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AGATHA AWARDS


The books prized are ones that best typify Agatha Christie novels, that is mysteries with no sex nor excessive violence. They are awarded by Malice Domestic's annual conference attendees.

 

Best Book

Best First Mystery

Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement

2002 Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer  
2001 Storm Track by Margaret Maron Death on a Silver Tray by Rosemary Stevens Mildred Wirt Benson
2000 Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler Murder with Peacocks by Donna Andrews Dick Francis

1999

Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman

The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway

Patricia Moyes

1998

The Devil in Music by Kate Ross

The Salaryman's Wife by Sujata Massey

Charlotte McLeod

1997

Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron

Murder on a Girl's Night Out by Anne George

Emma Lathen

1996

If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb

The Body in the Transept by Jeanne M. Dams

Mary Stewart

1995

She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott

 

1994

Dead Man's Island by Carolyn Hart

Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr

Mignon G. Eberhart

1993

Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

 

1992

I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard

Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker

 

1991

Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard

The Body in the Belfry by Katherine Hall Page

 

1990

Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters

Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill

Phyllis A. Whitney

1989

Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart

A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George