The Agatha Awards are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write via the same method as Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Dame Agatha Christie DBE was a British crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections , and her successful West End plays.According to...

 (i.e. closed setting, no sex or violence, amateur detective). At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, in five categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery. Additionally, in some years the Poirot Award is presented to honor individuals other than writers who have made outstanding contributions to the mystery genre, but it is not an annual award.

Malice Domestic Ltd was established in 1989, and was incorporated in 1992. It is governed by a volunteer board of directors.

Best First Novel

2010 - Avery Aames, The Long Quiche Goodbye

• Laura Alden, Murder at the PTA
• Amanda Flower, Maid of Murder
• Sasscer Hill, Full Mortality
• Alan Orloff, Diamonds for the Dead

2009 - Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley (writer)

Alan Bradley is a Canadian Mystery writer known for the Flavia de Luce series, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie being the first in the series. The character emerged while he was trying to write a different book. He had written the memoir The Shoebox Bible before he wrote mysteries.- External...

, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a mystery by Alan Bradley published in 2009. Set in the English countryside in 1950, it features Flavia de Luce, an 11-year-old amateur sleuth who pulls herself away from her beloved chemistry lab in order to clear her father in a murder investigation...

(Delacorte Press)

• Lisa Bork, For Better, for Murder (Midnight Ink)
• Meredith Cole, Posed for Murder (St Martins Minotaur)
• Elizabeth 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)

• Sarah Atwell, Through a Glass, Deadly (Berkley Trade)
• Krista Davis, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (Penguin Group)
• Rosemary Harris, Pushing Up Daisies (Minotaur Books)
• Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death (Midnight Ink)

2007 - Hank Phillippi Ryan

Hank Phillippi Ryan

Born Harriet Ann Sablosky, Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, the NBC-affiliate station for Boston, Massachusetts. She is also an author of mystery novels.Ryan is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana...

, Prime Time (Harlequin)

• Charles Finch
  Charles Finch
  Charles Finch is an American author of mystery novels set in Victorian era England.Finch was born in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Academy and Yale University where he majored in English and History. He also holds a master's degree in Renaissance English Literature from the...
  
  , A Beautiful Blue Death
  A Beautiful Blue Death
  A Beautiful Blue Death, by Charles Finch, is the first novel in a series of mysteries featuring Victorian gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox.-Plot summary:The novel, set in 1865 London, follows Charles Lenox as he seeks to solve a murder...
  
  (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Beth Groundwater
  Beth Groundwater
  Beth Groundwater is an American author who has written three novels. Her first novel, A Real Basket Case, was nominated for the Best First Novel Agatha Award in 2007...
  
  , A Real Basket Case
  A Real Basket Case
  A Real Basket Case is a mystery novel that was written by Beth Groundwater. It was published by Five Star Publishing and released on March 21, 2007. It was later re-published in large print in January 2008. The novel follows the story of Claire Hanover who sets out to discover the identity of her...
  
  (Five Star Mystery)
• Deanna Raybourn
  Deanna Raybourn
  Deanna Raybourn is an American author of mystery novels set in Victorian era England.Raybourn was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but now lives in Williamsburg, Virginia...
  
  , Silent in the Grave (Mira)

2006 - Sandra Parshall, The Heat of the Moon (Poisoned Pen Press)

• Jane Cleland, Consigned to Death (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily, The Chef Who Died Sauteing (Hilliard & Harris)
• Hailey Lind, Feint of Art (Signet)
• Karen MacInerney, Murder on the Rocks (Midnight Ink)

2005 - Laura Durham, Better Off Wed (HarperCollins Publishers)

• Laura Bradford
  Laura Bradford
  Laura Bradford is a legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado. Elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Republican in 2008, Bradford represents House District 55, which encompasses northern portions of Mesa County and northern Grand Junction.-Biography:Born in Crookston, Minnesota and...
  
  , Jury of One (Hilliard & Harris)
• Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder (Avon Books)
• Maggie Sefton, Knit One, Kill Two (Berkley Publishing Group)
• Lisa Tillman, Blood Relations (Hilliard & Harris)

2004 - Harley Jane Kozak

Harley Jane Kozak

-Life and career:Kozak was born Susan Jane Kozak in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Dorothy , a university music teacher, and Joseph Aloysius Kozak, an attorney. She has seven siblings: brothers John, Joseph, Peter and Andrew and sisters Dorothy, Mary and Ann. Harley is the youngest of...

, Dating Dead Men (Doubleday)

• Judy Clemens, Till the Cows Come Home (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Patricia Harwin, Arson and Old Lace (Pocket Books)
• Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  Dorothy Salisbury Davis is an American crime fiction writer.She was an adopted child, raised in Illinois. She worked in Chicago in advertising as a research librarian and as an editor of The Merchandiser, prior to taking up fiction writing.She was married to Harry Davis, the character actor,from...
  
   and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night
• Susan Kandel
  Susan Kandel
  Susan Kandel is the author of a series of mystery books set in Los Angeles featuring sleuth CeCe Caruso, a vintage clothing fashionista and biographer of mystery writers....
  
  , I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason (HarperCollins)
• Pari Noskin Taichert, The Clovis Incident: A Mystery (University of New Mexico Press)

2003 - Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series....

, Maisie Dobbs (Soho Press Inc.)

• Elaine Flinn, Dealing in Murder (Avon)
• Erin Hart, The Haunted Ground (Scribner)
• S.W. Hubbard, Take the Bait (Pocket)
• Maddy Hunter, Alpine for You (Pocket)
• Joyce Kreig, Murder off Mike (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Sarah Stewart Taylor, O’ Artful Death (St. Martin's Press)

2002 - Julia Spencer-Fleming

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American novelist.She lives in Maine with her husband, 3 children, a dog, and two cats.-Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series :...

, In the Bleak Midwinter (St. Martin's Minotaur)

• Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Roberta Isleib, Six Strokes Under (Berkley)
• Claire M. Johnson, Beat Until Stiff (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Nancy Martin, How to Murder a Millionaire (Signet)
• Lea Wait
  Lea Wait
  Lea Wait is an American author of historical novels, many set in 19th century Maine. She has written a number of children's stories for age 7 and up, as well as the Shadows Antique Print Mystery series for adults.-Biography:...
  
  , Shadows at the Fair (Scribner)

2001 - Sarah Strohmeyer

Sarah Strohmeyer

Sarah Strohmeyer is an award-winning American author of crime novels and of books about human relations between men and women. Her works include The Cinderella Pact, The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, and the Bubbles Yablonsky series...

