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Winners of the best novel category for the past ten years. For more information, including a more extensive list of past winners and nominees, see Malice Domestic Ltd.

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Agatha Awards
  Cover Art: The Beautiful Mystery 2012
Penny, Louise
The Beautiful Mystery
When a peaceful monastery in Que´bec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sa~urete du Que´bec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence.
2012
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Three-day Town 2011
Maron, Margaret
Three-day Town
While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing and the doorman has been murdered.
2011
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: Bury Your Dead 2010
Penny, Louise
Bury Your Dead
An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder.
2010
Adult Fiction Book
  Cover Art: The Brutal Telling 2009
Penny, Louise
The Brutal Telling
A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets long buried--but not forgotten.
2009
Adult Mystery Book PENNY
  Cover Art: A Fatal Grace 2008
Penny, Louise
A Fatal Grace
Sent to a village south of Montreal to investigate the death of CC de Poitiers, an extremely unpopular woman apparently killed in an electrical accident, Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec finds that nearly everyone in town had a motive to kill her.
2007
Adult Mystery Book PENNY
  Cover Art: The Virgin of Small Plains 2007
Pickard, Nancy
The Virgin of Small Plains
Seventeen years after the discovery of a female murder victim near Small Plains, Kansas, the girl's grave has become the source of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist threatens to bring old secrets to light.
2006
Adult Fiction Book PICKARD
  Cover Art: Owls Well That Ends Well 2006
Andrews, Donna
Owls Well That Ends Well
Hoping to clear out years of junk that has accumulated in a recently purchased, dilapidated mansion, Meg and Michael host a big lawn sale that becomes the scene of a murder when a body is discovered in the barn.
2005
Adult Mystery Book ANDREWS
  Cover Art: Birds of a Feather 2005
Winspear, Jacqueline
Birds of a Feather
When Maisie Dobbs is hired to find the missing daughter of a wealthy grocery magnate, she discovers that three of the heiress's friends have died violently, leading her to investigate the connection between the disappearance and the murders.
2004
Adult Mystery
  Cover Art: Letter from Home 2004
Hart, Carolyn G.
Letter from Home
Working at the local newspaper during the summer of 1944, Gretchen Gilman investigates the mysterious death of Faye Tatum, found dead in her own living room, supposedly murdered by her husband, a World War II veteran.
2003
Adult Mystery
  Cover Art: You've Got Murder 2003
Andrews, Donna
You've Got Murder
When Zack, a workaholic computer expert, suddenly disappears, his friend, Turing, a sentient artificial intelligence personality created by Zack, begins to suspect foul play and turns sleuth to find out what happened to her creator.
2002
Adult Mystery
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