Macavity Award Winners 2021

 

The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends of MRI.

The Macavty Awards 2021 are for works published in 2020. The Macavity Shortlist can be found here.

Best Novel:

Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)

Best First Novel:

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Ecco)

Best Critical/Biographical:

H R.F. Keating: A Life of Crime by Sheila Mitchell (Level Best)

Best Short Story:

“Elysian Fields,” by Gabriel Valjan (from California Schemin’: The 2020 Bouchercon Anthology, edited by Art Taylor; Wildside Press)

Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery:

Turn to Stone by James W. Ziskin (Seventh Street)

Congratulations to all

The Macavity Award Winners 2018

The Macavity Awards are nominated by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends of MRI. The winners were announced at opening ceremonies on Thursday 6 September at Bouchercon in St Petersburg, FL. Congratulations to all the winners and nominated authors.

Best Mystery Novel
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Harper)

Best First Mystery Novel
The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal (Wm. Morrow)

Best Mystery-Related Nonfiction
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books by Martin Edwards (Poisoned Pen/British Library)

Best Mystery Short Story
“Windward,” by Paul D. Marks, in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea (Down & Out Books)

Sue Feder Memorial Award: Best Historical Mystery
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen (Lake Union Publishing)