Macavity Award Winners Announced at #Bouchercon 2015

The Macavity Awards were given out tonight at the Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, taking place in Raleigh, NC. Janet Rudolph head of Mystery Readers International was on hand in person to give out the award. Winners names appear in bold below. Congratulations to all who were nominated and the fabulous winners. Big congrats to friends of Mystery Playground, Catriona McPherson and Hank Phillippi Ryan.

BEST MYSTERY NOVEL

• The Lewis Man by Peter May
• The Last Death of Jack Harbin by Terry Shames
• The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood 
• The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson
• The Missing Place by Sophie Littlefield
• The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL

• Invisible City by Julia Dahl
• The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day
• Someone Else’s Skin by Sarah Hilary
• Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little
• Blessed Are the Dead by Kristi Belcamino
• Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman

BEST MYSTERY-RELATED NONFICTION

• Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey, edited by Hank Phillippi Ryan
• The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis by Charles Brownson
• Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J. W. Ocker 
• 400 Things Cops Know: Street Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga

BEST MYSTERY SHORT STORY*
“Honeymoon Sweet” by Craig Faustus Buck, in Murder at the Beach: The Bouchercon Anthology 2014, edited by Dana Cameron
“The Shadow Knows” by Barb Goffman, in Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley
“Howling at the Moon” by Paul D. Marks, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
“The Proxy” by Travis Richardson, in Thuglit
“The Odds Are Against Us” by Art Taylor, in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

*all the nominated short stories have generously been made available to read online.

SUE FEDER MEMORIAL AWARD: BEST HISTORICAL MYSTERY

• Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen
• Present Darkness by Malla Nunn
• A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson
• An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris
• Hunting Shadows by Charles Todd
• Things Half in Shadow by Alan Finn