Last week, I mentioned it’s time for the mystery award announcements. This week, Malice Domestic has announced the nominees for the 2019 Agatha Awards. The awards will be presented May 4 during Malice Domestic 31. Congratulations to all of the nominees.
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Best Contemporary Novel
Mardi Gras Murder by Ellen Byron (Crooked Lane Books)
Beyond the Truth by
Bruce Robert Coffin (Witness Impulse)
Cry Wolf by
Annette Dashofy (Henery Press)
Kingdom of the Blind by
Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Trust Me by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)
Best Historical Novel
Four
Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen
(Berkley)
The Gold Pawn by
LA Chandlar (Kensington)
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
Turning the Tide by
Edith Maxwell (Midnight Ink)
Murder on Union Square by
Victoria Thompson (Berkley)
Best First Novel
A
Ladies Guide to Etiquette and Murder by Dianne
Freeman (Kensington)
Little Comfort by
Edwin Hill (Kensington)
What Doesn’t Kill You by
Aimee Hix (Midnight Ink)
Deadly Solution by Keenan Powell (Level Best Books)
Curses Boiled Again by
Shari Randall (St. Martin’s)
Best Short Story
“All
God’s Sparrows” by Leslie Budewitz
(Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
“A Postcard for the Dead” by Susanna Calkins in Florida
Happens (Three Rooms Press)
“Bug Appetit” by Barb Goffman (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine)
“The Case of the Vanishing
Professor” by
Tara Laskowski (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine)
“English 398: Fiction
Workshop” by
Art Taylor (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)
Best Young Adult Mystery
Potion
Problems (Just Add Magic) by Cindy Callaghan
(Aladdin)
Winterhouse by Ben Guterson (Henry Holt)
A Side of Sabotageby C.M.
Surrisi (Carolrhoda Books)
Best Nonfiction
Mastering
Plot Twists by Jane Cleland
(Writer’s Digest Books)
Writing the Cozy Mystery by Nancy J Cohen (Orange Grove Press)
Conan Doyle for the Defense by Margalit Fox (Random House)
Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by
Laura Thompson (Pegasus Books)
Wicked Women of Ohio by Jane Ann Turzillo (History Press)