Mystery Reader's International
Book Award
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.
Need a new mystery book?
Check out the nominations for this award...
Thomas H. Cook: Sandrine's Case (Mysterious Press)
Mick Herron: Dead Lions (Soho Crime)
William Kent Krueger: Ordinary Grace (Atria Books)
Alex Marwood: The Wicked Girls (Penguin Books)
Louise Penny: How the Light Gets In (Minotaur Books)
Ian Rankin: Standing in Another Man's Grave (Reagan Arthur Books)
Best First Mystery:
Matt Coyle: Yesterday's Echo (Oceanview Publishing)
Becky Masterman: Rage Against the Dying (Minotaur Books)
Jenny Milchman: Cover of Snow (Ballantine Books)
Derek Miller: Norwegian by Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Terry Shames: A Killing at Cotton Hill (Seventh Street Books)
Best Mystery Short Story:
Reed Farrel Coleman: "The Terminal" (Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler; Thomas & Mercer)
John Connolly: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" (Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler; Bookspan)
Martin Limon: "The Dragon's Tail" (Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books)
Gigi Pandian: "The Hindi Houdini" (Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long; Wildside Press)
Travis Richardson: "Incident on the 405" (The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey; Macmillan)
Art Taylor: "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013)
Best Nonfiction:
Roseanne Montillo: The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece (William Morrow)
Charles J. Rzepka: Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Daniel Stashower: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (Minotaur Books)
Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:
Susanna Calkins: A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (Minotaur Books)
Robert Kresge: Saving Lincoln (ABQ Press)
Catriona McPherson: Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses(Minotaur Books)
David Morrell: Murder as a Fine Art (Little, Brown)
Stuart Neville: Ratlines (Soho Crime)
Learn more:
Find in County Cat:
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.