Anthony Award Nominations

BEST NOVEL
 Night Tremors by Matt Coyle [Oceanview]
 The Killing Kind by Chris Holm [Mulholland]
 The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson [Midnight Ink]
 The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny [Minotaur/Sphere]
 What You See by Hank Phillippi Ryan [Forge]

BEST FIRST NOVEL
 Concrete Angel by Patricia Abbott [Polis]
 Past Crimes by Glen Erik Hamilton [William Morrow]
 New Yorked by Rob Hart [Polis]
 Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich [G.P. Putnam's Sons/Head of Zeus]
 On the Road with Del & Louise by Art Taylor [Henery]

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
 The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney [William Morrow]
 Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street/Serpent's Tail]
 Little Pretty Things by Lori Rader-Day [Seventh Street]
 Young Americans by Josh Stallings [Heist]
 Stone Cold Dead by James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street]

BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION BOOK
 The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards [HarperCollins]
Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald by Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors [Arcade]
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid [Grove]
The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett by Nathan Ward [Bloomsbury USA]
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For by Kate White, editor [Quirk]

BEST SHORT STORY
"The Little Men: A Bibliomystery" by Megan Abbott [MysteriousPress.com/Open Road]
"The Siege" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dec 2015 by Hilary Davidson [Dell]
"Feliz Navidead" in Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule by Brace Godfrey/Johnny Shaw [CreateSpace]
"Old Hands" in Dark City Lights by Erin Mitchell [Three Rooms]
 "Quack and Dwight" in Jewish Noir by Travis Richardson [PM]
 "Don’t Fear the Ripper" in Protectors 2: Heroes by Holly West [Goombah Gumbo]

BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION
 Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin [280 Steps]
 Protectors 2: Heroes-Stories to Benefit PROTECT by Thomas Pluck, editor [Goombah

Gumbo]
 Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List by Todd Robinson, editor [CreateSpace]
 Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 by Art Taylor, editor [Down & Out]
 Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds by Kenneth Wishnia, editor [PM]

BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
 Need by Joelle Charbonneau [HMH Books for Young Readers]
 How to Win at High School by Owen Matthews [HarperTeen]
 A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis [Katherine Tegen]
 The Sin Eater’s Daughter by Melinda Salisbury [Scholastic]
 Fighting Chance by B.K. Stevens [The Poisoned Pencil]
 Ask the Dark by Henry Turner [Clarion]

BEST CRIME FICTION AUDIOBOOK
 Dark Waters by Chris Goff - Assaf Cohen, narrator [Blackstone Audio]
 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher, narrators [Penguin Audio/Random House Audiobooks]
Causing Chaos by Deborah J. Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator [IOF Productions]
The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny - Robert Bathurst, narrator [Macmillan Audio]
Young Americans by Josh Stallings - Em Eldridge, narrator [Josh Stallings]

2015 Agatha Award Nominations

The 2015 Agatha Award nominations have been announced by Malice Domestic and the winners will be announced at the 2015 Agatha Awards banquet to be held on Saturday, 30 April 2016.

Best Contemporary Novel:
Burned Bridges by Annette Dashofy (Henery Press)
Long Upon the Land by Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing)
The Child Garden by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
What You See by Hank Phillipi Ryan (Forge Books)

Best Historical Novel:
Malice at the Palace by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
The Masque of a Murderer by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante by Susan Elia Macneal (Bantam)
Murder on Amsterdam Avenue by Victoria Thompson (Berkley)

Best First Novel:
Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman by Tessa Arlen (Minotaur Books)
Macdeath by Cindy Brown (Henery Press)
Plantation Shudders by Ellen Byron (Crooked Lane Books)
Just Killing Time by Julianne Holmes (Berkley)
On the Road with Del and Louise by Art Taylor (Henery Press)

Best Nonfiction:
The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes by Zack Dundas (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie by Kathryn Harkup (Bloomsbury USA)
Unsolved Murders and Disappearances in Northeast Ohio by Jane Ann Turzillo (Arcadia Publishing)
The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For, by  Kate White (Editor), Harlan Coben (Contributor) and Gillian Flynn (Contributor) (Quirk Books)

Best Short Story:
“A Year Without Santa Claus?” by Barb Goffman (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2015)
“A Questionable Death” by Edith Maxwell, History & Mystery, Oh My (Mystery & Horror, LLC)
“A Killing at the Beausoleil” by Terrie Farley Moran (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2015)
“Suffer the Poor” by Harriette Sackler, History & Mystery, Oh My (Mystery & Horror, LLC)
“A Joy Forever” by B.K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, March 2015)

Best Children’s/Young Adult:

Pieces and Players by Blue Balliett (Scholastic Press)
Need by Joelle Charbonneau (HMH Books for Young Readers)
Andi Unstoppable by Amanda Flower (Zonderkidz)
Woof by Spencer Quinn (Scholastic Press)
Fighting Chance: A Martial Arts Mystery by B.K. Stevens (Poisoned Pen Press)

