Agatha Awards
The Agatha Awards honor the "traditional mystery." That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others.
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Glass houses2017
Summary: "When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands... more »- place hold (0)
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In Farleigh Field2017
Summary: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and... more »- place hold (0)
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In Farleigh Field : a novel2017
Summary: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and... more »- place hold (0)
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A great reckoning2016
Summary: "When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given... more »- place hold (0)
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On the road with Del & Louise : a novel in stories2015
Summary: Six linked short stories tracing the adventures of Del, a small-time crook, and his victim-turned-lover-and-accomplice Louise.- place hold (0)
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Truth be told2015
Summary: "Truth Be Told, part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series by Agatha, Anthony, Mary Higgins Clark, and Macavity Award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, begins with tragedy: a... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickLong upon the land2015
Summary: "On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah's... more »- place hold (0)
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Maisie Dobbs : a novel2015
Summary: Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche,... more »- place hold (0)
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Dreaming spies : a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes2015
Summary: Russell heads for Oxford to resume her long-delayed studies when she comes face-to-face with a young Japanese woman who is not all that she seems.- place hold (0)
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Well read, then dead2014
Summary: Fort Myers Beach Read 'Em and Eat bookstore cafe owners Mary Cabot and Bridget Mayfield investigate after a shy, elderly book club member is murdered.- place hold (0)
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Queen of hearts2014
Summary: "Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk... more »- place hold (0)
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A question of honor2013
Summary: While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to... more »- place hold (0)
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The hour of peril : the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War2013
Summary: Two-time Edgar award-winning author Daniel Stashower uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War.- place hold (0)
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Lowcountry boil : a Liz Talbot mystery2012
Summary: "Private investigator Liz Talbot is a modern Southern belle: she blesses hearts and takes names. She carries her Sig 9 in her Kate Spade handbag, and her golden retriever, Rhett, rides shotgun in her... more »- place hold (0)
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The beautiful mystery2012
Summary: No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow... more »- place hold (0)
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The black heart crypt2011
Summary: A 200-year-old ghost inhabits a living ancestor in order to take revenge on eleven-year-old Zack and his family.- place hold (0)
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Naughty in Nice2011
Summary: In Nice to recover the Queen's stolen snuff box, Lady Georgiana Rannoch participates in a Coco Chanel fashion show where a necklace also belonging to the Queen goes missing, forcing her to search for both priceless items and solve a murder.- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThree-day town2011
Summary: While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they... more »- place hold (0)
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Learning to swim : a novel2011
Summary: Witnessing a small boy being thrown into the middle of Lake Champlain, Troy Chance rescues the child only to discover that he had been kidnapped and is at the center of a bizarre and violent plot.- place hold (0)
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The long quiche goodbye2010
Summary: Charlotte Bessette finds the grand opening of her new cheese shop, Fromagerie Bessette, marred by a crime of passion that causes her to become the prime suspect in the murder investigation.- place hold (0)
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Bury your dead2010
Summary: An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone... more »- place hold (1)
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The Hanging Hill2009
Summary: During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice.- place hold (0)
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The brutal telling2009
Summary: A stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store and all clues point to bistro owner Olivier being the killer. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickThe sweetness at the bottom of the pie2009
Summary: Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and... more »- place hold (0)
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The crossroads2008
Summary: When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.- place hold (0)
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Death of a cozy writer : a St. Just mystery2008
Summary: Winner of the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four... more »- place hold (0)
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The light in the cellar : a Molly mystery2007
Summary: While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.- place hold (0)
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A fatal grace2007
Summary: Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel!Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is... more »- place hold (0)
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Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her2006
Summary: A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a... more »- place hold (0)
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The virgin of Small Plains : a novel2006
Summary: Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a... more »- place hold (0)
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Down the rabbit hole : an echo falls mystery2005
Summary: Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls.- place hold (0)
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The body in the snowdrift2005
Summary: Award-winning author Katherine Hall Page is one of the reigning queens of the traditional mystery. Now, in this fifteenth mystery in her much-beloved Faith Fairchild series, she takes us to the... more »- place hold (0)
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Chasing Vermeer2004
Summary: When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.- place hold (0)
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Birds of a feather : a novel2004
Summary: Praise for Maisie Dobbs:
"Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera Brittain's classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers's Harriet... more »- place hold (0)
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Dating dead men2004
Summary: Wollie Shelley, a greeting card artist and small business owner, is dating forty men in sixty days as a participant in a social science research project when she stumbles over a dead body. Wollie... more »- place hold (0)
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A great deliverance2003
Summary: "To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in... more »- place hold (0)
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Staff PickMaisie Dobbs : a novel2003
Summary: Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyship's Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her... more »- place hold (0)
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Amelia Peabody's Egypt : a compendium2003
Summary: The Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiquity.... more »- place hold (0)
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Letter from home2003
Summary: In the summer of 1944, Gretchen Gilman was working as a reporter at the local newspaper. Her assignments weren't very exciting, but it was a good opportunity for a young woman with talent and... more »- place hold (0)
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You've got murder2002
Summary: When a workaholic techie misses work for several days, his friend, Turing, does the only neighborly thing and checks in on Zack. She checks to see if he's logged in from home. No luck. Then she... more »- place hold (0)
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