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
She Walks These Hills
Sharyn McCrumb (Scribners)
Best Novel Nominees

Scandal in Fair Haven	Carolyn G. Hart
The Beekeeper's Apprentice	Laurie R. King
Angel of Death	Rochelle Majer Krich
Night Train to Memphis	Elizabeth Peters

Best First Novel
Do Unto Others
Jeff Abbott (Ballantine)
Best First Novel Nominees

One for the Money	Janet Evanovich (Scribner)
Fool's Puzzle	Earlene Fowler
Writers of the Purple Sage	Barbara Burnett Smith
Until Death	Polly Whitney

Best Nonfiction
By a Woman's Hand
Jean Swanson and Dean James (Berkley)
Best Nonfiction Nominees

Encylopedia Mysteriosa	William L. DeAndrea
Crime Fiction II	Allen J. Hubin
Great Women Mystery Writers	Kathleen Gregory Klein
Had She But Known: Mary Roberts Rinehart	Charlotte MacLeod

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