Annal:2001 Agatha Award for Best First Novel
From AwardAnnals
Results of the Agatha Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 2001 Agatha–1st Novel winner
- 2002 Barry-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 16.51
Meet Bubbles, the irrepressible heroine of this irresistibly entertaining new mystery series-a tall, blond, and gorgeous, local bleach-blonde with a wacky family, a hot potential lover, and a bad case of murder.
Convinced there’s more to life than giving blue dye jobs at Sandy’s House of Beauty, Bubbles Yablonsky has done what few in Lehigh, PA, would dare: she’s gone back to school. And if her day gig, journalism classes, and on-the-job training at a local paper aren’t enough, there’s always her family to liven things up-from her bottom-feeding,…
Innkeeping With Murder: A Lighthouse Inn Mystery
- 2001 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse. Innkeeper Alex Winston watches over the cozy getaway, and guests count on him to take care of everything from basic repairs to breakfast. But he also has to take care of the occasional murder case, too.
When a visitor is found dead at the top of the lighthouse, Alex must solve the mystery and capture the culprit before the next guest checks out.
- 2001 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Picture the Scarlet Pimpernell as a woman—dealing with murder before the Terror made heads roll…
It’s the eve of the French Revolution. Fiscal crisis and social tensions brew. Anne Cartier, a headstrong young vaudeville actress at Sadler’s Wells company in London hears terrible news. Her stepfather, the actor Antoine Dubois has mysteriously died in Paris. The official verdict: he killed his mistress, then himself. Anne enlists the aid of Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin and his adjutant Georges Charpentier of the royal highway patrol. But, in her search for truth,…
A Witness Above: A Frank Pavlicek Mystery
- 2002 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2002 Shamus-1st Novel nominee
- 2001 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 18.52
Thirteen years ago, Frank Pavlicek left the NYPD under less than ideal circumstances. Now, the divorced father of a teenage daughter, he works as a private investigator in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he indulges his passion for falconry – and tries to live outside the shadow of his past.
Frank is hunting with his red-tailed hawk, Armistead, when he finds it. A teenage boy’s body – barely concealed behind a pile of brush in a part of the forest Frank recently visited with his daughter, Nicole. It’s a truly gruesome crime scene – one of the many things…
An Affinity for Murder: A Lake George Mystery
- 2001 Agatha–1st Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Two dead art experts and a secret cache of paintings which may have been the work of Lake George’s most famous summer resident, Georgia O’Keeffe, set writer Ellen Davies on a collision course with danger. Ellen thinks she’s stumbled on a multi-million dollar find which will send her career in journalism soaring. But, as with other recently discovered O’Keeffe paintings, nothing is one hundred percent certain and Ellen may not live long enough to uncover the truth.
