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Edition 17 (2004)

Best Contemporary NovelBest Historical NovelBest First NovelBest Short StoryBest Non-FictionBest Children's/Young Adult Mystery

Winners

5 people
Harley Jane Kozak はーれい じぇーん こざっく Excellence Award

Greeting-card designer Wollie Shelley is pulled into a murder investigation as dead bodies keep turning up around her, and the case exposes the comic chaos of her family and social circle.

Love, family, and murder collide in Wollie Shelley’s first case.

336 pages
cozy mysteryhumorfamilyamateur sleuth
Jacqueline Winspear じゃくりーん うぃんすぴあ Excellence Award

In postwar London, Maisie Dobbs searches for a missing heiress and uncovers a trail that leads from private grief to a murder case haunted by the Great War.

A missing heiress leads Maisie Dobbs back to the shadow of the Great War.

360 pages
historical mysterywomen sleuthpost-WWImissing person
Elaine Viets いれいん ゔぃーつ Excellence Award

A short mystery story set around a wedding, where the ceremony’s polished surface gives way to deadly tension.

A wedding turns from celebration to menace.

short story mysteryweddinganthologymurder
John Alexander French じゃっく ふれんち Excellence Award

This nonfiction study traces the women detectives of radio drama and shows how popular entertainment framed female intelligence, independence, and mystery work.

A detailed cultural history of women detectives on radio.

264 pages
nonfictionbroadcast historywomen detectivespopular culture
Blue Balliett ぶるー ばりえっと Excellence Award

Two children are drawn into an art mystery when a vanished Vermeer painting, strange clues, and coincidence place them at the center of an international scandal.

A stolen Vermeer pulls two children into a global art mystery.

304 pages
children's fictionart mysterycodesadventure