2023 AGATHA AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
(アガサ賞候補作発表)

Malice Domestic has announced the nominees for the 2023 Agatha Awards as follows:

Best Contemporary Novel:
Bayou Book Thief, by Ellen Byron (Berkley Prime Crime)
Death by Bubble Tea, by Jennifer J. Chow (Berkley)
Fatal Reunion, by Annette Dashofy (Level Best)
Dead Man’s Leap, by Tina deBellegarde (Level Best)
A World of Curiosities, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best Historical Novel:
The Counterfeit Wife, by Mally Becker (Level Best)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Amanda Flower (Berkley)
The Lindbergh Nanny, by Mariah Fredericks (Minotaur)
In Place of Fear, by Catriona McPherson (Mobius)
Under a Veiled Moon, by Karen Odden (Crooked Lane)

Best First Novel:
Cheddar Off Dead, by Korina Moss (St. Martin’s Press)
Death in the Aegean, by M.A. Monnin (Level Best)
The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra (Constable)
Devil’s Chew Toy, by Rob Osler (Crooked Lane)
The Finalist, by Joan Long (Level Best)
The Gallery of Beauties, by Nina Wachsman (Level Best)

Best Nonfiction:
The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins)
The Handbook to Agatha Christie: The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie, by Mary Anna Evans and J.C. Bernthal (Bloomsbury Academic)
The Science of Murder: The Forensics of Agatha Christie, by Carla Valentine (Sourcebooks)
Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction, edited by Diane Vallere (Sisters in Crime)
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, by Lucy Worsley (Pegasus Crime)

Best Short Story:
“Beauty and the Beyotch,” by Barb Goffman (Sherlock Holmes Magazine, February 2022)
“There Comes a Time,” by Cynthia Kuhn (from Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical, edited by Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons; Wildside Press)
“Fly Me to the Morgue,” by Lisa Q Mathews (from Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical, edited by Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons; Wildside Press)
“The Minnesota Twins Meet Bigfoot,” by Richie Narvaez (from Land of 10,000 Thrills, Bouchercon Anthology 2022, edited by Greg Herren; Down & Out)
“The Invisible Band,” by Art Taylor (from Edgar & Shamus Go Golden, edited by Gay Toltl Kinman and Andrew McAleer; Down & Out)

Best Children/Young Adult:
Daybreak on Raven Island, by Fleur Bradley (Viking Books)
In Myrtle Peril, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin)
#shedeservedit, by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes)
Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer, by Frances Schoonmaker (Auctus)
Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday)

The winners will be announced on Saturday, April 29 at the Malice Banquet held in Bethesda, Maryland.
(受賞作の発表は4月29日、メリーランド州ベセスダにて)