Award Winners--The Agatha Awards

The Agatha Awards honor the "traditional mystery" and were awarded this weekend at Malice Domestic. I have not read any of these though I have read and very much enjoyed Faithful Unto Death by Stephanie Jaye Evans which was entered in the Best First Novel category. I personally would rank that as one of the best books I read and reviewed in months.

Best Novel:
The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny


Best First Novel:
 Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer


Best Non-fiction:
 Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels by John Connolly/Declan Burke


Best Short Story:
"Mischief in Mesopotamia" (PDF) by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2012)


Best Children's/Young Adult Novel:

The Code Busters Club, Case #2: The Haunted Lighthouse by Penny Warner


Best Historical Novel:

Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder by Catriona McPherson