Macavity Nominations Announced

By Joe Moore |
Mystery Readers International announced 2009 Macavity nominations today, for books published in the previous year. Awards will be presented at Bouchercon in October. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Best Mystery Novel:

    * Sean Chercover: Trigger City (Wm. Morrow)
    * Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (Wm. Morrow)
    * Declan Hughes: The Dying Breed (UK) / The Price of Blood (US) (John Murray/ Wm. Morrow)
    * Arnaldur Indridason: The Draining Lake (Minotaur)
    * Lisa Lutz: Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster)
    * Louise Penny: The Cruelest Month (Minotaur)
    * Louise Ure: The Fault Tree (Minotaur)

Best First Mystery:

    * Zoe Ferraris: Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
    * Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Knopf)
    * G.M. Malliet: Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
    * Charlie Newton: Calumet City (Simon & Schuster)
    * Scott Pratt: An Innocent Client (Onyx)
    * Michael Stanley: A Carrion Death (Harper; Headline)
    * Dan Waddell: The Blood Detective (Minotaur)

Best Nonfiction/Critical:

    * Frankie Y. Bailey: African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study (McFarland)
    * Leonard Cassuto: Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Columbia Univ.)
    * Kathy Lynn Emerson: How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries (Perseverance Press)
    * David Geherin: Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction (McFarland)
    * Harry Lee Poe: Edgar Allan Poe : An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (Metro)
    * Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian  Detective (Walker)

Best Mystery Short Story:

    * Dana Cameron: "The Night Things Changed" (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, ed. by Harris & Kelner, Penguin)
    * Sean Chercover: "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" (Hardcore Hardboiled, ed. by Todd Robinson, Kensington)
    * Toni L.P. Kelner: "Keeping Watch Over His Flock" (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, ed. by Harris & Kelner, Penguin)
    * Laura Lippman: "Scratch a Woman" (Hardly Knew Her, Wm. Morrow)
    * Tom Piccirilli: "Between the Dark and the Daylight" (EQMM, Sep/Oct 2008)

Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery:

    * Rhys Bowen: A Royal Pain (Berkley)
    * Ward Larsen: Stealing Trinity (Oceanview)
    * David Liss: The Whiskey Rebels (Thorndike/ Random House UK)
    * Jeri Westerson: Veil of Lies (Minotaur)
    * Karen Maitland: Company of Liars (Michael Joseph/ Delacorte)
    * Kelli Stanley: Nox Dormienda (Five Star)

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