2007 Agatha Award Winners and Nominees

Agatha Awards were given for materials first published in the United States by a living author during the calendar year 2006 (January 1 through December 31) in hardcover, as paperback originals, or e-published by an e-publishing firm. The final vote is by secret ballot by registered convention attendees at the Malice Domestic XIX convention in May 2007. The Agatha Awards were bestowed at the convention banquet on Saturday May 5.

Best First Novel

Winner

The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall

small town vet Rachel Goddard

trade paperback, $14.95 (signed copies available)

Other Nominees

Consiged to Death by Jane Cleland

Josie Prescott leaves her job with a big New York auction house and moves to New Hampshire in this debut with plenty of collecting acumen behind the plot.

paperback, $6.99

signed hardcover, $23.95

The Chef Who Died Sauteing by Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smiley

Series debut for Ariel Quigley, a young English prof, psychic detective and Tarot card reader.

trade paperback, $16.95

Feint of Art by Hailey Lind

Reformed art forger Annie Kincaid

paperback, $6.99

Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney

trade paperback, $12.95

Best Novel

Winner

The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

trade paperback, $13.95

Other Nominees

The Saddlemaker's Wife by Earlene Fowler

Woman discovers the truth behind her husband's life after his death

paperback, $7.99

Why Casey Had to Die by L.C. Hayden

Detective returns to case he investigated twenty years earlier

hardcover, $25.95 (signed copies available)

All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Upstate New York Episcopal priest Claire Fergusson

hardcover, $22.95 Signed copies available

Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

London investigator in post-WW I England, Maisie Dobbs

hardcover, $24 Signed copies available

Congratulations, also, to Toni L.P. Kelner for best Short Story award for "Sleeping with the Plush" in alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.