The Macavity Award

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 organization vote for their favorite mysteries in several categories.

2009 Nominations (for books published in 2008; winners to be announced at Bouchercon in October):

Best Mystery Novel:
Trigger City by (William Morrow)
Where Memories Lie by (William Morrow)
The Price of Blood by (William Morrow)
The Draining Lake by (St. Martin's Minotaur)
Curse of the Spellmans by (Simon & Schuster)
The Cruelest Month by (St. Martin's Minotaur)
The Fault Tree by (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel:
Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by (Knopf)
Death of a Cozy Writer by (Midnight Ink)
Calumet City by (Simon & Schuster)
An Innocent Client by (Onyx)
A Carrion Death by (Harper)
The Blood Detective by (St. Martin's Minotaur)

2008

Best Mystery Novel: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Morrow)

Best First Mystery Novel: In the Woods by Tana French (Viking)

2007

Best Mystery Novel: The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)

Best First Mystery Novel: Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone (HarperCollins)

2006

Best Mystery Novel: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

Best First Mystery Novel: Immoral by Brian Freeman (St. Martin's Minotaur)

2005

Best Mystery Novel: The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel: Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)

2004

Best Mystery Novel: The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Soho)

Best First Mystery Novel: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho)

2003

Best Mystery Novel: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)

2002

Best Mystery Novel: Folly by Laurie R. King (Bantam)

Best First Mystery Novel: Open Season by C. J. Box (Putnam)

2001

Best Mystery Novel: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (St. Martin's Minotaur)

Best First Mystery Novel: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (Random House)

2000

Best Mystery Novel: The Flower Master by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)

Best First Mystery Novel: Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods (W. W. Norton)

1999

Best Mystery Novel: Blood Work by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)

Best First Mystery Novel: Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer (Avon)

1998

Best Mystery Novel: Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie (Scribner)

Best First Mystery Novel: Dead Body Language by Penny Warner (Bantam)

1997

Best Mystery Novel: Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey (Mysterious Press)

Best First Mystery Novel: Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani (St. Martin's Press)

1996

Best Mystery Novel: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday)

Best First Mystery Novel: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day (Doubleday)

1995

Best Novel: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb

Best First Novel: Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott

1994

Best Novel: The Sculptress by Minette Walters

Best First Novel: Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman

1993

Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron

Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

1992

Best Novel: I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard

Best First Novel (tie): Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry, and Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker

1991

Best Novel: If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb

Best First Novel: Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

1990

Best Novel: A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn Hart

Best First Novel: Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill

1989

Best Novel: A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman

Best First Novel: The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham

1988

Best Novel: Marriage is Murder by Nancy Pickard

Best First Novel: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais

1987

Best Novel: A Taste for Death by P. D. James

Best First Novel (tie): The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman, and A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace

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