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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. 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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