Macavity Awards

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The Macavity Awards are a literary award for mystery writers. Nominated and voted upon annually by the members of the Mystery Readers International, the award is named for the "mystery cat" of T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.^[1] The award is given in four categories -- best novel, best first novel, best nonfiction, and best short story. In recent years a new award, the Sue Feder Historical Mystery, has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.

Contents 1 Awards 1.1 Best Mystery Novel 1.2 Best First Mystery Novel 1.3 Best Nonfiction 1.4 Best Short Story 1.5 Sue Feder Historical Mystery 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Awards

[edit] Best Mystery Novel

• 2007: The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)
• 2006: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• 2005: The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• 2004: The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Soho)
• 2003: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• 2002: Folly by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
• 2001: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (St. Martin's)
• 2000: The Flower Master by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)
• 1999: Blood Work by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
• 1998: Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie (Scribner)
• 1997: Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey (Mysterious)
• 1996: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday)
• 1995: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
• 1994: The Sculptress by Minette Walters
• 1993: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
• 1992: I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
• 1991: If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb
• 1990: A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn Hart
• 1989: A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
• 1988: Marriage is Murder by Nancy Pickard
• 1987: A Taste for Death by P. D. James

[edit] Best First Mystery Novel

• 2007: Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone (HarperCollins)
• 2006: Immoral by Brian Freeman (St. Martin's)
• 2005: Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)
• 2004: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho)
• 2003: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• 2002: Open Season by C. J. Box (G. P. Putnam's)
• 2001: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (Random House)
• 2000: Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods (W.W. Norton)
• 1999: Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer (Avon)
• 1998: Dead Body Language by Penny Warner (Bantam)
• 1997: Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani (St. Martin's Press)
• 1996: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day (Doubleday)
• 1995: Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
• 1994: Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman
• 1993: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
• 1992: (tie) Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry and Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker
• 1991: Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
• 1990: Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill
• 1989: The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
• 1988: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
• 1987: (tie) The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman and A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace

[edit] Best Nonfiction

Note: Until 2004, this category was named "Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work"

• 2007: Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers edited by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (Crum Creek)
• 2006: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt)
• 2005: Forensics for Dummies by D. P. Lyle, MD (Wiley Publishing)
• 2004: Make Mine a Mystery: A Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction by Gary Warren Niebuhr (Libraries Unlimited)
• 2003: They Died in Vain: Overlooked, Underappreciated, and Forgotten Mystery Novels, edited by Jim Huang (Crum Creek Press)
• 2002: Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional by G. Miki Hayden (Intrigue)
• 2001: The American Regional Mystery by Marvin Lachman (Crossover Press)
• 2000: Ross Macdonald by Tom Nolan (Scribner)
• 1999: Killer Books by Jean Swanson & Dean James (Berkley)
• 1998: Deadly Women by Jan Grape, Dean James and Ellen Nehr (Carroll & Graf)
• 1997: Detecting Women 2 by Wiletta Heising (Purple Moon Press)
• 1996: Detecting Women by Willetta Heising (Purple Moon)
• 1995: By a Woman's Hand by Dean James & Jean Swanson
• 1994: The Fine Art of Murder edited by Ed Gorman
• 1993: Doubleday Crime Club Compendium by Ellen Nehr
• 1992: Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman by Tony Hillerman & Ernie Bulow
• 1991: Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries by Gillian Gill
• 1990: The Bedside Companion to Crime by H. R. F. Keating
• 1989: Silk Stalkings by Victoria Nichols & Susan Thompson
• 1988: Son of Gun in Cheek by Bill Pronzini
• 1987: 1001 Midnights by Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

[edit] Best Short Story

• 2007: "Til Death Do Us Part" by Tim Maleeny (MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben; Little, Brown)
• 2006: "There Is No Crime on Easter Island" by Nancy Pickard (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Sept-Oct 2005)
• 2005: "The Widow of Slane" by Terence Faherty (EQMM, March/April 2004)
• 2004: "The Grass Is Always Greener" by Sandy Balzo (EQMM, March 2003)
• 2003: "Voice Mail" by Janet Dawson (Scam and Eggs, Five Star)
• 2002: "The Abbey Ghosts" by Jan Burke (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Jan 2001)
• 2001: "A Candle for Christmas" by Reginald Hill (EQMM, January 2000)
• 2000: "Maubi and the Jumbies" by Kate Grilley, in Murderous Intent, Fall 1999
• 1999: "Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable" by Barbara D'Amato in EQMM, Nov. 98
• 1998: "Two Ladies of Rose Cottage" by Peter Robinson in Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)
• 1997: "Cruel & Unusual" by Carolyn Wheat from Guilty As Charged (Pocket)
• 1996: "Evans Tries an O-Level" by Colin Dexter from Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories (Crown)
• 1995: (tie) "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by Deborah Adams and "Unharmed" by Jan Burke
• 1994: "Checkout" by Susan Dunlap
• 1993: "Henrie O's Holiday" by Carolyn Hart
• 1992: "Deborah's Judgement" by Margaret Maron
• 1991: "Too Much to Bare" by Joan Hess
• 1990: "Afraid All the Time" by Nancy Pickard
• 1989: "Deja Vu" by Doug Allyn
• 1988: "The Woman in the Wardrobe" by Robert Barnard
• 1987: "The Parker Shotgun" by Sue Grafton

[edit] Sue Feder Historical Mystery

• 2007: Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur)
• 2006: Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Home page of the Macavity award.