Agatha Award
The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the cozy mystery subgenre. At an annual convention in Washington, D.C., the Agatha Awards are handed out by Malice Domestic Ltd, in six categories: Best Novel; Best First Mystery; Best Historical Novel; Best Short Story; Best Non-Fiction; Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery. Additionally, in some years the Poirot Award is presented to honor individuals other than writers who have made outstanding contributions to the mystery genre, but it is not an annual award.
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Awards
Winners and, where known, nominated titles for each year:Best First Novel
; 2018 – Dianne Freeman, A Ladies Guide to Etiquette and Murder and Shari Randall, Curses, Boiled Again- Edwin Hill, Little Comfort
- Aimee Hix, What Doesn't Kill You
- Keenan Powell, Deadly Solution
- Micki Browning, Adrift
- V.M. Burns, The Plot is Murder
- Laura Oles, Daughters of Bad Men
- Kathleen Valenti, Protocol
- Marla Cooper, Terror in Taffeta
- Alexia Gordon, Murder in G Major
- Nadine Nettmann, Decanting a Murder
- Renee Patrick, Design for Dying
- Tessa Arlen, Death of a Dishonorable Gentleman
- Cindy Brown, Macdeath
- Ellen Byron, Plantation Shudders
- Julianne Holmes, Just Killing Time
- Annette Dashoffy, Circle of Influence
- Sherry Harris, Tagged for Death
- Susan O'Brien, Finding Sky
- Tracy Weber, Murder Strikes a Pose
- Shelley Costa, You Cannoli Die Once
- Kendel Lynn, Board Stiff
- Liz Mugavero, Kneading to Die
- LynDee Walker, Front Page Fatality
- Duffy Brown, Iced Chiffon
- Mollie Cox Bryan, A Scrapbook of Secrets
- Erika Chase, A Killer Read
- Stephanie Jaye Evans, Faithful Unto Death
- Janet Bolin, Dire Threads
- Kaye George, Choke
- Rochelle Staab, Who Do, Voodoo?
- Kari Lee Townsend, Tempest in the Tea Leaves
- Laura Alden, Murder at the PTA
- Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook, finalist
- Amanda Flower, Maid of Murder
- Sasscer Hill, Full Mortality
- Alan Orloff, Diamonds for the Dead
- Lisa Bork, For Better, for Murder
- Meredith Cole, Posed for Murder
- Elizabeth J. Duncan, The Cold Light of Mourning
- Stefanie Pintoff, In the Shadow of Gotham
- Sarah Atwell, Through a Glass, Deadly
- Krista Davis, The Diva Runs Out of Thyme
- Rosemary Harris, Pushing Up Daisies
- Joanna Campbell Slan, Paper, Scissors, Death
- Charles Finch, A Beautiful Blue Death
- Beth Groundwater, A Real Basket Case
- Deanna Raybourn, Silent in the Grave
- Sarah Masters Buckey "The light in the cellar"
- Jane Cleland, Consigned to Death
- Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily, The Chef Who Died Sauteing
- Hailey Lind, Feint of Art
- Karen MacInerney, Murder on the Rocks
- Laura Bradford, Jury of One
- Shirley Damsgaard, Witch Way to Murder
- Maggie Sefton, Knit One, Kill Two
- Lisa Tillman, Blood Relations
- Judy Clemens, Till the Cows Come Home
- Patricia Harwin, Arson and Old Lace
- Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross, God Speed the Night
- Susan Kandel, I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason
- Pari Noskin Taichert, The Clovis Incident: A Mystery
- Elaine Flinn, Dealing in Murder
- Erin Hart, Haunted Ground
- S.W. Hubbard, Take the Bait
- Maddy Hunter, Alpine for You
- Joyce Kreig, Murder off Mike
- Sarah Stewart Taylor, O’ Artful Death
- Pip Granger, Not All Tarts Are Apple
- Roberta Isleib, Six Strokes Under
- Claire M. Johnson, Beat Until Stiff
- Nancy Martin, How to Murder a Millionaire
- Lea Wait, Shadows at the Fair
- Tim Myer, Innkeeping with Murder
- Charlie O'Brien, Mute Witness
- Andy Straka, A Witness Above
- Julie W. Herman, Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death
- Irene Marcuse, Death of an Amiable Child
- Denise Swanson, Murder of a Small Town Honey
- April Henry, Circles of Confusion
- Kris Neri, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen
- Elena Santangelo, By Blood Possessed
- Marcia Talley, Sing It to Her Bones
- Jerrilyn Farmer, Sympathy for the Devil
- Jacqueline Fiedler, Tiger's Palette
