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Malice Domestic

Previous winners of the Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Best First Novel competition.

A Cozy Competition: Minotaur Books & Malice Domestic Best First Novel

By Crime HQ

October 21, 2016

Do you love cozy mysteries? Have you ever wanted to get your own cozy published? Well, now's your chance! Minotaur Books invites you to submit your cozy to the Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Best First competition. As long as you have never had a mystery published, you're free to enter. Past winners include Donna Andrews and…

Congratulating 2015’s Agatha Award Winners!

By Crime HQ

May 4, 2015

Over the weekend at Malice Domestic, the following nominated works (and their authors) won the Agatha Award teapots! BEST CONTEMPORARY NOVEL: Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL: Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen BEST FIRST NOVEL: Well Read, Then Dead by Terrie Farley Moran BEST NONFICTION: Writes of…

Announcing 2015’s Agatha Award Nominees

By Crime HQ

February 2, 2015

The groundhog and awards season are upon us! The Agatha Awards honor the “traditional mystery.” That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others, loosely defined as mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence. The 2014 Agatha Awards will be given for materials…

The Lowdown Calendar of 2015’s Biggest Mystery Conventions

By Deborah Lacy

January 19, 2015

Mystery conventions are a great way to find new mystery-loving friends and hear directly from your favorite authors – and maybe even meet some of them. All of these conventions feature keynote speeches or interviews from big name guests of honor as well as author, expert and fan panels talking about all sorts of subjects.…

Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of The Wrong Woman, with her Best Contemporary Novel Agatha Award

2014’s Agatha Award Winners Announced

By Clare Toohey

May 5, 2014

Ask the winning authors to make you some tea—they've got the gear! This weekend, during the Malice Domestic convention in Maryland, the winners of this year's Agatha Awards were announced. (Shhh- This pic of a beaming Hank Phillippi Ryan and her award comes via our flat-out theft from the Tweetstream of @JSpencerFleming, a sister nominee.)…

Fresh Meat: Doing It at the Dixie Dew by Ruth Moose

By Terrie Farley Moran

April 30, 2014

Doing It at the Dixie Dew by Ruth Moose is a cozy murder mystery that follows Beth, a woman whose new North Carolina bed-and-breakfast opens with a murder (available May 6, 2014). The humorous cozy mystery Doing It at the Dixie Dew written by Ruth Moose won the 2013 Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Competition for Best…

Fan Favorites: 2014’s Mystery Conventions

By Deborah Lacy

February 4, 2014

2014 promises to be chock full of wonderful mystery conventions and conferences ranging from Bouchercon— the world’s largest crime fiction convention—to more tightly-focused conferences like Malice Domestic, which specializes in traditional and cozy mysteries. Thrillerfest is, of course, primarily about thrillers, and Left Coast Crime is regional, but also offers the year's only humorous mystery…

Announcing the 2014 Agatha Award Nominees!

By Crime HQ

February 4, 2014

The Malice Domestic convention celebrating traditional mysteries will be held for the 26th year, from May 2nd through May 4th, 2014, in Bethesda, Maryland. And keeping to tradition, they'll also be honoring some of the fan favorite reads of the year, as voted upon by attendees. Without further ado, here's the shortlist of nominees for…

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