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" 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.

Awards

Best Mystery Novel

2015 – The Killer Next Door, Alex Marwood
2014 – Ordinary Grace, William Kent Krueger
2013 – The Beautiful Mystery, Louise Penny
2012 – Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Sara Gran
2011 – Bury Your Dead, Louise Penny
2010 – Tower, Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman
2009 – Where Memories Lie, Deborah Crombie
2008 – What the Dead Know, Laura Lippman
2007 – The Virgin of Small Plains, Nancy Pickard
2006 – The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly
2005 – The Killing of the Tinkers, Ken Bruen
2004 – The House Sitter, Peter Lovesey
2003 – Winter and Night, S. J. Rozan
2002 – Folly, Laurie R. King
2001 – A Place of Execution, Val McDermid
2000 – The Flower Master, Sujata Massey
1999 – Blood Work, Michael Connelly
1998 – Dreaming of the Bones, Deborah Crombie
1997 – Bloodhounds, Peter Lovesey
1996 – Under the Beetle's Cellar, Mary Willis Walker
1995 – She Walks These Hills, Sharyn McCrumb
1994 – The Sculptress, Minette Walters
1993 – Bootlegger's Daughter, Margaret Maron
1992 – I.O.U., Nancy Pickard
1991 – If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O, Sharyn McCrumb
1990 – A Little Class on Murder, Carolyn Hart
1989 – A Thief of Time, Tony Hillerman
1988 – Marriage is Murder, Nancy Pickard
1987 – A Taste for Death, P. D. James

Best First Mystery

2015 – Invisible City, Julia Dahl
2014 – A Killing at Cotton Hill, Terry Shames
2013 – Don't Ever Get Old, Daniel Friedman
2012 – All Cry Chaos, Leonard Rosen
2011 – Rogue Island, Bruce DeSilva
2010 – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley
2009 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
2008 – In the Woods, Tana French
2007 – Mr. Clarinet, Nick Stone
2006 – Immoral, Brian Freeman
2005 – Dating Dead Men, Harley Jane Kozak
2004 – Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear
2003 – In the Bleak Midwinter, Julia Spencer-Fleming
2002 – Open Season, C. J. Box
2001 – A Conspiracy of Paper, David Liss
2000 – Inner City Blues, Paula L. Woods
1999 – Sympathy for the Devil, Jerrilyn Farmer
1998 – Dead Body Language, Penny Warner
1997 – Death in Little Tokyo, Dale Furutani
1996 – The Strange Files of Fremont Jones, Dianne Day
1995 – Do Unto Others, Jeff Abbott
1994 – Death Comes as Epiphany, Sharan Newman
1993 – Blanche on the Lam, Barbara Neely
1992 – (tie) Murder on the Iditarod Trail, Sue Henry and Zero at the Bone, Mary Willis Walker
1991 – Postmortem, Patricia Cornwell
1990 – Grime and Punishment, Jill Churchill
1989 – The Killings at Badger's Drift, Caroline Graham
1988 – The Monkey's Raincoat, Robert Crais
1987 – (tie) The Ritual Bath, Faye Kellerman and A Case of Loyalties, Marilyn Wallace

Best Nonfiction

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

2015 – Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan
2014 – no award
2013 – no award
2012 – The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
2011 – Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (HarperCollins)
2010 – Talking about Detective Fiction by P. D. James (Alfred A. Knopf)
2009 – African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study by Frankie Y. Bailey (McFarland)
2008 – The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians edited by Roger Sobin (Poisoned Pen Press)
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 Willetta 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

Best Short Story

2015 – "Honeymoon Sweet" by Craig Faustus Buck (Murder at the Beach: Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron; Down & Out Books)
2014 – no award
2013 – no award
2012 – "Disarming" by Dana Cameron (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2011)
2011 – "Swing Shift" by Dana Cameron (Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side, edited by Charlaine Harris; Berkley)
2010 – "On the House" by Hank Phillippi Ryan (in Quarry: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth M. McCarty and Susan Oleksiw; Level Best Books)
2009 – "The Night Things Changed" by Dana Cameron (in Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner; Penguin Books)
2008 – "Please Watch Your Step" by Rhys Bowen (The Strand Magazine, 21/2007)
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

Sue Feder Historical Mystery

2015 – A Deadly Measure of Brimstone, Catriona McPherson (Minotaur)
2014 – Murder as a Fine Art, by David Morrell
2013 – An Unmarked Grave, by Charles Todd
2012 – Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains, Catriona McPherson (Thomas Dunne/Minotaur)
2011 – City of Dragons, Kelli Stanley (Minotaur)
2010 – A Trace of Smoke, Rebecca Cantrell (Forge)
2009 – A Royal Pain, Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
2008 – Mistress of the Art of Death, Ariana Franklin (Putnam)
2007 – Oh Danny Boy, Rhys Bowen (Minotaur)
2006 – Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear (Henry Holt)

References

↑ http://www.mysteryreaders.org/macavity.html Macavity awards page, Mystery Readers International website, accessed Feb. 2, 2011.

External links

Home page of the Macavity award.

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