, Bubbles Unbound

Bubbles Yablonsky

Bubbles Yablonsky is the fictional protagonist of the Bubbles series of screwball mysteries by Sarah Strohmeyer. She first appeared in Bubbles Unbound, published in 2001; as of 2006, she has appeared in six novels by Strohmeyer strictly about Bubbles, with an extra cameo in Strohmeyers "The...

(Dutton)

• Tim Myer, Innkeeping with Murder (Berkley)
• Charles O'Brien
  Charles O'Brien
  Charles Macnamar "Charlie" O'Brien was a politician from Alberta, Canada.O'Brien was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election for the Socialist Party of Alberta....
  
  , Mute Witness (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Andy Straka
  Andy Straka
  Andy Straka is a Shamus Award winning American crime novelist. Born and raised in upstate New York and a graduate of Williams College, he worked in publishing and medical sales for nearly fifteen years before turning to writing in the late 1990s. His debut private eye novel, A Witness Above,...
  
  , A Witness Above (Signet)

2000 - Rosemary Stevens, Death on a Silver Tray (Berkley Prime Crime)

• Julie W. Herman, Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death (Overmountain Press)
• Irene Marcuse
  Irene Marcuse
  Irene Marcuse is an American writer.Marcuse is the author of many mystery novels.She is the granddaughter of social philosopher Herbert Marcuse.She holds a BA in Literature and Creative Writing and an MSW in social work from Columbia University.-Books:...
  
  , Death of an Amiable Child (Walker & Company)
• Denise Swanson
  Denise Swanson
  Denise Swanson is an American mystery writer. She is currently working on the Scumble River Mysteries that are set in a fictional town in Illinois.-Books in Order:Murder of a Small-Town HoneyMurder of a Sweet Old LadyMurder of a Sleeping Beauty...
  
  , Murder of a Small Town Honey (Signet)

1999 - Donna Andrews

Donna Andrews (author)

Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...

, Murder with Peacocks (Thomas Dunne Books)

• April Henry
  April Henry
  April Henry is an American New York Times bestselling author of mysteries, thrillers and young adult novels.-Early life:...
  
  , Circles of Confusion (HarperTorch)
• Kris Neri, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen (Rainbow Books)
• Elena Santangelo, By Blood Possessed (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Marcia Talley
  Marcia Talley
  Marcia Talley is an award-winning mystery novelist, author of the Hannah Ives mystery series, two collaborative novels, and numerous short stories. A former librarian, she took early retirement in 2000 to write full-time...
  
  , Sing It to Her Bones (Dell)

1998 - Robin Hathaway, The Doctor Digs a Grave (St. Martin's Minotaur)

• Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer is an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series of lightweight, humorous 'culinary mysteries' featuring Hollywood caterer 'Madeline Bean'....
  
  , Sympathy for the Devil (Avon)
• Jacqueline Fiedler, Tiger's Palette (Pocket)
• Judy Fitzwater, Dying to Get Published (Fawcett)
• Sharon Kahn, Fax Me a Bagel (Scribner)

1997 - Sujata Massey

Sujata Massey

Sujata Massey is a mystery writer born 1964 in Sussex, England who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 5.She is best known for her series featuring Rei Shimura, a Californian born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Many of her novels are set in Japan and in...

, The Salaryman's Wife (HarperCollins)

• Joanne Dobson, Quieter Than Sleep (Doubleday)
• Phyllis Richman, The Butter Did It (HarperCollins)
• Penny Warner
  Penny Warner
  Penny Warner is an American author and teacher. Her books range in subjects from cooking to parenting guides to children's activities. In addition, Warner is the author of the Connor Westphal mystery series, about a deaf reporter in the California Gold Country. The first book in the series, Dead...
  
  , Dead Body Language (Bantam)
• Barbara Jaye Wilson, Death Brims Over (Avon)

1996 - Anne George

Anne George (writer)

Anne Carroll George was an American author and poet. A collection of her poetry, Some of it is True , was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and her Southern Sisters mystery series was honored with the coveted Agatha Award. She was Alabama's 1994 state poet and cofounder of Druid Press...

, Murder on a Girl's Night Out (Avon Books)

• Dale Furutani
  Dale Furutani
  Dale Furutani is the first Asian American to win major mystery writing awards. He has won the Anthony Award and the Macavity Award and has been nominated for the Agatha Award. His book, The Toyotomi Blades, was selected as the best mystery of 1997 by the Internet Critics Group. He has been called...
  
  , Death in Little Tokyo : A Ken Tanaka Mystery (St. Martin’s)
• Terris Grimes, Somebody Else's Child (Onyx Books)
• Teri Holbrook
  Teri Holbrook
  Teri Peitso-Holbrook is an American mystery writer living in Atlanta with her husband and two children. She is the author of four mysteries and has been nominated for several literary awards. She currently teaches at Georgia State University and is pursuing multimodal and digital writing...
  
  , The Grass Widow (Bantam Books)
• Margaret K. Lawrence, Hearts and Bone: A Novel of Historical Suspense (Avon Books)
• Lillian M. Roberts, Riding for a Fall (Gold Medal)

1995 - Jeanne M. Dams, The Body in the Transept (Walker)

• Teri Holbrook
  Teri Holbrook
  Teri Peitso-Holbrook is an American mystery writer living in Atlanta with her husband and two children. She is the author of four mysteries and has been nominated for several literary awards. She currently teaches at Georgia State University and is pursuing multimodal and digital writing...
  
  , A Far and Deadly Cry
• Jody Jaffe, Horse of a Different Killer
• Virginia Lanier
  Virginia Lanier
  Virginia Lanier was an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series featuring bloodhound trainer 'Jo Beth Siddon'.She published her first book in 1995 at age 65, and completed five more before her death in 2003.-Books:...
  
  , Death in Bloodhound Red
• Martha C. Lawrence, Murder in Scorpio

1994 - Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott

Jeff Abbott is a U.S. suspense novelist. He has a degree in History and English from Rice University. He lives in Austin, Texas. His early novels were traditional detective fiction but in recent years he has turned to writing thriller fiction. A theme of his work is the idea of ordinary people...

, Do Unto Others (Ballantine)

• Janet Evanovich
  Janet Evanovich
  Janet Evanovich is an American writer. She began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but gained fame authoring a series of contemporary mysteries featuring Stephanie Plum, a lingerie buyer from Trenton, New Jersey, who becomes a bounty hunter to...
  
  , One for the Money (Scribner)
• Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  , Fool's Puzzle
• Barbara Burnett Smith, Writers of the Purple Sage
• Polly Whitney, Until Death

1993 - Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr is an American author best known for her Anna Pigeon series of mystery novels set in national parks in the United States. Barr won an Agatha Award and Anthony Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat...

