It is that time of year again where we interview some of the Agatha Award Nominees.

Watch Her by Edwin Hill (Kensington)
Best Contemporary Fiction

Edwin Hill is the author of LITTLE COMFORT and THE MISSING ONES. He was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and spent most of his childhood obsessing over The Famous Five, Agatha Christie, and somehow finding a way into C.S. Lewis’s wardrobe. His parents were fond of taking his sister and him on month-long family camping trips across the U.S. and Canada, and one of his best memories is of finishing a copy of The Seven Dials Mystery while the rest of the family visited Mount Rushmore. Growing up when VHS tapes were new meant that watching Alien, Jaws, The Shining, or Halloween whenever he wanted seemed luxurious, and still does today. Like Hester Thursby, he watched these movies – and others like them – a lot. After attending Wesleyan University and graduating with a B.A. in American Studies, he headed west to San Francisco for the original dotcom boom. Later, he returned to Boston, earned an MFA from Emerson College, and switched gears to work in educational publishing, where he served as the vice president and editorial director for Bedford/St. Martin's, a division of Macmillan Learning, for many years before turning to writing full time. He lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts with his partner Michael and his favorite reviewer, their lab Edith Ann, who likes his first drafts enough to eat them.

A Dead Man's Eyes by Lori Duffy Foster (Level Best Books)
Best First Novel

Lori Duffy Foster is a former crime reporter who writes from the hills of Northern Pennsylvania, where she lives with her family. She was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where part of her heart remains. Never Broken is book two in her Lisa Jamison mystery/suspense series.