Category: Young Adult

• Agatha Award Winners 2026: Celebrating Traditional Mysteries

  

  This year’s winners include an historical mystery where Agatha Christie isn’t the author but a suspect, and Dorothy Sayers’ assistant must prove her innocence. Links to winners, nominees.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 26, 2026

  Amateur Sleuths, Award winners, Best of …, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, Private Investigators, Sleuths of Color, Traditional Mystery, Uncategorized, Young Adult

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• The March Sisters Struggle to Solve The Murder of Their Beloved Beth

  

  I adored this thoroughly modern take on Little Women, featuring the March sisters as amateur sleuths uncovering who killed their beloved Beth. This propulsively written tale grapples with current issues, like social media.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 24, 2026

  Amateur Sleuths, Contemporary Setting, Latest posts, New Release, Traditional Mystery, Young Adult

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• Agatha Award Winners 2025: Celebrating Traditional Mysteries

  

  This year’s winners include an historical cozy featuring the intrepid sister of the Wright Brothers and a thriller about a Vietnamese-American artist whose picture-perfect life is starting to unravel.

  N.K. Mitchell

  April 28, 2025

  Amateur Sleuths, Award winners, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, New Release, Sleuths of Color, Traditional Mystery, Young Adult

  book-review, books, Cozy Mystery, crime-fiction, fiction, mystery, reviews, thriller

• Agatha Award Winners 2024: Celebrating Traditional Mysteries

  

  If you’re a fan of Agatha Christie, you’ll likely find something to love in this annual awards roundup. Fans chose the winners, which cannot include explicit sex, gore or violence.

  N.K. Mitchell

  July 1, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Award winners, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, Private Investigators, Traditional Mystery, Young Adult

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• Edgar Award Winners 2024: Few Female Sleuths, Few Surprises

  

  Familiar names and titles dominated the list of award recipients but I think this annual winners’ roundup — described as “the Oscars of mystery awards” — is always worth a look.

  N.K. Mitchell

  May 2, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Award winners, Contemporary Setting, Cozy Mystery, Historical Setting, Senior Sleuths, Sleuths of Color, Young Adult

  book-review, book-reviews, books, Cozy Mystery, mystery

• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: How to Ace Your Senior Project

  

  I fell hard for Pippa, the “good girl” who decides to investigate the murder-suicide of two classmates for her high school senior project. If you haven’t read a young adult mystery lately, I encourage you to give this one a try.

  N.K. Mitchell

  January 15, 2024

  Amateur Sleuths, Backlist, Traditional Mystery, Young Adult

  book-review, books, fiction, mystery