Macavity Awards for Mystery Books
The Macavity Awards were named after the "mystery cat" in T.S. Eliots's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote on their favorite mysteries each year. Mystery Readers International publishes four issues each year of Mystery Readers Journal.
Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best Novel:
| Meg Abbott | Bury Me Deep | | Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman | Tower | | Deborah Crombie | Necessary As Blood | | Jo Nesbo | Nemesis | | Louise Penny | The Brutal Telling | | S. J. Rozan | The Shanghai Moon |
Here are the 2010 Nominees for Best First Novel:
| Alan Bradley | The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie | | Jamie Freveletti | Running From The Devil | | Sophie Littlefield | A Bad Day For Sorry | | Stuart Neville | The Ghosts of Belfast | | Malla Nunn | A Beautiful Place To Die |
Here are the Macavity Award winners for the Best Novels (from 1986):
| Year | Author | Book | | 2009 | Debra Crombie | Where Memories Lie | | 2008 | Laura Lippman | What The Dead Know | | 2007 | Nancy Pickard | The Virgin of Small Plains | | 2006 | Michael Connelly | The Lincoln Lawyer | | 2005 | Ken Bruen | The Killing of the Tinkers | | 2004 | Peter Lovesay | The House Sitter | | 2003 | S.J. Rozan | Winter and Night | | 2002 | Laurie R. King | Folly | | 2001 | Val McDermid | A Place of Execution | | 2000 | Sujata Massey | The Flower Master | | 1999 | Michael Connelly | Blood Work | | 1998 | Deborah Crombie | Dreaming of the Bones | | 1997 | Peter Lovesay | Bloodhounds | | 1996 | Mary Willis Walker | Under the Beetle's Cellar | | 1995 | Sharyn McCrumb | She Walks These Hills | | 1994 | Minette Walters | The Sculptress | | 1993 | Margaret Maron | Bootlegger's Daughter | | 1992 | Nancy Pickard | I.O.U. | | 1991 | Sharyn McCrumb | If I Ever Return Pretty Peggy-O | | 1990 | Carolyn Hart | A Little Class on Murder | | 1989 | Tony Hillerman | A Thief of Time | | 1988 | Nancy Pickard | Marriage is Murder | | 1987 | P.D. James | A Taste for Death |
And here are the award winners for the Best First Novels(from 1987): | Year | Author | Book | | 2009 | Stieg Larsson | The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo | | 2008 | Tana French | In The Woods | | 2007 | Nick Stone | Mr. Clarinet | | 2006 | Brian Freeman | Immoral | | 2005 | Harley Jane Kozak | Dating Dead Men | | 2004 | Jacqueline Winspear | Maisie Dobbs | | 2003 | Julia Spencer-Fleming | In the Bleak of Midwinter | | 2002 | C.J. Box | Open Season | | 2001 | David Liss | A Conspiracy of Paper | | 2000 | Paula Woods | Inner City Blues | | 1999 | Jerrilyn Farmer | Sympathy for the Devil | | 1998 | Penny Warner | Dead Body Language | | 1997 | Dale Furutani | Death in Little Tokyo | | 1996 | Dianne Day | The Strange Files Fremont Jones | | 1995 | Jeff Abbott | Do Unto Others | | 1994 | Sharan Newman | Death Comes as Epiphany | | 1993 | Barbara Neely | Blanche on the Lam | | 1992 | Sue Henry | Murder on the Iditarod Trail | | 1992 | Mary Willis Walker | Zero at the Bone | | 1991 | Patricia Cornwell | Postmortem | | 1990 | Jill Churchill | Grime and Punishment | | 1989 | Caroline Graham | The Killings at Badger's Drift | | 1988 | Robert Crais | The Monkey's Raincoat | | 1987 | Faye Kellerman | A Ritual Bath | | 1986 | Marilyn Wallace | A Case of Loyalties |
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