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Best Novel

2017 Agatha Award Winners

By Crime HQ

May 1, 2017

Saturday night, Malice Domestic presented the 29th annual Agatha Awards at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. The Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery, a genre loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex or excessive gore/gratuitous violence. Newcomers and veterans in the genre gathered to celebrate the best of the best of…

2017 Edgar Award Winners

By Crime HQ

April 28, 2017

Last night, the Mystery Writers of America presented the 71st annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. Celebrating the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television published or produced in 2016, the yearly event gathers a veritable who's who in the genre. Below is a list of all…

Vote for the Edgar Award for Best Novel!

By Crime HQ

April 25, 2017

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Cooking the Books: Fogged Inn by Barbara Ross

By Doreen Sheridan

April 21, 2017

Fogged Inn by Barbara Ross is the 4th book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Novel. This 4th installment of the Maine Clambake Mystery series has been nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Novel, and deservedly so! Julia Snowden has decided to give up her career and…

Review: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

By Deborah Lacy

April 21, 2017

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley is a heart-pounding thriller that raises questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together. It is nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. Everyone has their path. The choices they’ve made. How any two people end up in the same place at the same…

Review: Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan

By John Valeri

April 20, 2017

Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan is the 5th book in the Jane Ryland series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Novel. The dynamic Hank Phillippi Ryan is no stranger to accolades. Her crime novels have earned 5 Agatha Awards as well as the Anthony, Daphne du Maurier, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark…

Review: What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

By Juliet Fletcher

April 20, 2017

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin is a spellbinding novel of psychological suspense, set in the glamorous, wealthy world of Hollywood. It is nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. “It’s like the worst of both worlds.”  That’s how Kelly Lund sees her home life, and in Alison Gaylin’s hands, this moment of…

Review: Body on the Bayou by Ellen Byron

By Dirk Robertson

April 19, 2017

Body on the Bayou by Ellen Byron is the 2nd book in the Cajun Country Mystery series, nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Novel. Ellen Byron takes us to Louisiana for this Cajun Country mystery. Maggie Crozat’s long and distant relatives used to own the Doucet Plantation. Now, it’s the Crozat Plantation Bed and…

Review: The Ex by Alafair Burke

By Jenny Maloney

April 19, 2017

The Ex by Alafair Burke follows a woman who agrees to help an old boyfriend who has been framed for murder—but she begins to suspect that she is the one being manipulated. It is nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. Olivia Randall, a top New York defense attorney, and Jack Harris, bestselling fiction…

Vote for the Agatha Award for Best Novel!

By Crime HQ

April 18, 2017

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