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Agatha Award

Literary awards for mystery and crime writers

The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre: "books typified by the works of Agatha Christie . . . loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore or gratuitous violence, and are not classified as 'hard-boiled.'"^[1] At an annual convention in Washington, D.C.,^[2] the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, in six categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Historical Novel; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery. Additionally, in some years the Poirot Award is presented to honor individuals other than writers who have made outstanding contributions to the mystery genre, but it is not an annual award.

Agatha Christie

Early meetings of the Malice Domestic Committee occurred in fall 1987, with the first convention held on April 21–23, 1989, in Silver Spring, MD.^[3]^[4] Malice Domestic Ltd was incorporated in 1992. It is governed by a volunteer board of directors.^[5]

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Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
1988	Elizabeth George	A Great Deliverance	Bantam Books	Winner
	Caroline Graham	The Killings at Badger's Drift		Finalist
	Corinne Holt Sawyer	The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders		Finalist
	Susannah Stacey	Goodbye Nanny Grey		Finalist
	Dorothy Sucher	Dead Men Don't Give Seminars		Finalist
1989	Jill Churchill	Grime and Punishment	Avon	Winner
	Eleanor Boylan	Working Murder		Finalist
	Frances Fyfield	A Question of Guilt		Finalist
	Melanie Johnson Howe	The Mother Shadow		Finalist
	Edith Skom	The Mark Twain Murders		Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
1990	Katherine Hall Page	The Body in the Belfry	St. Martin's Press	Winner
	Pat Burden	Screaming Bones		Finalist
	William F. Love	The Chartreuse Clue		Finalist
	Diane Mott Davidson	Catering to Nobody		Finalist
	Janet L. Smith	Sea of Troubles		Finalist
1991	Mary Willis Walker	Zero at the Bone	St. Martin's Press	Winner
	Mary Cahill	Carpool		Finalist
	Mary Daheim	Just Desserts		Finalist
	Rebecca Rothenberg	The Bulrush Murders		Finalist
	Ann Williams	Flowers for the Dead		Finalist
1992	Barbara Neely	Blanche on the Lam	St. Martin's Press	Winner	^[7]^[8]
	Deborah Adams	All the Great Pretenders		Finalist
	Carol Higgins Clark	Decked		Finalist
	Miriam Grace Monfredo	Seneca Falls Inheritance		Finalist
	Susan Wittig Albert	Thyme of Death		Finalist
1993	Nevada Barr	Track of the Cat	Putnam	Winner
	Jan Burke	Goodnight, Irene		Finalist
	Deborah Crombie	A Share in Death		Finalist
	Sharan Newman	Death Comes as Ephiphany		Finalist
	Abigail Padgett	Child of Silence		Finalist
1994	Jeff Abbott	Do Unto Others	Ballantine	Winner
	Barbara Burnett Smith	Writers of the Purple Sage		Finalist
	Janet Evanovich	One for the Money	Scribner	Finalist
	Earlene Fowler	Fool's Puzzle		Finalist
	Polly Whitney	Until Death		Finalist
1995	Jeanne M. Dams	The Body in the Transept	Walker	Winner
	Teri Holbrook	A Far and Deadly Cry		Finalist
	Jody Jaffe	Horse of a Different Killer		Finalist
	Virginia Lanier	Death in Bloodhound Red		Finalist
	Martha C. Lawrence	Murder in Scorpio		Finalist
1996	Anne George	Murder on a Girl's Night Out	Avon	Winner
	Dale Furutani	Death in Little Tokyo: A Ken Tanaka Mystery	St. Martin’s	Finalist
	Terris Grimes	Somebody Else's Child	Onyx Books	Finalist
	Teri Holbrook	The Grass Widow	Bantam Books	Finalist
	Margaret K. Lawrence	Hearts and Bone: A Novel of Historical Suspense	Avon	Finalist
	Lillian M. Roberts	Riding for a Fall	Gold Medal	Finalist
1997	Sujata Massey	The Salaryman's Wife	HarperCollins	Winner
	Joanne Dobson	Quieter Than Sleep	Doubleday	Finalist
	Phyllis Richman	The Butter Did It	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Penny Warner	Dead Body Language	Bantam Books	Finalist
	Barbara Jaye Wilson	Death Brims Over	Avon	Finalist
1998	Robin Hathaway	The Doctor Digs a Grave	Minotaur Books	Winner
	Jerrilyn Farmer	Sympathy for the Devil	Avon	Finalist
	Jacqueline Fiedler	Tiger's Palette	Pocket	Finalist
	Judy Fitzwater	Dying to Get Published	Fawcett	Finalist
	Sharon Kahn	Fax Me a Bagel	Scribner	Finalist
1999	Donna Andrews	Murder with Peacocks	Thomas Dunne Books	Winner
	April Henry	Circles of Confusion	HarperTorch	Finalist
	Kris Neri	Revenge of the Gypsy Queen	Rainbow Books	Finalist
	Elena Santangelo	By Blood Possessed	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Marcia Talley	Sing It to Her Bones	Dell	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Rosemary Stevens [fr]	Death on a Silver Tray	Berkley Prime Crime	Winner
	Julie W. Herman	Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death	Overmountain Press	Finalist
	Irene Marcuse	Death of an Amiable Child	Walker & Company	Finalist	^[9]
	Denise Swanson	Murder of a Small Town Honey	Signet	Finalist
2001	Sarah Strohmeyer	Bubbles Unbound	Dutton	Winner
	Tim Myers	Innkeeping with Murder	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist
	Charlie O'Brien	Mute Witness	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Andy Straka	A Witness Above	Signet	Finalist
2002	Julia Spencer-Fleming	In the Bleak Midwinter	Minotaur Books	Winner
	Pip Granger	Not All Tarts Are Apple	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Roberta Isleib	Six Strokes Under	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist
	Claire M. Johnson	Beat Until Stiff	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Nancy Martin	How to Murder a Millionaire	Signet	Finalist
	Lea Wait	Shadows at the Fair	Scribner	Finalist
2003	Jacqueline Winspear	Maisie Dobbs	Soho Press Inc.	Winner
	Elaine Flinn [fr]	Dealing in Murder	Avon	Finalist
	Erin Hart	Haunted Ground	Scribner	Finalist
	S.W. Hubbard	Take the Bait	Pocket Books	Finalist
	Maddy Hunter	Alpine for You	Pocket Books	Finalist
	Joyce Kreig	Murder off Mike	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[10]
	Sarah Stewart Taylor [de]	O’ Artful Death	St. Martin's Press	Finalist
2004	Harley Jane Kozak	Dating Dead Men	Doubleday	Winner
	Judy Clemens	Till the Cows Come Home	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Patricia Harwin	Arson and Old Lace	Pocket Books	Finalist
	Susan Kandel	I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Pari Noskin Taichert	The Clovis Incident: A Mystery	University of New Mexico Press	Finalist
	Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross	God Speed the Night		Finalist
2005	Laura Durham [fr]	Better Off Wed	HarperCollins	Winner
	Laura Bradford	Jury of One	Hilliard & Harris	Finalist
	Shirley Damsgaard	Witch Way to Murder	Avon	Finalist
	Maggie Sefton	Knit One, Kill Two		Finalist
	Lisa Tillman	Blood Relations	Hilliard & Harris	Finalist
2006	Sandra Parshall [fr]	The Heat of the Moon	Poisoned Pen Press	Winner
	Jane Cleland	Consigned to Death	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily	The Chef Who Died Sauteing	Hilliard & Harris	Finalist
	Hailey Lind	Feint of Art	Signet	Finalist
	Karen MacInerney	Murder on the Rocks	Midnight Ink	Finalist
2007	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Prime Time	Harlequin	Winner
	Charles Finch	A Beautiful Blue Death	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Beth Groundwater	A Real Basket Case	Five Star Mystery	Finalist
	Deanna Raybourn	Silent in the Grave	Mira Books	Finalist
2008	G. M. Malliet	Death of a Cozy Writer	Midnight Ink	Winner
	Sarah Atwell	Through a Glass, Deadly		Finalist
	Joanna Campbell Slan	Paper, Scissors, Death		Finalist
	Krista Davis	The Diva Runs Out of Thyme	Penguin Group	Finalist
	Rosemary Harris	Pushing Up Daisies	Minotaur Books	Finalist	^[11]
2009	Alan Bradley	The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie	Delacorte Press	Winner	^[12]
	Lisa Bork	For Better, for Murder		Finalist
	Meredith Cole	Posed for Murder	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Elizabeth J. Duncan	The Cold Light of Mourning	St. Martin's Press	Finalist
	Stefanie Pintoff	In the Shadow of Gotham	Minotaur Books	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Result
2010	Avery Aames [fr; ja]	The Long Quiche Goodbye	Winner	^[13]
	Laura Alden	Murder at the PTA	Finalist	^[14]
