The Agatha Awards

The Agatha Awards, named for Malice inspiration Agatha Christie, are awarded for the Best Novel, First Mystery Novel, Nonfiction, and Short Story in the genre for the previous year. Presentation is made at the Malice Domestic convention.


2003 (Presented in 2004)

Best Novel Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart (Berkley Publishing Group)

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Best First Mystery Novel Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)

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Best Nonfiction Work Amelia Peabody's Egypt, A Compendium edited by Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread; designed by Dennis Forbes (William Morrow)

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Best Children's/YA The Seventh Knot by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish Corporation)

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2002 (Presented in 2003)

Best Novel You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews (Berkley Publishing Group)

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Best First Mystery Novel In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Thomas Dunne Books)

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Best Nonfiction Work They Died in Vain by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)

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Best Children's/YA Red Card by Daniel Hale & Matthew LeBrot (Top Publications)

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2001 (Presented in May, 2002)

Best Novel Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur Books)

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Best First Mystery Novel Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (Dutton)

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Best Nonfiction Work Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir by Tony Hillerman (HarperCollins)

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Best Children's/YA The Mystery of the Haunted Caves (Troop 13 Mystery) by Penny Warner (Meadowbook Press)

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2000
Best Novel Storm Track by Margaret Maron

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Best First Mystery Novel Death on a Silver Tray by Rosemary Stevens

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Best Nonfiction Work 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century edited by Jim Huang

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1999
Best Novel Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler

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Best First Mystery Novel Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews

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Best Nonfiction Work Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle by Daniel Stashower

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1998
Best Novel Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman

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Best First Mystery Novel The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway

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Best Nonfiction Work Mystery Reader�s Walking Guide to Washington D.C. by Alzina Stone Dale

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1997
Best Novel The Devil in Music by Kate Ross

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Best First Mystery Novel The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey

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Best Nonfiction Work Detecting Men by Willetta L. Heising

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1996
Best Novel Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron

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Best First Mystery Novel Murder on a Girl's Night Out by Anne George

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Best Nonfiction Work Detecting Women 2 by Willetta Heising

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1995
Best Novel If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb

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Best First Mystery Novel The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams

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Best Nonfiction Work Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago by Alzina Stone Dale

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1994
Best Novel She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

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Best First Mystery Novel Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott

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Best Nonfiction Work By a Woman's Hand by Jean Swanson and Dean James

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1993
Best Novel Dead Man�s Island by Carolyn Hart

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Best First Mystery Novel Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr

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Best Nonfiction Work The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery by Barbara D'Amato

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1992
Best Novel Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron

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Best First Mystery Novel Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

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1991
Best Novel I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard

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Best First Mystery Novel Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker

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1990
Best Novel Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard

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Best First Mystery Novel The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page

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1989
Best Novel Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters

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Best First Mystery Novel Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill

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1988
Best Novel Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart

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Best First Mystery Novel A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George

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