Nominees for the 2013 Agatha Awards Announced

The nominees for the 2013 Agatha Awards have been announced by the organizers of this year's Malice Domestic for books published during the 2013 calendar year.

The winners will be chosen by the attendees of Malice Domestic, which will be held from May 2nd through 4th, 2014 in Bethesday, MD.

The nominees are …

Best Contemporary Novel …
• Pagan Spring by G. M. Malliet (Minotaur Books)
• How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books)
• Clammed Up by Barbara Ross (Kensington)
• The Wrong Girl by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books)
• Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur Books)

Best First Novel …
• Death Al Dente by Leslie Budewitz (Berkley Prime Crime)
• You Cannoli Die Once by Shelley Costa (Pocket Books)
• Board Stiff by Kendel Lynn (Henery Press)
• Kneading to Die by Liz Mugavero (Kensington)
• Front Page Fatality by LynDee Walker (Henery Press)

Best Non-Fiction …
• Not Everyone's Cup of Tea: An Interesting & Entertaining History of Malice Domestic's First 25 Years by Verena Rose and Rita Owen, editors (Wildside Press)
• Georgette Heyer by Jennifer Kloester (Source Books)
• Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova (Viking)
• The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Minotaur Books)

Best Short Story …
• "Evil Little Girl" in Don't Get Mad, Get Even by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press)
• "Nightmare" in Don't Get Mad, Get Even by Barb Goffman (Wildside Press)
• "The Hindi Houdini" in Fish Nets by Gigi Pandian (Wildside Press)
• "Bread Baby" in Best new England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold by Barbara Ross (Level Best Books)
• "The Care and Feeding of House Plants" by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine)

Best Children's/Young Adult's Novel …
• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Traitor in the Shipyard: A Caroline Mystery by Kathleen Ernst (American Girl Mysteries)
• Andi Unexpected by Amanda Flower (Zonderkidz)
• Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
• Code Busters Club: Mystery of the Pirate's Treasure by Penny Warner (Edgmont)

Best Historical Novel …
• Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
• Death in the Time of Ice by Kaye George (Untreed Reads Publishing)
• A Friendly Game of Murder by J. J. Murphy (Signet)
• Murder in Chelsea by Victoria Thompson (Berkley Prime Crime)
• A Question of Honor by Charles Todd (William Morrow)

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare for alerting us to this news.)