O Agatha Awards é um prêmio literário para autores de romances de mistério e crime que escrevam no estilo de Agatha Christie (i.e., em que cada livro a história se encerre, sem sexo ou violência, tendo detetives amadores como personagem).
Numa convenção anual realizada em Washington, D.C. o Agatha Awards é entregue pela Malice Domestic Ltd, em cinco categorias: Melhor romance, Melhor romance de estreia, Melhor conto (história curta), Melhor não-ficção e Melhor mistério infanto-juvenil. Adicionalmente, em alguns anos, é concedido o Poirot Award pelo mérito individual para escritores que tenham contribuído para o gênero de mistério, mas não é uma premiação anual.
A Malice Domestic Ltd foi criada em 1989, e tornou-se uma corporação em 1992. É dirigida por um grupo de voluntários.[1]
Prêmios
Vencedores e principais indicados em cada ano.
Melhor romance de estreia
- 2016 - Cynthia Kuhn, The Semester of Our Discontent
- Marla Cooper, Terror in Taffeta
- Alexia Gordon, Murder in G Major
- Nadine Nettmann, Decanting a Murder
- Renee Patrick, Design for Dying
- 2015 - Art Taylor, On the Road with Del and Louise
- Tessa Arlen, Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman
- Cindy Brown, Macdeath
- Ellen Byron, Plantation Shudders
- Julianne Holmes, Just Killing Time
- 2014 - Terrie Farley Moran, Well Read, Then Dead
- Annette Dashoffy, Circle of Influence
- Sherry Harris, Tagged for Death
- Susan O'Brien, Finding Sky
- Tracy Weber, Murder Strikes a Pose
- 2013 - Leslie Budewitz, Death Al Dente
- Shelley Costa, You Cannoli Die Once
- Kendel Lynn, Board Stiff
- Liz Mugavero, Kneading to Die
- LynDee Walker, Front Page Fatality
- 2012 – Susan M. Boyer, Lowcountry Boil
- Duffy Brown, Iced Chiffon
- Mollie Cox Bryan, A Scrapbook of Secrets
- Erika Chase, A Killer Read
- Stephanie Jaye Evans, Faithful Unto Death
- 2011 – Sara J. Henry, Learning to Swim
- Janet Bolin, Dire Threads
- Kaye George, Choke
- Rochelle Staab, Who Do, Voodoo?
- Kari Lee Townsend, Tempest in the Tea Leaves
- 2010 – Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye
- 2009 – Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Delacorte Press)
- Lisa Bork, For Better, for Murder (Midnight Ink)
- Meredith Cole, Posed for Murder (St Martins Minotaur)
- Elizabeth J. Duncan, The Cold Light of Mourning (St. Martin's Press)
- Stefanie Pintoff, In the Shadow of Gotham (Minotaur Books)
- 2008 - G.M. Malliet, Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
- 2007 - Hank Phillippi Ryan, Prime Time (Harlequin)
- 2006 - Sandra Parshall, The Heat of the Moon (Poisoned Pen Press)
- 2005 - Laura Durham, Better Off Wed (HarperCollins Publishers)
- 2004 - Harley Jane Kozak, Dating Dead Men (Doubleday)
- 2003 - Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs (Soho Press Inc.)
- 2002 - Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter (St. Martin's Minotaur)
- 2001 - Sarah Strohmeyer, Bubbles Unbound (Dutton)
- 2000 - Rosemary Stevens, Death on a Silver Tray (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 1999 - Donna Andrews, Murder with Peacocks (Thomas Dunne Books)
- 1998 - Robin Hathaway, The Doctor Digs a Grave (St. Martin's Minotaur)
- 1997 - Sujata Massey, The Salaryman's Wife (HarperCollins)
- 1996 - Anne George, Murder on a Girl's Night Out (Avon Books)
- 1995 - Jeanne M. Dams, The Body in the Transept (Walker)
- 1994 - Jeff Abbott, Do Unto Others (Ballantine)
- 1993 - Nevada Barr, Track of the Cat (Putnam)
- 1992 - Barbara Neely, Blanche on the Lam (St. Martin's Press)
- 1991 - Mary Willis Walker, Zero at the Bone (St. Martin's Press)
- 1990 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Belfry (St. Martin's Press)
- 1989 - Jill Churchill, Grime and Punishment (Avon Books)
- 1988 - Elizabeth George, A Great Deliverance (Bantam Books)
Melhor romance
- 2008 - Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month (Minotaur Books)
- 2007 - Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace (St. Martin's Minotaur)
- 2006 - Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains (Random House)
- 2005 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Snowdrift (William Morrow)
- 2004 - Jacqueline Winspear, Birds of a Feather (Soho Press)
- 2003 - Carolyn Hart, Letter From Home (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 2002 - Donna Andrews, You've Got Murder (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 2001 - Rhys Bowen, Murphy's Law (St Martin's Minotaur)
- 2000 - Margaret Maron, Storm Track (Mysterious Press)
- 1999 - Earlene Fowler, Mariner's Compass (Berkley Publishing Group)
- 1998 - Laura Lippman, Butchers Hill (Avon Books)
- 1997 - Kate Ross, The Devil In Music (Viking)
- 1996 - Margaret Maron, Up Jumps The Devil (Mysterious Press)
- 1995 - Sharyn McCrumb, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him (Ballantine)
- 1994 - Sharyn McCrumb, She Walks These Hills (Scribner)
- 1993 - Carolyn Hart, Dead Man's Island (Bantam)
- 1992 - Margaret Maron, Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press)
- 1991 - Nancy Pickard, I.O.U. (Pocket)
- 1990 - Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer (Pocket)
- 1989 - Elizabeth Peters, Naked Once More (Warner)
- 1988 - Carolyn G. Hart, Something Wicked (Bantam)
Melhor não-ficção
- 2008 - Kathy Lynn Emerson, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries (Perseverance Press)
- Frankie Y. Bailey, African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study (McFarland & Co.)
