Auf der Malice Domestic Conference wurden die diesjährigen Agatha Awards (für den schönsten Cozy in der Tradition von Agatha Christie) verliehen an:
Best Contemporary Novel
Glass Houses, von Louise Penny (Minotaur)
nominiert
Death Overdue, von Allison Brook (Crooked Lane)
A Cajun Christmas Killing, von Ellen Byron (Crooked Lane)
No Way Home, von Annette Dashofy (Henery Press)
Take Out, von Margaret Maron (Grand Central)
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Best Historical Novel
In Farleigh Field, von Rhys Bowen (Lake Union)
nominiert
Murder in an English Village, von Jessica Ellicott (Kensington)
Called to Justice, von Edith Maxwell (Midnight Ink)
The Paris Spy, von Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam)
Dangerous to Know, von Renee Patrick (Forge)
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Best First Novel
Hollywood Homicide, von Kellye Garrett (Midnight Ink)
nominiert
Adrift, von Micki Browning (Alibi)
The Plot Is Murder, von V.M. Burns (Kensington)
Daughters of Bad Men, von Laura Oles (Red Adept)
Protocol, von Kathleen Valenti (Henery Press)
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Best Non-fiction
nominiert
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books, von Martin Edwards (Poisoned Pen Press)
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land, von Monica Hesse (Liveright)
Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction, von Jess Lourey (Conari Press)
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier, von Tatiana de Rosnay (St. Martin’s Press)
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Best Short Story
The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn, von Gigi Pandian (Henery Press e-book)
nominiert
Double Deck the Halls, von Gretchen Archer (Henery Press e-book)
Whose Wine Is it Anyway, von Barb Goffman (aus 50 Shades of Cabernet; Koehler)
The Night They Burned Miss Dixie’s Place, von Debra Goldstein (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017)
A Necessary Ingredient, von Art Taylor (aus Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, herausgegeben von Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks; Down & Out)
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Best Children’s/Young Adult
Sydney Mackenzie Knocks ’Em Dead, von Cindy Callaghan (Aladdin)
nominiert
City of Angels, von Kristi Belcamino (Polis)
The World’s Greatest Detective, von Caroline Carlson (HarperCollins)
Audacity Jones Steals the Show, von Kirby Larson (Scholastic Press)
The Harlem Charade, von Natasha Tarpley (Scholastic Press)
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Malice Domestic’s 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
Nancy Pickard
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Amelia Award
David Suchet
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Poirot Award
Brenda Blethyn (als DCI Vera Stanhope in „Vera“, basierend auf den Romanen von Ann Cleeves)
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Special Amelia Award
Joan Hess
Kriminalakte 