Given annually at the Malice Domestic Mystery Conference for the best "cozy" mystery in each category. Please note that the awards are given for works of the previous year. Thus, the "1994" awards were give in 1994 for works published in 1993.

Best Novel
Something Wicked
Carolyn Hart
Best Novel Nominees

The Widow's Club	Dorothy Cannell
Mischief in Maggody	Joan Hess
Paying the Piper	Sharyn McCrumb
Dead Crazy	Nancy Pickard

Best First Novel
A Great Deliverance
Elizabeth George
Best First Novel Nominees

The Killings at Badger's Drift	Caroline Graham
The J. Alfred Prufrock Murders	Corinne Sawyer
Goodbye Nanny Grey	Susannah Stacey
Dead Men Don't Give Seminars	Dorothy Sucher

Best Short Story
"More Final Than Divorce"
Robert Barnard (EQMM)
Best Short Story Nominees

"Prodigal Grandson"	Elizabeth Byrd
"Father of the Bride"	P.M. Carlson
"Double Vision"	Mary Higgins Clark
"Dutiful Son"	Ralph McInerny

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