2010 Award Winners and Nominees

Agatha Awards were nominated for materials first published in the United States by a living author during the calendar year 2009 (January 1 through December 31). Award were given for Best Novel and Best First Novel. The final vote was by secret ballot by registered convention attendees at the Malice Domestic 22 convention in May 2010.

Best Novel

Winner

A Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Armand Gamche of the Surete du Quebec

hardcover, $24.99

Other Nominees

Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews

hardcover, $24.99

Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett

Bookstore owner Tricia Miles

paperback, $7.99

Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen

Penniless aristocrat Lady Georgiana

hardcover, $24.95

Air Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan

introduces savvy TV reporter Charlotte McNally

paperback, $7.99

Best First Novel

Winner

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley

Twelve year old sleuth Flavia de Luce

trade paperback, $15

Other Nominees

For Better for Murder by Lisa Bork

Jolene Asdale, owner of an exotic car showroom in the Finger Lakes

trade paperback, $14.95

Posed for Murder by Meredith Cole

Fine art photographer Lydia McKenzie

hardcover, $24.95

The Cold Light of Mourning by Elizabeth Duncan

Welsh village manicurist Penny Brannigan

hardcover, $24.95

paperback, $7.99 available July 2010

In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff

Murder in turn of the century New York

trade paperback, $14.99

Best Nonfiction

Winner

Dame Agatha's Shorts by Elena Santangelo

trade paperback, $13.95

Other Nominees

Duchess of Death by Richard Hack

Unauthorized biography of Agatha Christie

hardcover, $25.95

Talking About Detective Fiction by P.D. James

hardcover, $22

Blood on the Stage by Ammon Kabatchnik

hardcover, $110

The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

hardcover, $40