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MACAVITY AWARDS


The members of the Mystery Readers International both nominate and vote for these awards.

 

BEST MYSTERY NOVEL

BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL

2002 King, Laurie - Folly Box, C. J. - Open Season

2001

McDermid, Val - A Place of Execution Liss, David - A Conspiracy of Paper

2000

Massey, Sujata - The Flower Master Woods, Paula - Inner City Blues

1999

Connelly, Michael - Blood Work Farmer, Jerrilyn - Sympathy for the Devil

1998

Crombie, Deborah - Dreaming of the Bones

Warner, Penny - Dead Body Language

1997

Lovesay, Peter - Bloodhounds

Furutani, Dale - Death in Little Tokyo

1996

Walker, Mary Willis - Under the Beetle's Cellar

Day, Dianne - The Strange Files of Fremont Jones

1995

McCrumb, Sharyn - She Walks These Hills

Abbott, Jeff - Do Unto Others

1994

Walters, Minette - The Sculptress

Newman, Sharan - Death Comes as Epiphany

1993

Maron, Margaret - Bootlegger's Daughter

Neely, Barbara - Blanche on the Lam

1992

Pickard, Nancy - I.O.U.

(tie) Henry, Sue - Murder on the Iditarod Trail and Walker, Mary Willis - Zero at the Bone

1991

McCrumb, Sharyn - If I Ever Return hometty Peggy-O

Cornwell, Patricia D. - Postmortem

1990

Hart, Carolyn - A Little Class on Murder

Churchill, Jill - Grime and Punishment

1989

Hillerman, Tony - A Thief of Time

Graham, Caroline - The Killings at Badger's Drift

1988

Pickard, Nancy - Marriage is Murder

Crais, Robert - The Monkey's Raincoat

1987

James, P.D. - A Taste for Death

Kellerman, Faye - A Ritual Bath