	Deborah Blum	The Poisoner's Handbook	Finalist	^[14]
	Amanda Flower	Maid of Murder	Finalist	^[14]
	Sasscer Hill	Full Mortality	Finalist	^[14]
	Alan Orloff	Diamonds for the Dead	Finalist	^[14]
2011	Sara J. Henry [fr]	Learning to Swim	Winner	^[15]
	Janet Bolin	Dire Threads	Finalist	^[16]
	Kaye George	Choke	Finalist	^[16]
	Rochelle Staab	Who Do, Voodoo?	Finalist	^[16]
	Kari Lee Townsend	Tempest in the Tea Leaves	Finalist	^[16]
2012	Susan M. Boyer	Lowcountry Boil	Winner
	Duffy Brown	Iced Chiffon	Finalist
	Erika Chase	A Killer Read	Finalist
	Mollie Cox Bryan	A Scrapbook of Secrets	Finalist
	Stephanie Jaye Evans	Faithful Unto Death	Finalist
2013	Leslie Budewitz	Death Al Dente	Winner
	Shelley Costa	You Cannoli Die Once	Finalist
	Kendel Lynn	Board Stiff	Finalist
	Liz Mugavero	Kneading to Die	Finalist
	LynDee Walker	Front Page Fatality	Finalist
2014	Terrie Farley Moran	Well Read, Then Dead	Winner
	Annette Dashoffy	Circle of Influence	Finalist
	Sherry Harris	Tagged for Death	Finalist
	Susan O'Brien	Finding Sky	Finalist
	Tracy Weber	Murder Strikes a Pose	Finalist
2015	Art Taylor	On the Road with Del and Louise	Winner
	Tessa Arlen	Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman	Finalist	^[17]
	Cindy Brown	Macdeath	Finalist
	Ellen Byron	Plantation Shudders	Finalist
	Julianne Holmes	Just Killing Time	Finalist
2016	Cynthia Kuhn	The Semester of Our Discontent	Winner
	Marla Cooper	Terror in Taffeta	Finalist
	Alexia Gordon	Murder in G Major	Finalist
	Nadine Nettmann	Decanting a Murder	Finalist
	Renee Patrick	Design for Dying	Finalist	^[18]
2017	Kellye Garrett	Hollywood Homicide	Winner
	Micki Browning	Adrift	Finalist
	V.M. Burns	The Plot is Murder	Finalist
	Laura Oles	Daughters of Bad Men	Finalist
	Kathleen Valenti	Protocol	Finalist
2018	Dianne Freeman [fr]	A Ladies Guide to Etiquette and Murder	Winner
	Shari Randall	Curses, Boiled Again	Winner
	Edwin Hill	Little Comfort	Finalist
	Aimee Hix	What Doesn't Kill You	Finalist
	Keenan Powell	Deadly Solution	Finalist
2019	Tara Laskowski [fr]	One Night Gone	Winner
	Connie Berry	A Dream of Death	Finalist
	S. C. Perkins	Murder Once Removed	Finalist	^[19]
	Ang Pompano	When It’s Time for Leaving	Finalist
	Grace Topping	Staging is Murder	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Erica Neubauer	Murder at the Mena House	Winner	^[20]
	Esme Addison	A Spell for Trouble	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Tina Debellegarde	Winter Witness	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Mary Keliikoa	Derailed	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Laura Jensen Walker	Murder Most Sweet	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
2021	Mia P. Manansala	Arsenic and Adobo	Winner	^[23]
	Mally Becker	The Turncoat's Widow	Finalist
	Lori Duffy Foster	A Dead Man's Eyes	Finalist
	Judy L. Murray	Murder in the Master	Finalist
	Raquel V. Reyes	Mango, Mambo, and Murder	Finalist
2022
	Korina Moss	Cheddar Off Dead	Winner
	M.A. Monnin	Death in the Aegean	Finalist
	Harini Nagendra	The Bangalore Detectives Club	Finalist
	Rob Osler	Devil's Chew Toy	Finalist
	Joan Long	The Finalist	Finalist
	Nina Wachsman	The Gallery of Beauties	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2013	Hank Phillippi Ryan	The Wrong Girl	Winner
	G. M. Malliet	Pagan Spring	Finalist
	Louise Penny	How the Light Gets In	Finalist
	Barbara Ross	Clammed Up	Finalist
	Julia Spencer-Fleming	Through the Evil Days	Finalist
2014	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Truth Be Told	Winner
	Donna Andrews	The Good, the Bad and the Emus	Finalist
	G. M. Malliet	A Demon Summer	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Designated Daughters	Finalist
	Louise Penny	The Long Way Home	Finalist
2015	Margaret Maron	Long Upon the Land	Winner	^[20]
	Annette Dashofy	Bridges Burned	Finalist
	Catriona McPherson	The Child Garden	Finalist
	Louise Penny	Nature of the Beast	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	What You See	Finalist
2016	Louise Penny	A Great Reckoning	Winner
	Ellen Byron	Body on the Bayou	Finalist
	Catriona McPherson	Quiet Neighbors	Finalist
	Barbara Ross	Fogged Inn	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Say No More	Finalist
2017	Louise Penny	Glass Houses	Winner
	Allison Brook	Death Overdue	Finalist
	Ellen Byron	A Cajun Christmas Killing	Finalist
	Annette Dashofy	No Way Home	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Take Out	Finalist
2018	Ellen Byron	Mardi Gras Murder	Winner
	Bruce Robert Coffin	Beyond the Truth	Finalist
	Annette Dashofy	Cry Wolf	Finalist
	Louise Penny	Kingdom of the Blind	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Trust Me	Finalist
2019	Ann Cleeves	The Long Call	Winner
	Ellen Byron	Fatal Cajun Festival	Finalist
	Annette Dashofy	Fair Game	Finalist
	Edwin Hill	The Missing Ones	Finalist
	Louise Penny	A Better Man	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	The Murder List	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Louise Penny	All the Devils Are Here	Winner	^[20]^[24]
	Donna Andrews	The Gift of the Magpie	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Ellen Byron	Murder in the Bayou Boneyard	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Sherry Harris	From Beer to Eternity	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Lori Rader-Day	The Lucky One	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
2021	Ellen Byron	Cajun Kiss of Death	Winner	^[23]
	Edwin Hill	Watch Her	Finalist
	Louise Penny	The Madness of Crowds	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Her Perfect Life	Finalist
	Gabriel Valjan	Symphony Road	Finalist
2022
	Ellen Byron	Bayou Book Thief	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Jennifer J. Chow	Death By Bubble Tea	Finalist
	Annette Dashofy	Fatal Reunion	Finalist
	Tina De Bellegarde	Dead Man's Leap	Finalist
	Louise Penny	A World of Curiosities	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
1988	Carolyn G. Hart	Something Wicked	Bantam	Winner
	Dorothy Cannell	The Widow's Club		Finalist
	Joan Hess	Mischief in Maggody		^[25]
	Sharyn McCrumb	Paying the Piper		Finalist
	Nancy Pickard	Dead Crazy		Finalist
1989	Elizabeth Peters	Naked Once More	Warner	Winner
	Sarah Caudwell	The Sirens Sang of Murder		Finalist
	Carolyn G. Hart	A Little Class on Murder		Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Corpus Christmas		Finalist
	Gillian Roberts	Philly Stakes		Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
1990	Nancy Pickard	Bum Steer	Pocket Books	Winner
	Charlaine Harris	Real Murders		Finalist
	Carolyn G. Hart	Deadly Valentine		Finalist
	Anne Perry	The Face of a Stranger		Finalist
	Ellis Peters	The Potter's Field		Finalist
1991	Nancy Pickard	I.O.U.	Pocket Books	Winner
	Aaron Elkins	Make No Bones	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Carolyn G. Hart	The Christie Caper	Bantam Books	Finalist
	Charlotte MacLeod	An Owl Too Many	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	The Last Camel Died at Noon	Warner	Finalist
1992	Margaret Maron	Bootlegger's Daughter	Mysterious Press	Winner
	Carolyn G. Hart	Southern Ghost		Finalist
	Sharyn McCrumb	The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter		Finalist
	Anne Perry	Defend and Betray		Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog		Finalist
1993	Carolyn Hart	Dead Man's Island	Bantam Books	Winner
	Aaron Elkins	Old Scores		Finalist
	Joan Hess	O Little Town of Maggody		Finalist	^[25]
	Kathy Hogan Trocheck	To Live and Die in Dixie		Finalist
	Rochelle Majer Krich	Fair Game		Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Southern Discomfort		Finalist
1994	Sharyn McCrumb	She Walks These Hills	Scribner	Winner
	Carolyn G. Hart	Scandal in Fair Haven		Finalist
	Laurie R. King	The Beekeeper's Apprentice		Finalist
	Rochelle Majer Krich	Angel of Death		Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	Night Train to Memphis		Finalist
1995	Sharyn McCrumb	If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him	Ballantine Books	Winner
	Joan Hess	Miracles in Maggody		Finalist	^[25]
	Sharan Newman	The Wandering Arm		Finalist
	Nancy Pickard	Twilight		Finalist
	Walter Satterthwait	Escapade		Finalist
1996	Margaret Maron	Up Jumps The Devil	Mysterious Press	Winner
