The
Macavity Award is named for the "mystery
cat" of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). Each year
the members of Mystery Readers International nominate and vote for their favourite
mysteries in four categories.
The year listed is the year of the award, for books
published in the previous year.
2015
Best Mystery Novel:
The Missing
Place by Sophie Littlefield (Gallery)
The Killer Next
Door by Alex Marwood (Penguin)
The Lewis Man by
Peter May (Quercus)
The Day She Died
by Catriona McPherson (Midnight Ink)
The Long Way
Home by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
The Last Death of
Jack Harbin by Terry Shames (Seventh Street)
Best First Mystery
Novel:
Blessed Are the
Dead by Kristi Belcamino (Witness Impulse)
Dry Bones in the
Valley by Tom Bouman (W. W. Norton)
Invisible City by
Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
Someone Else's
Skin by Sarah Hilary (Penguin)
Dear Daughter by
Elizabeth Little (Viking)
The Black Hour by
Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street)
Best Mystery-Related
Nonfiction:
The Figure of the
Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson
(McFarland)
Poe-Land: The Hallowed
Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J.W. Ocker (Countryman)
400 Things Cops Know:
Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga (Quill
Driver)
Writes of Passage: Adventures
on the Writer's Journey by Hank Phillippi Ryan, editor (Henery Press)
Best Mystery Short
Story:
"Honeymoon Sweet"
by Craig Faustus Buck: (Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology
2014, edited by Dana Cameron; Down & Out)
"The Shadow Knows"
by Barb Goffman (Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna
Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley; Wildside Press)
"Howling at the
Moon" by Paul D. Marks (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014)
"The Proxy"
by Travis Richardson (Thuglit #13, Sept./Oct. 2014)
"The Odds Are
Against Us" by Art Taylor (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Nov. 2014)
Sue Feder Historical
Mystery Award:
Queen of Hearts by
Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
Things Half in
Shadow by Alan Finn (Gallery)
An Officer and a
Spy by Robert Harris (Knopf)
A Deadly Measure of
Brimstone by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur)
Present Darkness
by Malla Nunn (Atria)
Hunting Shadows by
Charles Todd (Wm. Morrow)
Congratulations to all the nominees.
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