- Jeff Marks, Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography (McFarland & Co.)
- Dr. Harry Lee Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (Metro Books)
- Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (Walker & Co.)
- 2007 - Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower e Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (Penguin Press)
- Penny Warner, The Official Nancy Drew Handbook (Quirck Productions)
- 2006 - Chris Roerden, Don't Murder Your Mystery (Bella Rosa Books)
- 2005 - Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (Harcourt)
- 2004 - Jack French, Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives (Bear Manor Media)
- Leslie Klinger (editor), The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (W.W. Norton & Company)
- 2003 - Elizabeth Peters e Kristen Whitbread (editores) e Dennis Forbes (ilustrador), Amelia Peabody's Egypt: A Compendium (William Morrow & Company)
- Colleen A. Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Volume 3 (Parts 1 & 2) (Poisoned Pen Press)
- Jo Grossman e Robert Weibezahl (editores), A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (Poisoned Pen Press)
- Jeffrey Marks, Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s (Delphi Books)
- 2002 - Jim Huang (editor), They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels (Crum Creek Press)
- Mike Ashley (editor), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction (Avalon Publishing Group)
- Colleen Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction (Poisoned Pen Press)
- Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir (Simon and Schuster)
- Sue Grafton (editora) com Jan Burke e Barry Zeman, Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America (Writer's Digest Press)
- 2001 - Tony Hillerman, Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir (HarperCollins)
- Max Allan Collins, The History of the Mystery (Collector's Press)
- G. Miki Hayden, Writing the Mystery: A Start-To-Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional (Intrigue Press)
- Jeffrey Marks, Who Was That Lady? (Delphi Books)
- The Sisters Wells, Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth (Authors Choice Press/iUniverse.com)
- 2000 - Jim Huang (editor), 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century (Crum Creek Press)
- 1999 - Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (Henry Holt & Company)
- 1998 - Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader's Walking Guide to Washington D.C. (Passport Books)
- 1997 - Willeta L. Heising, Detecting Men (Pocket Guide) (Purple Moon Press)
- 1996 - Willetta L. Heising, Detecting Women 2 (Purple Moon Press)
- Elaine Raco Chase and Anne Wingate, Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Writer's Digest)
- Ron Miller, Mystery: A Celebration (KQED Books)
- Barbara Reynolds (editor), The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Making of a Detective Novelist (St. Martin's Minotaur)
- Jean Swanson and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand, 2ª ed. (Berkley Publishing Group)
- 1995 - Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago (Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group)
- 1994 - Jean Swanson and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand (Berkley Publishing Group)
- 1993 - Barbara D'Amato, The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery (Noble Press)
Melhor conto
- 2008 - The Night Things Changed por Dana Cameron Wolfsbane & Mistletoe (Penguin Group)
- 2007 - A Rat's Tale por Donna Andrews Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- 2006 - Sleeping with the Plush por Toni Kelner Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- 2005 - Driven to Distraction por Marcia Talley-Chesapeake Crimes II, Quiet Storm Publishing
- 2004 - Wedding Knife por Elaine Viets (Chesapeake Crimes, Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Publishing)
- 2003 - No Man’s Land por Elizabeth Foxwell em Blood On Their Hands (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 2002 - The Dog That Didn't Bark por Margaret Maron, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, dezembro de 2002 e Too Many Cooks por Marcia Talley, Much Ado About Murder, editado por Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime)
- 2001 - The Would-Be-Widower por Katherine Hall Page, Malice Domestic X (Avon Books)
- 2000 - The Man in the Civil Suit por Jan Burke, Malice Domestic 9 (Avon Books)
- 1999 - Out of Africa por Nancy Pickard, Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder (Berkley Publishing Group)
- 1998 - Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable por Barbara D’Amato, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998
- 1997 - Tea for Two por M.D. Lake, Funnybones (Penguin)
- 1996 - Accidents Will Happen por Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket)
- 1995 - The Dog Who Remembered Too Much por Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket)
- 1994 - The Family Jewels por Dorothy Cannell, Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket)
- 1993 - Kim's Game por M.D. Lake, Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket)
- 1992 - Nice Gorilla por Aaron e Charlotte Elkins, Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket)
- 1991 - Deborah's Judgment por Margaret Maron, A Woman's Eye (Delacourte Press)
- 1990 - Too Much To Bare por Joan Hess, Sisters in Crime 2 (Berkley Publishing Group)
- 1989 - A Wee Doch And Doris por Sharyn McCrumb, Mistletoe Mysteries (Mysterious Press )
- 1988 - More Final Than Divorce por Robert Barnard, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Melhor ficção infanto-juvenil
Prêmios especiais
Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement
Malice Domestic Poirot Award
Referências
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