Agatha Award - First Novel (Awarded by Malice Domestic)

Awards List

2021

Arsenic and Adobo
(Winner)
Mia P. Manansala

The Turncoat's Widow
(Nominee)
Mally Becker

A Dead Man's Eyes
(Nominee)
Lori Duffy Foster

Murder in the Master
(Nominee)
Judy L. Murray

Mango, Mambo, and Murder
(Nominee)
Raquel V. Reyes

2020

Murder at the Mena House
(Winner)
Erica Ruth Neubauer

Derailed
(Nominee)
Mary Keliikoa

A Spell for Trouble
(Nominee)
Esme Addison

Murder Most Sweet
(Nominee)
Laura Jensen Walker

Winter Witness
(Nominee)
Tina deBellegarde

2019

One Night Gone
(Winner)
Tara Laskowski

Murder Once Removed
(Nominee)
S.C. Perkins

A Dream of Death
(Nominee)
Connie Berry

Staging is Murder
(Nominee)
Grace Topping

When It's Time for Leaving
(Nominee)
Ang Pompano

2018

Curses, Boiled Again!
(Winner)
Shari Randall

A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
(Winner)
Dianne Freeman

Deadly Solution
(Nominee)
Keenan Powell

What Doesn't Kill You
(Nominee)
Aimee Hix

Little Comfort
(Nominee)
Edwin Hill

2017

Hollywood Homicide
(Winner)
Kellye Garrett

Adrift
(Nominee)
Micki Browning

Protocol
(Nominee)
Kathleen Valenti

Daughters of Bad Men
(Nominee)
Laura Oles

The Plot Is Murder
(Nominee)
V.M. Burns

2016

The Semester of Our Discontent
(Winner)
Cynthia Kuhn

Terror in Taffeta
(Nominee)
Marla Cooper

Design for Dying
(Nominee)
Renee Patrick

Decanting a Murder
(Nominee)
Nadine Nettmann

Murder in G Major
(Nominee)
Alexia Gordon

2015

On the Road with del & Louise
(Winner)
Art Taylor

Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman
(Nominee)
Tessa Arlen

Macdeath
(Nominee)
Cindy Brown

Plantation Shudders
(Nominee)
Ellen Byron

Just Killing Time
(Nominee)
Julianne Holmes

2014

Well Read, Then Dead
(Winner)
Terrie Farley Moran

Murder Strikes a Pose
(Nominee)
Tracy Weber

Circle of Influence
(Nominee)
Annette Dashofy

Well Read, Then Dead
(Nominee)
Terrie Farley Moran

Finding Sky
(Nominee)
Susan O'Brien

Tagged for Death
(Nominee)
Sherry Harris

2013

Death Al Dente
(Winner)
Leslie Budewitz

Front Page Fatality
(Nominee)
Lyndee Walker

Board Stiff
(Nominee)
Kendel Lynn

Kneading to Die
(Nominee)
Liz Mugavero

You Cannoli Die Once
(Nominee)
Shelley Costa

2012

Lowcountry Boil
(Winner)
Susan M. Boyer

Scrapbook of Secrets
(Nominee)
Mollie Cox Bryan

A Killer Read
(Nominee)
Erika Chase

Faithful Unto Death
(Nominee)
Stephanie Jaye Evans

Iced Chiffon
(Nominee)
Duffy Brown

2011

Learning to Swim
(Winner)
Sara J. Henry

Choke
(Nominee)
Kaye George

Dire Threads
(Nominee)
Janet Bolin

Tempest in the Tea Leaves
(Nominee)
Kari Lee Townsend

Who Do, Voodoo?
(Nominee)
Rochelle Staab

2010

The Long Quiche Goodbye
(Winner)
Avery Aames

Diamonds for the Dead
(Nominee)
Alan Orloff

Maid of Murder
(Nominee)
Amanda Flower

Full Mortality
(Nominee)
Sasscer Hill

Murder at the PTA
(Nominee)
Laura Alden

2009

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
(Winner)
Alan Bradley

2008

Death of a Cozy Writer
(Winner)
G.M. Malliet

Paper, Scissors, Death
(Nominee)
Joanna Campbell Slan

The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
(Nominee)
Krista Davis

2007

Prime Time
(Winner)
Hank Phillippi Ryan

2006

The Heat of the Moon
(Winner)
Sandra Parshall

Murder on the Rocks
(Nominee)
Karen MacInerney

2005

Better Off Wed
(Winner)
Laura Durham

Knit One, Kill Two
(Nominee)
Maggie Sefton

Witch Way to Murder
(Nominee)
Shirley Damsgaard

2004

Dating Dead Men
(Winner)
Harley Jane Kozak

The Clovis Incident
(Nominee)
Pari Noskin Taichert

2003

Maisie Dobbs
(Winner)
Jacqueline Winspear

2002

In the Bleak Midwinter
(Winner)
Julia Spencer-Fleming

How to Murder a Millionare
(Nominee)
Nancy Martin

2001

Bubbles Unbound
(Winner)
Sarah Strohmeyer

An Affinity for Murder
(Nominee)
Anne White

2000

Death on a Silver Tray
(Winner)
Rosemary Stevens

Murder of a Small-Town Honey
(Nominee)
Denise Swanson

1999

Murder With Peacocks
(Winner)
Donna Andrews

By Blood Possessed
(Nominee)
Elena Santangelo

1998

The Doctor Digs a Grave
(Winner)
Robin Hathaway

Sympathy for the Devil
(Nominee)
Jerrilyn Farmer

1997

The Salaryman's Wife
(Winner)
Sujata Massey

1996

Murder on a Girls' Night Out
(Winner)
Anne George

1995

The Body in the Transept
(Winner)
Jeanne M. Dams
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Death in Bloodhound Red
(Nominee)
Virginia Lanier

A Far and Deadly Cry
(Nominee)
Teri Holbrook

1994

Do Unto Others
(Winner)
Jeff Abbott

Fool's Puzzle
(Nominee)
Earlene Fowler

1993

Track of the Cat
(Winner)
Nevada Barr

1992

Blanche on the Lam
(Winner)
Barbara Neely

1991

Zero at the Bone
(Winner)
Mary Willis Walker

1990

The Body in the Belfry
(Winner)
Katherine Hall Page

1989

Grime and Punishment
(Winner)
Jill Churchill

1988

A Great Deliverance
(Winner)
Elizabeth George

Award Categories

Children/Young Adult

Contemporary Novel

First Novel

Historical Novel

Nonfiction

Novel

Short Story

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