- Judy Fitzwater, Dying to Get Published
- Sharon Kahn, Fax Me a Bagel
- Joanne Dobson, Quieter Than Sleep
- Phyllis Richman, The Butter Did It
- Penny Warner, Dead Body Language
- Barbara Jaye Wilson, Death Brims Over
- Dale Furutani, Death in Little Tokyo : A Ken Tanaka Mystery
- Terris Grimes, Somebody Else's Child
- Teri Holbrook, The Grass Widow
- Margaret K. Lawrence, Hearts and Bone: A Novel of Historical Suspense
- Lillian M. Roberts, Riding for a Fall
- Teri Holbrook, A Far and Deadly Cry
- Jody Jaffe, Horse of a Different Killer
- Virginia Lanier, Death in Bloodhound Red
- Martha C. Lawrence, Murder in Scorpio
- Janet Evanovich, One for the Money
- Earlene Fowler, Fool's Puzzle
- Barbara Burnett Smith, Writers of the Purple Sage
- Polly Whitney, Until Death
- Jan Burke, Goodnight, Irene
- Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death
- Sharan Newman, Death Comes as Ephiphany
- Abigail Padgett, Child of Silence
- Deborah Adams, All the Great Pretenders
- Susan Wittig Albert, Thyme of Death
- Carol Higgins Clark, Decked
- Miriam Grace Monfredo, Seneca Falls Inheritance
- Mary Cahill, Carpool
- Mary Daheim, Just Desserts
- Rebecca Rothenberg, The Bulrush Murders
- Ann Williams, Flowers for the Dead
- Pat Burden, Screaming Bones
- Diane Mott Davidson, Catering to Nobody
- William F. Love, The Chartreuse Clue
- Janet L. Smith, Sea of Troubles
- Eleanor Boylan, Working Murder
- Frances Fyfield, A Question of Guilt
- Melanie Johnson Howe, The Mother Shadow
- Edith Skom, The Mark Twain Murders
- Caroline Graham, The Killings at Badger's Drift
- Corinne Sawyer, The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders
- Susannah Stacey, Goodbye Nanny Grey
- Dorothy Sucher, Dead Men Don't Give Seminars
Best Contemporary Novel
- Bruce Robert Coffin, Beyond the Truth
- Annette Dashofy, Cry Wolf
- Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind
- Hank Phillippi Ryan, Trust Me
- Allison Brook, Death Overdue
- Ellen Byron, A Cajun Christmas Killing
- Annette Dashofy, No Way Home
- Margaret Maron, Take Out
- Ellen Byron, Body on the Bayou
- Catriona McPherson, Quiet Neighbors
- Barbara Ross, Fogged Inn
- Hank Phillippi Ryan, Say No More
- Annette Dashofy, Bridges Burned
- Catriona McPherson, The Child Garden
- Louise Penny, Nature of the Beast
- Hank Phillippi Ryan, What You See
- Donna Andrews, The Good, the Bad and the Emus
- G. M. Malliet, A Demon Summer
- Margaret Maron, Designated Daughters
- Louise Penny, The Long Way Home
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, Through the Evil Days
- G. M. Malliet, Pagan Spring
- Louise Penny, How the Light Gets In
- Barbara Ross, Clammed Up
Best Novel
- Krista Davis, The Diva Digs Up the Dirt
- G. M. Malliet, A Fatal Winter
- Margaret Maron, The Buzzard Table
- Hank Phillippi Ryan, The Other Woman
- Donna Andrews, The Real Macaw
- Krista Davis, The Diva Haunts the House
- G. M. Malliet, Wicked Autumn
- Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light
- Donna Andrews, Stork Raving Mad
- Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightning
- Hank Phillippi Ryan, Drive Time
- Heather Webber, Truly, Madly
- Donna Andrews, Swan for the Money
- Lorna Barrett, Bookplate Special
- Rhys Bowen, Royal Flush
- Hank Phillippi Ryan, Air Time
- Donna Andrews, Six Geese A-Slaying
- Rhys Bowen, A Royal Pain
- Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want
- Donna Andrews, The Penguin Who Knew Too Much
- Rhys Bowen, Her Royal Spyness
- Margaret Maron, Hard Row
- Elaine Viets, Murder with Reservations
- Earlene Fowler, The Saddlemaker's Wife
- L. C. Hayden, Why Casey Had to Die
- Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains
- Julia Spencer-Fleming, All Mortal Flesh
- Jacqueline Winspear, Messenger of Truth
- Donna Andrews, Owls Well That Ends Well
- Margaret Maron, Rituals of the Season
- Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch
- Heather Webber, Trouble in Spades
- Jacqueline Winspear, Pardonable Lies
- Donna Andrews, We'll Always Have Parrots
- Laura Lippman, By a Spider's Thread
- Margaret Maron, High Country Fall
- Sujata Massey, The Pearl Diver
- Donna Andrews, Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon
- Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo
- Rochelle Majer Krich, Dream House
- Margaret Maron, Last Lessons of Summer
- Elaine Viets, Shop till You Drop
- Rhys Bowen, Death of Riley
- Rochelle Majer Krich, Blues in the Night
- Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Bonfire
- Elizabeth Peters, The Golden One
- Earlene Fowler, Arkansas Traveler
- Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark
- Rochelle Majer Krich, Shadows of Sin
- Sujata Massey, The Bride's Kimono ;
- Taffy Cannon, Guns and Roses
- Jerrilyn Farmer, Killer Wedding
- Sujata Massey, The Floating Girl
- Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky
- Jerrilyn Farmer, Immaculate Reception
- Carolyn Hart, Death on the River Walk
- Laura LippmanIn Big Trouble
- Sujata Massey The Flower Master
- Jan Burke, Liar
- Earlene Fowler, Dove in the Window
- Virginia Lanier, Blind Bloodhound Justice
- Margaret Maron, Home Fires
- Elizabeth Peters, The Ape Who Guards the Balance
- Jan Burke, Hocus
- Deborah Crombie, Dreaming of the Bones
- Earlene Fowler, Goose in a Pond
- Elizabeth Peters, Seeing a Large Cat
- Earlene Fowler, Kansas Troubles
- Sharan Newman, Strong as Death
- Joan Hess, Miracles in Maggody
- Sharan Newman, The Wandering Arm
- Nancy Pickard, Twilight
- Walter Satterthwait, Escapade
- Carolyn G. Hart, Scandal in Fair Haven
- Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
- Rochelle Majer Krich, Angel of Death
- Elizabeth Peters, Night Train to Memphis
- Aaron Elkins, Old Scores
- Joan Hess, O Little Town of Maggody
- Rochelle Majer Krich, Fair Game
- Margaret Maron, Southern Discomfort
- Kathy Hogan Trocheck, To Live and Die in Dixie
- Carolyn G. Hart, Southern Ghost
- Sharyn McCrumb, The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
- Anne Perry, Defend and Betray
- Elizabeth Peters, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
- Aaron Elkins, Make No Bones
- Carolyn G. Hart, The Christie Caper
- Charlotte MacLeod, An Owl Too Many
- Elizabeth Peters, The Last Camel Died at Noon
- Charlaine Harris, Real Murders
- Carolyn G. Hart, Deadly Valentine
- Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger
- Ellis Peters, The Potter's Field
- Sarah Caudwell, The Siren Sang of Murder
- Carolyn G. Hart, A Little Class on Murder
- Margaret Maron, Corpus Christmas
- Gillian Roberts, Philly Stakes
- Dorothy Cannell, The Widow's Club
- Joan Hess, Mischief in Maggody
- Sharyn McCrumb, Paying the Piper
- Nancy Pickard, Dead Crazy
Best Historical Novel
- Rhys Bowen, Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding,
- LA Chandlar, The Gold Pawn
- Edith Maxwell, Turning the Tide
- Victoria Thompson, Murder on Union Square
- Jessica Ellicott, Murder in an English Village
- Edith Maxwell, Called to Justice
- Susan Elia MacNeal, The Paris Spy
- Renee Patrick, Dangerous to Know
- Jessica Estevao, Whispers Beyond the Veil
- D.E. Ireland, Get Me to the Grave on Time
- Edith Maxwell, Delivering the Truth
- Victoria Thompson, Murder in Morningside Heights
- Rhys Bowen, Malice at the Palace
- Susanna Calkins, The Masque of a Murderer
- Susan Elia MacNeal, Mrs. Roosevelt’s Confidante
- Victoria Thompson, Murder on Amsterdam Avenue
- DE Ireland, Wouldn't It Be Deadly
- Victoria Thompson, Murder in Murray Hill
- Charles Todd, Hunting Shadows
- Charles Todd, An Unwilling Accomplice
- Rhys Bowen, Heirs and Graces
- Kaye George, Death in the Time of Ice
- J. J. Murphy, A Friendly Game of Murder
- Victoria Thompson, Murder in Chelsea
- Rhys Bowen, The Twelve Clues of Christmas
- Victoria Thompson, Murder on Fifth Avenue
- Charles Todd, An Unmarked Grave
- Jacqueline Winspear, Elegy for Eddie
- J. J. Murphy, Murder Your Darlings
- Ann Parker, Mercury's Rise
- Jeri Westerson, Troubled Bones
- Jacqueline Winspear, A Lesson in Secrets
Best Non-Fiction
- Nancy J. Cohen, Writing the Cozy Mystery
- Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense
- Laura Thompson, Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
- Jane Ann Turzillo, Wicked Women of Ohio
- Martin Edwards, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
- Monica Hesse, American Fire: Love, Arson and Life in a Vanishing Land
- Jess Lourey, Through the Healing Power of Fiction
- Tatiana de Rosnay, Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier
- Roger Guay with Kate Clark Flora, A Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden's 25 Years in the Maine Woods
- Margaret Kinsman, Sara Paretsky: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
- Zack Dundas, The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
- Kathryn Harkup, A is for Arsenic: The Poisons of Agatha Christie
- Jane Ann Turzillo, Unsolved Murders and Disappearances in Northeast Ohio
- Kate White, Mystery Writers of America, The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For
- Stephen Bates, The Poisoner: The Life and Crimes of Victorian England's Most Notorious Doctor
- Kate Flora, Death Dealer: How Cops and Cadaver Dogs Brought a Killer to Justice
- Adam Plantinga, 400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman
- Lucy Worsley, The Art of the English Murder
- Jennifer Kloester, Georgette Heyer
- Maria Konnikova, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
- Verena Rose and Rita Owen, Editors, Not Everyone's Cup of Tea: An Interesting & Entertaining History of Malice Domestic's First 25 Years
- Joseph Goodrich, Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947–1950
- D. P. Lyle More Forensics and Fiction: Crime Writers Morbidly Curious Questions Expertly Answered
- Ben Macintyre, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies
- Mathew Prichard, The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie
- John Curran, Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks
- Michael Dirda On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
- A. B. Emrys, Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel
- Charlaine Harris, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
- Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
- Stephen Doyle & David A. Crowder Sherlock Holmes for Dummies
- Katherine Hall Page, Have Faith in Your Kitchen
- Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History
- Richard Hack, Duchess of Death
- P. D. James, Talking About Detective Fiction
- Amnon Kabatchnik, Blood on the Stage 1925–1950
- Joan Schenkar, The Talented Miss Highsmith
- Frankie Y. Bailey, African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study
- Jeffrey Marks, Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography
- Dr. Harry Lee Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories
- Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whitcher, or The Murder at Road Hill House
- Penny Warner, The Official Nancy Drew Handbook
- Jim Huang and Austin Lugar, Mystery Muses
- Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl
- Stuart Kaminsky, Behind the Mystery—Top Mystery Writers
- Marvin Lachman, The Heirs of Anthony Boucher
- Leslie S. Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes
- Leslie Klinger, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
- Colleen A. Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction, Volume 3
- Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl, A Second Helping of Murder: More Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers
- Jeffrey Marks, Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s
- Mike Ashley, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction
- Colleen Barnett, Mystery Women: An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction
- Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir
- Sue Grafton with Jan Burke and Barry Zeman, Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America
- Max Allan Collins, The History of the Mystery
- G. Miki Hayden, Writing the Mystery: A Start-To-Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional
- Jeffrey Marks, Who Was That Lady?
- The Sisters Wells, Food, Drink, and the Female Sleuth
- Marvin Lachman, The American Regional Mystery
- Matthew Bunson, The Complete Christie
- Helen Windrath, They Wrote the Book
- Martha Dubose, Women of Mystery
- Kate Derie, The Deadly Directory
- Jo Grossman and Robert Weibezahl, A Taste of Murder: Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Mystery Writers
- Willetta L. Heising, Detecting Women III
- Rosemary Herbert, The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing
- Edward Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, Speaking of Murder
- Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr, Deadly Women
- Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson, Silk Stalkings II
- Jean Swanson and Dean James, Killer Books
- Nina King and Robin Winks, Crimes of the Scene
- Ian Ousby, Guilty Parties
- Elaine Raco Chase and Anne Wingate, Amateur Detectives: A Writer's Guide to How Private Citizens Solve Criminal Cases
- Ron Miller, Mystery: A Celebration
- Barbara Reynolds, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Making of a Detective Novelist
- Jean Swanson and Dean James, By a Woman's Hand, Second Edition
- Douglas G. Greene, John Dickson Carr: the Man Who Explained Miracles
- B.J. Rahn, Ngaio Marsh: the Woman and Her Work
- Kate Stine, The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd edition
- Robin Whiteman, The Cadfael Companion, 2nd edition
- William L. DeAndrea, Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
- Allen J. Hubin, Crime Fiction II
- Kathleen Gregory Klein, Great Women Mystery Writers
- Charlotte MacLeod, Had She But Known: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Alzina Stone Dale, Dorothy L. Sayers
- Michael C. Gerald, The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
- Edward Gorman, The Fine Art of Murder
- Marvin Lachman, A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection
- Ellen A. Nehr, The Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928–91''
Best Short Story
- 2018 – "All God's Sparrows" by Leslie Budewitz, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2018, and "The Case of the Vanishing Professor" by Tara Laskowski, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2018
- * "A Postcard for the Dead" by Susanna Calkins, Florida Happens
- * "Bug Appétit" by Barb Goffman, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November/December 2018
- * "English 398: Fiction Workshop" by Art Taylor, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2018Queen's Mystery Magazine, July/August 2018
- 2017 – "The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn" by Gigi Pandian
- * "Double Deck the Halls" by Gretchen Archer
- * "Whose Wine Is It Anyway?" by Barb Goffman, 50 Shades of Cabernet
- * "The Night They Burned Miss Dixie's Place" by Debra H. Goldstein, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, May/June 2017
- * "A Necessary Ingredient" by Art Taylor, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea
- 2016 – "Parallel Play" by Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning
- * "Double Jinx: A Bellissimo Casino Crime Caper Short Story" by Gretchen Archer
- * "The Best-Laid Plans" by Barb Goffman, Malice Domestic 11: Murder Most Conventional
- * "The Mayor and the Midwife" by Edith Maxwell, Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016
- * "The Last Blue Glass" by B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, April 2016
- 2015 – "A Year Without Santa Claus?" by Barb Goffman, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2015
- * “A Questionable Death” by Edith Maxwell, History & Mystery, Oh My
- * "A Killing at the Beausoleil" by Terrie Farley Moran, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2015
- * "Suffer the Poor" by Harriette Sackler, History & Mystery, Oh My
- * "A Joy Forever" by B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2015
- 2014 – "The Odds Are Against Us" by Art Taylor, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014
- * "The Blessing Witch" by Kathy Lynn Emerson, Best New England Crime Stories 2015: Rogue Wave
- * "The Shadow Knows" by Barb Goffman, Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays
- * "Just Desserts for Johnny" by Edith Maxwell, Kings River Life Magazine
- * "Premonition" by Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays
- 2013 – "The Care and Feeding of House Plants" by Art Taylor, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013
- * "Evil Little Girl" by Barb Goffman, Don't Get Mad, Get Even
- * "Nightmare" by Barb Goffman, Don't Get Mad, Get Even
- * "The Hindi Houdini" by Gigi Pandian, Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology
- * "Bread Baby" by Barbara Ross, Best New England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold
- 2012 – "Mischief in Mesopotamia" by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2012
- * "Kept in the Dark" by Sheila Connolly, Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon
- * "The Lord is My Shamus" by Barb Goffman, Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder
- * "Thea's First Husband" by B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2012
- * "When Duty Calls" by Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder
- 2011 – "Disarming" by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011
- * "Dead Eye Gravy" by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
- * "Palace by the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
- * "Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten
- * "The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, Mystery Writers of America Presents the Rich and the Dead
- 2010 – "So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2010
- * "Swing Shift" by Dana Cameron, Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side
- * "Size Matters" by Sheila Connolly, Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers
- * "Volunteer of the Year" by Barb Goffman, Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin'
- * "The Green Cross" by Elizabeth Zelvin, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Aug. 2010
- 2009 – "On the House" by Hank Phillippi Ryan
- 2008 – "The Night Things Changed" by Dana Cameron Wolfsbane & Mistletoe
- 2007 – "A Rat's Tale" by Donna Andrews Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- 2006 – "Sleeping with the Plush" by Toni Kelner Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- 2005 – "Driven to Distraction" by Marcia Talley-Chesapeake Crimes II, Quiet Storm Publishing
- 2004 – "Wedding Knife" by Elaine Viets
- 2003 – "No Man’s Land" by Elizabeth Foxwell in Blood On Their Hands
- 2002 – "The Dog That Didn't Bark" by Margaret Maron, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 2002 and "Too Many Cooks" by Marcia Talley, Much Ado About Murder, edited by Anne Perry
- 2001 – "The Would-Be-Widower" by Katherine Hall Page, Malice Domestic X
- 2000 – "The Man in the Civil Suit" by Jan Burke, Malice Domestic 9
- 1999 – "Out of Africa" by Nancy Pickard, Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder
- 1998 – "Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is A Vegetable" by Barbara D'Amato, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1998
- 1997 – "Tea for Two" by M.D. Lake, Funnybones
- 1996 – "Accidents Will Happen" by Carolyn Wheat, Malice Domestic 5
- 1995 – "The Dog Who Remembered Too Much" by Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Malice Domestic 4
- 1994 – "The Family Jewels" by Dorothy Cannell, Malice Domestic 3
- 1993 – "Kim's Game" by M.D. Lake, Malice Domestic 2
- 1992 – "Nice Gorilla" by Aaron and Charlotte Elkins, Malice Domestic 1
- 1991 – "Deborah's Judgment" by Margaret Maron, A Woman's Eye
- 1990 – "Too Much To Bare" by Joan Hess, Sisters in Crime 2
- 1989 – "A Wee Doch And Doris" by Sharyn McCrumb, Mistletoe Mysteries
- 1988 – "More Final Than Divorce" by Robert Barnard, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Best Young Adult Mystery
- '2018 - Potion Problems by Cindy Callaghan
- * Winterhouse by Ben Guterson
- * A Side of Sabotage'' by C.M. Surrisi
Best Children/Young Adult Fiction
- 2017 – Sydney Mackenzie Knocks 'Em Dead by Cindy Callaghan
