This page lists the most current award lists for major mystery awards. Links have been added to help MAF followers get to the Lisle Library copies/ILLs, and links to go to the author’s site or blog when available. These lists can be a great way to brainstorm selections for the group to discuss — or to help topple your To Be Read (TBR) piles!
Click on the book cover to go to the book in Lisle Library’s catalog and request it. If the library does not own the book the link will bring up email to request an InterLibrary Loan (ILL). These have our Murder Among Friends envelope
link to email a request for an ILL on them.
Click on the author name to go to the author’s web site, blog, etc. If there is no known author site, there will be no link.
The Agatha Awards are presented at the Malice Domestic convention by the fans, authors, editors, publishers and others who attend.
Click on the Book Covers for the 2013 Nominees to go to the Lisle Library catalog and request a hold on a title. (If we do not own a title, the link will take you to email to request an InterLibrary Loan for it.) Click on the Author’s Name, to go to their website (or site that features them, if available).
Best Novel
 Louise Penny Winner! |
Best First Novel
 Susan Boyer Winner! |
Best Historical Novel
 Catriona McPherson Winner! |
Best Short Story
This year all the stories have links to the actual stories, instead of the magazine or anthology they were published in originally. So do take advantage of this chance to easily access and read all the stories before voting!
| “Mischief in Mesopotamia” (PDF) by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2012) Winner! |
| “Kept in the Dark” by Sheila Connolly (Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon Anthology) |
| “The Lord is My Shamus” by Barb Goffman (Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder) |
| “Thea’s First Husband” by B.K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012) |
| “When Duty Calls” by Art Taylor (Chesapeake Crimes: This Job is Murder) |
For the Best Non-Fiction, & Best Child’s/Young Adult Novel Nominees, click on the Malice Teacup logo below.
Presented by the author members of Mystery Writers of America
Click on the Book Covers for the 2013 Nominees to go to the Lisle Library catalog and request a hold on a title. (If we do not own a title, the link will take you to email to request an InterLibrary Loan for it.) Click on the Author’s Name, to go to their website (or site that features them, if available).
Best Novel
 Dennis Lehane Winner! |
Best First Novel
 Chris Pavone Winner! |
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Best Paperback Original
 Ben H. Winters Winner! |
Mary Higgins Clark Award
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Winner! |
Click here to see the nominees in the other Edgar Award categories
Murder Among Friends has been honoring mysteries featuring female P.I.s as a pseudo-Mother's Day tribute each May. This year's May title is a twist on that idea: a group of female detectives who are members of author James Patterson's Women's Murder Club. The group is reading & discussing 1st to Die the first in the series, on 5/16/13 at 7:00 p.m.). 
