A national award for Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Bookshop in Ann Arbor?
There’s a stumper, writes Neal Rubin in the Detroit News.
“I have no idea,” says Robin Agnew, how her marvelously overstuffed store in downtown Ann Arbor won the 2014 Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
She’ll find out when she and her husband and partner, Jamie, travel to New York for the group’s annual banquet May 1 — by air, most likely, rather than the Orient Express.
Word arrived a few days ago that Aunt Agatha’s had claimed the honor, given each year for accomplishments not related to writing.
Chances are it was for nurturing authors like Steve Hamilton, the University of Michigan grad whose bleak and brilliant Michigan-based novels are the store’s top sellers.
Among the past Raven Award winners are Alfred Hitchcock, a few book critics, a smattering of editors, the Edgar Allan Poe Society and booksellers.
