Award
Agatha Award
26 years tracked (1988–2024), 153 entries total.
The Agatha Award is a literary award for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre, named for Agatha Christie. It is presented by Malice Domestic Ltd at an annual convention in Washington, D.C., in six categories: Best Novel, Best First Mystery, Best Historical Novel, Best Short Story, Best Non-Fiction, and Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery.
2024
2023
Crime and Parchment
Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction
The Mistress of Bhatia House
The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary
The Weekend Retreat
Ticket to Ride
A Good Judge of Character
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord
Araña and Spiderman
Case of the Bleus
Death Among the Ruins
Dutch Threat
Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
Glory Be
Helpless
Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
Real Courage
Shamu, World’s Greatest Detective
The Hint of Light
The Knife Sharpener
Wined and Died in New Orleans
2022
A World of Curiosities
Beauty and the Beyotch
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Cheddar Off Dead
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction
Bayou Book Thief
Daybreak on Raven Island
Death By Bubble Tea
Death in the Aegean
Devil's Chew Toy
Fatal Reunion
Fly Me to the Morgue
In Myrtle Peril
Summary of the Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie
The Bangalore Detectives Club
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie
The Counterfeit Wife
The Invisible Band
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
The Lindbergh Nanny
The Minnesota Twins Meet Bigfoot
There Comes a Time
2021
Arsenic and Adobo
Bay of Reckoning
Cajun Kiss of Death
Death at Greenway
How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America
I Play One on TV
A Dead Man's Eyes
A Family Matter
A Tale of Two Sisters
Clark and Division
Cold-Blooded Myrtle
Doc's at Midnight
Her Perfect Life
Murder at Mallowan Hall
Murder in the Master
Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter
The Combat Zone: Murder, Race, and Boston’s Struggle for Justice
The Forest of Stolen Girls
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England
The Locked Room Library
The Madness of Crowds
The Turncoat's Widow
Watch Her
2020
All the Devils Are Here
Dear Emily Etiquette
Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco
Murder at the Mena House
Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock
The Last Mrs. Summers
A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder
A Spell for Trouble
Derailed
Elysian Fields
From Beer to Eternity
H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
Midnight at the Barclay Hotel
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard
Premeditated Myrtle
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
The 25 Year Engagement
The Boy Detective & the Summer of '74
The Fate of a Flapper
The Gift of the Magpie
The Red Herrings at Killington Inn
Winter Witness
