Malice Domestic has announced its nominees for the 2007 Agatha Awards, to be handed out during the Malice Domestic XIX convention in Arlington, Virginia, May 4-6. Featured are books by mostly familiar authors, but with a handful of newcomers thrown in to spice things up. And the nominees are ...
Best First Novel
• Consigned to Death, by Jane Cleland (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Feint of Art, by Hailey Lind (Signet)
• Murder on the Rocks, by Karen MacInerney (Midnight Ink)
• The Chef Who Died Sautéing, by Honora Finklestein and Susan Smiley (Hilliard & Harris)
• The Heat of the Moon, by Sandra Parshall (Poisoned Pen)
Best Novel
• All Mortal Flesh, by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Messenger of Truth, by Jacqueline Winspear (Holt)
• The Saddlemaker’s Wife, by Earlene Fowler (Penguin Group)
• The Virgin of Small Plains, by Nancy Pickard (Random House)
• Why Casey Had to Die, by L.C. Hayden (Five Star)
Best Non-fiction
• Don’t Murder Your Mystery, by Chris Roerden (Bella Rosa)
• Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today’s Mystery Writers, by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (Crum Creek Press)
• The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder, by Daniel Stashower (Dutton)
Best Short Story
• “Disturbance in the Field,” by Roberta Isleib (from Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, and Susan Oleksiw; Level Best Books)
• “Provenence,” by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], March/April 2006)
• “Sleeping with the Plush,” by Toni L.P. Kelner (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, May 2006)
• “The Old Couple,” by Robert Barnard (EQMM, July 2006)
• “Yankee Swap,” by Maurissa Guibord (EQMM, March/April 2006)
Best Young Adult
• Behind the Curtain: An Echo Falls Mystery, by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins)
• Pea Soup Poisonings, by Nancy Means Wright (Hilliard & Harris)
• Room One: A Mystery or Two, by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars: The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas, by Tracy Mack and Michael Citrin (Scholastic)
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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