Annal:1994 Agatha Award for Best Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Agatha Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1995 Anthony-Novel winner
- 1995 Macavity-Novel winner
- 1994 Agatha–Novel winner
- Score: 30.45
Historian Jeremy Cobb is backpacking on the Appalachian Trail, attempting to retrace the tragic journey of eighteen-year-old Katie Wyler, who was captured by the Shawnee after the massacre of her pioneer family in Mitchell County, North Carolina. In late summer, Katie escaped from a Shawnee village on the banks of the Ohio, and followed the rivers through the wilderness to find her way home—a brave journey that ended in sorrow. Jeremy, a city-bred graduate student with no trail experience, is determined to complete his scholarly quest, unaware that his journey…
- 1994 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.44
In her last tantalizing mystery, Dead Man’s Island, award-winning author Carolyn G. Hart gave us a colorful new heroine, seasoned ex-journalist turned sleuth Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins. Now Henrie O is back…this time investigating a brutal murder in a lovely southern town where wealth and privilege mask a hotbed of lies, sex, and deadly desperation….
The Beekeeper's Apprentice: A Novel of Suspense
- 1994 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.44
In 1915, long since retired from his observations of criminal humanity, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. Never did he think to meet an intellect to match his own–until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a very modern fifteen-year-old whose mental acuity is equaled only by her audacity, tenacity, and penchant for trousers and cloth caps.
Under Holmes’s tutelage, Russell hones her talent for deduction, disguises, and danger: in the chilling case of a landowner’s mysterious fever and in a kidnapping…
- 1994 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.44
Some things are uglier than homicide—and ultimately as dangerous. For Barry Lewis, a Los Angeles attorney famous for handling controversial cases, danger comes in the form of a note on his front door: “The Angel of Death spared your forefathers—will he spare you?” To LAPD detective Jessie Drake, the message is as ominous as the red paint smeared across Lewis’s doorposts and the Star of David scrawled across his door. Is this threat intended only for Lewis, or for the entire Jewish community?
Lewis, Jessie soon learns, is everyone’s enemy. Especially now that…
Night Train to Memphis: A Vicky Bliss Mystery
- 1994 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.44
Vicky Bliss, assistant curator of the National Museum in Munich, doesn’t know a thing about Egyptology. It’s her familiarity with larceny that brings an intelligence agency to her office with an offer she can’t refuse. They want her as an operative on a luxury Nile cruise because “certain information” has come to their attention—on a dead body—that a major heist of Egyptian antiquities is in the works. Will Vicky risk her life and all 5’11” of her shapely body in order to stop the thief? Vicky suspects that the man the authorities want is her occasional lover and…
