Agatha Award Winners

Best First Novel

2012 - Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer

2011 -  Sara J. Henry, Learning to Swim 

2010 - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye

2009 - Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

2008 - G.M. Malliet, Death of a Cozy Writer

 

2007 - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Prime Time

 

2006 - Sandra Parshall,  The Heat of the Moon

 

2005 - Laura Durham, Better Off Wed

 

2004 - Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men

 

2003 - Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs

 

2002 - Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter

 

2001 - Sarha Strohmeyer, Bubbles Unbound

 

2000 - Rosemary Stevens, Death on a Silver Tray

 

1999 - Donnia Andrews, Murder with Peacocks

 

1998 - Robin Hathaway, The Doctor Digs a Grave

 

1997 - Sujata Massey, The Salaryman's Wife

 

1996 - Anne George, Murder on a Girl's Night Out

 

1995 - Jeanne M. Dams, The Body in the Transept

 

1994 - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others

 

1993 - Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat

 

1992 - Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam

 

1991 - Mary Willis Walker, Zero at the Bone

 

1990 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Belfry

 

1989 - Jill Churchill, Grime and Punishment

 

1988 - Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance

 

Best Novel

2012 - The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

2011 - Margaret Maron, Three-Day Town  

2010 - Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead

2009 - Louise Penny, A Brutal Telling

 

2008 - Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

 

2007 - Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

 

2006 - Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

 

2005 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Snowdrift

 

2004 - Jacqueline Winspear,  Birds of a Feather

 

2003 - Carolyn Hart, Letter From Home

 

2002 - Donna Andrews, You've Got Murder

 

2001 - Rhys Bowen, Murphy's Law

 

2000 - Margaret Maron, Storm Track

 

1999 - Earlene Fowler, Mariner's Compass

 

1998 - Laura Lippman, Butchers Hill

 

1997 - Kate Ross, The Devil In Music

 

1996 - Margaret Maron, Up Jumps The Devil

 

1995 - Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him

 

1994 - Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills

 

1993 - Carolyn Hart, Dead Man's Island

 

1992 - Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter

 

1991 - Nancy Pickard, I.O.U.

 

1990 - Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

 

1989 - Elizabeth Peters,Naked Once More

 

1988 - Carolyn G. Hart, Something Wicked