Macavity Awards from Mystery Readers International
Year shown is year of the award.
"Macavity" was the mystery cat from T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Best Novel: Folly, by Laurie R. King (2001).
Best First Novel: Open Season, by C. J. Box (2001).
Best Short Story: The Abbey Ghosts, by Jan Burke (Alfred Hitchcock, January, 2001).
Best Critical Work: Writing the Mystery: A Start to Finish Guide for Both Novice and Professional, by G. Miki Hayden (2001).
Best Novel: A Place of Execution, by Val McDermid (2000).
Best First Novel: A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss (2000).
Best Short Story: A Candle for Christmas, by Reginald Hill (Ellery Queen, January, 2000).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: The American Regional Mystery, by Marvin Lachman (2000).
Best Novel: The Flower Master, by Sujata Massey (1999).
Best First Novel: Inner City Blues, by Paula L. Woods (1999).
Best Short Story: Maubi and the Jumbis, by Kate Grilley (Murderous Intent, Fall, 1999).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Ross MacDonald, by Tom Nolan (1999).
Best Novel: Blood Work, by Michael Connelly (1998).
Best First Novel: Sympathy for the Devil, by Jerrilyn Farmer (1998).
Best Short Story: Of Course You Know Chocolate Is a Vegetable, by Barbara D'Amato (Ellery Queen, November, 1998).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Killer Books, by Jean Swanson and Dean James (1998).
Best Novel: Dreaming of the Bones, by Deborah Crombie (1997).
Best First Novel: Dead Body Language, by Penny Warner (1997).
Best Short Story: Two Ladies of Rose Cottage, by Peter Robinson (Malice Domestic 6, 1997).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Deadly Women, by Jan Grape, Dean James, and Ellen Nehr (1997).
Best Novel: Bloodhounds, by Peter Lovesey.
Best First Novel: Death in Little Tokyo, by Dale Furutani.
Best Short Story: Cruel & Unusual, by Carolyn Wheat (Guilty as Charged, 1996).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Detecting Women 2, by Willetta Heising.
Best Novel: Under the Beetle's Cellar, by Mary Willis Walker.
Best First Novel: The Strange Files of Fremont Jones, by Dianne Day.
Best Short Story: Evans Tries an O-Level, by Colin Dexter (Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories, 1995).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Detecting Women, by Willetta Heising.
Best Novel: She Walks These Hills, by Sharyn McCrumb.
Best First Novel: Do Unto Others, by Jeff Abbott.
Best Short Story: Cast Your Fate to the Wind, by Deborah Adams.
Best Short Story: Unharmed, by Jan Burke (Ellery Queen, #637, Mid-December, 1994).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: By a Woman's Hand, by Dean James and Jean Swanson.
Best Novel: The Sculptress, by Minette Walters.
Best First Novel: Death Comes as Epiphany, by Sharan Newman.
Best Short Story: Checkout, by Susan Dunlap (Malice Domestic 2, 1993).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: The Fine Art of Murder, edited by
Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, Larry Segriff, and Jon L. Breen.
Best Novel: Bootlegger's Daughter, by Margaret Maron (1992).
Best First Novel: Blanche on the Lam, by Barbara Neely.
Best Short Story: Henrie O's Holiday, by Carolyn G. Hart (Malice Domestic, 1992).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Doulbeday Crime Club Compendium, by Ellen Nehr.
Best Novel: I.O.U., by Nancy Pickard.
Best First Novel: Murder on the Iditarod Trail, by Sue Henry.
Best First Novel: Zero at the Bone, by Mary Willis Walker.
Best Short Story: Deborah's Judgment, by Margaret Maron (A Woman's Eye, 1991).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Talking Mysteries: A Conversation with Tony Hillerman,
by Tony Hillerman and Ernie Bulow.
Best Novel: If Ever I Return Pretty Peggy-O, by Sharyn McCrumb (1990).
Best First Novel: Postmortem, by Patricia D. Cornwell.
Best Short Story: Too Much to Bare, by Joan Hess (Sisters in Crime 2, 1990).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries, by Gillian Gill.
Best Novel: A Little Class on Murder, by Carolyn G. Hart.
Best First Novel: Grime and Punishment, by Jill Churchill.
Best Short Story: Afraid All the Time, by Nancy Pickard (Sisters in Crime, 1989).
Best Critical/Biographical Work: The Bedside Companion to Crime, by H. R. F. Keating.
Best Novel: A Thief of Time, by Tony Hillerman.
Best First Novel: The Killings at Badger's Drift, by Carolyn Graham.
Best Short Story: Déjà Vu, by Doug Allyn (AH, 1988).
Best Nonfiction/Critical Work: Silk Stalkings, by Victoria Nichols and Susan Thompson.
Best Novel: Marriage Is Murder, by Nancy Pickard.
Best First Novel: The Monkey's Raincoat, by Robert Crais.
Best Short Story: The Woman in the Wardrobe, by Robert Barnard (Ellery Queen, 1987).
Best Nonfiction/Critical Work: Son of Gun in Cheek, by Bill Pronzini.
Best Novel: A Taste for Death, by P. D. James.
Best First Novel: Ritual Bath, by Fay Kellerman.
Best First Novel: A Case of Loyalties, by Marilyn Wallace.
Best Short Story: The Parker Shotgun, by Sue Grafton (Mean Streets, 1986).
Best Nonfiction/Critical Work: 1001 Midnights, by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.
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