	Earlene Fowler	Kansas Troubles	Berkley Books	Finalist
	Sharan Newman	Strong as Death	Forge	Finalist
1997	Kate Ross	The Devil In Music	Viking Press	Winner
	Jan Burke	Hocus	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Deborah Crombie	Dreaming of the Bones	Scribner	Finalist
	Earlene Fowler	Goose in a Pond	Berkley Books	Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	Seeing a Large Cat	Warner	Finalist
1998	Laura Lippman	Butchers Hill	Avon	Winner	^[20]
	Jan Burke	Liar	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	Earlene Fowler	Dove in the Window	Berkley	Finalist
	Virginia Lanier	Blind Bloodhound Justice	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Home Fires	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	The Ape Who Guards the Balance	Avon	Finalist
1999	Earlene Fowler	Mariner's Compass	Berkley Books	Winner
	Jerrilyn Farmer	Immaculate Reception	Avon	Finalist
	Carolyn Hart	Death on the River Walk	Avon	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	In Big Trouble	Avon	Finalist
	Sujata Massey	The Flower Master	HarperCollins	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
2000	Margaret Maron	Storm Track	Mysterious Press	Winner
	Taffy Cannon	Guns and Roses		Finalist
	Jerrilyn Farmer	Killer Wedding		Finalist
	Sujata Massey	The Floating Girl		Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	He Shall Thunder in the Sky		Finalist
2001	Rhys Bowen	Murphy's Law	St. Martin's Minotaur	Winner
	Earlene Fowler	Arkansas Traveler	Berkley Books	Finalist
	Charlaine Harris	Dead Until Dark	Ace	Finalist
	Rochelle Majer Krich	Shadows of Sin	Avon	Finalist
	Sujata Massey	The Bride's Kimono	HarperCollins	Finalist
2002	Donna Andrews	You've Got Murder	Berkley Prime Crime	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Death of Riley	St. Martin's Minotaur	Finalist
	Katherine Hall Page	The Body in the Bonfire	Morrow	Finalist
	Rochelle Majer Krich	Blues in the Night	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	Elizabeth Peters	The Golden One	William Morrow & Company	Finalist
2003	Carolyn Hart	Letter From Home	Berkley Prime Crime	Winner
	Donna Andrews	Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon	St. Martin's Minotaur	Finalist
	Jerrilyn Farmer	Mumbo Gumbo	William Morrow & Company	Finalist
	Rochelle Majer Krich	Dream House	Ballantine Books	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Last Lessons of Summer	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Elaine Viets	Shop till You Drop	Signet	Finalist
2004	Jacqueline Winspear	Birds of a Feather	Soho Press	Winner
	Donna Andrews	We'll Always Have Parrots	Thomas Dunne Books	Finalist
	Laura Lippman	By a Spider's Thread	HarperCollins	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	High Country Fall	Mysterious Press	Finalist
	Sujata Massey	The Pearl Diver	HarperCollins	Finalist
2005	Katherine Hall Page	The Body in the Snowdrift	William Morrow & Company	Winner
	Donna Andrews	Owls Well That Ends Well	St. Martin's Minotaur	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Rituals of the Season	Mysterious Press & Warner Books	Finalist
	Pari Noskin Taichert	The Belen Hitch	University of New Mexico Press	Finalist
	Heather Webber	Trouble in Spades	Avon/HarperCollins	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Pardonable Lies	Henry Holt & Company	Finalist
2006	Nancy Pickard	The Virgin of Small Plains	Random House	Winner
	Earlene Fowler	The Saddlemaker's Wife		Finalist
	L. C. Hayden	Why Casey Had to Die		Finalist
	Nancy Pickard	The Virgin of Small Plains		Finalist
	Julia Spencer-Fleming	All Mortal Flesh		Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Messenger of Truth		Finalist
2007	Louise Penny	A Fatal Grace (Dead Cold in Canada)	St. Martin's Minotaur	Winner	^[26]
	Donna Andrews	The Penguin Who Knew Too Much	St. Martin's Minotaur	Finalist
	Rhys Bowen	Her Royal Spyness	Penguin Group	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	Hard Row	Grand Central Publishing	Finalist
	Elaine Viets	Murder with Reservations	NAL	Finalist
2008	Louise Penny	The Cruelest Month	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[26]
	Donna Andrews	Six Geese A-Slaying	Minotaur Books	Finalist
	Rhys Bowen	A Royal Pain	Penguin Group	Finalist
	Anne Perry	Buckingham Palace Gardens	Random House	Finalist
	Julia Spencer-Fleming	I Shall Not Want	Minotaur Books	Finalist
2009	Louise Penny	A Brutal Telling	Minotaur Books	Winner	^[26]^[12]
	Donna Andrews	Swan for the Money	St. Martin's Minotaur	Finalist
	Lorna Barrett	Bookplate Special	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist
	Rhys Bowen	Royal Flush	Berkley Prime Crime	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Air Time	MIRA	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Result
2010	Louise Penny	Bury Your Dead	Winner	^[26]^[13]
	Donna Andrews	Stork Raving Mad	Finalist	^[14]
	Nancy Pickard	The Scent of Rain and Lightning	Finalist	^[14]
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Drive Time	Finalist	^[14]
	Heather Webber	Truly, Madly	Finalist	^[14]
2011	Margaret Maron	Three-Day Town	Winner	^[15]
	Donna Andrews	The Real Macaw	Finalist
	Krista Davis	The Diva Haunts the House	Finalist
	G. M. Malliet	Wicked Autumn	Finalist
	Louise Penny	A Trick of the Light	Finalist
2012	Louise Penny	The Beautiful Mystery	Winner
	Krista Davis	The Diva Digs Up the Dirt	Finalist
	G. M. Malliet	A Fatal Winter	Finalist
	Margaret Maron	The Buzzard Table	Finalist
	Hank Phillippi Ryan	The Other Woman	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Series	Result
2011	Rhys Bowen	Naughty in Nice	Royal Spyness	Winner	^[15]
	J. J. Murphy	Murder Your Darlings	Algonquin Round Table	Finalist	^[14]
	Ann Parker	Mercury's Rise	Silver Rush	Finalist	^[14]
	Jeri Westerson	Troubled Bones	Crispin Guest Mysteries	Finalist	^[14]
	Jacqueline Winspear	A Lesson in Secrets	Maisie Dobbs	Finalist	^[14]
2012	Catriona McPherson	Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder	Dandy Gilver	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	The Twelve Clues of Christmas	Royal Spyness	Finalist
	Victoria Thompson	Murder on Fifth Avenue	Gaslight Mysteries	Finalist
	Charles Todd	An Unmarked Grave	Bess Crawford	Finalist
	Jacqueline Winspear	Elegy for Eddie	Maisie Dobbs	Finalist
2013	Charles Todd	A Question of Honor	Bess Crawford	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Heirs and Graces	Royal Spyness	Finalist
	Kaye George	Death in the Time of Ice	Enga Dancing Flower	Finalist
	J. J. Murphy	A Friendly Game of Murder	Algonquin Round Table	Finalist
	Victoria Thompson	Murder in Chelsea	Gaslight Mysteries	Finalist
2014	Rhys Bowen	Queen of Hearts	Royal Spyness	Winner
	DE Ireland	Wouldn't It Be Deadly	Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins	Finalist
	Victoria Thompson	Murder in Murray Hill	Gaslight Mysteries	Finalist
	Charles Todd	An Unwilling Accomplice	Bess Crawford	Finalist
	Charles Todd	Hunting Shadows	Inspector Ian Rutledge	Finalist
2015	Laurie R. King	Dreaming Spies	Mary Russell	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Malice at the Palace	Royal Spyness	Finalist
	Susanna Calkins	The Masque of a Murderer	Lucy Campion	Finalist
	Susan Elia MacNeal	Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante	Maggie Hope	Finalist
	Victoria Thompson	Murder on Amsterdam Avenue	Gaslight Mysteries	Finalist
2016	Catriona McPherson	The Reek of Red Herrings	Dandy Gilver	Winner
	Jessica Estevao	Whispers Beyond the Veil	Change of Fortune	Finalist
	D.E. Ireland	Get Me to the Grave on Time	Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins Mysteries	Finalist
	Edith Maxwell	Delivering the Truth	Quaker Midwife	Finalist
	Victoria Thompson	Murder in Morningside Heights	Gaslight Mysteries	Finalist
2017	Rhys Bowen	In Farleigh Field		Winner
	Jessica Ellicott	Murder in an English Village	Beryl and Edwina	Finalist
	Susan Elia MacNeal	The Paris Spy	Maggie Hope	Finalist
	Edith Maxwell	Called to Justice	Quaker Midwife	Finalist
	Renee Patrick	Dangerous to Know	Lillian Frost and Edith Head	Finalist
2018	Sujata Massey	The Widows of Malabar Hill	Perveen Mistry	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding	Royal Spyness	Finalist
	LA Chandlar	The Gold Pawn	Art Deco Mystery	Finalist
