The Agatha Awards are given each year at the Malice Domestic conference for the best traditional or cozy mystery novels. This award is given for the best first mystery novel published by the author
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last updated September, 2026
Murder on a Girl's Night Out
Anne George
Zero at the Bone
Mary Willis Walker
Death on a Silver Tray (Beau Brummell, #1)
Rosemary Stevens
The Doctor Digs a Grave (Dr. Fenimore, #1)
Robin Hathaway
On the Road with Del and Louise: A Novel in Stories
Art Taylor
The Heat of the Moon (Rachel Goddard Mystery #1)
Sandra Parshall
Do Unto Others
Jeff Abbott
Prime Time (Charlotte McNally #1)
Hank Phillippi Ryan
Crime and Parchment (Rare Books Cozy Mystery #1)
Daphne Silver
The Body In The Transept (Dorothy Martin, #1)
Jeanne M. Dams
Dating Dead Men (Wollie Shelley Mystery #1)
Harley Jane Kozak
Death of a Cozy Writer (St. Just Mystery #1)
G.M. Malliet
Whiskey Business: A Mixology Lounge Mystery
Adrian Andover
Murder at the Mena House (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #1)
Erica Ruth Neubauer
Bubbles Unbound (Bubbles Yablonsky, #1)
Sarah Strohmeyer
Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1)
Barbara Neely
Learning to Swim (Troy Chance, #1)
Sara J. Henry
Better Off Wed (Annabelle Archer, #1)
Laura Durham
Cheddar Off Dead (Cheese Shop Mystery, #1)
Korina Moss
The Salaryman's Wife (Rei Shimura #1)
Sujata Massey
The Body in the Belfry (Faith Fairchild, #1)
Katherine Hall Page
One Night Gone
Tara Laskowski
Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, #1)
Susan M. Boyer
The Long Quiche Goodbye (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #1)
Avery Aames
Well Read, Then Dead (A Read 'Em and Eat Mystery, #1)
Terrie Farley Moran
Grime and Punishment (Jane Jeffry, #1)
Jill Churchill
Curses, Boiled Again! (A Lobster Shack Mystery, #1)
Shari Randall
The Semester of Our Discontent (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #1)
Cynthia Kuhn
Hollywood Homicide (Detective by Day, #1)
Kellye Garrett
Death Al Dente (A Food Lovers' Village Mystery, #1)
Leslie Budewitz
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