Agatha Award / Best First Novel
Best First Novel (English Best First Mystery ) is one of the six regular categories in which the American literary award Agatha Award from the Malice Domestic Ltd. is awarded. The prize in this category has been awarded annually since 1989; it honors the best debut novel published in the previous year by an author from the mystery genre who is based on the works of the well-known British crime writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976).
Here is the list of the winners of the Agatha Award in the Best First Novel category :
| year | Award winners | Novel title | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Elizabeth George | A great deliverance | God save this house |
| 1990 | Jill Churchill | Grime and Punishment | Filth and atonement |
| 1991 | Katherine Hall Page | The Body in the Belfry | |
| 1992 | Mary Willis Walker | Zero at the bone | Predator feeding |
| 1993 | Barbara Neely | Blanche on the Lam | Night Girl - a detective novel |
| 1994 | Nevada Barr | Track of the Cat | The cat's trail |
| 1995 | Jeff Abbott | Do Unto Others | |
| 1996 | Jeanne M. Dams | The Body in the Transept | |
| 1997 | Anne George | Murder on a Girl's Night Out | |
| 1998 | Sujata Massey | The Salaryman's Wife | The dead woman in the bathhouse |
| 1999 | Robin Hathaway | The Doctor Digs a Grave | |
| 2000 | Donna Andrews | Murder with Peacocks | Wrong bird catches death |
| 2001 | Rosemary Stevens | Death on a Silver Tray | |
| 2002 | Sarah Strohmeyer | Bubbles Unbound | Murder was just the beginning |
| 2003 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | In the Bleak Midwinter | The white dress of death |
| 2004 | Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | Maisie Dobbs - The house for resting |
| 2005 | Harley Jane Kozak | Dating dead men | My first corpse: a Wollie Shelley crime thriller |
| 2006 | Laura Durham | Better Off Wed | |
| 2007 | Sandra Parshall | The Heat of the Moon | |
| 2008 | Hank Phillipi Ryan | Prime time | |
| 2009 | GM Malliet | Death of a Cozy Writer | |
| 2010 | Alan Bradley | The sweetness at the bottom of the pie | Murder in the cucumber patch |
| 2011 | Avery Aames | The Long Quiche Goodbye | |
| 2012 | Sara J. Henry | Learning to swim | A heartbeat to the point of death |
| 2013 | Susan M. Boyer | Lowcountry Boil | |
| 2014 | Leslie Budewitz | Death Al Dente | |
| 2015 | Terrie Farley Moran | Well Read, Then Dead | |
| 2016 | Art Taylor | On the Road with Del and Louise | |
| 2017 | Cynthia Kuhn | The Semester of Our Discontent | |
| 2018 | Kellye Garrett | Hollywood Homicide | |
| 2019 | Dianne Freeman | A Ladies Guide to Etiquette and Murder | |
| Shari Randall | Curses, Boiled Again |
Web links
- Website Malice Domestic (English)