Agatha Award Winners
The winners of the Agatha Awards were announced over the weekend at the Malice Domestic conference.
- Best Novel - Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
- Best First Novel - Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak
- Best Nonfiction - Private Eye-Lashes: Radio's Lady Detectives by Jack French
- Best Short Story - "Wedding Knife" from Chesapeake Crimes by Elaine Viets
- Best Children's/Young Adult Novel - Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet
Congratulations to all the winners!
I'm particularly pleased to see that Harley Jane Kozak's wonderful book won as Best First Novel. It was nominated for the Gumshoe Award as well and is a terrific read.
I read _Dating Dead Men_. It was a good read.
Congratulations to everyone! :D
MeBe
Posted by: MeBe | May 2, 2005 10:26 AM
Harley rocks! Thank you for posting this, and congratulations all around...
Posted by: Cornelia Read | May 2, 2005 03:12 PM
I wouldn't be surprised if we see Cornelia's name on that list in 2 years time.
Posted by: David J. Montgomery | May 2, 2005 03:18 PM
You are extremely extremely kind to say that, David, and it would be a great honor even to be nominated, as they say. But I think I may have ruled myself out from Agatha contention--if not with gratuitous violence (um...stuff like dead guys with their own amputated thumbs stuck in their mouths), then because one of my characters is nicknamed "Ice Cunt."
Harley was nice enough to say I might still have a shot, but it seems like kind of a stretch to me.
Posted by: Cornelia Read | May 2, 2005 06:58 PM
Wow, Cornelia, amputated thumbs and "Ice Cunt"? Can't wait to read it!
Congratulations to all the Agatha and Edgar winners!
Posted by: Karen Olson | May 3, 2005 10:24 AM