THE MACAVITY AWARDS

Submitted by lbhick on Sun, 08/16/2009 - 19:59
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  1. The Macavity Awards

  2. 2008
  3. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (Morrow)
  4. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: In the Woods by Tana French (Viking)
  5. 2007
  6. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)
  7. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone (HarperCollins)
  8. 2006
  9. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
  10. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Immoral by Brian Freeman (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  11. 2005
  12. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: The Killing of the Tinkers by Ken Bruen (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  13. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak (Doubleday)
  14. 2004
  15. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: The House Sitter by Peter Lovesey (Soho)
  16. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho)
  17. 2003
  18. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: Winter and Night by S. J. Rozan (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  19. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  20. 2002
  21. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: Folly by Laurie R. King (Bantam)
  22. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Open Season by C. J. Box (Putnam)
  23. 2001
  24. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: A Place of Execution by Val McDermid (St. Martin's Minotaur)
  25. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss (Random House)
  26. 2000
  27. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: The Flower Master by Sujata Massey (HarperCollins)
  28. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Inner City Blues by Paula L. Woods (W. W. Norton)
  29. 1999
  30. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: Blood Work by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
  31. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Sympathy for the Devil by Jerrilyn Farmer (Avon)
  32. 1998
  33. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie (Scribner)
  34. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Dead Body Language by Penny Warner (Bantam)
  35. 1997
  36. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: Bloodhounds by Peter Lovesey (Mysterious Press)
  37. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: Death in Little Tokyo by Dale Furutani (St. Martin's Press)
  38. 1996
  39. ◊ Best Mystery Novel: Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker (Doubleday)
  40. ◊ Best First Mystery Novel: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones by Dianne Day (Doubleday)
  41. 1995
  42. ◊ Best Novel: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb
  43. ◊ Best First Novel: Do Unto Others by Jeff Abbott
  44. 1994
  45. ◊ Best Novel: The Sculptress by Minette Walters
  46. ◊ Best First Novel: Death Comes as Epiphany by Sharan Newman
  47. 1993
  48. ◊ Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron
  49. ◊ Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
  50. 1992
  51. ◊ Best Novel: I.O.U. by Nancy Pickard
  52. ◊ Best First Novel (tie): Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry
  53. ◊ Best First Novel (tie): Zero at the Bone by Mary Willis Walker
  54. 1991
  55. ◊ Best Novel: If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O by Sharyn McCrumb
  56. ◊ Best First Novel: Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
  57. 1990
  58. ◊ Best Novel: A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn Hart
  59. ◊ Best First Novel: Grime and Punishment by Jill Churchill
  60. 1989
  61. ◊ Best Novel: A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
  62. ◊ Best First Novel: The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
  63. 1988
  64. ◊ Best Novel: Marriage is Murder by Nancy Pickard
  65. ◊ Best First Novel: The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
  66. 1987
  67. ◊ Best Novel: A Taste for Death by P. D. James
  68. ◊ Best First Novel (tie): The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman
  69. ◊ Best First Novel (tie): A Case of Loyalties by Marilyn Wallace
Author Comments: 

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. indicates a review by Mysterious Reviews.

Highlighted books are books I've read.
Bold print is books I own.

http://awards.omnimystery.com/mystery-awards-macavitys.html