), 2013 (5), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (4), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (7), 2002 (6), 2001 (5), 2000 (5), 1999 (5), 1998 (5), 1997 (5), 1996 (5), 1995 (5), 1994 (4), 1993 (5), 1992 (5), 1991 (5), 1990 (5), 1989 (4), 1988 (5)

Winner 35

WorkYear
Crime and Parchment by Daphne Silver2023
Cheddar Off Dead by Korina Moss2022
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala2021
Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer2020
One Night Gone: A Novel by Tara Laskowski2019
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett2017
The Semester of Our Discontent by Cynthia Kuhn2016
On The Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories by Art Taylor2015
Well Read, Then Dead by Terrie Farley Moran2014
Death Al Dente by Leslie Budewitz2013
Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer2012
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry2011
The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames2010
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley2009
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet2008
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan2007
The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall2006
Better Off Wed by Laura Durham2005
Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak2004
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear2003
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming2002
Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer2001
Death on a Silver Tray by Rosemary Stevens2000
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews1999
The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway1998
The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey1997
Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George1996
The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams1995
Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott1994
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr1993
Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely1992
Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker1991
The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page1990
Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill1989
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George1988

Nominee 178

WorkYear
Crime and Parchment by Daphne Silver2023
Glory Be: A Glory Broussard Mystery by Danielle Arceneaux2023
The Hint of Light by Kristin Kisska2023
Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon2023
Cheddar Off Dead by Korina Moss2022
The Finalist by Joan Long2022
Death in The Aegean by M A Monnin2022
The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra2022
Devil's Chew Toy by Rob Osler2022
The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery by Nina Wachsman2022
Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala2021
The Turncoat's Widow: A Revolutionary War Mystery by Mally Becker2021
A Dead Man's Eyes: A Lisa Jamison Mystery by Lori Duffy Foster2021
Murder in the Master: A Chesapeake Bay Mystery by Judy L Murray2021
Mango, Mambo, and Murder by Raquel V. Reyes2021
Murder at the Mena House by Erica Ruth Neubauer2020
A Spell for Trouble by Esme Addison2020
Winter Witness: A Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery by Tina deBellegarde2020
Derailed by Mary Keliikoa2020
Murder Most Sweet: A Bookish Baker Mystery by Laura Jensen Walker2020
One Night Gone: A Novel by Tara Laskowski2019
A Dream of Death by Connie Berry2019
Murder Once Removed (Ancestry Detective) by S. C. Perkins2019
When It's Time for Leaving by Ang Pompano2019
Staging is Murder (A Laura Bishop Mystery Book 1) by Grace Topping2019
Little Comfort by Edwin Hill2018
What Doesn't Kill You by Aimee Hix2018
Deadly Solution: A Maeve Malloy Mystery by Keenan Powell2018
Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett2017
Adrift by Micki Browning2017
The Plot Is Murder by V. M. Burns2017
Daughters of Bad Men by Laura Oles2017
Protocol by Kathleen Valenti2017
The Semester of Our Discontent by Cynthia Kuhn2016
Terror in Taffeta by Marla Cooper2016
Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon2016
Decanting a Murder (A Sommelier Mystery) by Nadine Nettmann2016
Design for Dying by Renee Patrick2016
On The Road with Del & Louise: A Novel in Stories by Art Taylor2015
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen2015
Macdeath (An Ivy Meadows Mystery) (Volume 1) by Cindy Brown2015
Plantation Shudders by Ellen Byron2015
Just Killing Time by Julianne Holmes2015
Well Read, Then Dead by Terrie Farley Moran2014
Circle of Influence by Annette Dashofy2014
Tagged for Death by Sherry Harris2014
Finding Sky by Susan O'Brien2014
Murder Strikes a Pose (A Downward Dog Mystery) by Tracy Weber2014
Death Al Dente by Leslie Budewitz2013
You Cannoli Die Once by Shelley Costa2013
Board Stiff (An Elliott Lisbon Mystery) (Volume 1) by Kendel Lynn2013
Kneading To Die by Liz Mugavero2013
Front Page Fatality (A Nichelle Clarke Headlines in Heels Mystery) (A Headlines in High Heels Mystery) (Volume 1) by LynDee Walker2013
Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer2012
Iced Chiffon by Duffy Brown2012
Scrapbook of Secrets by Mollie Cox Bryan2012
A Killer Read by Erika Chase2012
Faithful Unto Death by Stephanie Jaye Evans2012
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry2011
Dire Threads by Janet Bolin2011
Choke by Kaye George2011
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab2011
Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend2011
The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames2010
Murder at the PTA by Laura Alden2010
Maid of Murder by Amanda Flower2010
Full Mortality by Sasscer Hill2010
Diamonds for the Dead by Alan Orloff2010