	Edith Maxwell	Turning the Tide	Quaker Midwife	Finalist
	Victoria Thompson	Murder on Union Square	Gaslight Mysteries	Finalist
2019	Edith Maxwell	Charity’s Burden	Quaker Midwife	Winner
	Rhys Bowen	Love and Death Among the Cheetahs	Royal Spyness	Finalist
	Susanna Calkins	Murder Knocks Twice	Speakeasy Murders	Finalist
	L. A. Chandlar	The Pearl Dagger	Art Deco Mystery	Finalist
	Gabriel Valjan	The Naming Game	Company Files	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Series	Result	Ref.
2020	Rhys Bowen	The Last Mrs. Summers	Royal Spyness	WInner	^[20]
	Susanna Calkins	The Fate of a Flapper	Speakeasy Murders	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Dianne Freeman	A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder	Countess of Harleigh	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Edith Maxwell	Taken Too Soon	Quaker Midwife	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Catriona McPherson	The Turning Tide	Dandy Gilver	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
2021	Lori Rader-Day	Death at Greenway		Winner	^[23]
	Colleen Cambridge	Murder at Mallowan Hall	Phyllida Bright	Finalist
	Naomi Hirahara	Clark and Division		Finalist
	Sujata Massey	The Bombay Prince	Perveen Mistry	Finalist
	Gabriel Valjan	The Devil's Music	Company Files series	Finalist
2022	Mally Becker	The Counterfeit Wife	A Revolutionary War Mystery	Finalist
	Amanda Flower	Because I Could Not Stop for Death	Emily Dickinson	Winner
	Mariah Fredericks	The Lindbergh Nanny		Finalist
	Catriona McPherson	In Place of Fear		Finalist
	Karen Odden	Under a Veiled Moon	Inspector Corravan	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result
1993	Barbara D'Amato	The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery	Noble Press	Winner
	Michael C. Gerald	The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie		Finalist
	Edward Gorman	The Fine Art of Murder		Finalist
	Marvin Lachman	A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection		Finalist
	Ellen A. Nehr	The Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-91		Finalist
	Alzina Stone Dale	Dorothy L. Sayers		Finalist
1994	Jean Swanson and Dean James	By a Woman's Hand	Berkley Publishing Group	Winner
	William L. DeAndrea	Encyclopedia Mysteriosa		Finalist
	Allen J. Hubin	Crime Fiction II		Finalist
	Kathleen Gregory Klein	Great Women Mystery Writers		Finalist
	Charlotte MacLeod	Had She But Known: Mary Roberts Rinehart		Finalist
1995	Alzina Stone Dale	Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago	Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group	Winner
	Douglas G. Greene	John Dickson Carr: the Man Who Explained Miracles		Finalist
	B.J. Rahn	Ngaio Marsh: the Woman and Her Work		Finalist
	Kate Stine	The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd edition		Finalist
	Robin Whiteman	The Cadfael Companion, 2nd edition		Finalist
1996	Willetta L. Heising	Detecting Women 2	Purple Moon Press	Winner
	Ron Miller	Mystery: A Celebration	KQED Books	Finalist
	Elaine Raco Chase and Anne Wingate	Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases	Writer's Digest	Finalist
	Barbara Reynolds (editor)	The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Making of a Detective Novelist	St. Martin's Minotaur	Finalist
	Jean Swanson and Dean James	By a Woman's Hand, 2nd Edition	Berkley Publishing Group	Finalist
1997	Willeta L. Heising	Detecting Men	Purple Moon Press	Winner
	Nina King and Robin Winks	Crimes of the Scene	St. Martin's Press	Finalist
	Ian Ousby	Guilty Parties	Thames & Hudson	Finalist
1998	Alzina Stone Dale	Mystery Reader's Walking Guide to Washington D.C.	Passport Books	Winner
	Edward Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg	Speaking of Murder	Berkley	Finalist
	Jan Grape	Dean James and Ellen Nehr, Deadly Women	Carroll & Graf Publishers	Finalist
	Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson	Silk Stalkings II	Scarecrow	Finalist
	Jean Swanson and Dean James	Killer Books	Berkley	Finalist
1999	Daniel Stashower	Teller of Tales: the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle	Henry Holt & Company	Winner
	Kate Derie	The Deadly Directory	Deadly Serious Press	Finalist
	Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl	A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Willetta L. Heising	Detecting Women III	Purple Moon Press	Finalist
	Rosemary Herbert	The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing	Oxford University Press	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2000	Jim Huang (editor)	100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century	Crum Creek Press	Winner
	Matthew Bunson	The Complete Christie	Pocket Books	Finalist
	Martha Dubose (editor)	Women of Mystery		Finalist
	Marvin Lachman (editor)	The American Regional Mystery		Finalist
	Helen Windrath (editor)	They Wrote the Book		Finalist
2001	Tony Hillerman	Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir	HarperCollins	Winner
	Max Allan Collins	The History of the Mystery	Collector's Press	Finalist
	G. Miki Hayden	Writing the Mystery: A Start-To-Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional	Intrigue Press	Finalist
	Jeffrey Marks	Who Was That Lady?	Delphi Books	Finalist
	The Sisters Wells	Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth	Authors Choice Press/iUniverse.com	Finalist
2002	Jim Huang (editor)	They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels	Crum Creek Press	Winner
	Mike Ashley (editor)	The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction	Avalon Publishing Group	Finalist
	Colleen Barnett	Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Sue Grafton (editor) with Jan Burke and Barry Zeman	Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America	Writer's Digest	Finalist
	Mary Higgins Clark	Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir	Simon and Schuster	Finalist
2003	Elizabeth Peters and Kristen Whitbread (editors) with Dennis Forbes (design)	Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium	William Morrow & Company	Winner
	Colleen A. Barnett	Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2)	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl (editors)	A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Jeffrey Marks	Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s	Delphi Books	Finalist
2004	Jack French	Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives	Bear Manor Media	Winner
2004	Leslie Klinger (editor)	The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories	W. W. Norton & Company	Finalist
2005	Melanie Rehak	Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her	Harcourt	Winner
	Stuart Kaminsky	Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers	Hothouse Press	Finalist
	Leslie S. Klinger	The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes	W. W. Norton	Finalist
	Marvin Lachman	The Heirs of Anthony Boucher	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
2006	Chris Roerden	Don't Murder Your Mystery	Bella Rosa Books	Winner
	Jim Huang and Austin Lugar	Mystery Muses	The Crum Creek Press	Finalist
	Daniel Stashower	The Beautiful Cigar Girl	Dutton	Finalist
2007	Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley	Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters	Penguin Press	Winner
2007	Penny Warner	The Official Nancy Drew Handbook	Quirck Productions	Finalist
2008	Kathy Lynn Emerson	How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries	Perseverance Press	Winner
	Frankie Y. Bailey	African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study	McFarland & Co.	Finalist
	Jeffrey Marks	Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography	McFarland & Co.	Finalist
	Dr. Harry Lee Poe	Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories	Metro Books	Finalist
	Kate Summerscale	The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, or The Murder at Road Hill House	Walker & Co.	Finalist
2009	Elena Santangelo	Dame Agatha's Shorts	Bella Rosa Books	Winner	^[12]
	Richard Hack	Duchess of Death	Phoenix Books	Finalist
	P. D. James	Talking About Detective Fiction	Knopf	Finalist
	Amnon Kabatchnik	Blood on the Stage 1925-1950	Scarecrow Press	Finalist
	Joan Schenkar	The Talented Miss Highsmith	St Martin's Press	Finalist

Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction, 2020-2029^[6]
Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2020	Christina Lane	Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock	Winner	^[20]
	Leslie Brody	Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy	Finalist	^[22]
	Martin Edwards	Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club	Finalist	^[22]
	Sheila Mitchell	H.R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime	Finalist	^[22]
	Kate Winkler Dawon	American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI	Finalist	^[22]

Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2010-2019^[6]
Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result	Ref.
2010	Mary Jane Maffini	So Much in Common	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2010	Winner
	Dana Cameron	Swing Shift	Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side (Berkley)	Finalist	^[14]
	Sheila Connolly	Size Matters	Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers (Level Best Books)	Finalist	^[14]
	Barb Goffman	Volunteer of the Year	Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin' (Wildside Press)	Finalist	^[14]
	Elizabeth Zelvin	The Green Cross	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Aug. 2010	Finalist	^[14]
2011	Dana Cameron	Disarming	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011	Winner	^[15]
	Krista Davis	Dead Eye Gravy	Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)	Finalist	^[16]
	Barb Goffman	Truth and Consequences	Mystery Times Ten (Buddhapuss Ink)	Finalist	^[16]
	Roberta Isleib	The Itinerary	Mystery Writers of America Presents the Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing)	Finalist	^[16]
	Daryl Wood Gerber	Palace by the Lake	Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)	Finalist	^[16]
2012	Dana Cameron	Mischief in Mesopotamia	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2012	Winner
	Sheila Connolly	Kept in the Dark	Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon (Level Best Books)	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	The Lord is My Shamus	Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder (Wildside Press)	Finalist
	B.K. Stevens	Thea's First Husband	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2012	Finalist
	Art Taylor	When Duty Calls	Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder (Wildside Press)	Finalist
2013	Art Taylor	The Care and Feeding of House Plants	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013	Winner
	Barb Goffman	Evil Little Girl	Don't Get Mad, Get Even (Wildside Press)	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	Nightmare	Don't Get Mad, Get Even (Wildside Press)	Finalist
	Gigi Pandian	The Hindi Houdini	Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)	Finalist
	Barbara Ross	Bread Baby	Best New England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold (Level Best Books)	Finalist
2014	Art Taylor	The Odds Are Against Us	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014	Winner
	Kathy Lynn Emerson	The Blessing Witch	Best New England Crime Stories 2015: Rogue Wave (Level Best Books)	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	The Shadow Knows	Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays (Wildside Press)	Finalist
	Edith Maxwell	Just Desserts for Johnny		Finalist
	Art Taylor	Premonition	Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays (Wildside Press)	Finalist
2015	Barb Goffman	A Year Without Santa Claus?	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2015	Winner
	Terrie Farley Moran	A Killing at the Beausoleil	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2015	Finalist
	Edith Maxwell	A Questionable Death	History & Mystery, Oh My (Mystery & Horror, LLC)	Finalist
	Harriette Sackler	Suffer the Poor	History & Mystery, Oh My (Mystery & Horror, LLC)	Finalist
	B.K. Stevens	A Joy Forever	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2015	Finalist
2016	Art Taylor	Parallel Play	Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning (Wildside Press)	Winner
	Gretchen Archer	Double Jinx: A Bellissimo Casino Crime Caper Short Story	Henery Press	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	The Best-Laid Plans	Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional (Wildside Press)	Finalist
	Edith Maxwell	The Mayor and the Midwife	Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 (Down & Out Books)	Finalist
	B.K. Stevens	The Last Blue Glass	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, April 2016	Finalist
2017	Gigi Pandian	The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn		Winner
	Gretchen Archer	Double Deck the Halls	Henery Press	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	Whose Wine Is It Anyway?	50 Shades of Cabernet	Finalist
	Debra H. Goldstein	The Night They Burned Miss Dixie's Place	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017	Finalist
	Art Taylor	A Necessary Ingredient	Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea (Down & Out Books)	Finalist

