Agatha Award for Best Novel — Complete Winners List

38 years of winners · Malice Domestic Ltd. · Since 1989 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	A Midnight Puzzle	Gigi Pandian	Poisoned Pen Press
2024	A Midnight Puzzle	Gigi Pandian	Poisoned Pen Press
2023	The Weekend Retreat	Tara Laskowski	Poisoned Pen Press
2022	A World of Curiosities	Louise Penny	Minotaur Books
2021	Cajun Kiss of Death	Ellen Byron	Crooked Lane Books
2020	All the Devils Are Here	Louise Penny	Minotaur Books
2019	The Long Call	Ann Cleeves	Macmillan
2018	Mardi Gras Murder	Ellen Byron	Crooked Lane Books
2017	Glass Houses	Louise Penny	Minotaur Books
2016	A Great Reckoning	Louise Penny	Minotaur Books
2015	Long Upon the Land	Margaret Maron	Grand Central Publishing
2014	Truth Be Told	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Forge Books
2013	The Wrong Girl	Hank Phillippi Ryan	Forge Books
2012	The Beautiful Mystery	Louise Penny	Minotaur Books
2011	Three-Day Town	Margaret Maron	Grand Central Publishing
2010	Bury Your Dead	Louise Penny	Minotaur Books
2009	A Brutal Telling	Louise Penny	—
2008	The Cruelest Month	Louise Penny	—
2007	A Fatal Grace	Louise Penny	—
2006	The Virgin of Small Plains	Nancy Pickard	—
2005	The Body in the Snowdrift	Katherine Hall Page	—
2004	Birds of a Feather	Jacqueline Winspear	—
2003	Letter From Home	Carolyn Hart	—
2002	You've Got Murder	Donna Andrews	—
2001	Murphy's Law	Rhys Bowen	—
2000	Storm Track	Margaret Maron	—
1999	Mariner's Compass	Earlene Fowler	—
1998	Butchers Hill	Laura Lippman	—
1997	The Devil In Music	Kate Ross	—
1996	Up Jumps The Devil	Margaret Maron	—
1995	If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him	Sharyn McCrumb	—
1994	She Walks These Hills	Sharyn McCrumb	—
1993	Dead Man's Island	Carolyn Hart	—
1992	Bootlegger's Daughter	Margaret Maron	—
1991	I.O.U.	Nancy Pickard	—
1990	Bum Steer	Nancy Pickard	—
1989	Naked Once More	Elizabeth Peters	—
1988	Something Wicked	Carolyn G. Hart	—