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==Awards== King's first book, ''[[A Grave Talent]]'' (1993), received the 1994 [[Edgar Award]] for Best First Novel<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php |title=Edgar Awards |website=Mystery Writers of America |access-date=May 27, 2014 |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927165310/http://www.theedgars.com/edgarsDB/index.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> and a 1995 [[CWA New Blood Dagger|John Creasey Memorial Award]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/newblood.html |title=John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger |website=Crime Writers Association |access-date=May 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115071720/http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/newblood.html |archive-date=November 15, 2013 }}</ref> This was followed by the 1996 [[Nero Award]], for ''[[A Monstrous Regiment of Women]]'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/literary_awards/nero_award/awardees_chron.htm |title=Nero Awards |website=The Wolfe Pack |access-date=May 27, 2014}}</ref> the 2002 [[Macavity Awards|Macavity Award]] for Best Novel, for ''Folly'',<ref>{{cite web | title=Macavity Awards | url=http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html | publisher=Mystery Readers International | access-date=2010-04-07}}</ref> the 2007 [[Lambda Award]] for Best Lesbian Mystery, for ''[[The Art of Detection]],''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/winners-finalists/04/30/lambda-literary-awards-2006-2/#lesbmystery |title=Lambda Literary Awards |website=Lambda Literary |date=30 April 2006 |access-date=May 27, 2014}}</ref> and the 2015 [[Agatha Award]] for Best Historical Novel, for ''[[Dreaming Spies]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards.html |title=Malice Domestic Convention - Bethesda, MD |website=www.malicedomestic.org |access-date=2017-01-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121111008/http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards.html |archive-date=2017-01-21 }}</ref> She has also been nominated for two [[Anthony Awards|Anthonys]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |title=Nominees and Winners |website=Bouchercon World Mystery Convention |access-date=May 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html |archive-date=February 7, 2012 }}</ref> a [[Barry Award (for crime novels)|Barry]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.deadlypleasures.com/barry.html |title=Barry Awards |website=Deadly Pleasures Magazine |access-date=May 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423032903/http://www.deadlypleasures.com/barry.html |archive-date=April 23, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> two additional Edgars, another Macavity, an [[Orange Prize]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/title/with-child |title=Orange Prize Loglist |website=Women's Prize for Fiction |access-date=May 27, 2014}}</ref> and four RT Reviewers' Choice Awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtbookreviews.com/rt-awards/nominees-and-winners |title=RT Award Nominees and Winners |website=RT Book Reviews |access-date=May 27, 2014}}</ref> In 2022, she won the [[Edgar Awards|Edgar Award]]'s 'Grand Master' for her work.<ref>{{Cite web|title=MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations β Mystery Writers of America|url=https://mysterywriters.org/mwa-announce-the-2022-edgar-award-nominations/|access-date=2022-01-22|language=en}}</ref> She was inducted into membership of [[The Baker Street Irregulars]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sherlocktron.com/invest.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130722120155/http://www.sherlocktron.com/invest.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 22, 2013|title=The Investitured (or Invested) Irregulars}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/ProgramBooks/2017Program.pdf |title=PB2-FrontMatter-11 |access-date=2019-06-18}}</ref>
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