Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Macavity Awards


Named for T.S. Elliot's mystery cat in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the Macavity Awards are given out every year at Bouchercon to recognize the finest in mystery by Mystery Readers International. Here are all of the 2014 winners and  nominees.
Best Mystery Novel:
Winner:
  • William Kent Krueger: Ordinary Grace (Atria Books)
Nominees:
  • Thomas H. Cook: Sandrine's Case (Mysterious Press)
  • Mick Herron: Dead Lions (Soho Crime)
  • William Kent Krueger: Ordinary Grace (Atria Books)
  • Alex Marwood: The Wicked Girls (Penguin Books)
  • Louise Penny: How the Light Gets In (Minotaur Books)
  • Ian Rankin: Standing in Another Man's Grave (Reagan Arthur Books)
Best First Mystery:
Winner:
  • Terry Shames: A Killing at Cotton Hill (Seventh Street Books)
Nominees:
  • Matt Coyle: Yesterday's Echo (Oceanview Publishing)
  • Becky Masterman: Rage Against the Dying (Minotaur Books)
  • Jenny Milchman: Cover of Snow (Ballantine Books)
  • Derek Miller: Norwegian by Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Terry Shames: A Killing at Cotton Hill (Seventh Street Books)
Best Mystery Short Story:
Winner:
  • Art Taylor: "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013)
Nominees: 
  • Reed Farrel Coleman: "The Terminal" (Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler; Thomas & Mercer)
  • John Connolly: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" (Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler; Bookspan)
  • Martin Limon: "The Dragon's Tail" (Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books)
  • Gigi Pandian: "The Hindi Houdini" (Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long; Wildside Press)
  • Travis Richardson: "Incident on the 405" (The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey; Macmillan)
  • Art Taylor: "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013)

Best Nonfiction:
Winner:
  • Daniel Stashower: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (Minotaur Books)
Nominees:
  • Roseanne Montillo: The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece (William Morrow)
  • Charles J. Rzepka: Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard (Johns Hopkins University Press)
  • Daniel Stashower: The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (Minotaur Books)

Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award:
Winner:
  • David Morrell: Murder as a Fine Art (Little, Brown)
Nominees:
  • Susanna Calkins: A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (Minotaur Books)
  • Robert Kresge: Saving Lincoln (ABQ Press)
  • Catriona McPherson: Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome Number of Corpses (Minotaur Books)
  • David Morrell: Murder as a Fine Art (Little, Brown)
  • Stuart Neville: Ratlines (Soho Crime)

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