Agatha Award Winners

The Agatha Awards, named for Agatha Christie, are literary awards for mystery and crime writers who write in the traditional mystery subgenre. The Awa ...more

Winners

	The Sasquatch of Harriman Lake by K.B. Jackson (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings Agatha Award for Best Children's/YA Mystery (2025)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writing the Cozy Mystery: Authors' Perspectives on Their Craft by Phyllis M. Betz 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Agatha Award for Non-Fiction (2025)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy: Thirteen Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection by Gay Toltl Kinman (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Agatha Award for Best Short Story for "The Postman Always Flirts Twice" (2025)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen (Goodreads Author) 3.36 avg rating — 4,043 ratings Agatha Award for Best First Novel (2025)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1) by Amanda Flower (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 1,202 ratings Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (2025)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Midnight Puzzle (Secret Staircase Mystery, #3) by Gigi Pandian (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 1,087 ratings Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel (2025)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles by Josh Pachter (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings Agatha Award for Short Story for "Ticket to Ride" (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sasquatch of Hawthorne Elementary by K.B. Jackson (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings Agatha Award for Children/Young Adult (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings Agatha Award for Nonfiction (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime and Parchment (Rare Books Cozy Mystery #1) by Daphne Silver (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 322 ratings Agatha Award for Debut (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) by Sujata Massey (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 5,575 ratings Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Weekend Retreat by Tara Laskowski (Goodreads Author) 3.44 avg rating — 8,600 ratings Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Mystery Novel (2024)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade (Enola Holmes, #8) by Nancy Springer (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 4,908 ratings Agatha Award for Best Children's/YA Mystery (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction by Diane Vallere (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 32 ratings Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #29 by Barb Goffman 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings Agatha Award for Best Short Story for "Beauty and the Beyotch" (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheddar Off Dead (Cheese Shop Mystery, #1) by Korina Moss (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 2,081 ratings Agatha Award for Best First Novel (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Because I Could Not Stop for Death (An Emily Dickinson Mystery #1) by Amanda Flower (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 2,680 ratings Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18) by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 77,567 ratings Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel (2023)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Play One On TV by Alan Orloff (Goodreads Author) 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings Agatha Award for Best Children's/YA Mystery (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America by Lee Child (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 742 ratings Agatha Award for Non-Fiction (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1) by Mia P. Manansala (Goodreads Author) 3.54 avg rating — 76,242 ratings Agatha Award for Best First Novel (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder on the Beach: A Destination Murders Short Story Collection by Karen Cantwell (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 98 ratings Agatha Award for Best Short Story for "Bay of Reckoning" and Nominee for "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death at Greenway by Lori Rader-Day (Goodreads Author) 3.31 avg rating — 2,878 ratings Agatha Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cajun Kiss of Death (Cajun Country Mystery, #7) by Ellen Byron (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 1,018 ratings Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Mystery Novel (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco by Richie Narvaez (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 71 ratings Agatha Award for Children/Young Adult Mystery (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock by Christina Lane (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 157 ratings Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder at the Mena House (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #1) by Erica Ruth Neubauer (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 6,153 ratings Agatha Award for Best First Novel (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Mrs. Summers (Her Royal Spyness, #14) by Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 9,724 ratings Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 80,209 ratings Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parnell Hall Presents Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible by Parnell Hall (Goodreads Author) (Editor & Author) 3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings Agatha Award for Best Short Story for "The Last Word" by Shawn Reilly Simmons, Nominee for "The Blue Ribbon" by Cynthia Kuhn (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars