MACAVITY AWARDS

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 nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories.

The year listed is the year of the award, for books published in the previous year.

2007

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

* Christine Falls by Benjamin Black [John Banville] (Henry Holt/Picador)
* The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* The Dead Hour by Denise Mina (Bantam)
* Piece of My Heart by Peter Robinson (McClelland & Stewart)
* All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming (Minotaur)

Best First Novel:
Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone (Michael Joseph Ltd/Penguin)

* Consigned to Death by Jane K. Cleland (Minotaur)
* 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers by Troy Cook (Capital Crime Press)
* King of Lies by John Hart (Minotaur)
* A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read (Mysterious)

Best Nonfiction:
Mystery Muses: 100 Classics That Inspire Today's Mystery Writers edited by Jim Huang and Austin Lugar (Crum Creek)

* The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower (Dutton)
* Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction Writing Techniques To Save Your Manuscript From Ending Up D.O.A. by Chris Roerden (Bella Rosa Books)

Best Short Story:
"Til Death Do Us Part" by Tim Maleeny (MWA Presents Death Do Us Part: New Stories about Love, Lust, and Murder, edited by Harlan Coben; Little, Brown)

* "Provenance" by Robert Barnard (EQMM, Jul 2006)
* "Disturbance in the Field" by Roberta Isleib (Seasmoke: Crime Stories by New England Writers, edited by Kate Flora, Ruth McCarty, & Susan Oleksiw; Level Best Books)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery:
Oh Danny Boy by Rhys Bowen (Minotaur)

* The Lightning Rule by Brett Ellen Block (Morrow)
* The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly (Constable & Robinson)
* Dark Assassin by Anne Perry (Ballantine)
* Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear (Holt)

Congratutions to all Bouchercon 2007 award winners.

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ANTHONY AWARDS
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