, Track of the Cat (Putnam)

• Jan Burke
  Jan Burke
  Jan Burke is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.-Bio:Burke was born in Texas, but has lived in Southern California most of her life. She comes from a close-knit family, and remains close to her parents, two sisters and a brother. ...
  
  , Goodnight, Irene
• Deborah Crombie
  Deborah Crombie
  Deborah Crombie is an American author of the Duncan Kinkaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom. Crombie was raised in Texas and has lived in the United Kingdom...
  
  , A Share in Death
• Sharan Newman, Death Comes as Ephiphany
• Abigail Padgett, Child of Silence

1992 - Barbara Neely

Barbara Neely

Barbara Neely is an African-American novelist, short story writer and activist who writes murder mysteries. Her first novel, Blanche on the Lam , introduced the protagonist Blanche White, a middle-aged mother, domestic worker and amateur detective....

, Blanche on the Lam

Blanche on the Lam

Blanche on the Lam is a mystery novel by author Barbara Neely. The book won the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, and the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery...

(St. Martin's Press)

• Deborah Adams, All the Great Pretenders
• Susan Wittig Albert
  Susan Wittig Albert
  Susan Wittig Albert is a mystery writer from Vermilion County, Illinois, United States. She currently resides in Bertram, Texas, near Austin, with her husband, Bill Albert.- Career :...
  
  , Thyme of Death
• Carol Higgins Clark
  Carol Higgins Clark
  Carol Higgins Clark is an American mystery author. She is also the daughter of suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, and has co-authored several Christmas novels with her mother.-Writing career:...
  
  , Decked
• Miriam Grace Monfredo, Seneca Falls Inheritance

1991 - Mary Willis Walker

Mary Willis Walker

-Writing career:Walker began writing in her mid-forties, which she characterized as " 'pretty late to start' ". She spent two years writing her first published thriller, Zero at the Bone, which was published in 1991. Her second Texas-based mystery, Red Scream, was Walker's first to...

, Zero at the Bone (St. Martin's Press)

• Mary Cahill, Carpool
• Mary Daheim, Just Desserts
• Rebecca Rothenberg, The Bulrush Murders
• Ann Williams, Flowers for the Dead

1990 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Belfry (St. Martin's Press)

• Pat Burden, Screaming Bones
• Diane Mott Davidson
  Diane Mott Davidson
  Diane Mott Davidson, born , is an American author of mystery novels that use the theme of food. Several recipes are included in each book, and each novel title is a play on a food or drink word....
  
  , Catering to Nobody
• William F. Love
  William F. Love
  William Franklin Love was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born near Liberty in Amite County, Mississippi, Love attended the common schools and the University of Mississippi at Oxford....
  
  , The Chartreuse Clue
• Janet L. Smith, Sea of Troubles

1989 - Jill Churchill, Grime and Punishment (Avon Books)

• Eleanor Boylan, Working Murder
• Frances Fyfield
  Frances Fyfield
  Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty. Fyfield is a British lawyer and crime-writer.Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Frances Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduation, she took a course in criminal law. She...
  
  , A Question of Guilt
• Melanie Johnson Howe, The Mother Shadow
• Edith Skom, The Mark Twain Murders

1988 - Elizabeth George

Elizabeth George

Susan Elizabeth George is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain.Eleven of her novels featuring her lead character Inspector Lynley have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.-Biography:George was born in Warren, Ohio to Robert Edwin and Anne ...

, A Great Deliverance (Bantam)

• Caroline Graham
  Caroline Graham
  Caroline Graham is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist.Graham was born in Nuneaton, studied with the Open University, and received a degree in writing for the theatre from the University of Birmingham. Her first published book was Fire Dance, a romance novel...
  
  , The Killings at Badger's Drift
• Corinne Sawyer, The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders
• Susannah Stacey
  Susannah Stacey
  Susannah Stacey is a pseudonym used by writers Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey. Under this name, the team have produced a series of mystery novel featuring widowed British police Superintendent Bone...
  
  , Goodbye Nanny Grey
• Dorothy Sucher
  Dorothy Sucher
  Dorothy Sucher was an American author and psychotherapist who worked as a reporter at the Greenbelt News Review, where an article that she wrote that quoted critics of a developers calling his plans "blackmail" initially resulted in a $17,500 judgement against the paper. The U.S...
  
  , Dead Men Don't Give Seminars

Best Novel

2010 - Louise Penny

Louise Penny

Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

, Bury Your Dead

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , Stork Raving Mad
• Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , The Scent of Rain and Lightning
• Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Born Harriet Ann Sablosky, Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, the NBC-affiliate station for Boston, Massachusetts. She is also an author of mystery novels.Ryan is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  , Drive Time
• Heather Webber, Truly, Madly

2009 - Louise Penny

Louise Penny

Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

, A Brutal Telling (Minotaur Books)

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , Swan for the Money (St Martin's Minotaur Books)
• Lorna Barrett, Bookplate Special' (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Rhy Bowen
  Janet Quin-Harkin
  Janet Quin-Harkin is the author of more than one hundred books. She was born in Bath, England, and has worked for both BBC and Australian TV. Some of her most popular works include "Sweet Dreams," "Sugar and Spice," "Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine" and "On Our Own," Most of her books...
  
  , Royal Flush (Berkley Prime Crime)
• Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Born Harriet Ann Sablosky, Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, the NBC-affiliate station for Boston, Massachusetts. She is also an author of mystery novels.Ryan is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
  , Air Time (MIRA)

2008 - Louise Penny

Louise Penny

Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

, The Cruelest Month

The Cruelest Month

The Cruelest Month, by Louise Penny, is the third novel in the Three Pines Mysteries series, which feature Inspector Armand Gamache.-Plot summary:...

(Minotaur Books)

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , Six Geese A-Slaying (Minotaur Books)
• Rhys Bowen
  Janet Quin-Harkin
  Janet Quin-Harkin is the author of more than one hundred books. She was born in Bath, England, and has worked for both BBC and Australian TV. Some of her most popular works include "Sweet Dreams," "Sugar and Spice," "Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine" and "On Our Own," Most of her books...
  
  , A Royal Pain (Penguin Group)
• Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  , Buckingham Palace Gardens (Random)
• Julia Spencer-Fleming
  Julia Spencer-Fleming
  Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American novelist.She lives in Maine with her husband, 3 children, a dog, and two cats.-Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series :...
  
  , I Shall Not Want (Minotaur Books)

2007 - Louise Penny

Louise Penny

Louise Penny is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

, A Fatal Grace

A Fatal Grace (novel)

A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny, is the second novel in the Three Pines Mysteries series, which feature Inspector Armand Gamache.-Plot summary:...

