The Agatha Award nominees

Malice Domestic has announced the nominees for the Agatha Awards, as follows:

Best Novel

We’ll Always Have Parrots, by Donna Andrews (Thomas Dunne Books)

By a Spider’s Thread, by Laura Lippman (HarperCollins)

High Country Fall, by Margaret Maron (Mysterious Press)

The Pearl Diver,by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)

Birds of a Feather, by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press)

Best First Novel

Till The Cows Come Home, by Judy Clemens (Poisoned Pen Press)

Arson and Old Lace, by Patricia Harwin (Pocket Books)

I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason, by Susan Kandel (HarperCollins)

Dating Dead Men, by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)

The Clovis Incident: A Mystery, by Pari Noskin Taichert (University of New Mexico Press)

Best Nonfiction

Private Eye-Lashes: Radio’s Lady Detectives, by Jack French (Bear Manor Media)

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories, edited with notes by Leslie Klinger (W. W. Norton & Company)

Best Short Story

“The Butler Didn’t Do It” by Maria Y. Lima (from Chesapeake Crimes; Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews; Quiet Storm Publishing)

“The Two Marys” by Katherine Hall Page (from Mistletoe and Mayhem; Avon Books)

“Wedding Knife” by Elaine Viets (from Chesapeake Crimes; Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews;

Quiet Storm Publishing)

Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel

Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)

Betrayal at Cross Creek, by Kathleen Ernst (American Girl)

Green Streak: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery, by Daniel J. Hale and Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications)

Congratulations to all the nominees!

Those attending the Malice Domestic conference (April 29 – May 1, 2005)

will vote for the winners of the awards. The winners will be

acknowledged and receive their awards at the Agatha Banquet on April

30, 2005 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

To learn more about Malice Domestic or how to register for the

conference, please visit the web site at www.malicedomestic.org.