Annal:2001 Agatha Award for Best Novel
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Results of the Agatha Award in the year 2001. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Murphy's Law: A Mitch Mitchell Mystery
- 2001 Agatha–Novel winner
- Score: 10.51
From the creator of the much-loved Constable Evan Evans mysteries comes a colorful new series set in turn-of-the-century New York City. When spirited redhead Molly Murphy was growing up a peasant on the coast of Ireland she always imagined there was something more in store for her. She couldn’t have known how right she was until the day she became a murderer, albeit in self-defense. Under drastic circumstances, Molly is forced to strike out into a new world. With the police right behind her, Molly’s only chance at escape is a false identity and a steamship that…
Arkansas Traveler: A Benni Harper Mystery
- 2001 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Earlene Fowler has earned unprecedented acclaim for her "compelling" (Booklist), "brilliantly crafted" (The Mystery Zone) mysteries featuring folk-art expert Benni Harper. In Arkansas Traveler, Benni returns to the small Arkansas town where she spent her childhood summers, hoping to reconnect with her friends and family. But Sugartree isn't the peaceful place she remembers. It's torn apart by racial tensions-and murder...
Dead Until Dark: A Southern Vampire Mystery
- 2002 Anthony-Paperback winner
- 2001 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 16.52
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out….
Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn’t such a bright idea.
Shadows of Sin: A Jessie Drake Mystery
- 2001 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
One of the “top ten women who write superior crime fiction” (Charles Champlin, mystery reviewer for the Los Angeles Times), Rochelle Krich propels her exceptional sleuth, LAPD homicide detective Jessie Drake, into a deadly maze of rage, revenge, and moral complexities in what is the award-winning author’s most gripping and provocative novel to date.
At first glance it appears to be a random multiple murder—a prominent plastic surgeon and his nurse and receptionist shot dead in their plush Century City office. But to Jessie Drake, the savage nature of…
- 2001 Agatha–Novel nominee
- Score: 6.51
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious freelance jobs of her career: transporting a packet of exquisitely embroidered nineteenth-century kimonos from Tokyo to Washington, D.C., for an exhibit, and to give a lecture on them.
It’s been years since Rei has set foot in the land of her birth, and in that time, she’s become estranged from it. On the other hand, she does not exactly fit in with the band of Japanese office ladies she’s accompanied, who have traveled to the United States for a week’s worth of shopping.…