(St. Martin's Minotaur)

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Rhys Bowen
  Janet Quin-Harkin
  Janet Quin-Harkin is the author of more than one hundred books. She was born in Bath, England, and has worked for both BBC and Australian TV. Some of her most popular works include "Sweet Dreams," "Sugar and Spice," "Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine" and "On Our Own," Most of her books...
  
  , Her Royal Spyness (Penguin Group)
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Hard Row (Grand Central Publishing)
• Elaine Viets
  Elaine Viets
  Elaine Viets is a Midwestern American newspaperwoman and mystery writer.A native of the working-class white southside of St. Louis, Missouri, the statuesque Viets has a degree in journalism and became a long-time popular media figure in St. Louis. She was a regular columnist for the St...
  
  , Murder with Reservations (NAL)

2006 - Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...

, The Virgin of Small Plains (Random House)

• Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  , The Saddlemaker's Wife
• L. C. Hayden
  L. C. Hayden
  L. C. Hayden is an American mystery novelist whose 2006 novel Why Casey Had to Die was a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Hayden was also a high school English teacher for 26 years, having retired in 2001....
  
  , Why Casey Had to Die
• Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , The Virgin of Small Plains
• Julia Spencer-Fleming
  Julia Spencer-Fleming
  Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American novelist.She lives in Maine with her husband, 3 children, a dog, and two cats.-Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series :...
  
  , All Mortal Flesh
• Jacqueline Winspear
  Jacqueline Winspear
  Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series....
  
  , Messenger of Truth

2005 - Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Snowdrift (William Morrow)

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , Owls Well That Ends Well (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Rituals of the Season(Mysterious Press & Warner Books)
• Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch (University of NM Press)
• Heather Webber, Trouble in Spades (Avon/HarperCollins Publishers)
• Jacqueline Winspear
  Jacqueline Winspear
  Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series....
  
  , Pardonable Lies (Henry Holt Books)

2004 - Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series....

, Birds of a Feather (Soho Press)

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , We'll Always Have Parrots (Thomas Dunne Books)
• Laura Lippman
  Laura Lippman
  Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.-Biography:Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the...
  
  , By a Spider's Thread (HarperCollins)
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , High Country Fall (Mysterious Press)
• Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey is a mystery writer born 1964 in Sussex, England who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 5.She is best known for her series featuring Rei Shimura, a Californian born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Many of her novels are set in Japan and in...
  
  , The Pearl Diver (HarperCollins)

2003 - Carolyn Hart

Carolyn Hart

Carolyn Gimpel Hart is an award-winning American mystery writer who specializes in traditional mysteries, also known as cozy mysteries.-Biography:...

, Letter From Home (Berkley Prime Crime)

• Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
  , Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
• Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer is an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series of lightweight, humorous 'culinary mysteries' featuring Hollywood caterer 'Madeline Bean'....
  
  , Mumbo Gumbo (William Morrow & Company)
• Rochelle Majer Krich, Dream House (Ballantine Books)
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Last Lessons of Summer (Mysterious Press)
• Elaine Viets
  Elaine Viets
  Elaine Viets is a Midwestern American newspaperwoman and mystery writer.A native of the working-class white southside of St. Louis, Missouri, the statuesque Viets has a degree in journalism and became a long-time popular media figure in St. Louis. She was a regular columnist for the St...
  
  , Shop till You Drop (Signet)

2002 - Donna Andrews

Donna Andrews (author)

Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...

, You've Got Murder (Berkley Prime Crime)

• Rhys Bowen
  Janet Quin-Harkin
  Janet Quin-Harkin is the author of more than one hundred books. She was born in Bath, England, and has worked for both BBC and Australian TV. Some of her most popular works include "Sweet Dreams," "Sugar and Spice," "Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine" and "On Our Own," Most of her books...
  
  , Death of Riley (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Rochelle Majer Krich, Blues in the Night (Ballantine)
• Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Bonfire (Morrow)
• Elizabeth Peters, The Golden One (Morrow)

2001 - Rhys Bowen

Janet Quin-Harkin

Janet Quin-Harkin is the author of more than one hundred books. She was born in Bath, England, and has worked for both BBC and Australian TV. Some of her most popular works include "Sweet Dreams," "Sugar and Spice," "Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine" and "On Our Own," Most of her books...

, Murphy's Law (St Martin's Minotaur)

• Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  , Arkansas Traveler (Berkley)
• Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...
  
  , Dead Until Dark (Ace)
• Rochelle Majer Krich, Shadows of Sin (Avon)
• Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey is a mystery writer born 1964 in Sussex, England who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 5.She is best known for her series featuring Rei Shimura, a Californian born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Many of her novels are set in Japan and in...
  
  , The Bride's Kimono (HarperCollins);

2000 - Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...

, Storm Track (Mysterious Press)

• Taffy Cannon, Guns and Roses
• Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer is an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series of lightweight, humorous 'culinary mysteries' featuring Hollywood caterer 'Madeline Bean'....
  
  , Killer Wedding
• Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey is a mystery writer born 1964 in Sussex, England who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 5.She is best known for her series featuring Rei Shimura, a Californian born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Many of her novels are set in Japan and in...
  
  , The Floating Girl
• Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky

1999 - Earlene Fowler

Earlene Fowler

Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....

, Mariner's Compass (Berkley Publishing Group)

• Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer
  Jerrilyn Farmer is an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series of lightweight, humorous 'culinary mysteries' featuring Hollywood caterer 'Madeline Bean'....
  
  , Immaculate Reception (Avon)
• Carolyn Hart
  Carolyn Hart
  Carolyn Gimpel Hart is an award-winning American mystery writer who specializes in traditional mysteries, also known as cozy mysteries.-Biography:...
  
  , Death on the River Walk (Avon)
• Laura Lippman
  Laura Lippman
  Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.-Biography:Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the...
  
  In Big Trouble (Avon)
• Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey
  Sujata Massey is a mystery writer born 1964 in Sussex, England who emigrated with her family to the United States at the age of 5.She is best known for her series featuring Rei Shimura, a Californian born to a Japanese father and an American mother. Many of her novels are set in Japan and in...
  
   The Flower Master (HarperCollins)

1998 - Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman is an American author of detective fiction.-Biography:Lippmann was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Theo Lippman Jr., a well known and respected writer at the Baltimore Sun, and Madeline Lippman, a retired school librarian for the...

, Butchers Hill (Avon Books)

• Jan Burke
  Jan Burke
  Jan Burke is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.-Bio:Burke was born in Texas, but has lived in Southern California most of her life. She comes from a close-knit family, and remains close to her parents, two sisters and a brother. ...
  
  , Liar (Simon & Schuster)
• Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  , Dove in the Window (Berkley)
• Virginia Lanier
  Virginia Lanier
  Virginia Lanier was an American mystery fiction writer, author of a series featuring bloodhound trainer 'Jo Beth Siddon'.She published her first book in 1995 at age 65, and completed five more before her death in 2003.-Books:...
  
  , Blind Bloodhound Justice (Harper Collins)
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Home Fires (Mysterious Press)
• Elizabeth Peters, The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Avon)

1997 - Kate Ross

Kate Ross

Kate Ross , born Katherine Jean Ross, was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about dandy Julian Kestrel...

, The Devil In Music (Viking)

• Jan Burke
  Jan Burke
  Jan Burke is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.-Bio:Burke was born in Texas, but has lived in Southern California most of her life. She comes from a close-knit family, and remains close to her parents, two sisters and a brother. ...
  
  , Hocus (Simon & Schuster)
• Deborah Crombie
  Deborah Crombie
  Deborah Crombie is an American author of the Duncan Kinkaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom. Crombie was raised in Texas and has lived in the United Kingdom...
  
  , Dreaming of the Bones (Scribner)
• Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  , Goose in a Pond (Berkley)
• Elizabeth Peters, Seeing a Large Cat (Warner)

1996 - Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...

, Up Jumps The Devil (Mysterious Press)

• Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  , Kansas Troubles (a Benni Harper Mystery) (Berkley)
• Sharan Newman, Strong as Death (Forge)

1995 - Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St...

, If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him (Ballantine)

• Joan Hess, Miracles in Maggody
• Sharan Newman, The Wandering Arm
• Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , Twilight
• Walter Satterthwait, Escapade

1994 - Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb

Sharyn McCrumb is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St...

, She Walks These Hills (Scribner)

• Carolyn G. Hart, Scandal in Fair Haven
• Laurie R. King
  Laurie R. King
  Laurie R. King is an American author best known for her detective fiction. Among her books are the Mary Russell series of historical mysteries, featuring Sherlock Holmes as her mentor and later partner, and a series featuring Kate Martinelli, a fictional lesbian San Francisco, California, police...
  
  , The Beekeeper's Apprentice
• Rochelle Majer Krich, Angel of Death
• Elizabeth Peters, Night Train to Memphis

1993 - Carolyn Hart

Carolyn Hart

Carolyn Gimpel Hart is an award-winning American mystery writer who specializes in traditional mysteries, also known as cozy mysteries.-Biography:...

, Dead Man's Island (Bantam)

• Aaron Elkins
  Aaron Elkins
  Aaron Elkins is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'.Education and background:...
  
  , Old Scores
• Joan Hess, O Little Town of Maggody
• Rochelle Majer Krich, Fair Game
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Southern Discomfort
• Kathy Hogan Trocheck, To Live and Die in Dixie

1992 - Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...

, Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press)

• Carolyn G. Hart, Southern Ghost
• Sharyn McCrumb
  Sharyn McCrumb
  Sharyn McCrumb is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St...
  
  , The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
• Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  , Defend and Betray
• Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog

1991 - Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...

, I.O.U. (Pocket)

• Aaron Elkins
  Aaron Elkins
  Aaron Elkins is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'.Education and background:...
  
  , Make No Bones (Mysterious Press)
• Carolyn G. Hart, The Christie Caper (Bantam)
• Charlotte MacLeod
  Charlotte MacLeod
  - Life and work :Born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1922, Charlotte MacLeod emigrated to the United States in 1923, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951. She attended the Art Institute of Boston. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she worked as a copy writer for Stop and Shop...
  
  , An Owl Too Many (Mysterious Press)
• Elizabeth Peters, The Last Camel Died at Noon (Warner)

1990 - Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard

Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...

, Bum Steer (Pocket)

• Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris
  Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children...
  
  , Real Murders
• Carolyn G. Hart, Deadly Valentine
• Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  , The Face of a Stranger
• Ellis Peters, The Potter's Field

1989 - Elizabeth Peters, Naked Once More (Warner)

• Sarah Caudwell
  Sarah Caudwell
  Sarah Caudwell was the pseudonym of Sarah Cockburn , a British barrister and writer of detective stories.She is best known for a series of four murder stories written between 1980 and 1999, centred around the lives of a group of young barristers practicing in Lincoln’s Inn and narrated by a Hilary...
  
  , The Siren Sang of Murder
• Carolyn G. Hart, A Little Class on Murder
• Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Corpus Christmas
• Gillian Roberts, Philly Stakes

1988 - Carolyn G. Hart, Something Wicked (Bantam)

• Dorothy Cannell
  Dorothy Cannell
  Dorothy Cannell is an English-American writer. She writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency...
  
  , The Widow's Club
• Joan Hess, Mischief in Maggody
• Sharyn McCrumb
  Sharyn McCrumb
  Sharyn McCrumb is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St...
  
  , Paying the Piper
• Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , Dead Crazy

Best Non-Fiction

2010 - John Curran, Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making

• Deborah Blum
  Deborah Blum
  Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York....
  
  , The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
• Stephen Doyle & David A. Crowder Sherlock Holmes for Dummies
• Katherine Hall Page, Have Faith in Your Kitchen
• Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

2009 - Elena Santangelo, Dame Agatha's Shorts (Bella Rosa Books)

• Richard Hack
  Richard Hack
  Richard Hack is an American writer best known for his biographical books and screenplays. He is a frequent guest on talk shows and an outspoken critic of bias in television news.- Background :...
  
  , Duchess of Death (Phoenix Books)
• P.D. James, Talking About Detective Fiction (Knopf)
• Amnon Kabatchnik, Blood on the Stage 1925-1950 (Scarecrow Press)
• Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith (St Martin's Press)

2008 - Kathy Lynn Emerson

Kathy Lynn Emerson

Kathy Lynn Emerson is an American writer of historical and mystery novels and non-fiction. She also uses the pseudonyms Kaitlyn Dunnett and Kate Emerson....

, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries (Perseverance Press)

• Frankie Y. Bailey, African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study (McFarland & Co.)
• Jeffrey Marks
  Jeffrey Marks
  - Life and career :Marks was born in Georgetown, Ohio, the son of Barbara Cummins Marks and Gerald Ronald Marks. He has one sister, Lisa. He was raised in Cincinnati, and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he received a B.S in Systems Analysis....
  
  , 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
  Kate Summerscale
  Kate Summerscale is an award-winning English writer and journalist.She is the author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2008, and the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, about Joe Carstairs, 'fastest woman on water',...
  
  , The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, or The Murder at Road Hill House (Walker & Co.)

