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Die meisten Autorinnen sagen mir nichts, von einigen habe ich schon gehört, aber vom Ruf her sind für mich die von Malice-Domestic vergebenen Agatha-Preise einfach zu Cozy.

Deshalb ohne weitere Worte: die Nominierungen für den Agatha Award 2008:

Best Novel

• Six Geese A-Slaying, von Donna Andrews (Minotaur Books)

• A Royal Pain, von Rhys Bowen (Penguin Group)

• The Cruelest Month, von Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)

• Buckingham Palace Gardens, von Anne Perry (Random House)

• I Shall Not Want, von Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur Books)

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Best First Novel

• Through a Glass, Deadly, von Sarah Atwell (Berkley Trade)

• The Diva Runs Out of Thyme, von Krista Davis (Penguin Group)

• Pushing Up Daisies, von Rosemary Harris (Minotaur Books)

• Death of a Cozy Writer, von G.M. Malliet (Midnight Ink)

• Paper, Scissors, Death, von Joanna Campbell Slan (Midnight Ink)

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Best Non-fiction

• African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study, von Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland & Co.)

• How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries, von Kathy Lynn Emerson (Perseverance Press)

• Anthony Boucher, A Bibliography, von Jeff Marks (McFarland & Co.)

• Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories, von Dr. Harry Lee Poe (Metro Books)

• The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, von Kate Summerscale (Walker)

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Best Short Story

• “The Night Things Changed,” von Dana Cameron (from Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, edited von Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner; Ace)

• “Killing Time,” von Jane Cleland (Alfred Hitchock Mystery Magazine, November 2008)

• “Dangerous Crossin,” von Carla Coupe (from Chesapeake Crimes 3, edited von Donna Andrews and Marcia Talley; Wildside Press)

• “Skull and Cross Examination,” von Toni L.P. Kelner (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], February 2008)

• “A Nice Old Guy,” von Nancy Pickard (EQMM, August 2008)

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Best Children’s/Young Adult

• Into the Dark, von Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins)

• A Thief in the Theater, von Sarah Masters Buckey (American Girl)

• The Crossroads, von Chris Grabenstein (Random House

Children’s Books)

• The Great Circus Train Robbery, von Nancy Means Wright

(Hilliard and Harris)

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Der Preis wird am 2. Mai verliehen.

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