Malice Domestic Agatha Award WInners

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The Malice Domestic convention was last weekend. The nominees and winners are below. I hadn't realized We'll ALways Have Parrots was nominated. I read all the nominees for best novel except the winner so it looks like I have a new writer to check out.



Malice Domestic XVII Agatha Nominees: ♦Indicates Winner

Best Novel
We’ll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews (Thomas Dunne Books)
By a Spider’s Thread by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins)
High Country Fall by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)
The Pearl Diver by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)
♦Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)

Best First Novel
Till the Cows Come Home by Judy Clemens (Poisoned Pen Press)
Arson and Old Lace by Patricia Harwin (Pocket Books)
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel (HarperCollins)
♦Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)
The Clovis Incident: A Mystery by Pari Noskin Taichert (University of New Mexico Press)

Best Nonfiction
♦Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives by Jack French (Bear Manor Media)
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories, edited with notes by Leslie Klinger (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Best Short Story
“The Butler Didn’t Do It” by Maria Y. Lima (Chesapeake Crimes, Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Publishing)
“The Two Marys” by Katherine Hall Page (Mistletoe and Mayhem, Avon Books)
♦ “Wedding Knife” by Elaine Viets (Chesapeake Crimes, Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Publishing)

Best Children's/Young Adult
♦Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
Betrayal at Cross Creek by Kathleen Ernst (American Girl)
Green Streak: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery by Daniel J. Hale and Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications)