{"id":2595,"date":"2018-09-21T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?page_id=2595"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:45:04","slug":"about-aunt-agathas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/about-aunt-agathas\/","title":{"rendered":"About Aunt Agatha’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

After selling mysteries in our brick & mortar store in Ann Arbor, MI, for 26 years, we closed our doors in August of 2018 and moved online.\u00a0 Our extensive used book collection can be found at\u00a0abebooks.com<\/a>\u00a0(new titles being added every day) and we’ll be offering selected books for sale, including book club picks, on our website. With hopes you’ll continue to enjoy our reviews and our love of the mystery genre.
\n\u2014Robin & Jamie Agnew<\/p>\n

Our Reviewers<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Margaret Agnew<\/em> is a senior courthouse clerk in St. Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 A graduate of Ripon College and Indiana University, she has been a mystery fan and an avid reader from an early age.\u00a0 She was also a reviewer for Mystery Scene Magazine.<\/p>\n

Robin Agnew<\/em> owned & operated Aunt Agatha\u2019s Bookshop with her husband, Jamie, for 26 years.\u00a0 The store won the\u00a0Raven Award<\/a>\u00a0from the Mystery Writers of America in 2014.\u00a0 She reviewed for\u00a0Mystery Scene<\/a>\u00a0for many years, writing the Very Original Cozy column, and she is now writing a column for\u00a0Deadly Pleasures<\/a>.\u00a0 She also maintains and writes reviews for auntagathas.com.<\/p>\n

Cathy Akers-Jordan<\/em> is a writing instructor at the University of Michigan-Flint where she teaches composition, business communications, and technical writing. She also works with independent study students who are writing fantasy and science-fiction. Her current works-in-progress are crime fiction.<\/p>\n

Vicki Kondelik<\/em> is a cataloger at the University of Michigan\u2019s Graduate Library, and edits their book review blog,\u00a0Lost in the Stacks.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0She writes book reviews for the\u00a0Historical Novel Society<\/a>, and is currently writing a historical novel.\u00a0 She has been an avid mystery reader for a long time.<\/p>\n

Carla Schantz<\/em> is a Courthouse Clerk Supervisor and has a bachelor\u2019s degree in English as well as a master\u2019s in legal studies. Books have been a passion of hers since she was young, and she is a firm believer in the purse book so that she is never without a book at any time.<\/p>\n

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Aunt Agatha’s Bookstore was the recipient of the 2014 Raven Award<\/a>, presented by Mystery Writers of America. Established in 1953, the award recognizes outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing.<\/p>\n

“We are absolutely thrilled and astonished to be the recipient of the Raven Award! We feel we have been privileged for twenty-one years to share our passion for mysteries with readers and to put forward the work of writers we love. We are really grateful to the Mystery Writers of America for this wonderful honor.”
\n\u2014Robin and Jamie<\/p>\n