SMFS Members Nominated for the 2022 Agatha Award Nominees

 

Established in 1989, Malice Domestic™ is an annual fan convention in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area that celebrates the traditional mystery, best typified by the works of Agatha Christie, containing no explicit sex, excessive gore, or violence.

Malice Domestic #35 will take place April 28-30, 2023. Again this year, numerous SMFS list members are nominated in several categories. The full list of the 2022 Agatha Award nominees and more can be found here. The categories and nominated SMFS list members are:

 

Children's/ YA Mystery 

Fleur Bradley for Daybreak on Raven Island (Viking Books for Young People).

 

Best Contemporary Novel 

Annette Dashofy for Fatal Reunion: A Zoe Chambers Mystery (Level Best Books).

 

Best First Novel 

M. A. (Mary) Monnin for Death in the Aegean: An Intrepid Traveler Mystery (Level Best Books). 

Nina Wachsman for The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery (Level Best Books).

  

Best Short Story 

Barb Goffman for the short story, Beauty and the Beyotch, in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #29. 

Lisa Q. Mathews for the short story, Fly Me to the Morgue, in the anthology, Malice Domestic: Mystery Most Diabolical (Wildside Press). 

Richie Narvaez for the short story, The Minnesota Twins Meet Bigfoot, in the book, Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022 (Down & Out Books). Read for free at his website. 

Art Taylor for the short story, The Invisible Band, in the anthology, Edgar & Shamus Go Golden: Twelve Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection from the Golden Age of Mystery and Beyond (Down & Out Books). Read for free at his website. 

 

In addition, the recently published book, Promophobia: Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Crime Fiction, is nominated in the Best Non-Fiction category. Published by Sisters in Crime, it includes essays by numerous SMFS list members.