Agatha Award Winners

The Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery — books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie — and are awarded annually by Malice Domestic, Ltd. Winners are chosen by attendees of the annual Malice Domestic convention.

Best Novel

1988  Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart
1989 Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters
1990 Bum Steer by Nancy Pickard 
1991 I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard 
1992 Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
1993 Dead Man's Island by Carolyn G. Hart 
1994 She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
1995 If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb
1996 Up Jumps the Devil by Margaret Maron 
1997 The Devil in Music by Kate Ross
1998 Butcher's Hill by Laura Lippman
1999 Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler
2000 Storm Track by Margaret Maron 
2001 Murphy's Law by Rhys Bowen
2002 You've Got Murder by Donna Andrews
2003 Letter From Home by Carolyn Hart
2004 Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
2005 The Body in the Snowdrift by Katherine Hall Page
2006 The Virgin of Small Plain by Nancy Pickard
2007 A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
2008 The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
2009 A Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
2010 Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
2011 Three Day Town by Margaret Maron
2012 The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny 
2013 The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan