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AGATHA AWARDS
BEST FIRST NOVELS
I am listing the winner right after the category,
followed by the other nominations for that year.
2007
Best First Novel:
Prime Time by Hank Phillipi Ryan
A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
A Real Basket Case by Beth Groundwater
Silent In The Grave by Deanna Raybourn
2006
Best First Novel: The Heat of the Moon by Sandra Parshall
Consigned to Death by
Jane Cleland
The Chef Who Died Sautéing by Honora Finkelstein &
Susan Smily
Feint of Art by Hailey Lind
Murder on the Rocks by Karen MacInerney
2005
Best First Novel: Better Off Wed by
Laura Durham
Blood Relations by Lisa Tillman
Jury of One by Laura Bradford
Knit One, Kill Two by Maggie Sefton
Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard
2004
Best First Novel: Dating Dead Men by
Harley Jane Kozak
Till the Cows Come Home by Judy Clemens
Arson and Old Lace by Patricia Harwin
I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason by Susan Kandel
The Clovis Incident: A Mystery by Pari Noskin Taichert
2003
Best First Novel: Maisie Dobbs by
Jacqueline Winspear
Dealing in Murder by Elaine Flinn
Haunted Ground by Erin Hart
Take the Bait by S. W. Hubbard
Alpine for You by Maddy Hunter
Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg
O’ Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor
2002
Best First Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter by
Julia
Spencer-Fleming
Not All Tarts Are Apple by Pip Granger
Six Strokes Under by Roberta Isleib
Beat Until Stiff by Claire M. Johnson
How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin
Shadows at the Fair by Lea Wait
2001
Best First Novel:
Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
Innkeeping With Murder
by Tim Myers
Mute Witness by Charles O'Brien
A Witness Above by Andy Straka
An Affinity For Murder by Anne White
2000
Best First Novel: Death on a Silver Tray by
Rosemary Stevens
Death Dances to a
Reggae Beat by Kate Grilley
Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death by
Julie Wray Herman
Death of an Amiable Child by Irene Marcuse
Murder of a Small Town Honey by Denise Swanson
1999
Best First Novel: Murder with
Peacocks by Donna Andrews
Circles of Confusion by
April Henry
Revenge of the Gypsy Queen by Kris Neri
By Blood Possessed by Elena Santangelo
Sing It To Her Bones by Marcia Talley
1998
Best First Novel: The Doctor Digs A
Grave by Robin Hathaway
Sympathy for the Devil
by Jerrilyn Farmer
Tiger's Palette by Jacqueline Fiedler
Dying To Get Published by Judy Fitzwater
Fax Me A Bagel by Sharon Kahn
1997
Best First Novel: The Salaryman's
Wife by Sujata Massey
Quieter than Sleep by
Joanne Dobson
The Butter Did It by Phyllis Richman
Dead Body Language by Penny Warner
Death Brims Over by Barbara Jaye Wilson
1996
Best First Novel: Murder on a Girl's
Night Out by Anne George
Biggie and the Poisoned
Politician by Nancy Bell
Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani
Somebody Else's Child by Terris McMahan Grimes
Riding for a Fall by Lillian Roberts
1995
Best First Novel: The Body in the
Transept by Jeanne M. Dams
A Far and Deadly Cry by
Teri Holbrook
Horse of a Different Killer by Jody Jaffe
Death in Bloodhound Red by Virginia Lanier
Murder in Scorpio by Martha C. Lawrence
1994
Best First Novel: Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
One for The Money by
Janet Evanovich
Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler
Writers of the Purple Sage by Barbara Burnett Smith
Until Death by Polly Whitney
1993
Best First Novel: Track of the Cat by
Nevada Barr
Goodnight, Irene by
Jan
Burke
A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman
Child of Silence by Abigail Padgett
1992
Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam
by Barbara Neely
All the Great
Pretenders by Deborah Adams
Thyme of Death by Susan Wittig Albert
Decked by Carol Higgins Clark
The Seneca Falls Inheritance by Miriam Grace Monfredo
1991
Best First Novel: Zero at the Bone by
Mary Willis Walker
Carpool by Mary Cahill
Just Desserts by Mary Daheim
The Bulrush Murders by Rebecca Rothenberg
Flowers for the Dead by Ann Williams
1990
Best First Novel: The Body in the
Belfry by Katherine Hall Page
Screaming Bones by Pat
Burden
Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
The Chartreuse Clue by William F. Love
Sea Of Troubles by Janet L. Smith
1989
Best First Novel: Grime and
Punishment by Jill Churchill
Working Murder by
Eleanor Boylan
A Question of Guilt by Frances Fyfield
The Mother Shadow by Melanie Johnson Howe
The Mark Twain Murders by Edith Skom
1988
Best First Novel: A Great Deliverance
by Elizabeth George
The Killings at
Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders by Corinne Holt Sawyer
Goodbye, Nanny Grey by Susannah Stacey
Dead Men Don't Give Seminars by Dorothy Sucher | 