Agatha Award for Best Short Story, 2020-2029^[6]
Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result
2020	Barb Goffman	Dear Emily Etiquette	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2020	Winner
	Shawn Reilly Simmons	The Red Herrings at Killington Inn	Masthead: Best New England Crime Stories	Finalist	^[22]
	Art Taylor	The Boy Detective & the Summer of '74	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2020	Finalist	^[22]
	Gabriel Valjan	Elysian Fields	California Schemin': the 2020 Bouchercon Anthology (Wildside Press)	Finalist	^[22]
	James Ziskin	The 25 Year Engagement	In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon (Pegasus Crime)	Finalist	^[22]
2021	Barb Goffman	A Family Matter	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, January/February 2021	Finalist
	Barb Goffman	A Tale of Two Sisters	Murder on the Beach (Destination Murders)	Finalist
	Richie Narvaez	Doc's at Midnight	Midnight Hour	Finalist
	Gigi Pandian	The Locked Room Library	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2021	Finalist
	Shawn Reilly Simmons	Bay of Reckoning	Murder on the Beach (Destination Murders)	Winner
2022	Barb Goffman	Beauty and the Beyotch	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, Issue 29	Winner
	Cynthia Kuhn	There Comes a Time	Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical	Finalist
	Lisa Q. Mathews	Fly Me to the Morgue	Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical	Finalist
	Richie Narvaez	The Minnesota Twins Meet Bigfoot	Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022	Finalist
	Art Taylor	The Invisible Band	Edgar & Shamus Go Golden	Finalist

