Agatha Awards: Best First Mystery Novel

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The Agatha Awards are named after mystery writer Agatha Christie and are awarded annually to living American authors (or authors first published in the US) in five categories:

“The Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery – books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is generally characterized by mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence; usually featuring an amateur detective, they have a confined setting and characters who know one another. Novels and stories featuring police officers and private detectives may qualify for the Agatha, but materials generally classified as “hard boiled” are not appropriate.”

  1. 1988
    A Great Deliverance
    by Elizabeth George

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  2. 1989
    Grime and Punishment (Jane Jeffry Mysteries (Paperback))
    by Jill Churchill

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  3. 1990
    The Body in the Belfry
    by Katherine Hall Page

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  4. 1991
    ?
    Zero at the Bone
    by Mary Willis Walker

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  5. 1992
    ?
    Blanche on the Lam
    by Barbara Neely

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  6. 1993
    Track of the Cat
    by Nevada Barr

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  7. 1994
    Do Unto Others
    by Jeff Abbott

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  8. 1995

  9. 1996

  10. 1997
    The Salaryman's Wife
    by Sujata Massey

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  11. 1998
    The Doctor Digs a Grave (Dr. Fenimore Mysteries)
    by Robin Hathaway

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  12. 1999
    Murder With Peacocks (A Meg Lanslow Mystery)
    by Donna Andrews

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  13. 2001
    Bubbles Unbound
    by Sarah Strohmeyer

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  14. 2002

  15. 2003
    Maisie Dobbs
    by Jacqueline Winspear

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  16. 2004
    Dating Dead Men: A Wollie Shelley Mystery
    by Harley Jane Kozak

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  17. 2005
    Better Off Wed: An Annabelle Archer Mystery
    by Laura Durham

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  18. 2006
    Heat of the Moon, The
    by Sandra Parshall

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  19. 2007
    Prime Time (Harlequin Next)
    by Hank Phillippi Ryan

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Created by The Subjected Reader on Jan 31, 2007.
 

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