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
I.O.U.
Nancy Pickard
Best Novel Nominees

Make No Bones	Aaron Elkins
The Christie Caper	Carolyn G. Hart
An Owl Too Many	Charlotte MacLeod
The Last Camel Died at Noon	Elizabeth Peters

Best First Novel
Zero at the Bone
Mary Willis Walker
Best First Novel Nominees

Carpool	Mary Cahill
Just Desserts	Mary Daheim
The Bulrush Murders	Rebecca Rothenberg
Flowers for the Dead	Ann Williams

Best Short Story
"Deborah's Judgement"
Margaret Maron
Best Short Story Nominees

"The Habit of Widowhood"	Robert Barnard
The January Sales Stowaway"	Dorothy Cannell
"Crime of Miss Oyster Brown"	Peter Lovesey
"Long Live the Queen"	Ruth Rendell

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