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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. 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 ( 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: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery by Daniel J. Hale and Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications) 2001 Best Novel: Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen (St Martin's Minotaur Books) Best First Novel: Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer (Dutton) Best Children's/Young Adult Novel: Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery 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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