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Anthony Award Nominations

BEST NOVEL
  Suspect by Robert Crais (Putnam)
  A Cold and Lonely Place by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
  Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Atria)
  The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge)
  Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur)

BEST FIRST NOVEL
  Yesterday’s Echo by Matt Coyle (Oceanview)
  Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Alfred A. Knopf)
  Rage Against the Dying by Becky Masterman (Minotaur)
  Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight (HarperCollins)
  The Hard Bounce by Todd Robinson (Tyrus)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
  The Big Reap by Chris F. Holm (Angry Robot)
  Purgatory Key  by Darrell James (Midnight Ink)
  Joyland by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime)
  The Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood (Penguin)
  As She Left It by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)


BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION WORK
  Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova (Viking Adult)
  The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines by Cate Lineberry (Little, Brown)
 All the Wild Children by Josh Stallings (Snubnose Press)
  The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot To Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower [Minotaur]
  Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense by Sarah Weinman, ed. (Penguin)
  
BEST SHORT STORY
  "Dead End"  by Craig Faustus Buck (Untreed Reads)
  "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" by John Connolly, Bibliomysteries (Mysterious Bookshop)
  "Annie and the Grateful Dead" by Denise Dietz, The Sound and the Furry: Stories To Benefit the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Amazon Digital)
  "Incident on the 405" by Travis Richardson, Criminal Element's Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble (Macmillan)
  "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants" by Art Taylor, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013

BEST CHILDREN'S OR YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
  The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton Mifflin)
  Escape Theory by Margaux Froley (Soho Teen)
  Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein (Random House Children’s Books)
  Dancer, Daughter, Traitor, Spy by Elizabeth Kiem (Soho Teen)
  The Code Busters Club: Mystery of the Pirate’s Treasure by Penny Warner (Egmont USA)

BEST TV EPISODE TELEPLAY, FIRST AIRED IN 2013
  The Blacklist - Pilot by Jon Bokenkamp - Sept. 2013 (Davis Entertainment, NBC)
  Breaking Bad - "Felina" by Vince Gilligan - Sept. 2013 (AMC)
  The Fall - "Dark Descent" by Allan Cubitt - May 2013 (Netflix Original)
  The Following - Pilot by Kevin Williamson - Jan. 2013 (Warner Bros. Television, FOX)
  Justified - "Hole in the Wall" by Graham Yost - Jan. 2013 (Warner Bros. Television, FOX)

BEST AUDIO BOOK
  Hour of the Rat by Lisa Brackmann - Tracy Sallows, narrator (Audible)
  Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell - Mauro Hantman, narrator (AudioGO)
  The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith - Robert Glenister, narrator (Hachette Audio)
  Crescendo - Deborah J Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator (Audible)
  Death and the Lit Chick - G.M. Malliet - Davina Porter, narrator (Dreamscape Media)

Agatha Award Nominees

This year Malice Domestic 26 is due to take place between 2^nd & 4^th May 2014 at Hyatt, Bethesda, MD.  The Agatha Awards honour the "traditional mystery." That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others. 

Best Historical Novel
Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
Death in the Time of Ice by Kaye George (Untreed Reads Publishing)
A Friendly Game of Murder by JJ Murphy (Signet)
Murder in Chelsea by Victoria Thompson (Berkley Prime Crime)
A Question of Honor by Charles Todd 

(William Morrow)

Best Children's/YA Nominations
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (HMH Books for Young Readers)
Traitor in the Shipyard: A Caroline Mystery by Kathleen Ernst (American Girl Mysteries)
Andi Unexpected by Amanda Flower (Zonderkidz)
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (Random House Books)
Code Busters Club: Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure by Penny Warner (Edgmont USA)

Best Contemporary Novel
Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur Books)
Pagan Spring by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur Books)
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
Clammed Up by Barbara Ross (Kensington Books)
The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)

Best Nonfiction
Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester (Source Books Inc.)
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova (Viking Penguin)
Not Everyone's Cup of Tea: An Interesting & Entertaining History of Malice Domestic's First 25 Years by Verena Rose and Rita Owen (editors) (Wildside Press)

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

Best First Novel
Death Al Dente by Leslie Budewitz (Berkley Prime Crime)
You Cannoli Die Once by Shelley Costa (Pocket Books)
Board Stiff by Kendel Lynn (Henery Press)
Kneading to Die by Liz Mugavero (Kensington)
Front Page Fatality by LynDee Walker (Henery Press)

Best Short Story
"Evil Little Girl" in Don't Get Mad, Get Even by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press)
"Nightmare" in Don't Get Mad, Get Even by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press)
"The Hindi Houdini" in Fish Nets by Gigi Pandian (Wildside Press)
"Bread Baby" in Best new England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold by Barbara Ross (Level Best Books)
"The Care and Feeding of House Plants" by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

Congratulations to all the nominees!