2007 - Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley

Charles Foley

Charles Foley invented Twister, together with Neil W. Rabens. He received only 2.5% royalties for three years from Milton Bradley, which amounted to about $27,000. His granddaughter, Meagan Foley, represented Texas in the 2007 Rose of Tralee Festival in Ireland.-References:...

, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (Penguin Press)

• Penny Warner
  Penny Warner
  Penny Warner is an American author and teacher. Her books range in subjects from cooking to parenting guides to children's activities. In addition, Warner is the author of the Connor Westphal mystery series, about a deaf reporter in the California Gold Country. The first book in the series, Dead...
  
  , The Official Nancy Drew Handbook (Quirck Productions)

2006 - Chris Roerden, Don't Murder Your Mystery (Bella Rosa Books)

• Jim Huang and Austin Lugar, Mystery Muses (The Crum Creek Press)
• Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl (Dutton)

2005 - Melanie Rehak, Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...

 and the Women Who Created Her (Harcourt)

• Stuart Kaminsky, Behind the Mystery—Top Mystery Writers (Hothouse Press)
• Marvin Lachman, The Heirs of Anthony Boucher (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Leslie S. Klinger
  Leslie S. Klinger
  Leslie S. Klinger is an American attorney and writer. He is a noted literary editor and annotator of classic mystery fiction, including the Sherlock Holmes stories and the novel Dracula....
  
  , The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (W.W. Norton)

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 and Kristen Whitbread (editors) and Dennis Forbes (design), 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 and Robert Weibezahl (editors), A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Jeffrey Marks
  Jeffrey Marks
  - Life and career :Marks was born in Georgetown, Ohio, the son of Barbara Cummins Marks and Gerald Ronald Marks. He has one sister, Lisa. He was raised in Cincinnati, and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he received a B.S in Systems Analysis....
  
  , 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
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
   (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
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  , Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir (Simon and Schuster)
• Sue Grafton
  Sue Grafton
  Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W...
  
   (editor) with Jan Burke
  Jan Burke
  Jan Burke is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.-Bio:Burke was born in Texas, but has lived in Southern California most of her life. She comes from a close-knit family, and remains close to her parents, two sisters and a brother. ...
  
   and Barry Zeman, Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America (Writer's Digest Press)

2001 - Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...

, Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir

Seldom Disappointed

Seldom Disappointed: A Memoir is the 2001 autobiography of author Tony Hillerman. The title reflects the attitude that he learned as a child living on a farm in Oklahoma; if one learns not to have unrealistic expectations, one will often be pleasantly surprised and seldom disappointed....

(HarperCollins)

• Max Allan Collins
  Max Allan Collins
  Max Allan Collins is an American mystery writer. He has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations and historical fiction. He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition , created the comic book private eye Ms...
  
  , 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
  Jeffrey Marks
  - Life and career :Marks was born in Georgetown, Ohio, the son of Barbara Cummins Marks and Gerald Ronald Marks. He has one sister, Lisa. He was raised in Cincinnati, and attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he received a B.S in Systems Analysis....
  
  , 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)

• Marvin Lachman (editor), The American Regional Mystery
• Matthew Bunson, The Complete Christie (Pocket)
• Helen Windrath (editor), They Wrote the Book
• Martha Dubose (editor), Women of Mystery

1999 - Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...

(Henry Holt & Company)

• Kate Derie, The Deadly Directory (Deadly Serious Press)
• Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl, A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Willetta L. Heising, Detecting Women III (Purple Moon Press)
• Rosemary Herbert, The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing (Oxford University Press)

1998 - Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader's Walking Guide to Washington D.C. (Passport Books)

• Edward Gorman
  Edward Gorman
  Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....
  
   and Martin H. Greenberg
  Martin H. Greenberg
  Martin Harry Greenberg was an American speculative fiction anthologist and writer.-Biography:Dr. Martin H. Greenberg was born March 1, 1941, to Max and Mae Greenberg in South Miami Beach, Florida...
  
  , Speaking of Murder (Berkley)
• Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr, Deadly Women (Carroll & Graf)
• Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson
  Susan Thompson
  Susan Ann Thompson was the 40th mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was the first female to serve as mayor of Winnipeg and served two terms as mayor and held this post from 1992 to 1998.Thompson graduated with a BA from the University of Winnipeg in 1971...
  
  , Silk Stalkings II (Scarecrow)
• Jean Swanson
  Jean Swanson
  Jean Swanson is an anti-poverty activist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia.Jean Swanson is a coordinator of Carnegie Community Action Project , an organization dedicated to the welfare of the Downtown Eastside, one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods...
  
   and Dean James, Killer Books (Berkley)

1997 - Willeta L. Heising, Detecting Men (Pocket Guide) (Purple Moon Press)

• Nina King and Robin Winks
  Robin Winks
  Robin W. Winks was an American academic, historian, diplomat and writer. He was the Randolph Townsend Professor of History at Yale University.-Selected works:...
  
  , Crimes of the Scene (St. Martin's)
• Ian Ousby, Guilty Parties (Thames & Hudson)

1996 - Willetta L. Heising, Detecting Women 2 (Purple Moon Press)

• Elaine Raco Chase and Anne Wingate
  Anne Wingate
  Anne Wingate, born in 1943 as Martha Anne Guice, is a mystery writer currently living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Most of her mysteries are set somewhere within Texas. She is an adult convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and this sometimes shows in her works...
  
  , Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases (Writer's Digest)
• Ron Miller
  Ron Miller
  Ron Miller may refer to:* Ron W. Miller, son-in-law of Walt Disney and CEO and president of Walt Disney Productions in the 1970s and 80s* Ronald H. Miller, author and a professor of religion at Lake Forest College* Ron E...
  
  , Mystery: A Celebration (KQED Books)
• Barbara Reynolds
  Barbara Reynolds
  Barbara Reynolds is an English scholar, lexicographer and translator, wife of the philologist and translator Lewis Thorpe.-Early life:The daughter of Alfred Charles Reynolds, and the god-daughter of Dorothy L...
  