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley2009
For Better, For Murder by Lisa Bork2009
Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole2009
The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth J. Duncan2009
In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff2009
Death of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet2008
Through a Glass, Deadly by Sarah Atwell2008
Paper, Scissors, Death: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-N-Craft Mystery by Joanna Campbell Slan2008
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme by Krista Davis2008
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris2008
Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan2007
A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch2007
A Real Basket Case by Beth Groundwater2007
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn2007
The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall2006
Consigned to Death by Jane K. Cleland2006
The Chef Who Died Sautéing by Honora Finkelstein2006
Feint of Art by Hailey Lind2006
Murder on the Rocks (Gray Whale Inn Mysteries, No. 1) by Karen MacInerney2006
Better Off Wed by Laura Durham2005
Jury of One by Laura Bradford2005
Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard2005
Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton2005
Blood Relations by Lisa M. Tillman2005
Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak2004
Till the Cows Come Home by Judy Clemens2004
Arson and Old Lace by Patricia Harwin2004
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel2004
The Clovis Incident by Pari Noskin Taichert2004
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear2003
Dealing in Murder by Elaine Flinn2003
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart2003
Take the Bait by S. W. Hubbard2003
Alpine for You by Maddy Hunter2003
Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg2003
O' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor2003
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming2002
Not All Tarts Are Apple by Pip Granger2002
Six Strokes Under by Roberta Isleib2002
Beat Until Stiff by Claire M. Johnson2002
How To Murder A Millionaire by Nancy Martin2002
Shadows at the Fair by Lea Wait2002
Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer2001
Innkeeping with Murder by Tim Myers2001
Mute Witness by Charles O'Brien2001
A Witness Above by Andy Straka2001
An Affinity for Murder by Anne White2001
Death on a Silver Tray by Rosemary Stevens2000
Death Dances to a Reggae Beat by Kate Borden2000
Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death by Julie Wray Herman2000
The Death Of An Amiable Child by Irene Marcuse2000
Murder of a Small-Town Honey by Denise Swanson2000
Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews1999
Circles of Confusion by April Henry1999
Revenge of the Gypsy Queen by Kris Neri1999
By Blood Possessed by Elena Santangelo1999
Sing It to Her Bones by Marcia Talley1999
The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway1998
Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer1998
Tiger's Palette by Jacqueline Fiedler1998
Dying to Get Published (Jennifer Marsh Mysteries, #1) by Judy Fitzwater1998
Fax Me a Bagel by Sharon Kahn1998
The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey1997
Quieter Than Sleep by Joanne Dobson1997
The Butter Did It by Phyllis Richman1997
Dead Body Language (Crime Line.) by Penny Warner1997
Death Brims Over (Brenda Midnight Mysteries) by Barbara J. Wilson1997
Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George1996
Biggie and the Poisoned Politician by Nancy Bell1996
Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani1996
Somebody Else's Child by Terris McMahan Grimes1996
Riding For a Fall by Lillian Roberts1996
The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams1995
A Far and Deadly Cry by Teri Holbrook1995
Horse of a Different Killer by Jody Jaffe1995
Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier1995
Murder in Scorpio by Martha C. Lawrence1995
Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott1994
Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler1994
Writers of the Purple Sage by Barbara Burnett Smith1994
Until Death by Polly Whitney1994
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr1993
Goodnight, Irene by Jan Burke1993
A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie1993
Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman1993
Child of Silence by Abigail Padgett1993
Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely1992
All the Great Pretenders by Deborah Adams1992
Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert1992
Decked by Carol Higgins Clark1992
Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo1992
Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker1991
Carpool by Mary Cahill1991
Just Desserts by Mary Daheim1991
The Bulrush Murders by Rebecca Rothenberg1991
Flowers for the Dead: A Brian Kayne Mystery by Ann M Williams1991
The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page1990
Screaming Bones by Pat Burden1990
Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson1990
The Chartreuse Clue by William F. Love1990
Sea of Troubles by Janet L. Smith1990
Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill1989
Working Murder by Eleanor Boylan1989
The Mother Shadow by Melodie Johnson Howe1989
The Mark Twain Murders by Edith Skom1989
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George1988
The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham1988
The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders by Corinne Holt Sawyer1988
Goodbye, Nanny Gray by Susannah Stacey1988
Dead Men Don't Give Seminars by Dorothy Sucher1988

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