AGATHA NOMINEES FOR 2006
Winner to be announced May 2007 at th Malice Domesic Convention

BEST FIRST NOVEL
CONSIGNED TO DEATH by Jane Cleland
FEINT OF ART by Hailey Lind
MURDER ON THE ROCKS  by Karen MacInerney
CHEF WHO DIED SAUTEING by Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily
HEAT OF THE MOON by Sandra Parshall
BEST NOVEL
ALL MORTAL FLESH by Julia Spencer Fleming
MESSENGER OF TRUTH by Jacqueline Winspear
THESADDLEMAKER' WIFE by Earlene Fowler
THE VIRGIN OF THE SMALL PLAINS by Nancy Pickard
WHY CASEY HAD TO DIE by L. C. Hayden
BEST NON-FICTION
MYSTERY MUSES by Jim Huang and
DON'T MURDER YOUR MYSTERY by Chris Roerden
THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL by Dan Stashower
BEST SHORT STORY
 "Disturbance in the Field" by Roberta Isleib
"Provenence" by Robert Barnard
"Sleeping with the Plush" by Toni L. P. Kelner
"The Old Couple" by Barnard,Robert
 "Yankee Swap" by Maurissa Guibord
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: AN ECHO FALLS MYSTERY by Peter Abrahams
PEA SOUP POISONINGS by Nancy Means Wright
ROOM ONE A MYSTERY OR TWO by Andrew Clements
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS by Tracy Mack
 THE FALL OF THE AMAZING ZALINDAS by Michael Citrin