- * City of Angels by Kristi Belcamino
- * The World's Greatest Detective by Caroline Carlson
- * Audacity Jones Steals the Show by Kirby Larson
- * The Harlem Charade by Natasha Tarpley
- 2016 – The Secret of the Puzzle Box: The Code Busters Club by Penny Warner
- * Trapped: A Mei-hua Adventure by P.A. DeVoe
- * Spy Ski School by Stuart Gibbs
- * Tag, You're Dead by J C Lane
- * The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos
- 2015 – Andi Unstoppable by Amanda Flower
- * Pieces and Players, Blue Balliett
- * Need, Joelle Charbonneau
- * Woof, Spencer Quinn
- * Fighting Chance, B.K. Stevens
- 2014 – The Code Buster's Club, Case #4: The Mummy's Curse by Penny Warner
- * Andi Under Pressure by Amanda Flower
- * Greenglass House by Kate Milford
- * Uncertain Glory by Lea Wait
- * Found by Harlan Coben
- 2013 – Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein
- * The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
- * Traitor in the Shipyard: A Caroline Mystery by Kathleen Ernst
- * Andi Unexpected by Amanda Flower
- * Code Busters Club: Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure by Penny Warner
- 2012 – The Code Busters Club, Case #2: The Haunted Lighthouse by Penny Warner
- * Seconds Away by Harlan Coben
- * The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George
- * Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead
- * Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- 2011 – The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein
- * Shelter by Harlan Coben
- * Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
- * The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey
- * The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key by Penny Warner
- 2010 – The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith
- * Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
- * Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus by R. L. LaFevers
- * The Agency: A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee
- * Virals by Kathy Reichs
- 2009 – The Hanging Hill by Chris Grabenstein
- 2008 – The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
- 2006 – Pea Soup Poisonings by Nancy Means Wright
- 2005 – Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams, HarperCollins Publishers and Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- 2004 – Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
- 2003 – The 7th Knot by Kathleen Karr
- 2002 – Red Card: A Zeke Armstrong Mystery by Daniel J. Hale & Matthew LaBrot
- 2001 – Mystery Of The Haunted Caves: A Troop 13 Mystery by Penny Warner
Special Awards
Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement
- 2018 – Nancy Pickard
- 2017 – Charlaine Harris
- 2016 – Katherine Hall Page
- 2015 – Sara Paretsky
- 2014 – Dorothy Cannell, Joan Hess & Margaret Maron
- 2013 – Aaron Elkins
- 2012 – Simon Brett
- 2011 – Sue Grafton
- 2010 – Mary Higgins Clark
- 2009 – Anne Perry
- 2008 – Peter Lovesey
- 2007 – Carolyn Hart
- 2006 – Robert Barnard
- 2005 – H.R.F. Keating
- 2004 – Marian Babson
- 2003 – Barbara Mertz, Elizabeth Peters, and Barbara Michaels
- 2002 – Tony Hillerman
- 2001 – Mildred Wirt Benson
- 2000 – Dick Francis
- 1999 – Patricia Moyes
- 1998 – Charlotte MacLeod
- 1997 – Emma Lathen
- 1996 – Mary Stewart
- 1994 – Mignon G. Eberhart
- 1990 – Phyllis A. Whitney
Malice Domestic Poirot Award
- 2018 – Brenda Blethyn
- 2017 – Martin Edwards
- 2016 – Barbara Peters, editor-in-chief of Poisoned Pen Press, and Robert Rosenwald, president and founder of Poisoned Pen Press
- 2015 – None
- 2014 – Tom Schantz
- 2013 – None
- 2012 – Lee Goldberg
- 2011 – Janet Rudolph
- 2010 – William Link
- 2009 – Kate Stine and Brian Skupin, publishers of Mystery Scene Magazine
- 2008 – Janet Hutchings, editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and Linda Landrigan, editor of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- 2007 – None
- 2006 – Douglas G. Greene, publisher of Crippen & Landru Press
- 2005 – Angela Lansbury
- 2004 – Ruth Cavin, editor of Thomas Dunne Books
- 2003 – David Suchet