- Macavity Awards
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" ofT. S. Eliot 'sOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats . [ http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html Macavity awards page,Mystery Readers International website, accessed Jan. 10, 2008. ] The award is given in four categories -- bestnovel , best first novel, bestnonfiction , and bestshort story . In recent years a new award, the Sue Feder Historical Mystery, has been given in conjunction with the Macavity Awards.Awards
Best Mystery Novel
*2007 - "The Virgin of Small Plains" by
Nancy Pickard
*2006 - "The Lincoln Lawyer " byMichael Connelly
*2005 - "The Killing of the Tinkers" byKen Bruen
*2004 - "The House Sitter" byPeter Lovesey
*2003 - "Winter and Night" byS. J. Rozan
*2002 - "Folly" byLaurie R. King
*2001 - "A Place of Execution " byVal McDermid
*2000 - "The Flower Master" bySujata Massey
*1999 - "Blood Work" byMichael Connelly
*1998 - "Dreaming of the Bones" byDeborah Crombie
*1997 - "Bloodhounds" byPeter Lovesey
*1996 - "Under the Beetle's Cellar" byMary Willis Walker
*1995 - "She Walks These Hills" bySharyn McCrumb
*1994 - "The Sculptress " byMinette Walters
*1993 - "Bootlegger's Daughter" byMargaret Maron
*1992 - "I.O.U." byNancy Pickard
*1991 - "If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O" bySharyn McCrumb
*1990 - "A Little Class on Murder" byCarolyn Hart
*1989 - "A Thief of Time" byTony Hillerman
*1988 - "Marriage is Murder" byNancy Pickard
*1987 - "A Taste for Death" byP. D. James Best First Mystery
*2007 - "Mr. Clarinet" by Nick Stone
*2006 - "Immoral" byBrian Freeman
*2005 - "Dating Dead Men" byHarley Jane Kozak
*2004 - "Maisie Dobbs" byJacqueline Winspear
*2003 - "In the Bleak Midwinter" byJulia Spencer-Fleming
*2002 - "Open Season" byC. J. Box
*2001 - "A Conspiracy of Paper " byDavid Liss
*2000 - "Inner City Blues" byPaula L. Woods
*1999 - "Sympathy for the Devil" byJerrilyn Farmer
*1998 - "Dead Body Language" byPenny Warner
*1997 - "Death in Little Tokyo" byDale Furutani
*1996 - "The Strange Files of Fremont Jones" byDianne Day
*1995 - "Do Unto Others" byJeff Abbott
*1994 - "Death Comes as Epiphany" bySharan Newman
*1993 - "Blanche on the Lam" byBarbara Neely
*1992 - (tie) "Murder on the Iditarod Trail" bySue Henry :: and "Zero at the Bone" byMary Willis Walker
*1991 - "Postmortem" byPatricia Cornwell
*1990 - "Grime and Punishment" byJill Churchill
*1989 - "The Killings at Badger's Drift " byCaroline Graham
*1988 - "The Monkey's Raincoat " byRobert Crais
*1987 - (tie) "The Ritual Bath" byFaye Kellerman :: and "A Case of Loyalties" byMarilyn Wallace 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 byG. 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 byTony 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 PronziniBest 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" byNancy Pickard (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine , Sept-Oct 2005)
* 2005: "The Widow of Slane" byTerence Faherty (EQMM, March/April 2004)
* 2004: "The Grass Is Always Greener" bySandy Balzo (EQMM, March 2003)
* 2003: "Voice Mail" byJanet Dawson (Scam and Eggs, Five Star)
* 2002: "The Abbey Ghosts" byJan Burke (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , Jan 2001)
* 2001: "A Candle for Christmas" byReginald Hill (EQMM, January 2000)
* 2000: "Maubi and the Jumbies" byKate Grilley , in Murderous Intent, Fall 1999
* 1999: "Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable" byBarbara D'Amato in EQMM, Nov. 98
* 1998: "Two Ladies of Rose Cottage" by Peter Robinson in Malice Domestic 6 (Pocket Books)
* 1997: "Cruel & Unusual" byCarolyn Wheat from Guilty As Charged (Pocket)
* 1996: "Evans Tries an O-Level" byColin Dexter from Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories (Crown)
* 1995: (tie) "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" byDeborah Adams and "Unharmed" byJan Burke
* 1994: "Checkout" by Susan Dunlap
* 1993: "Henrie O's Holiday" byCarolyn Hart
* 1992: "Deborah's Judgement" byMargaret Maron
* 1991: "Too Much to Bare" byJoan Hess
* 1990: "Afraid All the Time" byNancy Pickard
* 1989: "Deja Vu" byDoug Allyn
* 1988: "The Woman in the Wardrobe" byRobert Barnard
* 1987: "The Parker Shotgun" bySue Grafton ue Feder Historical Mystery
* 2007: Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur)
* 2006: Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)References
External links
* [http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html Home page of the Macavity award] .
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