Agatha Award for Best Children/Young Adult Fiction, 2010-2019^[6]
Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2010	Sarah Smith	The Other Side of Dark	Atheneum Books	Winner	^[13]
	John Grisham	Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer	Dutton Children's	Finalist	^[14]
	R. L. LaFevers	Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus	Houghton Mifflin	Finalist	^[14]
	Y. S. Lee	The Agency: A Spy in the House	Candlewick Press	Finalist	^[14]
	Kathy Reichs	Virals	Razorbill	Finalist	^[14]
2011	Chris Grabenstein	The Black Heart Crypt	Random House	Winner	^[15]
	Harlan Coben	Shelter	Putnam	Finalist	^[16]
	Matthew J. Kirby	Icefall	Scholastic Press	Finalist	^[16]
	Shawn Thomas Odyssey	The Wizard of Dark Street	EgmontUSA	Finalist	^[16]
	Penny Warner	The Secret of the Skeleton Key (The Code Busters Club)	EgmontUSA	Finalist	^[16]
2012	Penny Warner	The Haunted Lighthouse (The Code Busters Club)	EgmontUSA	Winner
	Harlan Coben	Seconds Away		Finalist
	Elizabeth George	The Edge of Nowhere		Finalist
	Rebecca Stead	Liar & Spy		Finalist
	Elizabeth Wein	Code Name Verity		Finalist
2013	Chris Grabenstein	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library	Random House	Winner
	Joelle Charbonneau	The Testing	HMH Books for Young Readers	Finalist
	Kathleen Ernst	Traitor in the Shipyard: A Caroline Mystery	American Girl	Finalist
	Amanda Flower	Andi Unexpected	Zonderkidz	Finalist
	Penny Warner	Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure (The Code Busters Club)	EgmontUSA	Finalist
2014	Penny Warner	The Mummy's Curse (The Code Busters Club)	EgmontUSA	Winner
	Harlan Coben	Found	Putnam Juvenile	Finalist
	Amanda Flower	Andi Under Pressure	ZonderKidz	Finalist
	Kate Milford	Greenglass House	Clarion Books	Finalist
	Lea Wait	Uncertain Glory	Islandport Press	Finalist
2015	Amanda Flower	Andi Unstoppable	Zonderkidz	Winner
	Blue Balliett	Pieces and Players	Scholastic Press	Finalist
	Joelle Charbonneau	Need	HMH Books for Young Readers	Finalist
	Spencer Quinn	Woof	Scholastic Press	Finalist
	B.K. Stevens	Fighting Chance	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
2016	Penny Warner	The Secret of the Puzzle Box(The Code Busters Club)	Darby Creek	Winner
	P.A. DeVoe	Trapped (A Mei-hua Adventure)	Drum Tower Press	Finalist
	Stuart Gibbs	Spy Ski School	Simon & Schuster	Finalist
	J C Lane	Tag, You're Dead	Poisoned Pen Press	Finalist
	Rebecca Podos	The Mystery of Hollow Places	Balzer & Bray	Finalist
2017	Cindy Callaghan	Sydney Mackenzie Knocks 'Em Dead	Aladdin	Winner
	Kristi Belcamino	City of Angels		Finalist
	Caroline Carlson	The World's Greatest Detective		Finalist
	Kirby Larson	Audacity Jones Steals the Show		Finalist
	Natasha Tarpley	The Harlem Charade		Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Result	Ref.
2010	John Curran	Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making	Winner	^[13]
	Deborah Blum	The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York	Finalist	^[14]
	Stephen Doyle and David A. Crowder	Sherlock Holmes for Dummies	Finalist	^[14]
	Katherine Hall Page	Have Faith in Your Kitchen	Finalist	^[14]
	Yunte Huang	Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History	Finalist	^[14]
2011	Leslie Budewitz	Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure	Winner	^[15]
	John Curran	Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks	Finalist
	Michael Dirda	On Conan Doyle; or The Whole Art of Storytelling	Finalist
	A. B. Emrys	Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel	Finalist
	Charlaine Harris	The Sookie Stackhouse Companion	Finalist	^[27]^[28]
2012	John Connolly	Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels	Winner
	Joseph Goodrich	Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950	Finalist
	D. P. Lyle	More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered	Finalist
	Ben Macintyre	Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies	Finalist
	Mathew Prichard	The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie	Finalist
2013	Daniel Stashower	The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War	Winner
	Jennifer Kloester	Georgette Heyer	Finalist
	Maria Konnikova	Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes	Finalist
	Verena Rose and Rita Owen	Editors, Not Everyone's Cup of Tea: An Interesting & Entertaining History of Malice Domestic's First 25 Years	Finalist
2014	Hank Phillippi Ryan (editor)	Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey	Winner
	Stephen Bates	The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor	Finalist
	Kate Flora	Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice	Finalist
	Adam Plantinga	400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman	Finalist
	Lucy Worsley	The Art of the English Murder	Finalist
2015	Martin Edwards	The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story	Winner
	Zack Dundas	The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes	Finalist
	Kathryn Harkup	A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie	Finalist
	Jane Ann Turzillo	Unsolved Murders and Disappearances in Northeast Ohio	Finalist
	Kate White (editor), Mystery Writers of America	The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For	Finalist
2016	Jane K. Cleland	Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot: How to Write Gripping Stories that Keep Readers on the Edge of Their Seats	Winner
	Roger Guay with Kate Clark Flora	A Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden's 25 Years in the Maine Woods	Finalist
	Margaret Kinsman	Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction	Finalist
2017	Mattias Bostrom	From Holmes to Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Women Who Created an Icon	Winner
	Tatiana de Rosnay	Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier	Finalist
	Martin Edwards	The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books	Finalist
	Monica Hesse	American Fire: Love, Arson and Life in a Vanishing Land	Finalist
	Jess Lourey	Through the Healing Power of Fiction	Finalist
2018	Jane Cleland	Mastering Plot Twists	Winner
	Nancy J. Cohen	Writing the Cozy Mystery	Finalist
	Margalit Fox	Conan Doyle for the Defense	Finalist
	Laura Thompson	Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life	Finalist
	Jane Ann Turzillo	Wicked Women of Ohio	Finalist
2019	Mo Moulton	The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women	Winner
	Laird R. Blackwell	Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story	Finalist
	Julia Bricklin	Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree that Terrified Los Angeles	Finalist
	Casey Cep	Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee	Finalist
	Hallie Rubenhold	The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper	Finalist

Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result
1988	Robert Barnard	More Final Than Divorce	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine	Winner
1989	Sharyn McCrumb	A Wee Doch And Doris	Mistletoe Mysteries (Mysterious Press)	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result
1990	Joan Hess	Too Much To Bare	Sisters in Crime 2 (Berkley Publishing Group)	Winner	^[25]
1991	Margaret Maron	Deborah's Judgment	A Woman's Eye (Delacourte Press)	Winner
1992	Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins	Nice Gorilla	Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket Books)	Winner
1993	M.D. Lake	Kim's Game	Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket Books)	Winner
1994	Dorothy Cannell	The Family Jewels	Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket Books)	Winner
1995	Elizabeth Daniels Squire	The Dog Who Remembered Too Much	Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket Books)	Winner
1996	Carolyn Wheat	Accidents Will Happen	Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket Books)	Winner
1997	M.D. Lake	Tea for Two	Funnybones (Penguin Group)	Winner
1998	Barbara D'Amato	Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998	Winner
1999	Nancy Pickard	Out of Africa	Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder (Berkley Publishing Group)	Winner

Year	Author	Title	Publication	Result	Ref.
2000	Jan Burke	The Man in the Civil Suit	Malice Domestic 9 (Avon Books)	Winner
2001	Katherine Hall Page	The Would-Be-Widower	Malice Domestic X (Avon Books)	Winner
2002	Margaret Maron	The Dog That Didn't Bark	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2002	Winner
2002	Marcia Talley	Too Many Cooks	Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime)	Winner
2003	Elizabeth Foxwell	No Man’s Land	Blood On Their Hands (Berkley Prime Crime)	Winner
2004	Elaine Viets	Wedding Knife	Chesapeake Crimes, edited by Donna Andrews (Quiet Storm Publishing)	Winner
2005	Marcia Talley	Driven to Distraction	Chesapeake Crimes II (Quiet Storm Publishing)	Winner
2006	Toni Kelner	Sleeping with the Plush	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine	Winner
2007	Donna Andrews	A Rat's Tale	Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine	Winner
2008	Dana Cameron	The Night Things Changed	Wolfsbane & Mistletoe (Penguin Group)	Winner
2009	Hank Phillippi Ryan	On the House	Level Best Books	Winner	^[12]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2001	Penny Warner	Mystery Of The Haunted Caves (Troop 13 Mystery series)	Meadowbrook Press	Winner
2002	Daniel J. Hale and Matthew LaBrot	Red Card (The Zeke Armstrong Mysteries)	Top Publications	Winner
2003	Kathleen Karr	The 7th Knot	Marshall Cavendish	Winner
2004	Blue Balliett	Chasing Vermeer	Scholastic Press	Winner
2005	Peter Abrahams	Down the Rabbit Hole	HarperCollins	Winner
2005	Carl Hiaasen	Flush	Alfred A. Knopf	Winner
2006	Nancy Means Wright	Pea Soup Poisonings	Hilliard & Harris	Winner
2007	Sarah Masters Buckey	A Light In The Cellar	American Girl	Winner
2008	Chris Grabenstein	The Crossroads		Winner
2009	Chris Grabenstein	The Hanging Hill	Random House	Winner	^[12]

Year	Author	Title	Publisher	Result	Ref.
2020	Richie Narvaez	Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco	Piñata Books	Winner	^[20]
	Fleur Bradley	Midnight at the Barclay Hotel	Viking Books for Young Readers	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Elizabeth C. Bunce	Premeditated Myrtle	Algonquin Young Readers	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Cindy Callaghan	Saltwater Secrets	AladdinQ	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
	Janae Marks	From the Desk of Zoe Washington	Katherin Teagen Books	Finalist	^[21]^[22]
2021	Alan Orloff	I Play One on TV	Down & Out Books	Winner	^[23]
	Elizabeth C. Bunce	Cold-Blooded Myrtle	Algonquin Young Readers	Finalist
	June Hur	The Forest of Stolen Girls	Fiewel and Friends	Finalist
	Lynn Slaughter	Leisha's Song	Fire and Ice/Melange Books	Finalist
	Nancy Springer	Enola Holmes and the Black Barouche	Wednesday Books	Finalist
2022	Fleur Bradley	Daybreak on Raven Island	Viking Books for Young Readers	Finalist	^[23]
	Elizabeth C. Bunce	In Myrtle Peril	Algonquin Young Readers	Finalist
	Greg Herren	#shedeservedit	Bold Strokes Books	Finalist
	Frances Schoonmaker	Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer	Auctus Publishers	Finalist
	Nancy Springer	Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade	Wednesday Books	Winner

Year	Recipient	Ref.
1990	Phyllis A. Whitney
1994	Mignon G. Eberhart
1996	Mary Stewart
1997	Emma Lathen
1998	Charlotte MacLeod
1999	Patricia Moyes
2000	Dick Francis
2001	Mildred Wirt Benson
2002	Tony Hillerman
2003	Barbara Mertz (also known as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels)
2004	Marian Babson
2005	H.R.F. Keating
2006	Robert Barnard
2007	Carolyn Hart
2008	Peter Lovesey
2009	Anne Perry
2010	Mary Higgins Clark
2011	Sue Grafton
2012	Simon Brett
2013	Aaron Elkins
2014	Dorothy Cannell, Joan Hess, and Margaret Maron	^[25]
2015	Sara Paretsky
2016	Katherine Hall Page
2017	Charlaine Harris
2018	Nancy Pickard

Year	Recipient	Description
2003	David Suchet	Actor
2004	Ruth Cavin	Thomas Dunne Books editor
2005	Angela Lansbury	Actress and singer
2006	Douglas G. Greene	Crippen & Landru Press publisher
2007	None
2008	Janet Hutchings	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine editor
2008	Linda Landrigan	Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine editor
2009	Kate Stine and Brian Skupin	Mystery Scene publisher
2010	William Link	Screenwriter and producer
2011	Janet Rudolph
2012	Lee Goldberg	American writer
2013	None
2014	Tom Schantz
2015	None
2016	Barbara Peters	Poisoned Pen Press editor-in-chief
2016	Robert Rosenwald	Poisoned Pen Press president and founder
2017	Martin Edwards	Author
2018	Brenda Blethyn	British actress

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Best Short Story

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Special Awards

Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement

Malice Domestic Poirot Award

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