Here are your Agatha Award nominees

And they will be presented at the 20th Malice Domestic Convention held the weekend of April 25-27:

Best
Novel


The Penguin
Who Knew Too Much,
 by
Donna Andrews (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Her Royal Spyness, by Rhys
Bowen (Penguin Group)

Hard
Row,
by Margaret Maron (Grand Central
Publishing)

A Fatal
Grace,
by Louise Penny (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

Murder With Reservations, by
Elaine Viets (NAL)

 


Best First
Novel


A Beautiful
Blue Death,
by Charles Finch ( St.
Martin ‘s Minotaur)

A Real Basket Case, by Beth
Groundwater (Five Star)
Silent In The Grave, by
Deanna Raybourn (Mira)
Prime Time, by Hank Phillipi Ryan
(Harlequin)

Best
Nonfiction


Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life In Letters, by
Charles Foley, Jon Lellenberg , and Daniel Stashower (Penguin Press)

The
Official Nancy Drew Handbook
, by Penny Warner (Quirck Productions)


 

Best
Short Story


"A Rat’s Tale", by Donna Andrews (Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine Sept/Oct, 2007)

"Please Watch Your Step", by
Rhys Bowen (The Strand, Spring, 2007)
"Casino Gamble", by Nan
Higginson (Murder New
York Style, L & L Dreamspell)

"Popping
Round To The Post"
, by Peter Lovesey (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine,
November, 2007)

"Death Will
Clean Your Closet"
, by Elizabeth Zelvin (Murder
New York Style, L & L
Dreamspell)


Best
Children’s/Young Adult


A Light In The Cellar, by Sarah
Masters Buckey (American Girl)

Bravo Zulu, Samantha!, by Kathleen
Benner Duble (Peachtree Publishers)
Cover-Up: Mystery At The Super
Bowl
,
by John Feinstein (Knopf [Random House])

The
Falconer’s Knot,
by Mary Hoffman (Bloomsbury
USA Childrens’
Books)

Theodosia And
The Serpents Of Chaos
, by R.L. LaFevers (Houghton Mifflin)

Congratulations to all the nominees!