2005 Award Winners and Nominees

Malice Domestic has announced its winners for the 2004 Agatha Awards, honoring the best first mystery novel, best novel, best non-fiction, best short story, and best juvenile/young adult mystery published in 2005. 

The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, were presented during Malice Domestic XVII at the Agatha Awards Banquet, May 1st, 2005. Malice attendees registered by January 4th made the nominations; the Agathas were selected at the convention by all convention attendees.

Best Novel

Winner

Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear

fabulous sequel to the award-winning Maisie Dobbs

trade paperback, $14

Other Nominees

We'll Always Have Parrots by Donna Andrews

fifth in the wacky Meg Lanslow series

paperback, $6.99

signed hardcover, $23.95

By a Spider's Thread by Laura Lippman

Tess Monaghan returns in a complex missing persons case

paperback, $7.99

High Country Fall by Margaret Maron

Deborah Knott heads for the hills in the latest in this fine series

paperback, $6.99

The Pearl Diver by Sujata Massey

Rei Shimura's decorating job at a new restaurant soon turns into a missing persons case

trade paperback, $12.95

signed hardcover, $23.95

Best First Novel

Winner

Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak

Wacky debut introduces greeting card designer Wollie Shelley.

trade paperback, $12.95

Other Nominees

Till the Cows Come Home by Judy Clemens

menace and mayhem in Pennsylvania dairy country

trade paperback, $14.95

Arson and Old Lace by Patricia Harwin

classic English village mystery with expat American sleuth

paperback, $6.99

I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel

delightful novel introduces Cece Caruso, writing a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, becoming involved in one of his old cases

paperback, $6.99

The Clovis Incident by Pari Noskin Taichert

Clovis, New Mexico is the setting for the unusual debut

trade paperback, $14.95