2024 AGATHA AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED
（アガサ賞候補作発表）
Malice Domestic has announced the nominees for the 2024 Agatha Awards as follows:
Best Contemporary Mystery Novel: (5)
Wined and Died in New Orleans, by Ellen Byron (Berkley)
Helpless, by Annette Dashofy (Level Best)
The Weekend Retreat, by Tara Laskowski (Graydon House)
A Case of the Bleus, by Korina Moss (St. Martin’s)
The Raven Thief, by Gigi Pandian (Minotaur)
Best Historical Mystery Novel: (5)
Death Among the Ruins, by Susanna Calkins (Severn House)
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Lord, by Celeste Connally (Minotaur)
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, by Amanda Flower (Berkley)
Time’s Undoing, by Cheryl A. Head (Dutton)
The Mistress of Bhatia House, by Sujata Massey (Soho Crime)
Best First Mystery Novel: (5)
Glory Be, by Danielle Arceneaux (Pegasus)
The Hint of Light, by Kristin Kisska (Lake Union)
Dutch Treat, by Josh Pachter (Genius Book Publishing)
Crime and Parchment, by Daphne Silver (Level Best)
Mother-Daughter Murder Night, by Nina Simon (Morrow)
Best Children/Young Adult Mystey Novel: (5)
Myrtle, Means and Opportunity, by Elizabeth C. Bunce (Algonquin)
The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary, by K.B. Jackson (Reycraft Books)
Araña and Spiderman, by Alex Segura (Marvel Press)
The Mystery of the Radcliffe Riddle, by Taryn Sounders (Sourcebooks)
Enola Holmes and the Mark of the Mongoose, by Nancy Springer (Wednesday Books)
Best Mystery Short Story: (5)
“The Knife Sharpener,” by Shelley Costa (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July/August 2023)
“A Good Judge of Character,” by Tina deBellegarde (from Malice Domestic 17: Murder Most Traditional, edited by Verena Rose, Rita Owen, and Shawn Reilly Simmons; Wildside Press)
“Real Courage,” by Barb Goffman (Black Cat Mystery Magazine #14, October 2023)
“Ticket to Ride,” by Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski (from Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, edited by Josh Pachter; Down & Out Books)
“Shamu, World’s Greatest Detective,” by Richie Narvaez (from Killin’ Time in San Diego, edited by Holly West; Down & Out Books)
Best Mystery Nonfiction: (4)
Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, by Anjili Babbar (Syracuse University Press)
Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder, by David Bordwell (Columbia University Press)
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Mark Dawidziak (St. Martin’s)
Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe, by Robert Morgan (LSU Press)
The winners will be announced on Saturday, April 27 at the Malice Banquet held in Bethesda, Maryland.
（受賞作の発表は４月27日、メリーランド州ベセスダにて）