   (editor), The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Making of a Detective Novelist (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Jean Swanson
  Jean Swanson
  Jean Swanson is an anti-poverty activist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia.Jean Swanson is a coordinator of Carnegie Community Action Project , an organization dedicated to the welfare of the Downtown Eastside, one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods...
  
   and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand, Second Edition (Berkley Publishing Group)

1995 - Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Readers Walking Guide-Chicago (Passport Books, NTC Publishing Group)

• Douglas Greene Ngaio, John Dickson Carr: the Man Who Explained Miracles
• B.J. Rahn, Marsh: the Woman and Her Work
• Kate Stine, The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd edition
• Robin Whiteman, The Cadfael Companion, 2nd edition

1994 - Jean Swanson

Jean Swanson

Jean Swanson is an anti-poverty activist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia.Jean Swanson is a coordinator of Carnegie Community Action Project , an organization dedicated to the welfare of the Downtown Eastside, one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods...

 and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand (Berkley Publishing Group)

• William L. DeAndrea
  William L. DeAndrea
  William L. DeAndrea was an American mystery writer and columnist. He won three Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, the first for his first novel, Killed in the Ratings. The majority of his novels made up several series. The Matt Cobb mysteries drew on DeAndrea's experience working...
  
  , Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
• Allen J. Hubin, Crime Fiction II
• Kathleen Gregory Klein, Great Women Mystery Writers
• Charlotte MacLeod
  Charlotte MacLeod
  - Life and work :Born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1922, Charlotte MacLeod emigrated to the United States in 1923, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951. She attended the Art Institute of Boston. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she worked as a copy writer for Stop and Shop...
  
  , Had She But Known: Mary Roberts Rinehart

1993 - Barbara D'Amato, The Doctor, the Murder, the Mystery (Noble Press)

• Alzina Stone Dale, Dorothy L. Sayers
• Michael C. Gerald, The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
• Edward Gorman
  Edward Gorman
  Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....
  
  , The Fine Art of Murder
• Marvin Lachman, A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection
• Ellen A. Nehr, The Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-91

Best Short Story

• 2010 - "So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini
  Mary Jane Maffini
  Mary Jane Maffini is a Canadian mystery writer. She has created three mystery series and written 12 novels.Ladies Killing Circle & RendezVous Crime anthologies as well as Chatelaine magazine, Storyteller Magazine, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine have published her short stories...
  
  
• 2009 - "On the House" by Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Hank Phillippi Ryan
  Born Harriet Ann Sablosky, Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, the NBC-affiliate station for Boston, Massachusetts. She is also an author of mystery novels.Ryan is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana...
  
   (Level Best Books)
• 2008 - "The Night Things Changed" by Dana Cameron
  Dana Cameron
  Dana Cameron is an American archaeologist, and author of crime fiction.Born and raised in Massachusetts, Dana Cameron began her professional career as an historical archaeologist specializing in British and New English cultural history from 1607-1760...
  
   Wolfsbane & Mistletoe (Penguin Group)
• 2007 - "A Rat's Tale" by Donna Andrews
  Donna Andrews (author)
  Donna Andrews is an American mystery fiction writer of two award-winning amateur sleuth series. Her first book, Murder with Peacocks , introduced Meg Langslow, a blacksmith from Yorktown, Virginia. It won the St...
  
   Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• 2006 - "Sleeping with the Plush" by Toni Kelner
  Toni Kelner
  Toni LP Kelner is an award-winning author of two mystery series: the eight Laura Fleming novels, which include: Wed and Buried, Death of a Damn Yankee, Tight as a Tick, and several others; and the Where Are They Now? series, which debuted in January 2008 with Without Mercy. She has also edited...
  
   Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is a monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. AHMM is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television.-History:...
  
  
• 2005 - "Driven to Distraction" by Marcia Talley-Chesapeake Crimes II, Quiet Storm Publishing
• 2004 - "Wedding Knife" by Elaine Viets
  Elaine Viets
  Elaine Viets is a Midwestern American newspaperwoman and mystery writer.A native of the working-class white southside of St. Louis, Missouri, the statuesque Viets has a degree in journalism and became a long-time popular media figure in St. Louis. She was a regular columnist for the St...
  
   (Chesapeake Crimes, Coordinating Editor: Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Publishing)
• 2003 - "No Man’s Land" by Elizabeth Foxwell in Blood On Their Hands (Berkley Prime Crime)
• 2002 - "The Dog That Didn't Bark" by Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction...
  
  , December 2002 and "Too Many Cooks" by Marcia Talley
  Marcia Talley
  Marcia Talley is an award-winning mystery novelist, author of the Hannah Ives mystery series, two collaborative novels, and numerous short stories. A former librarian, she took early retirement in 2000 to write full-time...
  
  , Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
   (Berkley Prime Crime)
• 2001 - "The Would-Be-Widower" by Katherine Hall Page, Malice Domestic X (Avon Books)
• 2000 - "The Man in the Civil Suit" by Jan Burke
  Jan Burke
  Jan Burke is an award-winning author of novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.-Bio:Burke was born in Texas, but has lived in Southern California most of her life. She comes from a close-knit family, and remains close to her parents, two sisters and a brother. ...
  
  , Malice Domestic 9 (Avon Books)
• 1999 - "Out of Africa" by Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard
  Nancy Pickard is a US crime novelist. She has won five Macavity Awards, four Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, and a Shamus Award. She is the only author to win all four awards. She also served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America...
  
  , Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder (Berkley Publishing Group)
• 1998 - "Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable" by Barbara D’Amato, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction...
  
  , November 1998
• 1997 - "Tea for Two" by M.D. Lake, Funnybones (Penguin)
• 1996 - "Accidents Will Happen" by Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5 (Pocket)
• 1995 - "The Dog Who Remembered Too Much" by Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4 (Pocket)
• 1994 - "The Family Jewels" by Dorothy Cannell
  Dorothy Cannell
  Dorothy Cannell is an English-American writer. She writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency...
  
  , Malice Domestic 3 (Pocket)
• 1993 - "Kim's Game" by M.D. Lake, Malice Domestic 2 (Pocket)
• 1992 - "Nice Gorilla" by Aaron
  Aaron Elkins
  Aaron Elkins is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'.Education and background:...
  
   and Charlotte Elkins
  Charlotte Elkins
  Charlotte Elkins is an American author who teamed with her husband, writer Aaron Elkins, to write a series of mystery novels about Lee Ofsted, a struggling female professional golfer.-Background:...
  
  , Malice Domestic 1 (Pocket)
• 1991 - "Deborah's Judgment" by Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  , A Woman's Eye (Delacourte Press)
• 1990 - "Too Much To Bare" by Joan Hess, Sisters in Crime 2 (Berkley Publishing Group)
• 1989 - "A Wee Doch And Doris" by Sharyn McCrumb
  Sharyn McCrumb
  Sharyn McCrumb is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St...
  
  , Mistletoe Mysteries (Mysterious Press )
• 1988 - "More Final Than Divorce" by Robert Barnard
  Robert Barnard
  Robert Barnard is an English crime writer, critic and lecturer.- Life and work :Born in Essex, Barnard was educated at the Colchester Royal Grammar School and at Balliol College in Oxford....
  
  , Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction...
  
  

Best Children/Young Adult Fiction

• 2010 - The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith
  Sarah Smith (writer)
  Sarah Smith is an American author living in Brookline, Massachusetts.-Life:She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both from Harvard University. She was an Assistant Professor of English for several years before going to work in the computer industry...
  
  
• 2009 - The Hanging Hill by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
• 2006 - Pea Soup Poisonings by Nancy Means Wright (Hilliard & Harris)
• 2005 - Down the Rabbit Hole
  Down the Rabbit Hole (novel)
  Down The Rabbit Hole is the first book in the Echo Falls mystery series by best selling crime novelist Peter Abrahams.This book is about the murder of Katherine Kovac and how 13-year-old Ingrid Levin-Hill catches the killer...
  
  by Peter Abrahams, HarperCollins Publishers and Flush
  Flush (novel)
  Flush is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2005, and set in Hiaasen's native Florida. It is his second young adult novel, after Hoot. The plot is similar to Hoot but it doesn't have the same cast and is not a continuation.-Plot:...
  
  by Carl Hiaasen
  Carl Hiaasen
  Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist, columnist and novelist.- Early years :Born in 1953 and raised in Plantation, Florida, of Norwegian heritage, Hiaasen was the first of four children and the son of a lawyer, Kermit Odel, and teacher, Patricia...
  
   (Alfred A. Knopf)
• 2004 - Chasing Vermeer
  Chasing Vermeer
  Chasing Vermeer is a 2004 children's art mystery novel written by Blue Balliett and illustrated by Brett Helquist. Set in Hyde Park, Chicago near the University of Chicago, the novel follows two children, Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee...
  
  by Blue Balliett
  Blue Balliett
  Blue Balliett is an American author, best known for her award-winning novel for children, Chasing Vermeer.Chasing Vermeer, released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best known and most highly praised book. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by...
  
   (Scholastic Press)
• 2003 - The 7th Knot by Kathleen Karr
  Kathleen Karr
  Kathleen Karr is an American author of historical novels for children and young adults. She is the winner of the Golden Kite Award, for her work The Boxer.-Personal:...
  
   (Marshall Cavendish)
• 2002 - Red Card: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery (The Zeke Armstrong Mysteries, 1) by Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot (Top Publications)
• 2001 - 'Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery by Penny Warner
  Penny Warner
  Penny Warner is an American author and teacher. Her books range in subjects from cooking to parenting guides to children's activities. In addition, Warner is the author of the Connor Westphal mystery series, about a deaf reporter in the California Gold Country. The first book in the series, Dead...
  
   (Meadowbrook Press)

Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement

• 2011 - Sue Grafton
  Sue Grafton
  Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W...
  
  
• 2010 - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• 2009 - Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  
• 2008 - Peter Lovesey
  Peter Lovesey
  Peter Lovesey is a British writer of historical and contemporary crime novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath...
  
  
• 2007 - Carolyn Hart
  Carolyn Hart
  Carolyn Gimpel Hart is an award-winning American mystery writer who specializes in traditional mysteries, also known as cozy mysteries.-Biography:...
  
  
• 2005 - H.R.F. Keating
• 2004 - Marian Babson
  Marian babson
  Marian Babson a pseudonym for Ruth Stenstreem. She is a mystery author with a large body of work that rotates in and out of print. She was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, but has lived most her life in London, England....
  
  
• 2003 - Barbara Mertz
  Barbara Mertz
  Barbara Mertz is an American author who writes under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels....
  
  , Elizabeth Peters, and Barbara Michaels
• 2002 - Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...
  
  
• 2001 - Mildred Wirt Benson
• 2000 - Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
  
• 1999 - Patricia Moyes
  Patricia Moyes
  Patricia Pakenham-Walsh, a.k.a. Patricia Moyes was an Irish-born British mystery writer.- Life and work :Moyes was born in Dublin on 19 January 1923 and was educated at Overstone girls' school in Northampton. She joined the WAAF in 1939. In 1946 Peter Ustinov hired her as technical assistant on his...
  
  
• 1998 - Charlotte MacLeod
  Charlotte MacLeod
  - Life and work :Born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1922, Charlotte MacLeod emigrated to the United States in 1923, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951. She attended the Art Institute of Boston. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, she worked as a copy writer for Stop and Shop...
  
  
• 1997 - Emma Lathen
  Emma Lathen
  Emma Lathen is the pen name of two American businesswomen: an economist Mary Jane Latsis and an economic analyst Martha Henissart ,who received her B.A. in physics from Mount Holyoke College in 1950....
  
  
• 1996 - Mary Stewart
  Mary Stewart
  Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular English novelist, best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.-Career:...
  
  
• 1994 - Mignon G. Eberhart
  Mignon G. Eberhart
  Mignon Good Eberhart was an American author of mystery novels. She had one of the longest careers among major American mystery writers.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1990 - Phyllis A. Whitney
  Phyllis A. Whitney
  Phyllis Ayame Whitney was an American mystery writer. Rare for her genre, she wrote mysteries for both the juvenile and the adult markets, many of which feature exotic locations. Often described as a Gothic novelist, a review in The New York Times once dubbed her "The Queen of the American...
  
  

Malice Domestic Poirot Award

• 2011 - Janet Rudolph
• 2010 - William Link
  William Link
  William Theodore Link is an American film and television writer and producer who often worked in collaboration with Richard Levinson.-Life and career:...
  
  
• 2009 - Kate Stine and Brian Skupin, publishers of Mystery Scene Magazine
• 2008 - Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is an American monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime fiction, particularly detective fiction...
  
  , and Linda Landrigan, editor of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is a monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. AHMM is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television.-History:...
  
  
• 2007 - None
• 2006 - Douglas Greene, publisher of Crippen & Landru Press
• 2005 - Angela Lansbury
  Angela Lansbury
  Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins...
  
  
• 2004 - Ruth Cavin
  Ruth Cavin
  Ruth Cavin was an American book editor who worked as an associate publisher of Thomas Dunne Books, where she started working at age 70 and oversaw the publication of 900 books, mystery fiction being her specialty, in her two decades in the business.Cavin was born Ruth Brodie in Pittsburgh,...
  
  , editor of Thomas Dunne Books
  Thomas Dunne Books
  Thomas Dunne Books, a division of St. Martin's Press, publishes popular trade fiction and nonfiction. Established in 1986 and based in New York City, Thomas Dunne Books publishes approximately 175 titles each year, covering a range of genres including commercial and literary fiction, mysteries,...
  
  
• 2003 - David Suchet
  David Suchet
  David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...