The Agatha Awards honor the "traditional mystery." That is to say, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie as well as others.
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. On the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too.
Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death.
The case calls Matthew back to the people and places of his past, as deadly secrets hidden at their hearts are revealed, and his new life is forced into a collision course with the world he thought he'd left behind.
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2015 Agatha Award Winner for Best Historical Novel
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2015 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction
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2014 Agatha Award Winner for Best Historical Novel
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2013 Agatha Award Winner for Best Contemporary Novel
2013 Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel
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2012 Agatha Award Winner for Best Contemporary Novel
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2012 Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel
2012 Agatha Award Winner for Best Nonfiction
2011 Agatha Award Winner for Best Historical Novel
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2011 Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel
2011 Agatha Award Winner for Best Nonfiction
2010 Agatha Award Winner for Best Novel
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2010 Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel
2009 Agatha Award Winner for Best Novel
2009 Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel