The Agatha Award
The
Agatha Awards honor the
traditional mystery—books best typified by the works of
Agatha Christie—and are awarded annually by Malice
Domestic,
Ltd. 
indicates
a review by Mysterious
Reviews.
2009
◊ Best Mystery Novel: Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
◊ Best Mystery Novel: Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett (Berkley Prime Crime)
◊ Best Mystery Novel: Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
◊ Best Mystery Novel: A Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best Mystery Novel: Air Time by Hank
Phillippi Ryan (Mira)
◊ Best First Mystery Novel: For Better, For Murder by Lisa Bork (Midnight Ink)
◊ Best First Mystery Novel: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan
Bradley
(Delacorte Press)
◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
◊ Best First Mystery Novel: The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth Duncan (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best First Mystery Novel: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie
Pintoff
(St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: The Morgue and Me by John C. Ford (Viking Juvenile)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: The Hanging Hill by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: The Case of the Poisoned Pig by Lewis B.
Montgomery
(Kane Press)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: The Other Side of Blue by Valerie O. Patterson (Clarion Books)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline by Nancy Springer (Philomel)
2008
◊ Best Novel: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best
First Novel: Death of a Cozy Writer
by G.
M. Malliet
(Midnight Ink)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein (Random House Children's Books)
2007
◊ Best Novel: A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
◊ Best First Novel: Prime Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: A Light in the Cellar by Sarah Masters Buckey
2006
◊ Best Novel: The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Random House)
◊ Best First Novel: The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall (Poisoned Pen Press)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: Pea Soup Poisonings by Nancy Means Wright (Hilliard & Harris)
2005
◊ Best Novel: The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page (William Morrow)
◊ Best First Novel: Better Off Wed by Laura Durham (Avon Books)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: Down The Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams (Laura Geringer Books)
2004
◊ Best Novel: Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)
◊ Best First Novel: Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult: Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
2003
◊ Best Novel: Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart (Berkley Prime Crime)
◊ Best First Novel: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press Inc.)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult Novel: The 7th Knot by Kathleen Karr (Marshall Cavendish)
2002
◊ Best Novel: You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews (Berkley Prime Crime)
◊ Best First Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult Novel: Red Card by Daniel J. Hale and Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications)
2001
◊ Best Novel: Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen (St Martin's St. Martin's Minotaur)
◊ Best First Novel: Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (Dutton)
◊ Best Children's/Young Adult Novel: Mystery of the Haunted Caves by Penny Warner (Meadowbrook Press)
2000
◊ Best Novel: Storm Track by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
◊ Best First Novel: Death on a Silver Tray by Rosemary Stevens (Berkley Prime Crime)
1999
◊ Best Novel: Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler (Berkley Publishing Group)
◊ Best First Novel: Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews (Thomas Dunne Books)
1998
◊ Best Novel: Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman (Avon Books)
◊ Best First Novel: The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway (St. Martin's Minotaur)
1997
◊ Best Novel: The Devil In Music by Kate Ross (Viking)
◊ Best First Novel: The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)
1996
◊ Best Novel: Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
◊ Best First Novel: Murder on a Girl's Night Out by Anne George (Avon Books)
1995
◊ Best Novel: If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb (Ballantine)
◊ Best First Novel: The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams (Walker)
1994
◊ Best Novel: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb (Scribner)
◊ Best First Novel: Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott (Fawcett)
1993
◊ Best Novel: Dead Man's Island by Carolyn Hart (Bantam)
◊ Best First Novel: Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr (Putnam)
1992
◊ Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
◊ Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely (St. Martin's Press)
1991
◊ Best Novel: I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard (Pocket)
◊ Best First Novel: Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker (St. Martin's Press)
1990
◊ Best Novel: Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard (Pocket )
◊ Best First Novel: The Body In the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page (St. Martin's Press)
1989
◊ Best Novel: Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters (Warner)
◊ Best First Novel: Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill (Avon Books)
1988
◊ Best Novel: Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart (Bantam)
◊ Best First Novel: A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George (Bantam)