2024 Agatha Awards

Malice Domestic, LTD honours a previous year's cosy mysteries with the Agatha Awards at their annual convention, which will take place this year on 26 April. Their 2023 Nominees are:

Best Contemporary Novel
*Wined and Died in New Orleans by Ellen Byron
*Helpless by Annette Dashofy
*The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski
*Case of the Bleus by Korina Moss
*The Raven Thief by Gigi Pandian

Best Historical Novel
*Death Among the Ruins by Susanna Calkins
*Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord by Celeste Connally
*I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died by Amanda Flower
*Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head
*The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey

Best First Novel
*Glory Be by Danielle Arceneaux
*The Hint of Light by Kristin Kisska
*Dutch Threat by Josh Pachter
*Crime and Parchment by Daphne Silver
*Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

Best Children’s/Young Adult Novel
*Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity by Elizabeth C. Bunce
*The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary by KB Jackson
*Araña and Spiderman by Alex Segura
*The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle by Taryn Sounders
*Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose by Nancy Springer

Best Short Story
*'The Knife Sharpener' by Shelley Costa
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2023
*'A Good Judge of Character' by Tina deBellegarde
Malice Domestic 17: Murder Most Traditional
*'Real Courage' by Barb Goffman
Black Cat Mystery Magazine, October 2023
*'Ticket to Ride' by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski
Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the
Songs of The Beatles
*'Shamu, World’s Greatest Detective' by Richie Narvaez
Killin’ Time in San Diego

Best Non-fiction
*Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar
*Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder by David Bordwell
*A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak
*Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Morgan

I'm not much on the cosy subgenre, so I've read none of these. How about everyone else? Have you read any of the nominees?