2019 Agatha Award Winners Announced
（アガサ賞受賞作発表）
Malice Domestic has announced the winners for the 2019 Agatha Awards as
follows:
Best Contemporary Novel: MARDI GRAS MURDER, by Ellen Byron (Crooked Lane Books)
Best Historical Novel: THE WIDOWS OF MALABAR HILL, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
Best First Novel (tie): A LADIES GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE AND MURDER, by Dianne Freeman (Kensington), and CURSES BOILED AGAIN, by Shari Randall (St. Martin’s)
Best Short Story (tie): “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)
Best Young Adult Mystery: POTION PROBLEMS (JUST ADD MAGIC),” by Cindy Callaghan (Aladdin)
Best Nonfiction: MASTERING PLOT TWISTS, by Jane Cleland (Writer’s Digest Books)
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Parnell Hall
The winners were announced on May 04 during Malice Domestic 31 held in
Bethesda, Maryland.