Agatha Awards: Best First Mystery Novel

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:

Best Novel: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25261
Best First Mystery
Best Short Story
Best Non-Fiction: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25270
Best Children’s/YA Mystery

“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.”

(found at: http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards.html)

Send to Printer Agatha Awards: Best First Mystery Novel 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: Best Novel: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25261 Best First Mystery Best Short Story Best Non-Fiction: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/25270 Best Children’s/YA Mystery “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.” (found at: http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards.html)
	1.		A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
	2.		Grime and Punishment (Jane Jeffry Mysteries (Paperback)) by Jill Churchill
	3.		The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page
	4.	?	Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker
	5.	?	Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
	6.		Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
	7.		Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
	8.		The Body in the Transept (Dorothy Martin Mysteries (Paperback)) by Jeanne M. Dams
	9.		Murder on a Girls' Night Out: A Southern Sisters Mystery by Anne George
	10.		The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey
	11.		The Doctor Digs a Grave (Dr. Fenimore Mysteries) by Robin Hathaway
	12.		Murder With Peacocks (A Meg Lanslow Mystery) by Donna Andrews
	13.		Death on a Silver Tray: A Beau Brummell Mystery (Beau Brummell Mysteries) by Rosemary Stevens
	14.		Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
	15.		In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) by Julia Spencer-Fleming
	16.		Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
	17.		Dating Dead Men: A Wollie Shelley Mystery by Harley Jane Kozak
	18.		Better Off Wed: An Annabelle Archer Mystery by Laura Durham
	19.		Heat of the Moon, The by Sandra Parshall
	20.		Prime Time (Harlequin Next) by Hank Phillippi Ryan
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