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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. 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 ◊ 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)
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